Even with the best intentions, all leaders do things that accidentally diminish people – so what can you do about it?

Change is hard, there’s no way around it. It’s hard to change eating and exercise habits, and it’s hard to change ingrained, learned & rewarded behavior at a company or within a team where those behavioral norms are the only thing people know.

There are many different forms of micromanagement. As leaders and members of teams how can we can we boost our self-awareness, be less controlling, and demonstrate trust?

How can we understand what’s going on with us enough to do the necessary work?

How can we discover our own “Native Genius” and that of our teams?

What causes us to stop asking questions in our professional lives?

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

Being in a state of transition from “what was” to “what is” can naturally bring up anticipation around “not knowing” and an anchoring feeling of nostalgia.