by DavidFraser | Sep 3, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
He visibly changed in front of our eyes… From a barely there, fidgeting, rather evasive character, he became a solid, three-dimensional, distinctly present person with solid eye contact and a strong voice to match. What made the difference? Thinking of a...
by DavidFraser | Aug 10, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Watching interviews with Gold Medal winners and other Olympic high performers, it’s striking how most of them seem thoroughly pleasant and even ordinary people – very far from the sometime stereotype of winner as warrior. In short, they are profoundly...
by DavidFraser | Jul 6, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Wisdom
If you don’t have authority to instruct change (do you ever?), here’s a way to look at what needs to happen… 1. Build rapport with a larger and larger set of people within the entity you hope to influence. 2. Then, as you change yourself, the rapport group...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Messing about with key phrases on Google such as “change for leaders”, it’s very striking that most of what comes up is about doing change to other people—organizations, employees and so forth, usually by or on behalf of various corporate bodies or consultancies. It’s...
by DavidFraser | Apr 18, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery
If you’re anything like me, your first reaction to the question might be ”Of course I solve a problem when I can.” But do you? Do you always make the choice to deal with an issue when you have the means to? Or do you sometimes leave the problem because actually it’s...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We all have power to achieve things or to be a certain way, possibly more than we’re comfortable admitting. As Marianne Williamson said, “it’s not our darkness but our light that most frightens us.” This is quite a different thing from “power over” other...
