It’s your choice . . .
? Having the same/only one conversation for the whole/rest of your life or ? Tackling the elephant in the room with an honest, authentic discussion. Which will you choose?
Category: conversations
What will . . .
What will be the impact of not having that conversation that you really know you need to have? Who will suffer? What will the fall-out be? What will you regret?
Can you do nothing?
Over Christmas, I played a gloriously silly game with my family where we had to guess the words or phrase on a card just from looking at an image trying to convey their meaning. It was an innocent, funny family moment, and we each had our own talents and preferences that shone through and enabled us… Read More Can you do nothing?
Being authentic . . .
“Wait a minute, I’m thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?” Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape)
Are you being challenged?
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” Michel de Montaigne
Collide with the unexpected . . .
Last year, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the excellent, Networking Nation (still available), presented by Julia Hobsbawm OBE. In 5, 15-minute episodes, Ms Hobsbawm encouraged us to think about what networking means. I’m intrigued by brilliant networking. I think we should all do more of it (see Around my kitchen table (04 October 2015) and yesterday’s Note… Read More Collide with the unexpected . . .
It’s time for some honesty . . .
One of the principles of assertiveness that I encourage others to adopt is . . . be honest . . . about what’s relevant. And when we’ve got the hang of being assertive, that’s usually pretty easy to do. So I might learn to feel really comfortable giving you feedback that’s about your performance, about… Read More It’s time for some honesty . . .
Paying attention . . .
A leader I know told his management team that they should be spending at least 50% of their time developing people. It was a wonderful eyebrow-raising moment. One that required more than a little reflection to take in what that really meant. 50%? That’s a huge ask. And you’re probably one step… Read More Paying attention . . .
We each have a choice . . .
This is real victim territory. Not victim of course in the sense of someone doing something to you that you don’t deserve or which is so unspeakably cruel it effects a serious, significant impact on your wellbeing. But the victim mentality that encourages you to believe it’s always someone else’s fault, or that the change… Read More We each have a choice . . .
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