by DavidFraser | Aug 29, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
One philosophy of change in organisations starts from an assumption that structures, processes and systems are largely fixed at the outset—frozen, if you like. The approach then is to unfreeze the existing set-up, change it as required, developing whatever new...
by DavidFraser | Aug 25, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We tend to think of leadership in the context of leading teams, at least in connection with work we do. But it isn’t necessarily so. Yes, a leader’s role is often to build the necessary relationships with and amongst the members of a formally-constituted team in order...
by DavidFraser | Aug 22, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s striking just how disorganised a group of people, supposedly working together, can be. How do they do that? It’s actually quite hard to be highly disorganised and randomly chaotic without settling into some kind of pattern, even with several people...
by DavidFraser | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
I know you make decisions, but is it really you deciding? It’s a good idea to gather opinion from other people, yes. But… At the end of the day, we need to learn to live without the apparent security of our decisions being fully supported by what other people...
by DavidFraser | Jul 25, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Running events with large groups of people, attention to detail counts: Getting the room right, making sure the sound system is set up properly (often overlooked by venue owners), people’s individual needs are properly catered for, and a whole host of other...
by DavidFraser | Jul 21, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Whether to lead or to follow is sometimes a choice we need to make, or so it appears. In fact, just being present may be the best option—not having need of the situation either way. Connect that with something else and it all makes sense… It’s often said that...
