Dr Mike Clayton
Hi, I'm Mike Clayton. Thank you for visiting my website.
I am a business speaker, and I write books about the kind of personal and business skills I have needed throughout my career. I have spent the last twenty years studying and learning this stuff and nothing gives me more pleasure than sharing it.
You will find a lot of my writing on this website too - in my blog and in some of the materials you can download from the Resources pages. I hope you enjoy it and will want to contact me.
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Management Models Blog
Creating the Onion Model
The Onion Model of Resistance is a model I developed initially to describe resistance to change. I subsequently generalised it to cover handling: resistance to ideas in a presentation sales objections resistance in a learning environment resistance to engagement Full … Continue reading
Posted in Handling Resistance, Management Models
Tagged Change management, Handling Resistance, Onion Model, resistance
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Creating the Onion Model Part 2
Yesterday, I posted the first part of an article published in the September 2011 issue of Training Journal. I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is Part 2 … Continue reading
Creating the Onion Model
In the September 2011 issue of Training Journal, I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is that article. Models are the way that human beings understand our world, … Continue reading
2011 Tour Dates – Update
I have just confirmed a couple of extra tour dates for my speaking tours this year, promoted by Bite Size Seminars. This makes a total of 32 seminars I will be speaking on four topics and you can look at … Continue reading
2011 Tour Dates
This post is now out of date. In April, we added eight extra dates. For an updated schedule of tour dates, please click here. I have just confirmed a whole load of tour dates for my speaking tours this year, … Continue reading
Where did the onion come from?
The core of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook is “The Onion Model”. Indeed, one of the drivers for writing it was to put my “onion model of resistance” into the wider world. I originally developed this in the context of resistance … Continue reading
French and Raven’s Power Bases
Social power is the ability to influence other people. Many thinkers have sought the source of this power: perhaps the most successful were John French and Bertram Raven. Their study of social power is valuable to us in understanding the … Continue reading
Posted in Brilliant Influence, Management Models, Process
Tagged Bertram Raven, John R P French, Power Bases
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