by Adriano Pianesi | Jul 22, 2020 | Leadership
These days everyone talk about resilience. I wonder which of these definitions resonates the most with you as a leader… “Successful adaptation despite risk and adversity. Resilience requires exposure to significant risks, overcoming risks or adversity, and...
by Adriano Pianesi | Jul 4, 2020 | Leadership
When I prepared to teach leadership, I faced a pedagogical bind: I needed to determine which learning tasks will get across the material effectively to other adults—who are not necessarily less “leaderful” than me—and what content to select. I knew what I didn’t want...
by Adriano Pianesi | Jun 15, 2020 | Leadership
Leaders and educators needs to stay open to the unfolding life of the group in the “here and now” and take a reflective stance. This is a door to enter below-the-surface context for ourselves and for our teams. This is a call to an immersive and...
by Adriano Pianesi | Apr 1, 2020 | Leadership
Leadership professionals, writers and scholars refer to “leadership development” rather than “leadership training.” This begs an obvious question: why do they do that? The reason is that learning about leadership is, in point of fact, developmental. Therefore, peaks...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 28, 2020 | Leadership, leadership activities
Have you ever been in a meeting titled “Lessons Learned”? It’s a corporate ritual of learning form experience, a specific time when people, at the end of a long project, finally learn something from it. I can’t stand lessons learned meetings, because...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 7, 2020 | Leadership, learning
How improvisation can enhance your creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Improv doesn’t just happen on the stage—every conversation every one of us has in life is an improvisation. This is good news, because improvisation can help us have...
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