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 24, 2014 | Relationship Skills
… you might think they would come to the same conclusions. Actually, of course, maybe they won’t… They might have a different world-view, causing them to interpret the information in a different way. They might have different values, causing them to weigh...
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 10, 2014 | Relationship Skills
Events of last week—featuring, in particular, some troubles my son is having with another boy on his school bus—showed just how important it is to discern accurately who is best-placed to take which action: Us as parents, the bus driver, the parents of the other boy,...
by DavidFraser | Nov 3, 2014 | Relationship Skills
We’re accustomed to making sure we don’t send mixed messages… As long as we don’t actually say anything contradictory, people around us won’t be confused and will instead move forward on the basis of what they hear us say. So the thinking goes. Unfortunately,...
by DavidFraser | Oct 27, 2014 | Relationship Skills
If it’s only when people are leaving that they can tell the truth in an organisation, then we have a problem. And yet that’s often the way it seems to be. If it’s only when there’s no longer anything at stake that people can be real, then...
