Posts Tagged ‘clarity’
Activating Self-Leadership To Move Forward
The first month of 2021 has required much of us already. I have met with teams determined not to be held back by the weirdness of our current time, and also teams who don’t know where they’re going to draw the impetus to move through this next month from, let alone the year. Knowing how…
Read MoreHEADS UP! Moving Forward With What’s Left
Last week, I spoke about the fact that crisis is an amplifier. It takes what was already there and makes it louder. Whatever cracks were there expand. Whatever fears, hopes, difficulties and determinations exist are brought to the forefront and in essence, made an unavoidable focus. I’ve had more than one conversation this last week…
Read MoreCleansing Clarity – The Gift of “Virus” Thinking
The world is learning a way of thinking that pilots have been familiar with for many decades. The gap between our individual thinking, the thinking of business leaders, and the way we do things in aviation is narrowing. The world over, individuals and business leaders are having to make decisions knowing full well that the…
Read MoreTime to Check Your Track and Recalibrate
The end of May seems to be rushing towards us at a rapid rate of knots, and the end of the second quarter of 2019 is now more relevant than the first! Time goes quickly when you’re having fun. Wink, wink; raised eyebrow. “Fun?!”, you say? We’re far enough through the year to have encountered…
Read MoreThe Big Picture – Direction, Clarity, Energy
I had the pleasure and privilege a few weeks back of sitting in on a flight test in an Airbus 320 simulator and flying an approach to landing myself. Because it was a flight test, and was conducted in a simulator, the crew had flown us through take-offs and approaches in every kind of bad…
Read MoreAre You Leaving Too Many Blanks?
Let’s talk this week about clarity, and dissemination of information. If there’s one ultimate destination for communication and unity of spirit, it’s clarity. If there’s one way to get there, it’s paying attention to what information you disseminate and how you do so. Lack of clarity results in so many things. It means your team…
Read MoreMaintaining The Big Picture
(You’ll need your metaphor thinking caps on for this one!) As a pilot, maintaining The Big Picture means simultaneously taking in many different layers of information about your surroundings, evaluating the possible meaning of that information and then using that information to judge future actions. Otherwise known as Situational Awareness, maintaining The Big Picture is…
Read More3 Simple Questions for Clarity and Precision
This week, we’ve been considering how to make what remains of 2018 strong and powerful. At Making Teams Work, we’ve been running Q4 Assessments for various teams who are refocusing on using the next 3 months to wrap up the year and prepare a foundation for 2019. We’ve asked pertinent questions that allow us…
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