by DavidFraser | Feb 10, 2014 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
It is considered a test of a group… Can it be together in silence? Can the people involved be in each other’s company without anything being said, or is it so uncomfortable that someone needs to fill the space and say something? If, in fact, the group can...
by DavidFraser | Feb 3, 2014 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, Systems
Have you ever tried to use just one foot when you’re meant to use two? I imagined it wouldn’t be very easy, but I decided I’d better experiment before writing this post… So I tried it today. (We leave nothing to chance in the search for the best information for...
by DavidFraser | Jan 27, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s a trap we might fall into… If we have management responsibility for someone, we probably feel we are expected to make their change and growth happen. But hang on… We know the way human psychology works, if any change is going to happen, it needs...
by DavidFraser | Jan 21, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Fear is an inhibitor, for the most part—an inhibitor of evolution and innovation. Sure, sometimes a bit of a fright helps us get moving, but if we’re too scared to take risks, we can’t develop. So… If fear is part of the climate you create, you might...
by DavidFraser | Jan 13, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
The people are fine, mostly. It’s the systems and processes that are the problem. Last week my faith was to a degree restored in a large financial institution. That’s after an unnecessarily bruising experience at the hands of its automated procedures. Strange how so...
by DavidFraser | Dec 23, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
If you want to be in control, you’ll need to be smart. The more you want to be in the driving seat of the relationship, the harder it’ll be for the other party to bring their thinking, their knowledge and their ideas to bear on the issue at hand. And that means… It’ll...
