EB Centre

Is it time for some fresh thinking in leadership development? This is where The REAL Leadership Programme stands apart. This innovative digital programme guides leaders through six modules of discovery-based learning. Enriched with experiential activities and materials to help them make sense of their leadership world in all its dynamic layers, resourcing them with a powerful toolkit to respond to challenging moments in real time. The programme can be integrated into corporate leadership development initiatives, provide focused learning for selected groups or teams, and offer individual learning for people wanting to travel at their own pace. To explore organisational in-house options please call us on 0800 177 7946 or email contactus@ebcentre.co. For individuals travelling in your own way, sign up here: https://loom.ly/3Ww11U8 #discoverybasedlearning #balanceinleadership #leadershipdevelopment #personaldevelopment #digitallearning #REALleadership #leadership #freshthinking #leader #realtime

If you are an interested Leadership Learner, and particularly if you are grappling with achieving changes in your organisation, you will have encountered – and hopefully embraced – the idea of influencing through your informal and personal authority. When we focus on the word ‘authority’ here, we are very much intrigued by where that authority emanates from; how it is generated; how it is exercised. We talk about ‘knowing our ground', being grounded, building the self-knowing and self-acceptance from which a person operates. What are the qualities that uniquely shape our leadership in these scenarios where we seek to influence through our personal authority? How do these qualities flex and adapt to different people and context, whilst enabling us to ‘stay grounded’. And how do we balance that sense of ‘being grounded’ with our need to continue exploring the surrounding territory – to notice and consider other perspectives? How do we show our leadership in a way that holds both authority and openness? The Qualities of Practice cards (online or physical) are an invaluable prompt for us as we influence, understand and respond to our context. We often have a play with them to explore the range of qualities that can help us embrace our informal, personal authority. #balanceinleadership #QualitiesofPractice #REALleadership #livingleadership #leadershipdevelopment

As someone with a birthday on the 21st December—the winter Solstice—I have always felt very tuned into the rhythm of nature, celebrating my birth and life, as well as the turning towards light and lengthening of days. Nature begins to stir from its hibernation and the first show of snowdrops often appear before the year is out. Now that is worth celebrating.

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In the northern hemisphere we are in the darkening days – those ever-shorter spans of daylight that define the drop into winter. These can be difficult days. At the most fundamental level within our bodies, we miss the sunlight – we look towards it, we celebrate with delight the turn, the solstice, when we commence the slow lengthening of the days. But these days - where our waking hours are spent in a blend of darkness, twilight and light - are also days where we can give ourselves permission to tune into the rhythm of nature in winter. To curl inwards, to store energy, to build resilience, to become more ready for growth. In our leadership too, we often find ourselves in darker places. Before we seek to move out of them, we need to pause long enough to see what is there and to understand it – to discover what we can learn from it and to achieve enough clarity to establish a good way forward. Within our work at the EB Centre we have created simple but powerful online processes of reflection to guide leaders within and through these conundrums and to illuminate the qualities that will create success in their leadership practice. We’d love to hear from you if you want to know more about these processes – The Qualities of Practice and our REAL Leadership resources. #balanceinleadership #REALleadership #poisedforsuccess #livingleadership #leadershipdevelopment Click here for a taste of how you can explore your qualities of leadership. https://loom.ly/W7bRbvI

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Choice as an antidote to ‘stuckness’ Whoever we are, whatever level we are at - and even if we work for ourselves – we will experience times where we feel that we are hemmed in, constrained by factors around us, things that we don’t feel we have any control over. This can be quite demoralising and can lead to a sense of stuckness. This is how John (not his real name) was feeling when he began his Leadership Coaching Programme.  His coach worked with him to expand his understanding of the situation, and of himself, exploring his own emotional and behavioural responses to what was going on around him. Then, in the context of this understanding, they looked time and again at what possible choices he had about how to proceed – what a ‘next step’ might be. They were provocative and imaginative in generating possibilities – including options such as doing nothing, going rogue, and initiating a conversation with someone he deeply distrusted. And they were realistic and non-judgemental in evaluating the merit of these possibilities – for example, doing nothing was against his values; going rogue would risk the career he’d strived for; initiating a difficult conversation was daring but achievable… Finding the available ‘points of choice’ was empowering – restoring in John a fragile and battered sense of agency and a belief in his capacity to proceed. Sometimes ‘proceeding’ might mean letting go of something. Other times it revealed a new way to engage with the challenge Ultimately, through this process, they were living the principle that there are ALWAYS choices available – no matter how small. And one of the most vital ‘points of choice’ that we all have, is HOW we are as we proceed with our choices. John found it hugely useful to repeatedly ask himself “What qualities of practice will I bring into play here?” As he worked through the issues, he made frequent use of the online EB Qualities of Practice processes and was able to finish his coaching programme with a renewed sense of vigour about his contribution and his work. What choices are available to you as you contemplate your current leadership challenges? #balanceinleadership #REALleadership #poisedforsuccess #livingleadership #leadershipdevelopment

Start the week with a balancing moment of reflection Follow us @EBCentre for your regular Monday Musing #BalanceinLeadership #LivingLeadership #REALleadership #RelationalLeadership #QOPinLeadership

Start the week with a balancing moment of reflection Follow us @EBCentre for your regular Monday Musing #BalanceinLeadership #LivingLeadership #REALleadership #RelationalLeadership #QOPinLeadership

‘Be yourself – everyone else is taken’ This quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde (and many of us have seen it on innumerable inspirational posters and graffiti sites!) But in today’s leadership learning landscape we would say ‘become yourself’ - recognising that it is an emergent and iterative process of noticing and reflecting and experimenting. And we would say 'remain authentic' - recognising the value of engaging with diverse talents and qualities. Authenticity is also is an emergent and iterative process. Choiceful authenticity is about having a strong self of self and of our multi-layered identities, and feeling able to make our own choices about the mix that that we bring into our work and our leadership - rather than feeling compelled to hide or downplay aspects of our identity simply to fit in. So when you are exhorted to be authentic in your leadership - yet it’s not safe to show all of yourself, or the situation is so unknown to you that you don’t know which aspects of yourself will serve this situation best – pause to consider: What possibilities are available to you. What is needed from you for this situation? Which qualities can you bring to your leadership to enable you to navigate it well and authentically? The EB Centre Qualities of Practice are a powerful resource that have aided thousands of leaders to make good ‘in-the-moment’ decisions about how to show up; and to make considered choices about what they are becoming. To experiment for yourself, try this taster session: https://loom.ly/W7bRbvI #authenticleadership #balanceinleadership #REALleadership #livingleadership #leadershipdevelopment