Any organizational change starts from the top and impacts some people significantly more than others. Those involved in people management usually feel its greatest impact as well as front line staff members. While change is inevitable, accepting it’s negative impact is not. When you or your team members experience fatigue, they and your entire organization suffers. They produce less, take more time off, lose focus on objectives, morale dips, apathy sets in and sometimes they quit their jobs. They lose their ability to tap into creativity, intuition and to access the state of flow.
Read MoreYear after year, you set your goal whether it’s a business, professional or personal goal, the year ends, and you don’t achieve it. Only to start over again the next year.
It’s probably one of these reasons…
You don’t know exactly what you want, it’s all very vague in your head or You don’t believe you can achieve it
Read MoreAuto- suggestion is an influencing of one’s own attitudes, behaviours, or physical condition by mental processes other than conscious thought. Most of us are experiencing this type of self-hypnosis already ….. unintentionally. Saying, thinking and seeing the same thing over and over again. These thoughts eventually move from the conscious to the unconscious and that’s when they become habits
Read MoreThe leadership mindset is one of the most important, least understood and the most neglected element in the growth of a leader. Many senior leaders today grew up in a world where focus was on operational efficiencies and product innovation, this then shaped their careers and determined their values and attitudes. But today, it’s all about changing strategies, coming up with new business models and transforming your operations.
The goal is to do it faster, easier, cheaper and bigger.
If you are stuck in the old mindset that you started out your career with, you are going to struggle in the new business world.
Read MoreSelf-worth is understanding yourself, accepting yourself, feeling good about yourself, that you see yourself as important and that you love yourself exactly as you are, without any influence from outside of you. It is wrapped up in a knowing that as a human being, without doing anything at all, you are worthy. It has no relation to any job, achievement, nor to any success or failure you experience.
Read MoreMany have made millions, many have lost millions. The difference is not the situation, the difference is the perspective. What lens are you seeing the situation through?
Read MoreCompanies will call in a coach or a consultant to address leadership issues or staff engagement challenges, maybe even strategy development etc and often, we uncover a Trust issue. One that everybody is aware of and nobody wants to address.
Read MoreSkirting the edges of action is when you find yourself moving and doing things without a specific or clear outcome, even if you become aware of the outcome, it would not be significant or important in getting you to your desired goal.
Read MoreWhen you find yourself in the horrible cycle of procrastination, consider deliberately creating a short time-frame for yourself and work fast to complete it within that time. You will discover that there isn’t room to feel stressed or distracted when you are working fast nor is there time to produce “perfect” A+ work. B- will do. A+ is only in your mind anyway, and better to have complete work than no work.
Read MoreOn the one hand, TIME could be scarce, and you don’t have enough of it to do the things you want to do and on the other hand, TIME could be something you have more than enough of to do everything you want to do. The difference between the 2 is how you’re thinking about TIME and not TIME itself.
Read MoreThis is a very challenging time for everyone. The challenge that organizational leaders face is maintaining confidence in and among their teams in the midst of so much uncertainty and absolutely no precedence to reference as a result of the coronavirus.
What our leaders do at this time will determine how successfully we come through this crisis and how they communicate with their people will determine the quality of the community that emerges.
Read MoreIs your team optimized for success, or is it prone to succumb to the disease of toxic undercurrents within it?
Science describes the human immune system as a network of cells and organs which come together to protect the body and help to keep an individual healthy. The wellbeing of an organization, much like the human body, also requires an internal defense system to detect, combat and find solutions for harmful pathogens that threaten to compromise its operations.
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