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Want to Speak-Listen Up? Anchor your Stress Response to your Value of Caring.

Are you more conscious than the average oyster? I hope so! When a few grains of grit get inside the oyster shell, the oyster doesn’t run and hide from the irritant. Nor does the oyster hire its litigation team or stress management team to spend millions trying to get rid of the irritant.Ā  Instead, the [...]

By | November 1st, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Want to Speak-Listen Up? Don’t treat your feelings as Gospel; Learn to Negotiate with them.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Ā Marcus Aurelius Conflicts, failures and losses at times seem to conspire to ruin us. Yet, as Marcus Aurelius observed nearly two millennia ago, [...]

By | September 30th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Everyone saw the apple fall. Only Newton asked Why.

Being uncertain about the answer to the riddle below may be a pleasant reward-anticipating feeling when you know this will be revealed, but will turn into frustration if the answer is missing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-QtOcZHcOo Curiosity, the emotion that moved the cat. IĀ wroteĀ a little bit about how my own insatiable curiosity kept me alive. New parents learn [...]

By | September 6th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Business cannot remain as a Bystander in a System that gives them Permission to Be.

British historian Arnold Toynbee concluded his 25-year study of 21 civilisations with the observation that ā€œGreat civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.ā€ Toynbee observed that each civilisation—or cultural system—has within itself the seeds of its own change and destruction and that even the most prosperous and sophisticated civilisations are vulnerable to self-inflicted ruin. This [...]

By | August 22nd, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Why Do Challenging Conversations Threaten Our Identity?

Most of my blogs are indexed to the reasons why I provide training for Courageous Conversations but I’ve seldom written directly about Courageous Conversations.Ā  This blog is different. "Tough Conversations", "Challenging Conversations",Ā  "Crucial Conversations", "Difficult Conversations" – there are a multitude of labels that suggest why communication can be fraught with tension.Ā  I have chosen [...]

By | August 5th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Want to Innovate, SpeakUP, Disrupt? You need Rebel Talent

This month, I’ve been humbled by being acknowledged by theĀ Think: Act magazineĀ as a Business Disruptor, Rebel WITH a cause and a Constructive non Conformist. What an honour and a privilege to be recognised this way, not only for myself, but for all whistleblowers. Click on the picture to access the .48 second video to find [...]

By | June 27th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Tethering Humility To Power

We’ve all encountered at least one. An individual in a position of power, or not, that ā€˜knows it all’.Ā  They lead over people with the ā€œtacit assumptionā€ that life is fundamentally and always a competition.Ā  That, as leaders, they are being paid for fixing problems rather than for fostering breakthrough thinking. Between their deep attachment [...]

By | June 2nd, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

How the Dark Side of Charisma silences You

Imagine you’ve been working at a company for six months and you’re given responsibility for a demanding, high-profile project. After months of hard work, you present your ideas to higher-ups. You receive either a positive outcomeĀ  - ā€œyour project is so interesting to the senior management that you have been invited to a workshop next [...]

By | April 25th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Rumbling with Vulnerability gets you to Courage

I learn so much when I'm invited to be a speaker by organisations and institutions.Ā  Since I began speaking and training, common questions arise across international borders and cultures.Ā  "Wendy, tell us how to become morally courageous in the moment". Ā On reflection, it surprises me that there’s an expectation that invoking and nurturing moral courageousness [...]

By | March 29th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Culture Is What We Should Do. Climate Is What We Can Do

Imagine that you are a rising star at a medium-sized investment bank (B&B), and you are currently facing a decision to choose between loyalty to your roommate or to your company and boss. There exists a cult mentality at B&B in that those who stay at the company accept that loyalty to the organisation goes [...]

By | February 28th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments