The Reflective Leader and Learning Organization Guide

The Reflective Leader and Learning Organization Guide

Coach Takeshi’s collection of thoughts on helping leaders use the power of inquiry and introspection for building the mental facility needed in developing Learning Organizations.

Curious Active Listening Mindset as a Leadership Modality - Directional Talk or Dialogue?
20 Jan 2021

Curious Active Listening Mindset (CALM) as a Leadership Modality

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Directional Talk, or Dialogue? Previously I shared CALM for receiving critical feedback. You can also have a Curious Active Listening Mindset for giving feedback. In fact, from directional conversations to dialogue, CALM can be a leadership mindset and style of … Read More

Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate Empathy
20 Dec 2020

Three types of Empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate Empathy

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There are three types of empathy: cognitive, emotional and compassionate empathy; each respectively the desire to understand, to feel and to help and support. EQ guru Daniel Goleman, in reference to psychologist Paul Ekman, elegantly describes the three types of … Read More

Feed-Forward Positive Feedback with the FFF Feed-Forward Formula
13 Dec 2020

Feed-Forward Positive Feedback with the FFF Feed-Forward Formula

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When we think of feedbacking, we tend to just do “corrective feedbacking”; i.e. feedbacking on things to improve. Don’t do this, do that better. We know from Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Psychology that “positive feedbacking” is much more effective for … Read More

Aristotle’s Influence Model
30 Sep 2020

Aristotle’s Influence Model

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We use “logos” (rational) too much. It’s “pathos” (empathy), “ethos” (credibility, presence), and “kairos” (right time, right place), in balance. We love convincing and persuading. What’s wrong with being right, right? So, “logos” is our default communication style. Logic, reason, … Read More

What to do when feeling overwhelmed - agile-od.com
18 Mar 2020

What To Do When Feeling Overwhelmed

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1. Breathe Know to stop. Stop. Take a deep breath. Slowly regulate your breathing. Our mind and body is an amazing system. Breathing is the most simple, immediate, no-need-for-tool intervention available to us in times of panic. By the time … Read More

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Revised Pyramid Visual Interpretation
20 Feb 2020

Maslow’s Final Theory Z

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Self-Transcendence – Beyond Self-Actualization and Theory X & Y Maslow’s Original Hierarchy of Needs Model In 1943, Abraham H. Maslow published his ground breaking paper “A Theory of Human Motivation,” outlining what we commonly know today as Maslow’s hierarchy of … Read More

VUCAO agile-do.com Lifecycle
28 Sep 2019

VUCA”O” – Why I add Overwhelming to Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous

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Because when we’re overwhelmed, we make simple and complicated situations, complex and chaotic. Complexity & uncertainty handling is starting to get recognition as a skill set, ability and aptitude associated to agility. A lot of my executive coaching conversations are … Read More

19 Sep 2018

Radical Candor: My Go To Feedback Routine

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In search of better feedbacking As a coach and mentor, challenging people is a natural part of my work, and sometimes they are in the form of tough messages. Not always though, the messages go down well with the recipient. … Read More

18 Sep 2018

Knowing to Stop – A Confucius Teaching

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Confucius’ 7 spaces of learning Knowing to stop – is a simple notion but difficult to practice skill. In “Great Learning (大学)”, written around 2,500 years ago by one of his first disciples Zengzi (曾子), Confucius (孔子) teaches the following: … Read More