by DavidFraser | Jul 29, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
Sometimes it feels like we’re actors in a drama, just showing up on stage and saying our lines. We’re creatures of habit. We repeat the same patterns over and over, unconsciously for the most part. That’s also true of our interactions with other...
by DavidFraser | Jul 1, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Engineers discussing a drawing always seem to get along well. It’s a great way to strengthen relationships in the team, whether within or between organisations, and often a good activity to suggest to create a conducive atmosphere—to establish the right energy...
by DavidFraser | Jun 9, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
…everything else doesn’t matter. We know the benefit of clarity well enough: Getting clear about what matters in a relationship of any kind, or any other context, means we can focus our energies in the most effective way. Once we’ve decided what’s most...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
An organisation wonders if it has a particular problem with stress—more than is typical… I ask whether the employees believe management cares about them, really wondering to what degree that is true. The response “Oh no, we wouldn’t want that” was so striking to...
by DavidFraser | May 22, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s often said that someone is “quiet’, meaning that either they aren’t saying much in the moment, or don’t say much in general. At least, that’s what it appears to mean. In the first instance, the implication is that their...
by DavidFraser | May 20, 2013 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
It was an informal meeting in a hotel bar with 4 or 5 people present. I’d been asked to say a bit about this myself. This from someone I’d met only a few hours previously. Nothing very unusual about that. What was unusual was the way my short potted...
