February 13, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE Valentine’s Day. 2012. What’s love got to do with it? No matter your status, single, coupled, an anti-Valentine kind of person… the least we can do today is to make a commitment to LOVE. More. Make a vow today to BE love. To smile...
December 13, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
deScrooging Christmas, or any day Don’t you love the experience of being gobsmacked by people surprising the heck out of you in the best way? Today I met with a long-standing client who is a senior executive in a big Australian corporation. He is on his 3-month-long...
November 21, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Developing Your Listening Intelligence, Part 2 In Part 1, we introduced the idea that we have in our Western Culture very poor listening skills, and similarly, very poor speaking skills. This article is about creating the ability, with practice, to be able to tune...
November 14, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We don’t know how to listen. Developing listening and speaking intelligence Part 1. We don’t know how to listen. The old saying, ‘we only use 10% of our brain,’ could well apply to our listening ability. Except I would say we probably only hear about 1% of what is...
March 29, 2010 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Assertive Communication and Integrity in the Workplace It is true that the existing model of business has a very obvious “boys club”, where membership is about ego posturing and status seeking with a secret membership code that includes high doses of testosterone (and...
March 4, 2010 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Take Your Time – Challenging the way we see through art On my last trip to Sydney, I was given a gift of experience. One of my teachers often said that great gifts come in small brown paper packages. This was one of those small brown package gifts. Meeting up...