Gautrey Unleashed

Standing Your Ground

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When you face into opposition, dissent or contrary opinions, what do you do? Do you stand your ground or cave in?

This makes a big difference to the results you get, and the respect you get. Yet it has to be done well to avoid significant short and long-term problems. Read More

People Pleasers (Gautrey Live)

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The last session of Gautrey Live on People Pleasers was extremely useful, and broke the time barrier due to the quality and quantity of interaction from Private Clients. The snippets make for interesting listing for anyone who is honest enough, at least privately, to agree that they are "a bit of a people pleaser!"  During the session, we covered key points such as...
  • Why is the topic People Pleaser so important to people?
  • What exactly is a People Pleaser?
  • How to diagnose if you are a People Pleaser?
  • Considering the context (or excuses?).
  • Finding personal freedom (not to please).
  • The subtle, and not so subtle, art of saying NO.
  • Shifting the balance of power.
  • Personal organisation - how to defend your time.
  • Detaching yourself from the outcome.
  • Maturing your position in life (and work).
  • Lack of perceived value-add.
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Exploring the People Pleasing Problem

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October's Gautrey Live session was a fascinating discussion on topic of People Pleasing. Below you will find the video snippets shared for Private Clients who were not able to attend. As always, the video is limited to my responses and presentations to protect the privacy of clients. We ran out of time, so the next Gautrey Live session will continue this topic with a deeper look at the psychology behind the Need for Recognition (November 1st, 6pm UK). Read More

Tomorrow’s Top-Talent: Trail Blazers

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Without doubt, one of the great pleasures I get from life is the opportunity to work closely with so many talented and ambitious people. To see them wake up, stretch and start to increase their performance is amazing. It also puts me in a good position to observe what is working, not working and also, notice how they are moving, what they are doing, to achieve their success. Which is even more important given the last 18 months we have had! Recently someone asked me, what will tomorrow's top-talent look like? Here's what I've noticed, particularly over the last 6 months, and I think, will have a bearing on how well they perform in the coming years, and will distinguish them from everyone else - my seven characteristics of tomorrow's top-talent...   Read More

Women and Bullying

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Extract from the Positive Influence for Women research. Workplace bullying is a problem, whichever way you look at it. And it seems to be a bigger problem for women than for men. One survey from 2014 found that an estimated 9.6m US workers had been the target of serious bullying in the preceding year*, of those, 60% were women. Put another way, right now, 5.8m women are being bullied at work in the US alone. Women are 50% more likely to be bullied than men. Also coming out of the survey is that men are much more likely to bully than women (69%) and, when they do, they are more likely to bully women. However, when women bully, they are much more likely to bully other women (68%) rather than men (32%). Read More

Bullying: Prevention and Cure?

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Extract from the Positive Influence for Women research. According to recent research by the Workplace Bullying Institute, women are 50% more likely to be the victim of bullying at work than men. Despite the growing awareness of this problem, they estimate that around 5.76 million US women are, or have recently been, subjected to serious bullying at work. They have also found that 27% of people are or have experienced bullying in the past. Is this likely to be any different elsewhere in the world? I doubt it. Read More

Avoiding Hostility: Contingent Actions

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Many are plagued by hostile relationships at work, and in life. and resolving these situations can take a great deal of effort, energy and emotions. Much better, would be to develop your modus operandi to make these situations far less likely to occur int he first place. A little like quality improvement - reducing the risk of errors rather than looking for widgets that fail. Here is a short snippet from Gautrey Live where I share a few ideas on how you can do this. Read More

Motives of a Hostile Stakeholder

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Fascinating discussion on what might lie behind the behaviour of a hostile stakeholder. More importantly, we got onto the ideas on how to face up to the hostility, including an extending topic of "saying sorry". Listen to these snippets from our Gautrey Live discussion and reflect on how this may apply to your situation right now. Read More

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