Gautrey Unleashed

Simple Rules for Influence: Part 3

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Finally in this series, I want to focus on three rules that will help guide your behaviour as you're out there doing your influencing. As you're going out there, talking to the people that you need to influence, starting to move forward on your objective, these three rules will help to simplify what it is you're doing. And make it you more effective. Read More

Five Reasons Why You May Lack Visibility

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If you are struggling for visibility, find yourself overlooked when it comes to promotions or new opportunities, or otherwise failing to attract the right sort of attention from senior people, you have a big problem on your hands. I’m not going to sugar coat it because you need to wake up to the potential that it’s not them, it’s you. In all probability it is something you are doing, or not doing, that is creating the problem. So come on, take a deep breath and see which of the following key invisibility causes may be blighting your progress. Don’t take it personally. If the cap fits, wear it, wake up, and do something about it – here is a wonderful opportunity to start turning things around. Read More

When should you be autocratic as a leader?

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Contrary to what many people would like to believe, there is a place for being autocratic in the workplace as I pointed out in my article Command and Control: Alive and Kicking. The challenge though, is knowing when to be autocratic, and how to do it without upsetting the world around you. As you probably know, there are lots of different styles you can adopt as a leader, and the more versatile you are, the more capable you will be. Too often I have Read More

Simple Rules for Influence: Part 2

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In this second part of my Simple Rules for Influence, I want to focus on three rules that will help you to get ready to go out there and influence.  

Aim for Wanting or Willing

The first one is about your orientation and your overriding objective, what you're trying to do here. I'm not talking about the specific influence that you want, but what I want to guide you to do is to get people to want to do what you want them to do, or at least be willing to do it. Read More

Maybe I Like the Misery

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Mrs Doyle, from the hit TV comedy Father Ted, hits the nail on the head regarding resistance to change during one classic episode. For those of you who do not know the series, I’ve included a few YouTube clips below. In summary, Mrs Doyle is the loyal housekeeper of two priests in the irreverent series that has proved remarkably popular over the years. The point of this particular episode is that some bright spark has invented a super clever bit of technological wizardry that makes tea automatically, takes away the drudgery, the misery. In our world today, innovation, transformation, FinTech, you name it, things are changing with such pace, able to solve so many problems, and yes, take the frustration out of end of quarter accounts, of customer service processes. You name it, drudgery can be a thing of the past. Except, some people Read More

Simple Rules for Influence: Part 1

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Since life is complicated enough, let me try and keep influence as simple as it can be. I've got nine rules, nine guidelines, if you like, to help your work as an influencer. In this part, I'd like to talk about some of the foundational rules that will help to make life a lot easier for you and prepare you to work out what it is you need to do to get what you want. Read More

The Day I Lost My #1 Fan

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Thursday, 28th March. End of an on-site day coaching my client’s leaders. Helping people with good heart and intent. And then I opened the saddest email of the year. From a friend in New York, telling me that Read More

Situational Leadership: Two Vital Concepts You Probably Missed

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The Hersey Blanchard model of Situational Leadership is one of those frameworks that in my experience has stood the test of time, over and over. However, most people miss the magic subtlety – indeed, the secret sauce that makes it the one of the most powerful ways to lead people. If you are not familiar with Situational Leadership, pause and check out the resources on Google. Most people with a modicum of intelligence get Read More

Regaining the Power of Choice

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You have the power of choice only when you realise you have the power of choice. Many facts that blight your life are historic choices, made long ago and forgotten. Choices masquerade as facts. If you want to change a fact, make a different choice.  

My Boss is an A***hole.

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