by DavidFraser | Dec 8, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s management. They say the best leaders are the ones who develop the most leaders, not the most followers. If we want to lead—as opposed to manage—we mustn’t control everything, because then there’s no opportunity for others to exercise their initiative and grow...
by DavidFraser | Dec 5, 2014 | Change, Leadership
I often see business owners and managers struggling to secure reasonable performance from certain of their employees – one or two members of staff who, for some reason, aren’t effective. Cases where it’s not a skills issue, more of an attitude...
by DavidFraser | Nov 28, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
When it comes to stimulating change in other people, how challenging can we be? How far and fast can we push? How can we best tell when we need to back off? Well, of course, it depends… It depends on the nature and quality of our relationship: Is it a...
by DavidFraser | Nov 21, 2014 | Change, Leadership
How do you tell the difference between the troublemaker and the necessary pest? The thing is… We don’t have all the answers. We need other people to tell us when we’ve over-looked something, or need to take a different perspective. Of course, we tend to get this...
by DavidFraser | Nov 17, 2014 | Business, Collaboration, Communication, Inspiration, Leadership, Organizational Learning, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
… unless you’re sure you’ve provided effective leadership. If you’re looking for the people who work for you to be self-motivated and highly productive, you can’t sensibly begin to assess whether they are or not, unless or until you’re sure you’ve provided good...
by DavidFraser | Nov 14, 2014 | Change, Leadership
It takes a certain intensity to make something different happen. Merely exposing people to new ideas probably isn’t going to be enough if the hoped-for change is in any way an uncomfortable or unfamiliar one—the issue could be out of conscious awareness apart from...
