We all know the answer to the spurious question: how many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? We all know the answer is none: they have to want to change! Psychologists are not the only ones for whom this is true – it is so for all of us. As a manger… Read more
Self Preservation or Cherishing others?
Self Preservation or Cherishing others? There are many models of how assertiveness works. Until I began To grapple with the concept of win:win , I always found myself in something of a moral dilemma in balancing the concepts of assertion with the notion of caring for others. Indeed, often the common image of assertion is… Read more
A Talented Way to Keep Talent
A Talented Way to Keep Talent We are increasingly being asked to develop the talent at middle to senior management in organisations and help develop strategic thinking as a part of their mind set. Traditional management programmes may not stretch, engage and deeply challenge the skills and mindsets of talent individuals the organisation dearly wants… Read more
Are you Right?
Are You Right? The following abridged article is taken from our book, Entitled to Respect and seems very topical at the moment. Throughout the world and particularly in the Middle East people are claiming rights they have been denied over a period of many years. The Egyptian people’s struggle to have their rights accepted is,… Read more
A Fairy Tale for Today
A Fairy Tale I came across this fairy tale when I first started to appreciate Transaction Analysis (TA). The story has always been a poignant reminder of how, whether we like it or not, we touch the very fabric of other people’s lives by our very presence, in ways perhaps we are unaware of or… Read more
How to be powerful
How to be powerful Power is the ability to influence another person’s behaviour; influence is the effect. Power is a resource; influence is the result of using that resource, and the demonstration of its existence. Authority is the acknowledged right to exercise control, including the control of money and people. Authority arises from the office,… Read more