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Whose responsibility is motivation? And what is a Boss for?
Whose responsibility is motivation? And what is a Boss for? I was asked to add my comments to a discussion in one of the Linked In groups of which I am a member. By the time I get to these discussions, I can usually find absolutely nothing worthwhile to say, but this time I felt [...]
LISTENING
United Flight 509 New York to Denver. NOV 28, 2012. I order Gin & Ginger Ale. It’s my cocktail of choice (I’m telling you this so you can send one across the room to me if ever we find ourselves in the same classy bar). I fly quite a bit and so you would be [...]
TALKING
I had three coaching calls in the space of 5 hours the other day and everyone of them was basically about this question: ‘David, can you help me to have a conversation that I am worried about having?’ Thats not what my clients came into our coaching sessions with. What they came in with was [...]
COMMUNICATION THAT GETS THINGS DONE
Conversations for Results Part 4 Take a look at Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3 if you missed them. In business, relationship is the channel for execution. Work is delivered in and through relationship with others, and so the quality of the relationship can often determine the quality of the output. Here is the [...]
COMMUNICATION THAT GETS THINGS DONE
Conversations for Results Part 3 Take a look at Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them. In business, relationship is the channel for execution. Work is delivered in and through relationship with others, and so the quality of the relationship can often determine the quality of the output. Here is the third of [...]
COMMUNICATION THAT GETS THINGS DONE
Conversations for Results Part 2 In case you missed it, take a look at part 1 In business, relationship is the channel for execution. Work is delivered in and through relationship with others, and so the quality of the relationship can often determine the quality of the output. Here is the second of four ideas, [...]
COMMUNICATION THAT GETS THINGS DONE
Conversations for Results Part 1 In business, relationship is the channel for execution. Work is delivered in and through relationship with others, and so the quality of the relationship can often determine the quality of the output. Yet what I have named The Universal Human Paradigm – ie our disappointment with others and our desire [...]
SLOW DOWN TALK RISE UP ACT
SLOW DOWN TALK RISE UP ACT This is the work I do with my clients. Twenty two years of consulting, coaching and writing and it has all, I’ve realized, come down to these four phrases and words: Slow down. Talk. Rise up. Act. And it is EXACTLY the same four stage process whether I am [...]
The Relentless Pursuit of Talking Together
Change is not something to be communicated. Communication creates the change. And not ‘communication’ as we instinctively think of it – the transmitting of messages and information. Telling people things. Marketing ideas and visions to them. ‘Engaging them’. In this sense, as Michael Neill suggests, ‘influence sucks’. The background conversation of ‘they are trying [...]
The Opening Ceremony 2: Transitions
In the early 1990s I saw a production of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale by one of the world’s most innovative organizations ever: Theatre de Complicité (and when I say ‘most innovative ever’ I include them in with you if you are trying to innovate with financial services, waste removal or FMCG; size and money has [...]
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