129: 130: Personal Branding the Introvert Way: With Fifi Mason
How to talk to strangers
The rich rewards of random conversations and how to have them. Imagine we told you that there was something easy, fast, and free that you could do every day to increase your happiness. Imagine this activity could also help you…
Defensiveness ruins Communication
Lessons learnt from Liz Truss’s defensive communication style Defensiveness creates blind spots in decision-making. When individual and groups respond defensively problems go unrecognised, victims go unacknowledged, and relationships deteriorate. * The crime of ‘defensive communication’ is committed by many —…
The Pleasure of Pleasing
When does ‘people pleasing’ become a self-squashing habit? No, this article is not about intimate relationship matters. But — if you ‘went there’ it’s all good. You’ve connected to a very basic part of being human. Most of us get…
What if ‘being assertive’ makes you feel ‘aggressive’?
3 ways to be assertive whilst remaining true to your reflective, quieter self. ..we don’t have to give up our niceness to be powerful. Fran Hauser — The Myth of the Nice Girl Do you feel ‘out of character’ when…