There a many reasons why leadership careers go off course. Most of them have the same root: denial. It’s human to have blind spots about our behaviour and other personality traits. The problem occurs when we don’t try and find out about these blind spots and take appropriate action. The Johari window provides a simple…
Tag Archive: communication
Another Notch on the Stress Barometer
Back to the phone. A simple working definition for stress that I’ve distilled from listening to and reading much wiser people is: my level of stress is a good measure of how far I am from the “here and now”. From this perspective, being always on, always ready to respond to an incoming call or…
Meeting Interruptus
Meeting interruptus is a condition that seems to affect most of the meeting population: either people take on a distracted look (waiting for that phone call); or they answer any call that comes – taking five minutes to explain that they’re in a meeting and can’t talk now; or they blackberry; or they use meeting…
Getting out of Hot Water
Sooner or later, most people get into hot water using e-mail. In my case it was sooner. Many years ago, I typed up my personal notes (including “humorous” asides on the participants) from an EU project meeting as an informal e-mail to our project leader, who had asked for my input into the meeting minutes….
