by Lucy Freedman | Aug 29, 2018 | Consultants, Emotional Intelligence, Influence
No matter what we are doing, our results rest on how we do it. Zen teacher Cheri Huber says, “How you do anything is how you do everything.” If we could fathom our own patterns, and the ways they serve and don’t serve us, much of what annoys and...
by Lucy Freedman | Aug 14, 2018 | Consultants, Emotional Intelligence, Influence
Who in today’s world is NOT dealing with overload of stimuli, things to do, information to keep track of, and personal pressures? It’s a challenge for one person, in one body, to keep up. Our mental strategies for coping are not necessarily the most useful. As Cheri...
by Lucy Freedman | May 31, 2018 | Consultants, Emotional Intelligence, Influence
Smart, helpful types (like you and me), are truly interested in what others have to say. We want to understand more than just the surface level, sometimes because we want to empathize, sometimes because we need or want to know more for its own sake. Questioning can...
by Lucy Freedman | May 25, 2018 | Consultants, Influence, Leaders, NLP
A central goal of Syntax for Change is that we practice to be “universal communicators.” What does this mean, and why is it the key to expanding your influence and simplifying your life? You have long since realized intellectually that each of us thinks...
by Lucy Freedman | Jan 13, 2018 | Consultants, Emotional Intelligence, Influence, Leaders
Are you sometimes frustrated when good ideas, from you or others, go nowhere? What do you do when you run up against resistance or just can’t seem to get a response? New ideas and solutions are needed for problems to get solved, for innovation to occur, for...
