The Numina Blog

My colleagues and I often get called in to help with team or organizational dynamics that have become difficult for the players involved. Unresolved tension, ebbing creativity, a backlog of undelivered communication, overwhelm…a thousand ways in which the smartest and...

People tend to create what they believe in. While we say “seeing is believing”, the reverse may be even more true. What we see happen will reflect what we believed was possible. As Carl Jung put it, “Believe it can be done, believe it can’t be done. Either way it’s...

In any kind of leadership, you will soon discover how sensitive some people are around authority. One CEO, for example, reported getting feedback that he was too dictatorial. Even though he was right most of the time, his people felt stifled by his brilliance. Another...

Over the last few months, we have been developing the Numina Transformation Retreat. Two versions: a half-day Self-Guided Retreat or our more tried and tested two-day Facilitated Retreat.We are inviting you to pilot our half-day Self-Guided Retreat. In exchange, we...

I often hear people tell me: “You cannot actually change people.” In the way this is spoken, it is totally true. Team leaders and marital partners alike know what it is like to bloody your head against the brick wall of trying to get someone to be who they are not....

These days, most leaders are asking more of their people. We have clients who have asked their teams for pay cuts or to defer salary, or departments to make sacrifices to meet reduction in force targets and do extra work to earn every available scrap of revenue. How...