Colin Gautrey

Restoring the Logic

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When your emotions are running wild, you’re not going to be very good at decision-making, and may make things worse.

What you need to do, as soon as possible, is restore your logical thinking, then your decisions will be much better, working from a state of relative calm.

The questions below have proven to be an effective way of bringing down the temperature and restoring some calm thinking. Read More

A Micro-Habit with Massive Benefits

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Lives worth living are busy and chaotic. Opportunity, challenge and problems fill every day.

No pain, no gain. Work hard, play hard. Maxims for the Type A’s and the ambitious, striving to hit that seam of gold.

If you want to play to win, you have to get smart, learn how to stack the odds in your favour. Read More

Let’s Talk: And We’re Off!

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Given the reaction to Let’s Talk: Handling Difficult People, the idea has evolved somewhat. If you’re interested, here’s the plan.
  • Live sessions will be hosted on the first Monday or Tuesday of each month (initially tea time UK).
  • Initial focus will be sharing and discussing Handling Difficult People.
  • Eligible clients will be invited to register their interest, and be allocated a place for the live session on a first come/first served basis.
  • Those not able to attend live will still benefit from new content produced from the session, including video snippets. Most of this will not be made public, at least in the short-term.
  • Eligible clients will get the opportunity to engage with me, and others, directly on some of the most challenging aspects of influence, and get more resources to develop their influencing skills, with the initial focus on difficult relationships.
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Expectations

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All round, it seems that expectations are a mug's game, whichever way you look at it. If you have expectations of others, you are sure to be disappointed. Not that they necessarily want to let you down. It may simply be they have other priorities, or interpretations of what you are expecting. Read More

Let’s Talk: Handling Difficult People

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Do you struggle engaging with difficult people? Find it hard to respond appropriately, in the moment, to their behaviour? Want to dramatically raise your relationship building skills? Or, are you someone who helps others to improve their relationships, either as a leader, coach or trainer? If so, I may have something of interest to you. Read More

EIT Health: Influential Leadership Masterclass

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(part of the EIT Health DRIVE Training)

Influential Leadership is all about results. By viewing influence as an output, you can focus your effort on how to make it happen. This takes leadership beyond vision, and into the realm of tangible achievements. Please watch the videos below as part of your preparation, to maximise the value we will gain from our time together during the masterclass. Read More

Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster

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If you are currently experiencing a rough ride, you’d be in very good company. Current events these days are prone to excite extreme emotions. Sadly, at present, so many things are set to provoke unhelpful negative emotions.

We are all emotional beings by nature, and to be devoid of emotions would be unreal. You have to have emotions, and the stronger your emotions are, I’d argue, the more successful you will be - provided you have a healthy balance.

If you are being pulled this way and that by your emotions, what can you do?

Here’s a quick process that will get you moving in a healthier direction:- Read More

Seeing the Bigger Picture

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When you aspire to great achievement, and lofty levels, begin with the bigger picture.

This means, having your own personal vision of what you intend to deliver. Not merely being a great leader, or a collaborator or some such noble aims. These are important, but in most senior stakeholders' minds, they are trumped by results. So, what actual results are you aiming to deliver with all that leadership ability?

Few people I begin to coach have got this nailed. Read More

Stop Fretting the How

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When it comes to remarkable achievement, it is never possible to know the how until you have arrived. Most times, at the beginning, it doesn’t even look feasible.

If you fret or worry about the how too soon, you’ll never get moving, and never find the way to make it happen.

The most important investment of your time and energy is on creating a crystal clear vision of what you want to achieve. Then, convincing yourself that (by hook or by crook) you will achieve it, with unshakeable conviction. Read More

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