by DavidFraser | May 1, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s seems a clever idea – switching off the date stamp on your blog posts. That way you can tweet about them later and readers won’t realize they’re not new. Well, most of them won’t… The audience respond appreciatively to this...
by DavidFraser | Apr 30, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Relationship skills are sometimes seen as a subject for members of the younger generation—as if their need is the greater and older colleagues already know what they need to know. But it isn’t necessarily so. Sure, experienced people are more skilled in professional...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Messing about with key phrases on Google such as “change for leaders”, it’s very striking that most of what comes up is about doing change to other people—organizations, employees and so forth, usually by or on behalf of various corporate bodies or consultancies. It’s...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2012 | Learning, NLP, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We think NLP is something out there, when actually it’s something in here. OK, the name is unfortunate. It stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. What sort of mouthful is that? It simply refers to the way we form habits by what we repeatedly do and say, and how we...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We all have power to achieve things or to be a certain way, possibly more than we’re comfortable admitting. As Marianne Williamson said, “it’s not our darkness but our light that most frightens us.” This is quite a different thing from “power over” other...
by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2012 | Change, Communication, Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Progress on anything challenging typically needs a balance of head and heart perspectives; some emotional intelligence alongside the logic and rationale of the numbers and the processes. Neither on their own will be sufficient. But where to start? Where to meet the...