Colin Gautrey

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

The Profile of a Bully and a Victim

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In September's Gautrey Live session we discussed Hostile Stakeholders, and how to handle them. As part of my commitment to my clients, I take snippets of our discussions in case they are not able to attend the live session. During this session, we got onto the subject of the profile of a bully, and how a typical victim might score in their profile. The video below will be helpful to all who have to deal with a hostile stakeholder, bully or not, and also, talks to the dimensions of behaviour contained in the Influence Profile - a working knowledge of which is useful when reviewing this video. Read More

The Seven Deadly Sins of Executive Presence

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If you want to make a serious impact you have to have great presence and gravitas. Having written a great deal over the years on these topic, it occurred to me that I had never focused on the "what not to do." So, enjoy these seven deadly sins of executive presence. Wince if you like, but take serious note - failure to attend to these will render all other attempts to build your impact null and void. Read More

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