Better Work Conversations Blog
Introducing our Blog
Don Dunoon’s musings on organizational topics with an underlying theme of conversation – interactions between people – in a work context.
A Personal Learning Reflection for 2022
At a time when many of us are looking back on the year, it might be useful to pause and reconsider something that happened for you in 2022, to provide an opportunity for learning [...]
Psychological Safety and Executive Capabilities
If you work in a large organisation, chances are your organisation has an executive/manager capability framework, and if you look at the communications-related capabilities, you’ll probably see that the framework emphasises things like executives [...]
Micro Interventions
Culture change…or development? When it comes to changing culture, it’s probably a good move to think about what you mean both by culture and changing it. Culture is often thought of as ‘how things [...]
OBREAU webinar/podcast
Was delighted yesterday to see this post from the NEXUS4change group. The webinar/podcast referred to is one I recorded with them back in 2014, shortly after contributing an article on mindful OD practice and [...]
Leadership, Management and Conflict – How might we understand conflict through leadership and management lenses?
This question was raised by a student in a recent doctoral seminar on the relationship between leadership and management that I contributed to the Global Leadership Ph.D. program at Troy University. A model I find [...]
Seeking to clarify some language around leadership
Who exercises leadership? "Why, leaders do", you might reply. And what do leaders do when they undertake leadership? "Well, they lead others of course." The terms leader, lead (or leading) and leadership are often used [...]
