People Problems

People problems

Eve Ash is a Psychologist, the founder of Seven Dimensions and the producer of 500+ training videos, including the latest comedy series Cutting Edge Communication. Eve has won over 150 awards for creativity and excellence and has been a National winner of a Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Award. She is an international keynote speaker on leadership, motivation and workplace culture.

Innovation and mistakes

Author: Eve Ash on 11 May 2010

People love to blame others when something goes wrong. When a mistake is made, many leap in wanting to know who the idiot was that did something wrong. Yet mistakes are how we learn... and continuously improve. And from continuous improvement we can get innovation.

Wires get crossed all too easily

Author: Eve Ash on 4 May 2010

Many people still have trouble communicating their expectations of each other clearly and professionally. This in turn leads to misunderstandings, conflict and poor motivation. A common cause of conflict and inefficiencies is that people are not aware of exactly what they are meant to be doing.

Move forward every day!

Author: Eve Ash on 20 April 2010

It's such a great feeling to help someone, resolve a problem or get your priorities in order. Why do we keep forgetting this? Why do we get swept away doing too many things and then all too often we are left feeling stressed, overwhelmed and running out of time?

Counselling and decision-making skills

Author: Eve Ash on 6 April 2010

I have had the pleasure and challenge of providing counselling over the last few weeks for people making critical life decisions. While this work is a psychologist service, it makes me realise how important these counselling and decision-making skills are for life and work, and especially if you lead a team.

Who is eavesdropping?

Author: Eve Ash on 30 March 2010

Why do some people lack care or concern about being overheard? Even when they are discussing private information about their company, their management or even worse, their clients.

Email nightmares – too many people still oblivious

Author: Eve Ash on 23 March 2010

How many ways can we get into trouble with emails? I can name a few and I am sure people reading this know of more. It's worrying to think of the number of organisations that still lack any kind of email policy.

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Building rapport is fundamental to good business

Author: Eve Ash on 16 March 2010

A week ago I wrote about the bad experience with my eyewear store. In the last week I have had the exact opposite at two other eyewear stores.

Some people hate their jobs

Author: Eve Ash on 9 March 2010

Why do some people hate their jobs so much they just can't wait to get out each day? They watch the clock and prepare well before the time to leave to make it out the door!

Sins at work

Author: Eve Ash on 2 March 2010

Sometimes it seems there are more wrong things we can do at work than right things. Let's go through some of the sins we know exists. What would you put at the top of the list?

Do you manage any bullies?

Author: Eve Ash on 23 February 2010

Bullying is against the law (see last week's blog) and as a manager you MUST take responsibility to ensure your team are behaving appropriately and bullying is not tolerated. And if your behaviour is considered to be bullying – change NOW. Can you say out loud that you do not support bullying in any way... without someone in your team shaking his or her head because in fact YOU are the bully?

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