Wilson Mansions here::I feel I have not clicked propa!
So here I am with a soul full of
beauty
and rammed with
videos
feelings
thoughts
love ...... what more is there .....
I have had a great week and need to reflect.
I have one day free to prep before I fly to Norway on Monday.
I suppose the forward is in my priority soul.
As much as I want to reflect - the bigger priority is Mr Preparation.
I told my wife today - that I love a man. She said it was ok.
It is Gilles Peterson.
I love him and spend so much time with him. He will be coming to Norway with me and to Venice on holiday (hey hey).
I also love BenjiB and Mary Anne Hobbs.
bootyfull stuff.
I penned some feelings as I travelled on the London underground - feelings of course. This thing I do a lot.
Telling you five words to describe my life at the moment. A great reflective act - I think.
anticipation
refreshed
calm
focused
blessed.
...... and you ......?
As I move around to different projects, different towns - different Cities, I come across whispering staff. It seems to be universal. Ones or twos gather in an office or the water cooler and whisper about the line manager or the boss. Or some one steps out of the room and the rest of those present, begin to talk about them. Un-creatively!
If the leader does not lay a platform - a climate of trust, the situation will deteriorate into whispers. Employees know that the boss has a the power to move them on - get them out - and the natural insecurity kicks in.
The platform to lay, it seems to me, is::
Climate - of trust
Involvement
openness
Confidentiality
Vulnerability
Freedom.
In a team or a department, there needs to be opportunities to gather and a sense of freedom, with security, to express frustrations, upsets, fears, vulnerabilities and the leader needs to be the one who lays the platform. By doing the opening first. Feelings are not explosions. It is bad if they have to come out like that. Feelings are signals and if shared early, they don't build up into the need to whisper and the inevitable explosions.
So much is required of a leader.
If you are one, in any context, do you lay a platform or you focused on only 'task' - and exclude process?
All of us can easily be controlled by 'shoulds' or 'emotions'.
Both tell us what to do.
The big decision is to decide how to respond, speak, react, act. Not put someone down because our emotions are telling us, or raise our voice because the 'shoulds and aughts' are in control.
These things are on my mind at The Leaning Towers of Pip Wilson dot com.
Late night or not - they are there with so many others.
I feel blessed by being among the beautiful humans I have been with this week.
All beautiful humans.
You are beautiful.
I will be clicking tomorrow - need to - even if you are doing other things - I will be here ....
