Networking that works. Check the network is within your target market. Have a genuine desire to learn about others. Ask questions, listen and ask about what they said. Then listen again and ask again. This will ensure the other person is interested – they are talking about themselves and you are listening. Don’t add onto…
Saturday 27th May 2023 and yet another sad story about lack of governance and integrity within a big so-called ‘respectable’ organisation. This time (once again) PwC, but it could as quickly have been any of their level competitors! I wrote to Helen Fazzino (PwC Managing PArtner People, partnerships and culture) today via LinkedIn saying “As…
Equal value – partners appreciating and honouring and respecting and caring for each other. It starts maybe with how we feel about ourselves. We all carry baggage of various depths and severity from our childhood onwards – how we were treated, how we coped, the mechanisms we employed to survive. We live with expectations, and…
There is no doubt that working to help employees be the best they can be is the premium opportunity of business. Perhaps the premium deficiency in ‘management’ is over-management and micromanagement. I address some of that here. Some golden rules The need to be friendly with employees BUT not too friendly. The need to immediately…
Born innocent – probably not but just say if, not for long! So much is innate, from parents and their parents etc And then, there is the environment; starting in the womb, learning that regardless of how tired ‘mum’ is, it’s ok to stretch and kick and generally make yourself, comfortable, regardless. Then the newborn…
Today’s ISDAP SIG, Suicide Prevention webinar. Not much prevention but some good ideas. It seems to me that from a cause-and-effect situation, a lot of dysfunction comes from low self-esteem and that is often as a result of people treating people badly. Bullying, passive aggression, discrimination, harassment all serve to tear away one’s reserve to…
Addiction. When we think of addiction we most often think of smoking or alcohol or even drinking Coca-Cola or Ice coffee. We think of course about drugs meth etc but when you think about it, addiction also applies to the way we behave, the way we think, and our assumptions. We are addicted to our…
Enhanced Interpersonal Communications – your Brand! Let’s chat, put together a group, ew can work out a cost effective way for you to be who you should be. Synopsis:– We will cover ways to consider ‘your brand’ today and ways to enhance that to where you might want to take it. Interpersonal and brand…
CASE STUDY. A new client came to me as both a consulting and recruitment solution as they were moving into the final stages of their strategic plan and that was about integrating vertically. As part of their brief they stated what they were doing, how they were doing it and the people they needed. Listening…
There are many tools that can help break away from fixed thinking, the negative impact of paradigms on new thinking, the negative effect of group and pre-emptive thinking abundant in Command and Control negative environments. The topics below are selected at random as somewhere to start. It could be argued that there is no specific…
