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 | May 18, 2015 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
…let them speak. It’s quite simple really. The days of talking at an audience and expecting them to take much of it on board are gone. Expectations have changed: People want a conversation. They want to be heard as well as to hear. Sometimes we fear initiating a...
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...
by DavidFraser | Dec 11, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Wisdom
We’re at a gathering of professionals… Some present find some of the language challenging. It doesn’t fit with their culture. They would like some of the words to be changed. They want met at their map of the world… Make what you’re saying fit our...
by DavidFraser | Nov 23, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
They have something to say so they say it, whether it takes the theme forward or not. Sometimes what they say is a distraction sapping energy from the main flow of the dialogue. Eventually progress slows as momentum is lost and participants get tired. A key role of...
