- Embrace the “F” word … that is “failure.” Normalise and forgive mistakes. Rather than blame, learn.
- Rather than compare and compete, collaborate.
- Cultivate an unexpected workplace relationship. Broker a new interaction every week. Be sure to have a clear moral, worthwhile goal to do so.
- Use mindfulness to harness your courage.
- Speak up skilfully: one-to-one, in a meeting, to a large audience.
- Support courage acts through coaching others. Be courageous and coach.
I’m keen to explore courage and leadership in organisations and have two questions for your consideration:
- What are the (day-to-day) organisational issues that you would want leaders to demonstrate courage in addressing?
- What would you like your leaders to do/achieve through demonstrating courage?
Let us know what you think.
Thank you to Judy Hilton, Jeldai King, Roz Rimes and Jayne West for inspiring me to further explore courage and leadership in organisations. The work, learning and fun we had together in our university group assignment on the virtue of courage has led me here.
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