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 23, 2012 | Current Affairs, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
(Occasioned by a certain politician failing to see the funny side of the routine humor dispensed on its cover by a well-known current affairs magazine.) What do we do when someone attempts a joke at our expense? Fight back or just shrug it off? The choice we make says...
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 3, 2012 | Change, Communication, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
They know the skills we talked about—the ones we practised at the workshop. They reassured themselves about that. They’re quite safe. No cause for concern. No need to change. No need to leave their comfort zone. All is well. Or is it? There’s a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Mar 4, 2012 | Change, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People Magic, Personal Story, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
One day he says one thing; the next another. He just doesn’t seem to “know his own mind.” If only he would stick to what he said. Frustrating, but are we really any different? It’s a curious thing… We’re well aware of our own uncertainty about our choices. We...
