by DavidFraser | Apr 19, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
There’s a problem with the team. They’re not performing as effectively as we would expect… Tempting perhaps to reach for the psychometric profiling tools to understand who’s doing what and why. But there’s a danger… The results of profiling are almost...
by DavidFraser | Apr 15, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it’s obvious… We notice when our friends and associates are holding back from committing to something—or maybe someone—which in itself is preventing them achieving the results they want. We might encourage them to “go for it” or to...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
by DavidFraser | Mar 22, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Wisdom
Or you could say, “How congruent?” Let’s focus on the individual first… A congruent person is one whose behaviour is a consistent reflection of their values and beliefs, and their sense of identity. Some of these values and beliefs may be in tension with each...
by DavidFraser | Mar 8, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Wisdom
How do you keep it going? How do you build your earnings to sustain what you are doing without compromising your leadership “mission” (if that’s the right word)? If you’re not careful, you end up contracted to deliver something that’s at...
by DavidFraser | Feb 8, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning
Occasionally you learn something truly new and advance the field in some way. It feels like a tiny step to you—one you hardly think worthy of the name. And yet… For the rest of us, getting to that new layer you’ve added on top on an existing body of knowledge is...
