WFH6 : HOW ARE YOU ?
A post in LI this week highlights an important aspect of how we’ve been dealing with Covid which, until now, has been largely overlooked…it’s an increase in the levels of care we have for each other. In the work context, caring definitely feels like something that’s...
The View From My Window
work/life coaching & business skills development. Both are based on the application of Soft Skills to help you open up your options and map out a way forward in a guided conversation. Or perhaps you’ve decided to get some input on a decision you need to make....
Meet Yourself
Dear Reader, I want you to meet someone you already know but I’m not sure if you’ve been formally introduced to. You may allow yourself a nod and a smile occasionally but you’ve never sat down and properly got to know…yourself. I’m talking about...
Internal Vacancy: A Champion for Critical Thinking (CT)
4Dear Executive, What’s your view about Critical Thinking? Would it be correct to say that internal criticism of your company would only be acceptable if it were initiated by management? It’s difficult to imagine a situation where an employee would proactively aim a...
STORYTELLING WITH THE 5C’S
Explaining a complex process or illustrating an abstract idea is easier when we take a picture of it. I expect the first travellers to the Egyptian Pyramids were met by itinerant sales people waiving paintings of the desert spectacle because they knew that...
Soft Skills -Tough Times / MENTORING
Here’s a soft skill that makes challenge us. While other soft skills are for own benefit, Mentoring offers us an opportunity to benefit someone else and by doing so, demonstrate our leadership in action. In the office or on the Zoom screen, what do you see? A group of...
Soft Skill 15 : Brainstorming
As the name implies, people can get very animated when it comes to Brainstorming. I was in a training course once and a member of our group got so carried away by the rush of ideas he was experiencing that he rose up, rushed towards the leader, lifted the marker pen...
Soft Skills for Tough Times No.18 : Responding to Pressure
I expect it’s different now but the idea of a teacher at the school I went to, pausing mid-lesson, sitting down (they always stood) and saying… ’…Boys (we were all boys) as you go along life’s winding path, you will encounter difficulties and life altering setbacks....
Soft Skills in Hard Times No. 23 : Resolution & Commitment
As soon as I had typed those two words on the page I got a rush of enthusiasm followed by a slow sinking feeling. You can’t argue with the concept and it does inspire me but I find the action implied by the Commitment part more challenging. I cant imagine too many...
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.
