Sublime

As a workshop leader, how you teach is more valuable than what you teach. It’s not about charisma. It’s about being clear, consistent, appreciative, encouraging, caring, and optimistic. Real power comes from warmth, presence, and the ability to self-regulate and respond more naturally to whatever comes up in your group.

Teal Organizations start from the premise that even for routine work, people have a sense of pride and want to do a good job.

Search: create openings through neural dissonance widen window of tolerance (and strengthen secure base) 3. Shift: seek alignment through neural resonance integrate learning (and enrich working model) 4. Sustain: reinforce new narrative through feedback build confidence in new action (and increase security)

Organizations routinely talk about their values and mission; Teal Organizations talk about something even more fundamental—their basic assumptions about human nature. This has to do, I believe, with the fact that self-managing practices are still countercultural today.

Your growth as an individual defines the growth of your business. Your ability to go deep with yourself allows you to go deep with your work as a coach. Your courage translates to fearlessness in your coaching. Your ability to have extraordinary conversations leads to extraordinary results for clients. Your power to get past your negative beliefs,

Your first clue to adaptive work is when there is resistance or conflict. Then learning how to read conflict so that you don’t get stuck on the surface conflict leads you to where the underlying, hidden issues are—it’s a kind of intelligence.