by DavidFraser | Feb 10, 2023 | Communication, Leadership, Learning
A series of well-informed and insightful speakers with some Q&A can make for a great event. An even better one might involve getting the “audience” to do some of the talking. Usually, the assembled company are well-informed and insightful too, if not perhaps quite...
by DavidFraser | Feb 13, 2017 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Like it or not, we find it hard to engage with dry, factual, objective communication. We need the information, of course, but nevertheless we find a “thesis” hard to access and to assimilate. Instead, even though we know we maybe shouldn’t, we find it easier to...
by DavidFraser | Jan 16, 2017 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Sometimes we wonder whether we should say something or not, probably because it’s sensitive in some way. I’ve always reckoned that if we’re unsure whether to take a particular action or not, we should do the positive thing i.e. take the option that...
by DavidFraser | Jun 15, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Broad or precise, which do you prefer? Possibly (but not necessarily) because I’m engineer, I generally regard precision (and the requisite level of detail) as an unmitigated good thing. Not everyone has the same preference of course. It is quite striking (to me, that...
by DavidFraser | Mar 16, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
We don’t challenge what we say ourselves. (Not unless we’re like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings anyway.) OK, we might be conflicted about some subject of concern to us, and have some inner tension around that, but on the whole, we don’t reject the...
by DavidFraser | Feb 6, 2015 | Business, Change, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We don’t have all the answers. That’s true whether we’re on the outside of the issue looking in or on the inside looking out. The leadership team knows its business, whereas the change agent knows something useful the insiders don’t currently...
