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#58 Facilitating Change when you don't have all the answers
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What do you do when everyone looks to you for answers—and you’ve got none?
In a world where change is constant and complexity is the norm, many leaders and facilitators still carry the unspoken burden of needing to “know it all.”
But here’s the truth: in complex environments, expert certainty can actually get in the way of meaningful progress.
It’s not your job to fix everything. It’s your job to make it possible for the right conversations to happen—and the right people to lead them.
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Chapters
1. Introduction to the topic (00:00:00)
2. Have you felt the pressure to perform when you don't have all the answers? (00:00:34)
3. Holding space and what does it mean for facilitators? (00:02:38)
4. It's not about us as a leader (00:03:32)
5. Leading with questions (00:04:53)
6. When you are standing in the position of a "facilitator and not expert" (00:05:28)
7. It's about sense-making (00:06:51)
8. Explore the question, and not the answer to the questions (00:08:30)
9. The move from being an expert to being an enabler (00:09:30)
10. Enabling the conversation (00:09:48)
11. Emergent Wisdom (00:10:45)
12. Don't tell, but ask questions and co-ownership (00:11:25)
13. Nurture and nudge conversations (00:13:20)
14. What do you think drives the behaviour of wanting to be the expert? (00:14:19)
15. I don't know what I don't know (00:15:04)
16. Leaders to support the team and not be the expert (00:17:30)
17. Role of the new leader is that of a gardener (00:18:40)
18. How we are developing this further? (00:21:00)
19. Thank you (00:23:10)
65 episodes
Manage episode 501391056 series 166768
What do you do when everyone looks to you for answers—and you’ve got none?
In a world where change is constant and complexity is the norm, many leaders and facilitators still carry the unspoken burden of needing to “know it all.”
But here’s the truth: in complex environments, expert certainty can actually get in the way of meaningful progress.
It’s not your job to fix everything. It’s your job to make it possible for the right conversations to happen—and the right people to lead them.
View the Videocast of this Episode at this link on YouTube.
Subscribe to YouTube channel
Chapters
1. Introduction to the topic (00:00:00)
2. Have you felt the pressure to perform when you don't have all the answers? (00:00:34)
3. Holding space and what does it mean for facilitators? (00:02:38)
4. It's not about us as a leader (00:03:32)
5. Leading with questions (00:04:53)
6. When you are standing in the position of a "facilitator and not expert" (00:05:28)
7. It's about sense-making (00:06:51)
8. Explore the question, and not the answer to the questions (00:08:30)
9. The move from being an expert to being an enabler (00:09:30)
10. Enabling the conversation (00:09:48)
11. Emergent Wisdom (00:10:45)
12. Don't tell, but ask questions and co-ownership (00:11:25)
13. Nurture and nudge conversations (00:13:20)
14. What do you think drives the behaviour of wanting to be the expert? (00:14:19)
15. I don't know what I don't know (00:15:04)
16. Leaders to support the team and not be the expert (00:17:30)
17. Role of the new leader is that of a gardener (00:18:40)
18. How we are developing this further? (00:21:00)
19. Thank you (00:23:10)
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