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Falling out of love? Fake it!

Business Skills Training, Change, Communication, How to influence

“Faking romantic feelings can lead to you falling in love……behaving as if you find someone attractive increases your susceptibility to their charms..” This article from the Daily Telegraph ( yes, I am old fashioned enough to still enjoy having...

Negotiating: who makes the first move?

Business Skills Training, How to influence, Negotiations

I have always suggested that the best way to go about opening up a negotiation is to let the other party go first. Covey’s “Seek first to understand, then to be understood” makes emminent sense, surely: find out what value they put on the item...

How slow is your thinking?

Business Skills Training, How to influence

“This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind that I have read,” said William Easterly in the Financial Times. Quite a recommendation, and thankfully it spurred me to find out more about the “father of...

Keep Talking!

Communication, How to influence

Have you ever analysed how much you and your partner talk to each other? No, neither have I, until this weekend, when I spotted an article about people who divorce after long marriages. I probably noticed it because it was our 30th Wedding Anniversary on 5th...

Articulating the bleedin’ obvious

Change, Communication, How to influence

Police officers across the UK have been sent an internal missive designed to support their general well being, according to an article in the Sunday Telegraph. It includes suggestions which as a bystander it is easy to find ridiculous. They include such gems as (and...

Social Halitosis at work

Communication, How to influence, Life Skills

I was recently running an Emotional Intelligence course in Abu Dhabi; an experience which I found undoubtedly challenging and ultimately highly rewarding. The challenge lay in adapting to the local cultural norms, particularly with regard to self discipline and...

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