by DavidFraser | Feb 6, 2015 | Business, Change, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We don’t have all the answers. That’s true whether we’re on the outside of the issue looking in or on the inside looking out. The leadership team knows its business, whereas the change agent knows something useful the insiders don’t currently...
by DavidFraser | Feb 2, 2015 | Communication, Relationship Skills
We often need to transfer knowledge from one person to another. And yet, how effectively do we really do that? Quite often our approach is to turn the knowledge into information on paper (or perhaps Powerpoint slides), usually in objective, dispassionate, businesslike...
by DavidFraser | Dec 22, 2014 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
There’s no such thing as the right question, of course, but some enquiries contribute more to moving things on than others. It’s worth thinking about… What’s your intention when you ask a question – helping things along in the direction...
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 | Oct 1, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
How others see us is very important in determining our results and what happens in our lives. Many factors affect that, of course: Our track record and so on. However, a big part of it is how we see ourselves. Surprisingly perhaps… The limiting factor in what we...
by DavidFraser | Mar 12, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Mastery
…it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of other people. It was a week of Winston Churchill quotes last week, though not, in fact, this one: “In making plans for war, it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of the...
