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 | Nov 26, 2012 | Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Some participants make sure their contributions to the meeting add something to the main thread of the dialogue. You can tell they are mindful of the main direction of the subject at hand, and see it as bigger than any of them individually. They know how to nurture...
by DavidFraser | Jun 21, 2010 | Relationship Skills
Do you have this problem? You find that certain people just talk about themselves all the time. You’re happy to listen and attend to them a lot, even much more than half the time when you’re together, but there are occasions when you’d like them to pay...
