Welcome to our first newsletter for 2019. This year we are going to focus our thinking each month on a different collaboration issue. For February it has been Vulnerability - that sense of being exposed, at risk, unsure. The more coaching work we do the more we've learned that vulnerability can powerfully undermine people's efforts to work differently together. In this newsletter we wrap up some of the things we've learned and been inspired to share in February.
Enjoy.
The power of vulnerability
Have you seen Brene Brown's Ted Talk - The Power of Vulnerability?
It's worth taking the 20 minutes to watch it in your next coffee break.
The hard truth at the heart of collaboration
Vivien Twyford writes about the connection between the ability to collaborate effectively and the ability to be vulnerable. Read more...
Bankers and the path of vulnerability
The very real human instinct to keep oneself safe often gets in the way of our attempts to work with others. Read more...