Blog - Phillip Matthews

Cultivating Team Psychological Safety

In my Executive Team Coaching practice, there are many team competencies that require a team’s conscious attention and, in my experience, the ...

Leading a True Team

To lead a True Team, the team leader needs to let go of control (or the illusion of control) and trust in ...

Seeing Your Team as a System

In my work as an Executive Team Coach and in my conversations with colleagues, practitioners, professionals, executives…anyone who is part of a ...

Courage, the Attribute that all Leaders Need

Have you ever been in a crowd of strangers on a train, or a plane, or in a lift, and thought to ...

Empathy (continued)

This follows the July 18th blog (Why is Empathy Important) and particularly as I ended that blog saying that “empathy enables more ...

Is Empathy Important?

Recently I was facilitating a leadership workshop with a predominantly male group of middle managers who work in a mechanical engineering environment. ...

Leadership Starts Within

I was thinking, now that the British & Irish Lions squad has finally arrived in New Zealand, it’s a good time to ...

The Growth Mindset

Every now then I come across a piece of writing that articulates something so profound and with such truth and impact that ...