Discover the power of equanimity in leadership and facilitation. This blog explores how maintaining emotional balance enhances adaptability, resilience, and connection with your team. Learn practical strategies like reflective practices, mindful breathing, and emotional regulation to stay composed under pressure while fostering trust and collaboration. By harmonizing equanimity with adaptability, leaders can guide their teams confidently through uncertainty, creating a culture of calm and effectiveness. Strengthen your leadership style with insights on staying connected, responsive, and grounded in any situation.
Leadership
Facilitative leadership fosters collaboration, drives meaningful outcomes, and ensures that every voice is heard. Unlike traditional top-down leadership, this approach focuses on guiding groups toward shared goals through purpose, inclusivity, clarity, intentionality, and adaptability. Leaders create environments where teams can thrive, innovate, and achieve results greater than the sum of their parts. This blog explores the five key aspects of facilitative leadership, helping leaders cultivate a purpose-driven, collaborative culture within their organizations while adapting to changing circumstances for maximum impact.
Leadership is multifaceted and the lines often blur between roles, responsibilities, and core competencies. It’s a dynamic blend of vision, communication, and influence. Similar to the word strategy, it’s used more frequently than it is understood. But what if we were to reimagine leadership? In a recent conversation between Brene Brown and Adam Grant, the definition of facilitation became the focus of such a reimagination when Adam asked Brene: if the word ‘leadership’ didn’t exist, what would it be replaced with?
What is change management? The sweet spot where change and project management intersect is known as change management. When a company is facing change in…
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speak with Van Lai-DuMone, Founder of WorksmART, about creative disconnect in the corporate workforce, Van's go-to creativity strategies to improve team work, and the importance to prioritize connection when shifting to a hybrid workplace.
Help your team overcome the skepticism they have about their own abilities by creating a culture of confidence to support their success.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Elizabeth Maloba, Co-Founder of Nahari, about the value of experiential methods, the impact the pandemic had on mental health in the workplace, the necessity and personal meaning behind community in organizations, and more.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Robin Anselmi, Chief Executive Officer at Conversant and Culture-Shifting Leader, about the impact of presence in leaders leading to team innovation, the ongoing balance in assumptions, the leader's unique challenge of correction instead of perfection, and the magnitude of a connected leader in its organization.
As we adapt to the changing business landscape, how we lead our teams must also change.
Meetings can get off track, here are three ways to bring them back for optimum meeting outcomes: 1) Reference visible resources & allow for self-correction 2) Directly Address Team Members 3) Ask the group