CRITICAL THINKING: A WORKSHOP
Imagine you are asked to review a contract that your company has with a supplier. Or maybe you are going to take a look at the risk the business is exposed to currently in terms of their insurance coverage. Are they still the best solutions for your specific needs?...
All Life Learning
Navigating life with the All Life Learning (A.L.L) mindset as a resource, gives us a huge advantage which, in my experience, consistently opens up new dimensions to our purpose in life and how to access them. I consider A.L.L to be a Soft Skill which, when it’s...
WFH8: THE FUTURE STARTS NOW
After acknowledging the gaps that still exist in employer/employee collaboration, my article last week about WfH, ended on a note of optimism… ‘…for the moment, we are witnessing what is possibly the biggest breakthrough in the world of work since the introduction of...
WFH7 WORK/LIFE BALANCE
Work life balance business and family choice To get from where I live to where I work is a 40 minute ferry ride and to arrive at work by 9am used to mean catching a ferry by 7.30am and even then it might be full. It was a pretty stressful start to the day But now, the...
INTIMIDATION AT WORK: IS IT A THING OF THE PAST?
Searching for insider threats in a network. 3D illustration. Intimidation…it’s not a word you hear often now in the work context. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the verb as ‘to frighten or overawe’ which surely has no place in today’s politically correct...
OUT OF THE ATTIC
In my experience, one of the very useful aspects of All-Life-Learning is that we can get the motivation to revisit and explore our school years which I would certainly never have done otherwise because they weren’t particularly happy ones for me. So, coming at...
CORE VALUES ANYONE?
I realised a while ago that when I heard someone talking about Core Values, it made me feel uncomfortable. Core Values come up quite often in Coaching sessions because they can be one of the signposts on the pathway of life. They give us a bearing about how we’re feel...
SOFT SKILLS, SOFTER
When it comes to Presentation’s I’ve always thought that Soft Skills have a lot to offer. Storytelling, Question technique, Nonverbal Communication, Influence and Persuasion…oh, just a minute, you didn’t think about using Soft Skills to help influence what...
THE NEXT LEADER IS YOU
We were all created equal but let’s imagine that you have been selected to be a leader of others at work. How does that make you feel? It’s quite something. Why do you think you got this (imagined) promotion? What personal attributes do you have which led to the...
About Malcolm Andrews
After working in sales and then purchasing roles for almost 18 years with companies in the UK, Japan, Korea and then here in Hong Kong, I became involved in the field of business skills development. 20 years later, my special interests in this area are individual management style building, interpersonal communication and influencing strategies.
