Increase Personal Perfomance Permanently

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The Modern Leader for Lasting Client Connections

As business coaches for purpose-driven businesses in Brisbane, Australia with clients nationally and globally, we understand the importance of having business coaching systems. It is particularly important if you are a small business owner as it sets the foundation to build to whatever growth-level you want. We help a small business do this by increasing the personal performance permanently of each member of the team.

I’m sure you have heard the expression, “A team is only as good as its weakest link”. Therefore, every small business needs to constantly work with the traits and skills of each person in the team, including the owner. This is imperative for business growth.

Business mentoring starts with identifying the strengths, barriers, desires, attitudes, etc of each individual. No business can develop without mentoring. We have two coaching and consulting mentors for different aspects of our business. Each year, we assess whether we continue with the same persons or whether we need different skills to move forward.

There are two very important skills to have in business today
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Goddess on Purpose Live Event March 2012 Australia

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Purpose, Passion, Power and Leadership

Do you want better and lasting client relationships in 2012? 

Would knowing your Life Purpose via hand analysis and living your Passion make all the difference to your everyday success? 

Learn how to experience your innate leadership qualities and achieve your desired outcomes. 

Join women and men from around the world for a Life-changing 2 Day event in March, 2012 in the Gorgeous Sun Drenched Gold Coast of Australia where you will re-discover your Inner Goddess (men also have an Inner Goddess), Identify Your Unique Life Purpose, Discover Your Inner Leadershipness, Connect it to Business and Help You Go from Exhausted, Unsatisfied and Broke To Abundantly Wealthy In all areas of your life 

CLICK HERE OR ON THE BANNER TO ATTEND 

We are Keynote Speakers, come and see us LIVE – you’ll be glad you did. You’ll be inspired for the whole of 2012. Guaranreed.

 

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Planning for Change

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In a previous article, I mentioned that each year we have one or two Mentors. We choose our Business Coaches according to what we think we need to allow our business to grow, not only financially but also in skill level. Whatever we suggest when we wear our business coaching or business consulting hats, we have implemented.

Outcome-Based Organisational Change

A top priority for us is to be strategic in our organizational change management. Change doesn’t just happen, it’s planned. So many strategies are available today. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “Change is the only constant.” This is so, but to change for the sake of changing can be business suicide.

There are so many “new shiny objects” around that part of your business management skills is to develop your radar for what is going to get you towards your desired outcomes and what will be a detour and take you off-track.
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Exercising the Right Brain

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In the left brain overloaded world we live in, it’s important to also exercise the creative, lateral thinking right brain to keep us in balance and enhance our leadership qualities.

Truly leading from the inside out means being able to balance many differing demands, which require both sides of your brain. This may be keeping your ‘eye’ on the numbers, while inspiring your team to either create a new product, or achieve challenging targets and outputs.

Get out there and do something that requires little analysis – walk up a mountain, take a pottery class, write, or go dancing. Whatever you enjoy doing that’s right-brained. If you can mix it in with fresh air or movement, then so much the better!
Greater inspiration, motivation and results will then come more easily to you.

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Allowing Change

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The old saying goes that the only things certain in life are “death and taxes”. That is still true, but there is something else that’s becoming more and more true and that is, that Change is also a certainty.

It’s no longer as simple as having a “Change Management” policy or plan, you have to actually expect and allow change to happen – there’s no ifs or buts about it. You have to have organisational change management strategies.

The more you try to control change, the more it will control you. There has been much uncertainty in the business and economic world over the last few years, and those that have come out on top have adapted swiftly and easily to the changes that have come their way.

Were these people more prepared, with contingency strategies in place? Not in the way you may think. Being open to new opportunities and ways of doing business is the ‘strategy’ they adopted. Trying to plan and manage too much can actually hinder your adaptive ability.

Simple be aware that we are now in the Age of Change, and be nimble to the moves you need to make in order to best serve your clients, and your business.

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Wholestic Leadership

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What does the word “Wholistic” actually mean? It’s not the same as ‘holistic’. It defines the completeness that is a state of being that either is, or is desired.
We choose to use this as our approach to Leadership, as leaders are made up of more than just drive and ambition. They may or may not even have charisma. Wholistic Leadership is about a way of being – making sure that your entire person is being fulfilled.

That is, your mind, heart, body AND soul. You have a big WHY, and you live your life whole-heartedly, believing completely in what it is you’re doing, and your Vision and passion inspire others to do the same.

This is what it means to be a Wholistic Leader.
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Bravado Versus Understanding

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Goal setting is still something of a “buzz” process for business. What does it actually mean though? It’s a planning tool. A current plan for a future event. 
The act of setting goals though is only as effective as the person making the plan. 
The real key to success is in the action taken and the delivery of an outcome. This is where the magic occurs.
Beware of the ego’s bravado taking over when setting “goals”. First understand WHY you want to achieve an outcome, and then you’ll be more invested in the implementation and ultimate successful delivery of the outcome!

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Value Versus Cost

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Before making a financial decision, how often is the value versus cost component considered? All too often the physical cost of something is the only factor in the decision making process, which overlooks some vital areas. 
For example, we were looking for a business mentor, and found someone we really connected with who happened to be located in the United States (we are based in Brisbane, Australia). Aside from the cost of the mentoring program, we also had to factor in the costs of multiple trips to the US.
Purely on a cost basis, the pro arguments didn’t ‘stack up’, but when we contemplated the value we would get out of the program, as well as the potential cost of NOT going ahead, then the initial pro arguments switched to the other side. 
With life and business feeling like they are now moving at the ‘speed of light’, decisions based on pure cost become the easy road. Take the extra time to consider the value added to your business, and the opportunity cost of not doing something and you’ll find the answer may completely change!

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Recruit for Values, Train for Skills

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Value alignment is a fundamental issue for all business, large and small, and links in closely to a previous post about hiring the right people. Finding the right person for a role is not just about their academic qualifications, or even their previous work experience, it’s about their values, and whether or not they align with the company’s values and culture.

I’ve worked in many different corporate cultures the years, and some I gelled with, and others not so much. One in particular that I didn’t align with, it didn’t matter how many technical training courses I went on, it still didn’t make my days any more pleasant. In the end, I made the decision to leave and it was the best decision for both myself, and the company.

Since, I have been involved in the recruitment of various team members and the most important element is whether or not they will fit in with the existing team. It’s not just about personality and behaviour in the interview, it runs deeper than that. What they fundamentally believe in, and their attitude towards their work and home life is fuelled by their values, with will also infiltrate into the team environment.

Sending someone to a training course, and building up their knowledge is in most cases very straight forward. The most important element though is that they “fit” the organisation. The rest can be built on

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Motivation Versus Inspiration

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Should you be motivating your staff, or inspiring them?

What does it actually take to motivate someone, versus inspiring them? Motivation implies there always needs to be some kind of external stimulus there, keeping people on task and encouraging an optimistic attitude. Inspiration on the other hand, triggers an internal stimulus in a person that ignites their creativity and desire for an outcome, which is far more effective and lasting.

In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins agrees, saying that “trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time“. What happens if what you’re attempting to motivate people with either doesn’t work, or ceases to be a source of motivation for people?

Every person within a team is different and, as such, are motivated by different things. Some people interpret money as a motivation, or acclaim and applause, or simple recognition. How do you tailor the motivation to each individual within a large team? It’s time consuming and ineffectual as there are too many variables.

Inspiration however, can occur in many different ways, and can unite a team to the point where they are all simultaneously inspired by the Vision of the leader, and work together in order to see the outcome achieved.

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