Jane Adshead-Grant
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Jane is a listening and people leadership specialist. She helps individuals develop their leadership gifts and skills with compassion, courage, and commitment to foster environments where everybody matters. Her gifts are to encourage and to listen. Listen free from interruption and judgement, encouraging others to step into who they were meant to be. She has more than 30 years’ experience in people-focused roles in the corporate environment. Jane is an MCC coach with the ICF, Accredited Coach, Facilitator, and Teacher of the Thinking Environmentâ and Ambassador of Truly Human Leadership. Additionally, she is the author of Are you Listening or Just Waiting to Speak?
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One of the Greatest Gives Give Another – Our Attention
"As you reflect on the nature of generative attention. Where and to whom will you decide to give one of the greatest gifts you can give another?" ...
Listening in Grief
"And today, in writing to you, sharing my experience of listening in grief, I am reminded of this gift that we all have." ...
How Do We Evolve as Coaches and Leaders?
"We evolve when we LISTEN generatively to ourselves and others, fostering the finest independent thinking honouring our own and others’ dignity." ...
Are You a Lazy Listener?
"The single most significant strategic strength that an organisation can have is not a good strategic plan but a commitment to strategic listening on the part of every member of the organisation." ...
How to Navigate Times of Transition with More Ease
"Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent." ...
Listen to Increase Your Impact
"As we embark on the changes of hybrid working, what others will need most, is to be listened to." ...
Tune In to Healthy Tension
"When we position our thoughts as a healthy tension to be managed – and agree to listen to each other’s ideas free from interruption and judgement – we arrive at a more inclusive outcome, one which can generate fulfilment in service of our higher purpose." ...
Some Leaders Get It. Some Don’t. What Can You do?
"Leading people is not easy. Developing and sustaining relationships is not easy. They both require commitment, care, and courage." ...
20 Years, 20 Lessons, I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 Years Old
"It is the discovery of these lessons which helped me grow and develop the most and into the person I am today. I wonder, what lessons have you learned along the journey of your professional life?" ...
The Results of Listening
Listening is a generative act of giving. It is an act of respect. It...