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Nearly a year ago I went to a gathering of the ForeSight Group Strike Team in Sweden. It’s the creation of Björn, a man of immense energy, engagement, stories, warmth and stickability. He conjured the event to celebrate important birthdays of three of the members, Gustaf, 80, Geoff, 60, and Lars, 60, and a few of us [...]
May 17th 2012 Read full article
Audrey Birt, director of Breakthrough Breast Cancer Scotland, recently made it into the final three at the Institute of Directors awards in the Female Director of the Year category. She spoke to Oasis Communications Officer Cathy Neligan about the nomination, what makes a successful director, and the Full Circle development approach she is championing with [...]
May 2nd 2012 Read full articleAn article on ‘The Story of Whole Person Learning’ by Nick Ellerby and Cathy Neligan was published this month in the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative magazine. As traditional structures break down and knowledge rapidly becomes obsolete, as authority is increasingly questioned, new ways of relating to and with each other are emerging. We have all [...]
April 13th 2012 Read full articleA few days ago I was a guest at a ‘holding group’ meeting for organisational development within a UK Housing Group. My colleague, and partner of some 22 years, who is the lead consultant, invited me to facilitate a review process as a way of bringing deeper meaning and shared understanding to what has been [...]
April 12th 2012 Read full articleFew have close friendships through their working life that last over 25 years. People leave jobs, move house, step away. Sometimes in family businesses or small entities that are built on deep commitments and longevity, and even in some large organisations that have developed life-long career opportunities, such friendships can happen. So often structures are [...]
April 2nd 2012 Read full articleHow often do I hide my discomforts or fears, rather than voice the emerging question arising in me? How often do I quieten my authentic inner voice and allow another part of myself to offer a quick answer… blah, blah, blah… or follow a known solution… busy, busy, busy? If I have a hard time [...]
February 29th 2012 Read full articleIt is the cusp of the passing of one year to another, and as my partner and I walked through the local village last month I found myself encouraging her to take more drugs to fight off the cold she was living with. Her response to me was a call to be less controlling, and [...]
January 10th 2012 Read full articleA new year dawns and there is the usual and often pointless round of resolutions, made with little commitment and even less conviction, guaranteed to fail after a few weeks, days, and in some cases hours. Resolutions need to have six ingredients to have any chance, and just as a reminder, although for many it [...]
January 3rd 2012 Read full articleWhilst at a Leadership Network day, with a manufacturing and retail business, I was in a one-to-one session (termed a break). The person I was with talked about the shift they are making from asking ‘how’ and ‘what’ questions, to ‘why’. In a world that runs towards quick answers, offers no time to think, and [...]
October 18th 2011 Read full articleYou can’t talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out. Reaching your potential has been the focus of many articles and books as well as the livelihood for a significant number of managers, mentors and developers. There are commonalties in most approaches to developing individual [...]
October 17th 2011 Read full article