Colin Gautrey

Impressions

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Making an impression that is aligned to your goals will help you enormously, because it establishes and reinforces the expectations others have of you. And what they expect, they're likely to get.

Here’s a little example.

If your aim is to become a top-flight negotiator, you’d better begin creating that impression as fast as possible. Acting weak, vague and indecisive will convey the notion that you are not terribly good at negotiating.  Read More

People Pleasers (Gautrey Live)

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The last session of Gautrey Live on People Pleasers was extremely useful, and broke the time barrier due to the quality and quantity of interaction from Private Clients. The snippets make for interesting listing for anyone who is honest enough, at least privately, to agree that they are "a bit of a people pleaser!"  During the session, we covered key points such as...
  • Why is the topic People Pleaser so important to people?
  • What exactly is a People Pleaser?
  • How to diagnose if you are a People Pleaser?
  • Considering the context (or excuses?).
  • Finding personal freedom (not to please).
  • The subtle, and not so subtle, art of saying NO.
  • Shifting the balance of power.
  • Personal organisation - how to defend your time.
  • Detaching yourself from the outcome.
  • Maturing your position in life (and work).
  • Lack of perceived value-add.
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Tomorrow’s Top-Talent: Trail Blazers

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Without doubt, one of the great pleasures I get from life is the opportunity to work closely with so many talented and ambitious people. To see them wake up, stretch and start to increase their performance is amazing. It also puts me in a good position to observe what is working, not working and also, notice how they are moving, what they are doing, to achieve their success. Which is even more important given the last 18 months we have had! Recently someone asked me, what will tomorrow's top-talent look like? Here's what I've noticed, particularly over the last 6 months, and I think, will have a bearing on how well they perform in the coming years, and will distinguish them from everyone else - my seven characteristics of tomorrow's top-talent...   Read More

The Criticality of Trust

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Over the last few weeks I’ve had many conversations about handling difficult people, both coaching sessions and my Let’s Talk group. A few things have become apparent.

  • If you are facing up to a difficult person, there will be flaws in the relationship.
  • If you have a flaw in your relationship, odds-on there is a problem with trust.

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Threatening Your Values

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Earlier this week we had a lively debate in the Let’s Talk on Emotional Distraction. One of the areas we discussed what the structure of relationships and particularly, the areas where difference can interrupt the relationship. I first wrote about this a few months back in Diagnosing Relationship Problems.

In my experience, often it is the behaviour of other people that starts to trigger negative emotions, and they can disguise other differences and set the scene for stress and angst.  Read More

From Crisis to Paradigm Shifting

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Now is a moment where the new normal will be shaped. New paradigms will be created. Today, not tomorrow.

The decisions taken by leaders today will have far-reaching effects. Some of the most successful organisations will disappear as a result of their decisions today. Outliers will find ways to dominate their sectors tomorrow, based on the decisions they take today.

Business models are being pulverised and supply chains shattered. At every turn, assumptions about normal are being obliterated. Careers are about to be made, and careers are about to be lost.

Seriously, there has never been a better opportunity to make a huge positive impact.

But how do you do that, in a world that has its head between its knees?

Here’s how. Read More

Simple Rules for Influence: Part 3

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Finally in this series, I want to focus on three rules that will help guide your behaviour as you're out there doing your influencing. As you're going out there, talking to the people that you need to influence, starting to move forward on your objective, these three rules will help to simplify what it is you're doing. And make it you more effective. Read More

Working With an Insecure Boss

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Bosses come in many shapes and forms, not all of them are conducive to living a fulfilling and satisfying working life. One accusation I have heard from many disenfranchised subordinates is that their boss is really insecure, "I think he my feel threatened by me." This seems to be quite a common complaint, and it featured as an extra video to my online course How to Win Over Your Boss. In fact, this video is now one of my most popular on YouTube. See what you make of it: Read More

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