Author Archive
Overt and Covert Influencing
These days everyone has to be able to influence in some aspect of their lives, be it the workplace or on the personal front. Good influencing is a great skill to have and some people are just naturally adept at it. Whether using a charm initiative, empathy, business acumen, humour, persuasiveness, even persistence, there are […]
All Change Please
Restructuring, redundancy, redeployment; mergers, acquisitions; downsizing, upsizing, expansion, streamlining; cost cutting, cost savings, cost justifications.
All the above signal change, and if you’re like most people, change might just sit a bit uneasily with you. This is true whether you’re changing where your desk is positioned or changing jobs. It’s very rare to have […]
Leadership and Conflict
There are many qualities that people look for in a leader: the ability to see what’s going on, a high level of self-awareness, the skill to motivate and inspire others, good communication and listening skills, the ability to see the big picture and bring others along.
One thing that isn’t often in the ‘top 10′ skills, […]
Making Personal Development Personal
We’ve written before about Impact Factory’s brand of Professional Personal Development (Professional Personal Development What is it?), but we’re just going to take a little side step here to talk about the broader issue of Personal Development.
This is because there’s an awful lot of talk about personal development and for some people, they’re not […]
Assertiveness - Just how nice are you?
It is important for you to define where you find your behaviour beneficial and where you find it a liability. See where you fit into the wide spectrum of our definition of nice behaviour.
Below is a list of some of the things that adaptive people do. It will help you identify for yourself the areas […]
Job Interview Skills - Going for a Job
You hear all sorts of rules about job interview success:
* people decide about you in the first 10 seconds
* you have to make a good first impression
* always ask insightful job interview questions
* learn as much as you can about the company
* they’ll probably ask interview questions designed to trip you up
* have some quick […]
Motivation - Going for It!
Ever thought of becoming a magistrate, opening a soft furnishings shop, training as a counsellor, planting a show garden, writing for the local paper? All of us have dreams, yet too few pursue them. Going after the dream can feel so daunting it’s often easier to have the fantasy than to live it. Here’s my […]
How not to be a Loser Magnet
‘Let’s face it Jo Ellen, you’re a loser magnet.’ Encouraging words from my sister a number of years ago, after another short-lived relationship bit the dust.
It’s not as though the meagre procession of men in my life really were losers - they were mostly successful, functional guys. It was just that they seemed to encourage […]
Influencing Skills - How To Influence People
There is no right way, nor is there only one way to influence others. Everything, but everything, is a factor when influencing people.
And we are, all of us, influenced by people, places, events and situations at all times. Sometimes we are affected more or less by these things, but we are continually being influenced by […]
Dealing with Change and Change Management
There is a lot of talk about “change” - how important it is, how we should alter the way we do to things at work and in our personal lives in order to be more effective. Sometimes we even hear how it is essential to change even if just for change’s sake.
At Impact Factory, we […]
