Swapisodes 9 and 10 – Alasdair Cant, Alasdair Cant and Associates 

 

Parent-child dynamics are everywhere in business. The expert who delivers answers. The training that's mandatory. The escalation that skips straight to the nuclear button. 

Behaviour change specialist Alasdair Cant wanted to know how we create conditions for deeper thinking. What emerged was a question I'm still sitting with: what if you built relationships where both sides show up as adults, as a default? 

This episode is our answer so far. 

There's a moment every leader knows. Someone isn't getting it. You can see the pattern they can't. And you're stuck between coaching them to find it themselves—and just saying it. 

In this episode, Alasdair Cant is in the hot seat with a real question: how do you walk the line between coaching and mentoring without slipping into parent-child? 

What emerged: transparency isn't just honesty. It's the balancing mechanism