by Maureen Steele | Jul 20, 2017 | Interpersonal Communication, Mastering Workplace Challenges, Personal Mastery
If you stay rooted in your own opinions and have a narrow perspective on things, it can greatly limit your room to manoeuvre. Choosing to take a different view of a situation can greatly increase your choices and options about how to deal with it, increasing your...
by Maureen Steele | Jul 20, 2017 | Interpersonal Communication, Mastering Workplace Challenges, Personal Mastery
Being true to yourself in a difficult conversation is both important and hard to do. You will get the best results and move forwards towards the best solutions if you can do this in a way that demonstrates empathy and compassion for the other person. Here are our top...
by Maureen Steele | Jul 20, 2017 | Mastering Workplace Challenges, Personal Mastery, Skills For Personal Business Success
No-one actually likes having a difficult conversation. Indeed, most of us dread it and freely admit to avoiding conflict (or even the potential of conflict) at all costs. However tempting it is to put things off, it is healthier for you and your relationships in the...
by Maureen Steele | Nov 7, 2016 | Interpersonal Communication, Mastering Workplace Challenges
It is sad but true – some people are good at pulling the wool over the eyes of others, and many get away with it for a very long time before being caught out. And while it is possible – in the words of the old saying – to fool some of the people some...
by Maureen Steele | Apr 16, 2016 | Mastering Workplace Challenges, Responding To Change and Transition
Reactive organizations – and the people who work in them – are driven by circumstances and their environment. They are acted upon, rather than taking control and being in control. In a reactive organization, it should come as no surprise to find that...
by support | Sep 30, 2014 | Mastering Workplace Challenges, Written Communication Skills
“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” W.H.Auden...
