Bryan’s Blog

We must cure mollisvitaephobia

Mollisvitaephobia is fear of soft skills. Ok. You got me. I made it up by translating soft skills into Latin. Why? Because there is most definitely an ailment in organisations that needs fixing and it needs a name. There is a bias towards technical training at the expense of soft skills training. Want proof? How

Frozen in time by data talk

Is your board showing signs of being either completely over the data thing or are they frozen in time because no one has been able to give them a logical path forward? Both situations have the same cause, everyone is sitting around staring at the data tree of life, pondering all that can be, and

Boaring Conversations

It takes about eight hours of someone’s time, your time, your team’s time to give a senior executive team or board 15 minutes of advice. Those 15 minutes simply can’t be wasted! Over the last four weeks I have taken you through the four key elements of my Pathfinder Model for a winning conversation. Stand

Being Incredible to Boards

While I am sure there is more to the story about law firm Clayton Utz and their report for AMP, but how do you think their credibility as a provider of independent advice was impacted by this simple line in this news article “Just appalling’: AMP misconduct and lies exposed”.      “Mr Hodge told the

Telling Tales to Boards

Sanjay Verma was 5 years old when he was at parent teacher night with his older sister. He turned to her and asked why other kids in the room had parents there and he didn’t. It was then his world turned on its head. It was too much for his young mind to fully comprehend