Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

“Culture drives high performance and therefore has a direct impact on the bottom line.”

“The entire goal of the coaching was to focus on key actions and initiatives that would improve their effectiveness. This improvement in effectiveness from our leaders would lead to a more constructive culture which then translates to improved employee engagement. This improved employee engagement then drives better business and project outcomes.” Well said Kym!

“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown

One way to reduce your reliance on power as a behaviour style is to give the power away. If you do that you  are likely to increase your use of Affiliative and Humanistic-Encouraging behaviour. That is probably why the saying works.

The practice of accelerated improvement must be based on what is, not on how we would like things to be.  We often do not have a proper understanding of where we are, of what we are actually doing or what the problem is.  We can not truly know what to change to without first knowing what to…