By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th August 2019 I have been enjoying Brian Little’s “Me , Myself and Us – The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being” over the summer. It was recommended to me by one of my delegates (unfortunately I can’t remember who), and has proved very insightful. Here are just some of …
Personality, personal projects, place and well-being Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th March 2018 My colleague, Liz Mercer, and I recently bought the whole set of Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve”Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” between us. The 70+ page booklet on “Influence” caught my attention as we have a course on Effective Influencing and Communication Skills with RiverRhee. We also have a section …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th November 2017 Current approaches to management put emphasis on identifying and developing our strengths. And rightly so. Our individual strengths give us the opportunity to make significant contributions in our home and work lives. The diversity of strengths within a team contribute to the success of organisations. Personality tools such as …
Dealing with the dark side of our personalities! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th May 2017 My RiverRhee Associate, Liz Mercer and I have been doing a fair amount of reading and reflection to support our new course on Transition to Leadership. The March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR) gave us plenty to think about, as it explored some of the personality tools …
Exploring personality tools to enhance the diversity within our teams Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 26th June 2016 Why seek to understand when we are at our best? Two of the most popular topics in the 3-day Introduction to Management course that I run with RiverRhee Consulting are motivation, and Belbin team roles. The way we explore them is by examining what motivates the delegates on the …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2015 Meet Diane and Tom Diane and Tom are two colleagues who have been working together for some years now. Their latest project is to make a new kind of widget. Diane enjoys a good debate. She loves having new challenges to explore, opportunities to think ‘outside the box’, to break …
Is it psychobabble? How better understanding can lead to better collaboration Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 31st March, 2015 How to work with difficult people is a subject that many managers struggle with How to work with “difficult” people is one of the topics Janet Burton and I explore in RiverRhee Consulting’s 3-day Introduction to Management course , and in our tailored in-house supervisor and line manager courses. …
Difficult people are not necessarily being difficult! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman HAVING FUN WITH PINTEREST Summer is a wonderful time to reflect and play with new ideas. I’ve been having a lovely time exploring Pinterest for new insights to inspire the teams I work with in workshops. Pinterest has only been going since 2010 and although it already has more than 70 million …
By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh We had the opportunity to lead a break-out session at the recent Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) Open Innovation summit. It was a day filled with interesting presentations, panel discussions, networking and break-out sessions. Open Innovation is all about people Our session was one of the last in the day, …
The mindset for Open Innovation – at “Open Innovation in Action” SBC OI summit Read More »
Having recently completed OPP’s Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step 1 qualification, I was fascinated by Dr David Hillson’s letter1 in this months’ APM Project Magazine Inbox, and Patrick Bird’s article in the previous issue on ‘Type Setting’2, which prompted the letter. Both the originating article and the responding letter refer to the ability to …
Personality Type and Project Management – with reference to MBTI Read More »
