David Yau & Associates

In the spring of 2022, I find myself like in a Group Relation Conference (GRC) of 900+ members in Shanghai. I am talking about the...

(Photo source - https://snapshotsforsoreeyes.com/2015/06/22/light-at-the-end/) Jimmy (pseudonym) told me (as the coach), ‘I am...

(Photo source: Flora Baker @ twitter.com) 2021 has been a busy year. With the quieter Jan, I am going to catch up with my reflection...

I reflected on the concept of ROLE in the last post – Why me again fixing the Wifi? I come across recently an unusual example in...

One day I found myself attempting to fix the Wifi at home again.  I was somehow annoyed with it.  ‘Why me again?’…. And I have already...

(Source: press.ikidane-nippon.com) An executive made a casual remark in a recent intact team development workshop, 'Smoking (together)...

(The psychological game – NIGYSOB – ‘Now I’ve got you, you son of a bitch’) This is another post which probably only my Cantonese readers...

My take on collusion (e.g. pleasing participants in developmental interventions) has been changing in the last few years. First, I was...

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] I learnt to use the ‘Immunity to Change’...

[Photo source unidentified.  Please advise if anyone knows.  I will add the source accordingly] In the ‘Journey to the West’ story(西游记),...

A reflection on a recent ‘learning miracle’. I conducted a day of group coaching with 5 executives in a business school program. ...

‘It is often safer to be in chains than to be free’ Franz Kafka I come across this quote on radio today. It explains so well how often...

'What is really going on?' -  It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...