A long time ago, I was asked to give a talk at a leadership conference on the theme of ‘Developing Gravitas‘. To accompany most of my talks, rather than hand out copies of any slides that I use (which I don’t often do), I prepared a ‘brief guide’. This has proved to be one … / continued
 
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 By Graham Wilson, on August 19th, 2011 By Graham Wilson, on July 19th, 2011It’s interesting how a random question from someone who doesn’t know you, can make you sit up and think for a moment. I’m a facilitator, but that probably means all kinds of different things to different people and maybe it’s time to explain what I mean by it? I don’t normally find it very … / continued By Graham Wilson, on June 30th, 2011I realise that there are lots of other factors involved, but it’s a serious question: “Would you choose a coach for their ‘credentials’ or their personality?” And, if your response is a “bit of both”, then which comes first? A while back, I wrote something about the need for coaches to be appropriately qualified … / continued By Graham Wilson, on June 4th, 2011We used to think that it was only humans who used symbols to represent things thereby making it easier to communicate to their peers. This is no longer the case, as we are clear that other species do so too. The fields of infomatics and visual graphics are booming these days, in part because … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 20th, 2011Psychodynamically, scapegoating is defined as a “process by which the mechanisms of projection or displacement are used to focus unwarranted levels of aggression, hostility, frustration, etc., on another individual or group.” Aggression, hostility and frustration are behaviours, as is the act itself of scapegoating. What underlies them is emotional energy and it is the … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 30th, 2011PLAYGROUND DYNAMICS If you look at the way in which cohorts of children distribute themselves in the playground, you soon discover some fairly consistent patterns. There will usually be two or three, predominantly single sex, groups of upto eight, then there will be one or two groups of four, roughly four groups of … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 25th, 2011CSR is not a new phenomenon, although it has experienced a renaissance in the last decade after 20 years in which it had largely been ignored. The importance of CSR, and the manner in which society regulates corporate behaviour is illustrated with two historical examples from Anglo-Indian history. Today, CSR is described as having … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 15th, 2011Very reasonably, a couple of people have raised an eyebrow at the statistics I quoted in my blog items over the last couple of days about the prevalence of mental health issues. These statistics are incredibly difficult to establish and to verify, and there are so many different variations on a theme that it … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 14th, 2011Thank you all for the positive comments both public and private around my article, published yesterday, about Catherine Zeta-Jones and bipolar disorder. My own particular interest is in the contribution of mental health extremes to productivity (deliberately avoiding labelling it as creativity, which I think is a subset, and also avoiding the assumption that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 13th, 2011Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of many creatives to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but what is it? Imagine that you have three states of being in your day-to-day life. In one, everything is perfectly normal – life goes on pretty much like life goes on for everyone else. In the second, you experience periods … / continued 
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