Category Archives: Leadership

Week 7: Using informal mechanisms to build and maintain trust – Part A: Common values, norms & goals

In this series we’ve examined types of trust, the benefits of high-trust partnerships, the role of goodwill in trust building and how formal governance mechanisms can foster or impede trust building. Now we turn our attention to governance by trust, a direct form of informal governance. This week, we’ll tackle relational governance in three bites: norms,Continue reading “Week 7: Using informal mechanisms to build and maintain trust – Part A: Common values, norms & goals”

The 16 minute MA Leadership… with one edit

I’ve heard that you always make three speeches: the one you prepare, the one you deliver, and the one you give in your head on your way home when it’s all done. This week, I had the honour of speaking on behalf of my MA Leadership Class of 2012 at the University of Guelph. I preparedContinue reading “The 16 minute MA Leadership… with one edit”

What our collective minds could do together!

Have you ever been in the company of a group of people that you think, collectively, could solve – or at least make some serious headway- on some of the world’s most wicked problems? I had such a priviledge on Wednesday when classmates from my MA Leadership program gathered at the University of Guelph to share the resultsContinue reading “What our collective minds could do together!”