Our Year

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

I received an email asking “Do I want to do a blog this week?”

I immediately thought to myself well yes I have to.

So started a train of thought about what do I blog about? I will blog about that this is my year.

This is the year when everything for me and mine and the people I work with all comes together. I have got so much going on the Training Groups, sales performance courses, personal and business development.

So much going on that I am finding a part of my journey is putting this into context, into a plan. It is all about creating the environment for myself, where I can create environments for other people, in which they can live their dreams. My purpose in life is simply that. To help people create their lives, environments of their Dreams.

Help Create their Dreams.

So if you are up for a laugh, up for a journey, up for keeping in touch and following me and mine. I shall impart some words of wisdom as we go along, please keep in touch and watch this space.

This year is going to be our year for success. If I was to be asked you the questions;

• How long does it take to be successful?
• How long does it take to be excellent?
• How long does it take to achieve your goals?

Well in philosophical terms its a nano second, It is not what you have to do, its not the things we do or the way we do them, it is the way we think. Success is the decision you make to be successful, you create the vision in your mind that illustrates to you, that says to you, what you are being , what you are doing, the environment in which are in. If you can visualise what you want, you can be successful. That is how long it takes to be successful, to be excellent, to achieve all of the goals, all of the things you could possibly want.

In may ways its the visualisation of that success that is the most difficult thing but once you have got that you are there. All that is left to do is work the plan its is as simple as that.

Live your dreams

Are you ready?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

For the future? For Change?

We have an emergency budget on the 22nd June 2010 and massive national debt. Something will have to change.

It means change in society; personally, how we spend and how we save. In Business, the way that we operate and how our customers spend and save.

Change makes people nervous but change happens all the time. How do we adapt and cope with it? Successfully adapting to change needs a vision of the future, a deep understanding of who you are, what your business culture is and what you are seeking to achieve long-term. What does change do to you?

In some it can excite and motivate to adapt in others it can be stressful. This feeling of stress can affect an organisation especially if that person is a leader as they directly affect their team or department, even the whole organisation!

“The way people feel about working for a company can account for up to 30% of business performance”. The Hay Group

So this means that people can have a negative impact as they just don’t feel good about the company. Stress can mean that staff will not focus on what works.

Organisational Climate: is a set of properties of the work environment, perceived directly or indirectly by employees.

Organisational Climate can be measured in different ways. Try this questionnaire click here to download.

Let us know the results and we can help.

Training Groups in 2010

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

2009 saw the start of the our training groups – an opportunity for people to come together in order to develop personally and professionally through the medium of facilitated learning, shared experience and mutual growth. It has been an extraordinary year!

For 2010 the concept has been refined; retaining flexibility but within a more recognizable structure. We will continue to address those subjects and issues that are important to the group and each session can be supported by a goal-focused coaching session for those who want it. However, the monthly sessions will now follow a 4-month cycle with the first three months covering agreed topics with the fourth being used to review the learning from sessions 1-3 and complemented by action learning sets (please see below).

Never cast in stone, the subjects will be agreed by the group prior to each phase but in the absence of anything definitive at this stage, we would suggest the following schedule:

• Principles of Performance
• Knowing What You Want
• High Performance Relationships
• Review and Action Learning Sets*
• Persistence
• The Feel-Good Factor
• If You Think You Can – If You Think You Can’t … You’re Right
• Review and Action Learning Sets
• Effective Communication
• Getting What You Want
• Powerful Presenting
• Review and Action Sets

* So what are Action Learning sets well…

Action Learning Sets are a simple yet powerful tool for personal and professional development. They provide the opportunity to work on real problems and implement solutions – learning by doing. It’s a really powerful way for ‘people’ to learn from ‘people’.

What they give us is:

• Space for individual reflective learning
• Learning to take back to the workplace and translate into action
• Support and challenge from peers
• The chance to work smarter and find creative ways to bring about change
• A chance to test beliefs and assumptions and learn what works
• A safe environment to explore new ways of thinking and doing
• Personal, as well as professional, learning and development
• Insight into how others achieve different solutions
• A chance to progress new opportunities and develop new ideas

………..understand yourself.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

…understand yourself!  Then, and only then, can we manage ourselves effectively through constant, consistent and persistent application of focused effort towards the achievement of worthy goals.  If goal achievement is dependent on working with others then being aware of what drives others (Social Awareness) enables a much greater ability to develop high performance relationships and manage them to the benefit of all.

In organisational terms, if Leaders have a clear understanding of the company: the vision for the future, what success looks (and feels) like, the specific goals that drive action etc, the subsequent identification of resources is relatively easy.  I will admit that actually securing the necessary resources might be more of a challenge especially in the current climate, however, taking time to consider the company’s most important resource, the people you have, working with them to align individual needs and preferences with organisational goals is time and effort never wasted.

So, can you give honest and complete answers to the above questions?