… because I’m speaking at The Effortless Summit on November 17-18 and sharing the virtual stage with John Gray, Ken Honda, Janet Attwood, and more.
And I’ve been thinking about what exactly I want to talk about there. A lot of my work lately has been circling around one question: what is actually driving leaders underneath?
Because quite often we try to solve things on the surface: we fix communication, add a new process, set a goal, have a difficult conversation, motivate people, try harder etc. Sometimes it helps of course.
But often the same issue comes back in a slightly different form and that’s the part I’m most interested in.
What if the problem we are trying to solve is actually only a symptom? What if we keep changing the visible layer, while the deeper pattern underneath stays exactly the same?
This is also very closely connected to my next book what will come out in some months (first in Estonian tho).
For the summit, I need to choose one angle and keep it focused, so I’d love your input. Which of these would you most want to hear about?
1. Why we keep solving symptoms and how to stop the same problems from coming back?
How often leadership becomes an endless cycle of fixing visible problems while the real causes remain untouched.
2. Why people don’t take responsibility and what leaders may be doing to reinforce it?
Why employees can get stuck in victim, rescuer and persecutor roles and how leaders can step into the observer position to create more ownership instead of carrying responsibility for others.
3. How to make invisible dynamics visible and work with what is really going on?
How hidden patterns, unspoken tensions and dynamics beneath the surface shape our decisions, relationships and results, often without us even noticing them.
Just comment 1, 2 or 3. And if you feel like adding a sentence about why that one speaks to you, even better. I’m genuinely curious which direction resonates most.
