To Soften Conflict
Trust Like Soil: Feed It Slowly, Stir It Gently
Trust doesn’t sprout on command.
Like garden soil, it needs moisture, decomposition and patient tending.
When you want to build trust in our teams, across silos, you slow down.
To feed the relational ground through intentional care, across roles, seniority, departments and even across sectors.
When do you feel anxiously pushy? When do you allow more space?
When is directiveness relevant and useful, or obsessively oppressive?
If you’re in a leadership role… You can learn from unexpected sources: interns, community partners, and your organisational elders.
You can consider yourself less of a solo gardener and more of a tender to the ground.
You can shift from Hero to Host.
When you lead from that hosting posture, you can also be a convener, a facilitator, or a teacher when and if needed. But you keep the learner in you very much alive at all times.
You enable co-creation and collective intelligence to emerge, instead of issuing perfect and finite instructions.
I wonder:
Who in your organisational soil has been overlooked as a source of wisdom or nourishment?
What would it mean to feed that relationship?
When is a moment to learn for you, when is a moment to stir?
What are your freshest thoughts?
