Rough Notes on Influencing What is Effective Influencing When the person we want to influence (the client) gets what they want by doing what we want, it is a win-win. How do you do it? You build trust so the client is comfortable talking to you openly. You listen and ask questions to understand what […]
Category: Listening
Do we need a “Love School”?
Do we need a “Love School”? How would we teach it? When I look around the world, I see people and organisations, like banks, driven by and addicted to greed. I also see countries spending vast resources on “defence”, driven partly by fear and partly by greed. The profits of defence industries are enormous. People […]
The Sacrament of Presence
The Sacrament of Presence from New City March 2018 REFLECTION – Elisabeth Ohlbock, from Belfast, reflects on the importance of being fully present for one another. Most Saturday mornings I look forward to the video-call appointments with my 41/2-year-old niece Karolina, who lives in Austria. We read storybooks, play hide-and-seek or engage in role-plays during […]