In my ongoing drive to find more practical ways to help people become more influential, I would like to ask your opinion. Why do you think it is so hard for people to get the influence that they want/need? What is happening in the workplace, the environment or even in...
Time and again we meet clients who are stuck. One recently was experiencing the micro-management of a stakeholder who should have had better things to do. This attention to minutiae and constant interference was leaving my client feeling frustrated, undermined and...
Shareholders ask an executive to use a big bag of money to start a business and make a profit for them. The executive decides their strategy to deliver the expected return and starts to build the organisation. The executive will recruit department heads, give them a...
My specialism is power and influence in the workplace, and I know that all of the tools and techniques I use can apply well in all types of organisation. This week, on a workshop, two of my delegates demonstrated this to great effect! Niral is having problems with an...
The corporate lawyer laid out the evidence to me that his boss was planning to fire him. The replacement had been hired already. He'd been pushing into a corner, isolated and sidelined. Despite a long relationship with the boss — the sense of betrayal was taking its...
During a coaching session today I was taking a client through my approach to personal branding with three words. As is often the case, coming up with suitable words that really make an impact and allow for differentiation was easier said than done. We happened to have...