12 Top Tips for Managing Remote Teams How do I manage a remote Team? How do you manage remote or virtual teams when they are scattered in different geographic locations which make regular physical contact nigh impossible? The march of technology has changed our world. We have instant access to almost everything. There have never… Read more
A different Approach to Leadership
A Different Approach to Leadership A tangential approach to leadership, but one I find very powerful, is the Ancient Greeks approach towards Rhetoric – the art of influencing. Leadership is all about influence. Influence is determined by Ethos + Pathos + Logos. Ethos reflects integrity, values, character, conduct. Foundational, in the sense that if someone… 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
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
Please Hear What I am not Saying
Many of us pretend to be something we are not or fake it to please someone or impress some one else. We may be scared to be who we are in case we are not liked or loved or appreciated for being ourself. Perhaps few of us have the courage to be genuinely yourself bravely… 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