The story you tell yourself (and others) initiates your emotional response, embeds your attitude state, and sets in motion ONLY linked experiences (that confirm it or move it on a step).
Your story is how you describe your current circumstances, you tell it in general dialogue to friends and family, powerfully creating pictures, evidence and emotions that go with it. The more often you tell your story, more elaborately and more vividly the more power you add to its impact on the listener.
The #1 listener to your story is… YOU!
This year we have experienced a major disruption to the way we work. We have fallen into new normal patterns of working behaviour and gradually loss volumes of our old spark. Days have become movement-predictable, as we sit in our home workspace and wait or hope for something new to occur.
I noticed that my creativity was flattening after sitting for hours in my home office, staring at the screen, waiting, hoping for inspiration to show up!
When your pattern becomes edge-less, the creative-spark moments dissolve.
It is at the edges of activity that creativity is sparked and new thinking is triggered – have your edges got lost?
The skill of Webinaring has become crucial in these times, it is not a fill-in method while we wait to get back into the office. It IS the method. How effective a Webinarist are you? Here’s a Top 7 List of Webinar Impact Enhancers.
In leadership and in almost all business communication, the greater your gravitas, the more impact you will have. At some point in the dialogues of almost all of my leadership coaching engagements we (my client and I) explore this important aspect. This Simple Note explores how you can begin to increase your gravitas.
Are you feeling bogged down? Or are things on the up? You always have a choice about how you interact with what shows up in your life and work and how you process and describe it is key…
When presenting your ideas do you erm often? Speaking up at meetings are your views punctuated with umms? Are you aware of the amount of umms and errs that pepper your dialogue? Pruning just a few of them out of your talks can significantly enhance your impact and the influence you exert with the actual content of your subject.
Many of the dialogues I have had with coaching clients have been about their career, its direction and progress to bigger, better and greater fulfilment.
I often hear that securing that great role or experiencing fast track promotion can be the result of nothing more than a fortunate combination of timing and luck.
Whilst there may be some truth in this, how can you maximise the positive impact of these uncontrollable forces? Through years of coaching conversations, I have distilled four career accelerators that are in your control and, when attended to, increase the likelihood of timing and luck acting favourably for you.
To wear a t-shirt on a winter's day and expect to be warm is foolish. Similarly a poorly chosen attitude can limit our effectiveness in many situations.
