Posts Tagged "Colleagues"

Comfort Zones

Posted by Ian and Steve on Jun 29, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

Are you expanding your comfort zones?

Strictly, areas of your life where you feel at ease, comfortable even?

Let’s take classrooms – whenever I ran a two day event, participants would invariably sit in the same seat on Day 2 as they did on Day 1, next to familiar colleagues.
I used to use name cards (for my aid in remembering names and for them too if the class was made up of people from across their organisation) and move them about before the participants arrived on Day 2 … The body language and reaction of being put in a new location in the classroom was always interesting.

Dealing with Difficult Behaviour …

Posted by Ian and Steve on Feb 15, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

You can't always show the red card at work!

In football when you show the red card to players they have to leave the pitch. The behaviour, or mis-behaviour, is dealt with and the culprit removed.

In the work place it’s not quite so easy.

If you have to work with colleagues who are “difficult” but their behaviour isn’t bad enough to have them fired (sent off the pitch) you need strategies that will work for you.

Who do you think you are?

Posted by Ian and Steve on Dec 15, 2010 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

Who do you think you are?

This is the last of three post about working with feedback. The first post was entitled “How am I doing?” The second post was entitled “If Feedback is so valuable why do we keep it to ourselves?”

The previous two posts discussed the value of asking for feedback and how effective we are at giving feedback to our colleagues.  This post explores what can happen when we are the recipients of feedback.

If feedback is so valuable why do we often keep it to ourselves?

Posted by Ian and Steve on Dec 3, 2010 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

If feedback is so valuable why do we often keep it to ourselves?

This is the second of three articles about working with feedback. The first article is entitled “How am I doing?” The third article is entitled “Who do you think you are?”

The last article (23 November) discussed the value of asking for feedback and how we can help and encourage our colleagues to give us feedback.

The other side of the coin, of course, is “How willing and how effective are we at giving feedback when asked?”

Ten Top Tips for Being Influential

Posted by Ian and Steve on Dec 1, 2010 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

10 top tips for being influential

Strengthen your influence factor by using these tips to have more leverage with your colleagues, boss, children, friends or anyone else.