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 8, 2023 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
I’m not the first to say this, I know, but it’s worth repeating: We gain from learning to understand more about how people interact. Many of us are never really taught this – certainly not in any systematic way. This gap – and opportunity – is especially true in...
by DavidFraser | Aug 21, 2017 | Business, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We need to keep learning e.g. about people; and we need to keep doing or delivering e.g. in a business. So which is more important? Delivering perhaps (it’s certainly likely to be more urgent), but what if the delivery is weak because we haven’t yet learned some...
by DavidFraser | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Learning something isn’t the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can’t evaluate some new piece of knowledge or a new skill properly until we have thoroughly...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2016 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Systems
It’s surprising what a difference it makes, thinking over our experiences and learning. You’d imagine that if we put all that stuff into our heads the process would be automatic after that—that we could rely on our brains to process everything comprehensively; to form...
by DavidFraser | Feb 8, 2016 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Special Needs
It’s a funny thing… Sometimes we need to aim for less, to get more. In leadership and management, it’s tempting to demand a great deal from another person in the hope of getting some of it. Actually, we risk getting none at all if they are...
