Do you visit a coach or therapist to grow? Can people who are ‘happy’ in themselves benefit from coaching or therapy? If someone is ‘doing alright’ why should they consider personal growth and emotional development? From a recent online group… Continue reading
One of the adjacent villages to our own is trying to raise funds for a new village hall. To do so they have broken free from the usual gamut of bring-and-buy and summer fetes and instead for the last year… Continue reading
Every now and then someone launches a new ‘personal development’ product that is based on providing people with a fairly profound (usually physical) experience, and then getting them to relate it to the ways in which they go through life.… Continue reading
There are a couple of schools of thought among the marketers of professional services. On the one hand, there are those who believe that professionals sell themselves – well, the relationship with them – and the warm experience that doing… Continue reading
At some time in the late 1970s, a well known TV scientist put forward the idea that there was a certain level of stress that was optimal for performance. He had no evidence to support this ‘claim’ but asserted it… Continue reading
I don’t like the term ‘emotional intelligence’, or EQ, for several reasons; it is only one aspect of a more substantial area of psychology – social intelligence – that has been around since the 1920s; it is a cleverly marketed… Continue reading
There’s more to success than manipulating peoples’ emotions. The idea of emotional intelligence seems to have pervaded business thinking since the book on the topic by Daniel Goleman was published in 1995. The first use of the term is usually… Continue reading
Over the last five years or so, there has been a fairly dramatic shift in the way in which psychologists look at the human condition. For the last hundred years or more, they have based most of their understanding on… Continue reading
21st December 2008: Since posting this blog entry, I have received email from Don Beck, one of the original authors of the Spiral Dynamics approach, addressing some of the issues raised here and, in particular, providing some more information on… Continue reading
True freedom to act is crucial to authentic leadership, and yet it depends on a personal clarity about our beliefs and values, and how we relate to those aspects of life that can never be known or seen. In a… Continue reading
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