In our hyper-competitive, 24/7, productivity-obsessed world, not only has sleep become a dirty word but lack of sleep has become a sign of virility. Comparing notes at the water cooler on how little sleep we got the night before, what time we worked ...
THE COUNTERINTUITIVE SERIES INTRODUCTION
All two wheel vehicles steer differently from 3 and 4 wheelers. When a child moves from a tricycle with three wheels, to a bike with training wheels (4 wheels) to eventually having those training wheels removed (now down to 2), they will try and fai ...
INFLUENCING SKILLS: GAME OF THRONES STYLE
Or "What We Can Learn About Influencing From The Masters Of The Game" By Carolyn Crawford Three prefacing comments before we get started today. Firstly, if you’re not into Game of Thrones this may still be worth reading as the archetypes ...
INFLUENCING SKILLS: The Desperate Need For More Effective Influencing
OR "Why Influencing Is A Central, Not Peripheral, Skill Of EVERYBODY’S Work" By Carolyn Crawford A DEARTH OF INFLUENCE "Learning how to motivate and enable others to change their actions may be the most important skill you ...
Communication Skills: The Power & Purpose Of Communication
OR "Just Because We’re Good With Words Doesn’t Mean We’re Communicating Well" By Carolyn Crawford A slightly different style of blog today as this is taken from a 15 minute talk I was asked to make for a community group ...
Problem Solving and Influencing Skills: Strengthening our least preferred thinking style – 4 of 4
By Carolyn Crawford Dear me. I’m a walking talking cliché. For our left-brain friends some of these exercises may seem challenging. For those of us who are more right brained, this is simply how we live our lives! Just ...
Problem Solving and Influencing Skills: Strengthening our least preferred thinking style – 3 of 4
By Carolyn Crawford Aaahhhh yellow. Scarily easy for someone like me.... unlike the left-brain exercises previously posted. Happy experimenting. R1 – YELLOW List ten things that you can use a paper clip for Given a pile of paper clips, build some ...
Problem Solving and Influencing Skills: Strengthening our least preferred thinking styles part 2 of 4
By Carolyn Crawford Moving on from part 1 that focused on 'blue' thinking, here’s some suggested exercises for those of you keen to shore up your ‘green’ thinking skills. I find it interesting as I go through the list ...
Problem Solving and Influencing Skills: strengthening your lesser preferred thinking styles
By Carolyn Crawford One of the reasons I thought I’d focus on this topic is that I’m occassionally asked in our ‘Simply Influencing’ workshop (http://www.f2fcommunications.com.au/workshops-simply-influencing) how we can streng ...
Influencing Skills: Plan Your Communications – Part 4 of 4
By Carolyn Crawford Welcome to our final blog in our 4-part series about implementing your Influencing Skills whether with your teams, management, clients or cross-functional business units. This one revolved around tailoring your core communi ...