by David Goldring | Nov 9, 2014 | Article, Education, Happiness, Learning
Adam Hopkinson’s angry old man rant about how we are using , and abusing, communication channels, was an interesting start to my week. His basic premises is that we should pay more attention to the channels we use, avoid switching mid conversation (i.e. moving...
by David Goldring | Nov 9, 2014 | Accountability, Education, Happiness, Insight, Productivity
When you’ve been doing something for a while, and are acknowledged as an expert, its hard to believe that you can learn much. Its a challenge as trainers that we face weekly. Most of our customers are successful enterprises and they tend to hire for experience,...
by David Goldring | Oct 9, 2014 | Article, Happiness, Leadership, Learning
Kids were late for school on Tuesday, my fault, and I made our new schoolrun rota pal late too. Now I realise my error, but when I grabbed my phone from my son while doing a 3 point turn, to look at the map, I was cursing Jools. I had done her a favour, and she...
by David Goldring | Feb 15, 2013 | Article, Education, Happiness, Leadership, Other
Well like many of us, I was able to avoid the temptation of reposting it as suggested. Not only was I sceptical of Linked-ins motives, but I was wary of the methodology- and my own motives. Yet after seeing a few posts about it, and personal comments, I couldn’t...
by David Goldring | Feb 13, 2013 | Education, Happiness, Leadership
The evidence has been with us for some time; people who listen, get heard, yet people who don’t speak, aren’t listened to. Its not that simple, but the idea that you need both Introversion and Extraversion to persuade we’ve been championing for some...
by David Goldring | Jul 19, 2011 | Article, Happiness, Leadership, Lumina
When a colleague you respect recommends a book on accountability you can take it the wrong way and ignore him, or go to Amazon and buy it. That’s what I did and the book was almost finished by the weekend. It led me to consider the issue of accountability....
