Informal and formal communication gets a little more tricky when we live and work in a virtual world. But it’s by no means insurmountable. When we book meetings into a person’s calendar, it feels more formal. We wouldn’t book a five-minute quick question into the diary, so meetings tend to be longer and tend to
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The Yin and Yang of (Virtual) Leadership: Task and Relationship
Last time, we highlighted support and challenge as the yin and yang of leadership. There are many more yin and yangs to leadership. Paradoxes if you like. Or polarities. Whatever you call them, we need to balance them. Each post in this series will cover one of the pairings: Task focus and Relationship focus Vulnerability
Asking for what you need
We’re not far from Christmas now, a time when Christian children ask for what they most desire from Father Christmas. How many of us take a leaf out of children’s book and ask for what we desire? I don’t mean the consumerist stuff that children mostly ask for. I mean how many of us ask
