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From and With Each Other

Learning from and with each other happens everywhere and all the time in agile learning organizations. Microlearning happens when content is delivered in bite-sized (3-5 minutes) bursts at the point of learning need. Learning in the flow of work happens…

Five Ways to Connect Your Workplace

The purpose of so many organizational teams, like innovation labs, and startup ecosystems, like Silicon Valley, is to disrupt the status quo. I’ve written about why we need to disrupt our workplaces and how to do it. The thing is…

My Coaching Philosophy

Coaching unlocks potential. From my perspective, all leaders should have a coaching philosophy because coaching is on of the best ways to cultivate self-awareness, unleash empathy, and foster personal accountability for taking action. Whether I am coaching my kids’ soccer…

How to Ask for (and Act on) Feedback

This article is about how to ask for (and act on) feedback. Because one of the best ways for people to realize their potential is to receive and act on feedback. Unfortunately, human beings are fairly terrible at accepting praise…

Six Coaching Streams that Your Organization Needs

Coaching unlocks potential in people and, when applied effectively at scale in an organization, across communities. Not all managers are naturally great coaches (though they can learn) and not every organization is setup to achieve the desired results from investments…

How We Will Realize Our Potential in 2020

Happy New Year! It’s the first day of 2020, which means that our team at The Potentiality is ready to engage in our tradition of publicly declaring bold goals for the year. Godfrey, Michael, Kurt and I are keen to…

Five Management Lessons from Coaching Youth Soccer

For the last few months I’ve been coaching my oldest son’s soccer team. He’s five years old and his teammates are around the same age. As you can imagine, the experience combines adorableness and fun with chaos and frustration. Weirdly…

Five More Tips For Asking Great Questions

Great questions inspire better conversations. My book club recently read Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, which seeks to ask and answer approximately 33 questions about, you guessed it, basketball and other topics, such as action movies and anthropomorphism. …