WORKING ON ENCOURAGEMENT (AND THE DEVIL OF DISCOURAGEMENT)

Increasingly, organisations are beginning to wise up to the idea that change management is one thing. Let’s improve the structure, the strategy or the system, or all these things in tandem. But unless the people can ‘perform’ all their labour is in vain.

Engagement – What about Encouragement?

Increasingly, organisations are beginning to wise up to the idea that change management is one thing. Let’s improve the structure, the strategy or the system, or all these things in tandem. But unless the people can ‘perform’ all their labour is in vain.  And frankly, people performing begins at the top. As the great QualityContinue reading “Engagement – What about Encouragement?”

Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #3

People write from their ego and produce not-poetry; people write to heal themselves and this is good and meaningful; and thirdly, and more famously, people write poetry because they write poetry and produce art. And a number key factors come together when this happens. First, the third desire – for beauty – comes into playContinue reading “Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #3”

Conversation and Insight

There are many benefits from talking to someone: friendship, support, encouragement to mention only three, and they and all the others are extremely important.  But one benefit seems to me especially important, and that is the benefit of insight. When we talk to someone else do we get insight? Insight into what? Many things, butContinue reading “Conversation and Insight”