There must be thousands of articles and at least dozens of books that have been written to tell us how to build collaborative and creative working environments Places where people are excited to work, are doing important work that they’re good at, where we are valued and treated well, where we feel good about both ourselves and the place we work
If you’re a business owner or running a business, it’s easy to show your employees that you care about them and that your workplace is the place to be , – barista coffee- free fruit- swanky breakout areas-casual dress,…
Read moreSomewhere in the gap between your mouth and someone else’s ears, messages can get muddled The messages that people receive are sometimes not the messages that we intended to send How do we know this? Maybe one of the following happens;
This is not like the whispering game that we played as children, where a message gets changed each time it…
Read moreYou might think that the backlog of “things to do” – would have been dealt with during lockdown When all we had was “time” did we do all those things that we say we’d want to do…if only we had more time? Hmmmm…not from what I’ve heard
Whoops opportunity lost?
I’m an optimist so I say no, rather we have gained insight into what we are really motivated by, or to do I think that there are really just two things that stand in the way of doing the things that we say we want…
Read moreI sat down recently and reviewed some of the issues that clients deal with- you know just to see if there were any recurring themes – there were Bad Managers is one of them
I took a deep dive (googled) the percentage of people that leave their employment and goodness knows where this figure came from, but the number was 57% Astronomical right? Even if we thought that was a bit high and we halved it 285% is still a lot of people leaving your organisation
This article is not about how to manage a bad manager, sorry if you thought…
Read moreIt’s only a few weeks till the New Year, and for those of you that use that time for goal setting, I hope this helps you to achieve them
We all know about the importance of goal setting(people keep telling us!) We all know about setting SMART goals (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time bound) So how is it that so many of us don’t attain goals that are meant to be important to us? What goes wrong in the process that we start with such enthusiasm?
Here’s a few traps that I am aware of;
1 The goal is not something that…
Once you start looking for big buts it’s hard to miss them They are absolutely everywhere I can’t help but notice that the biggest buts belong to the people who achieve the least It seems such a shame that one big but is all it takes to put a person on the path to no place in particular
Don’t believe me, take a look at these;
YOU Coaching now has someone on the ground in Auckland Welcome to Kevin Reilly, we’re thrilled to have you aboard
While YOU has been coaching the good folk in Auckland for sometime, using the increasing reliability of Skype, there’s nothing quite like a face to face relationship
Kevin has a finance and banking background and has spent large parts of his career partnering with businesses to create success As an experienced coach and mentor, Kevin is well placed to support you to clarify goals, help set a strategic direction and develop an action plan to turn your goals into reality
It’s great to…
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