A summary of Clinical Leadership program content on engaging in dialogue to explore differences of opinion and conflict.

A discussion on when acting can be a good thing, as well as when doing nothing can extremely effective.

This article explores questions of manipulating events to create feelings of authenticity.

Can you align people toward a coherent (yet fuzzy) strategic direction by discussing fairness and exploring the underlying judgements about what is or feels like the “right” decision?

We explore that question in this post.

This blurb provides the background for an approach to developing the “capacity to collaborate” among Board members in the not-for-profit and social sector.

Rather than knowing stuff or doing stuff, we look at the role that leaders play in fostering an environment that helps people collaborate amid complexity.

Meetings: where minutes are taken and hours are lost!

This is a discussion of how to foster collaboration in meetings that require such a dynamic.

Collaboration under complexity is tough. Everyone, including your newest Board members, can play a vital role in helping everyone to work together more effectively.

This is a discussion of the role of trust and how to manage it in the important and intimate relationship between a Board Chair and the Executive Leader of a not-for-profit or mission-driven organization. We explore lack of trust, as well as “too much of a good thing.”