Bryan’s Blog

Stop Pushing and Start Pulling

I once ran a chemical plant for what was then ICI. I was a shift supervisor at Rhodes in Sydney, a zone now redeveloped as a major shopping and residential apartment area. The world changes, and so have I. When you run a continuous process chemical plant, the money is in keeping it online 24/7

Calculated Trust

To influence you must build trust. Here are some ideas on how you can assess the level of trust perceived by those you wish to influence. My thanks to Didier Verstichel from Belgium for his reply to a recent blog of mine, where he gave me the trust formula he uses (he doesn’t remember the

Freezing in Sub Zero Trust

Recently I ran my Risk Leadership training for a client and I had a room of participants that arrived with an extremely poor perception of risk. My role was to convince them of the value of risk and to have them leave the room with definitive actions agreed as to how they will derive that

Persuasive Advising

Everyone is an adviser. Even if you are the CEO or the Chair of the Board, you are an adviser. As an adviser you seek to influence key decisions. The people we take advice from most readily are those we most trust. To be clear, trust is contextual. I trust my mum, but I don’t

Angry Culturalism

Sorry, I meant cross culturalism. As in influencing across cultures without making the person from the other culture angry, as in cross. Recently I was mentoring a client in a national business performance role. One of his challenges was his need to convince a staff member in China, who is Chinese, to effect changes to