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Waiting to be found out
On the outside, a capable, experienced leader. On the inside, a young lad wondering when someone was going to find out. Then his 360 feedback came back.
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Blue September: 736 km for the Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ
I set out to cycle 736 km in September for the Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ. I rode 1,593 km, and together we raised $657. Thank you!
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You didn't get thrown for riding badly
For anyone recently made redundant: you didn't get thrown for riding badly. Someone shot the horse from under you. The fall wasn't a verdict on your ability.
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Trusting yourself to think out loud
He'd just updated 5,000 records in the wrong environment. A few months earlier, that would have meant panic. This time, he paused, took a breath, and walked them through it calmly.
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An identity problem, wearing a confidence costume
Her hand went up. Then it went back down. For years, that was the whole story. Six sessions later, she presented her team's AI test strategy to twelve people.
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Silence isn't failure
We counted 124 filler words in his eight-minute talk. He hadn't noticed a single one. The filler words weren't the problem. They were what happened when silence felt unsafe.
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Change the inside before the outside
"You can't fix communication with a few theory lessons." A client said that to me. Technique matters, but if the underlying belief doesn't shift first, the technique has nothing to stand on.
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