PUBLIC SPEAKING/PRESENTATION SKILLS : ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP
TEAM DEVELOPMENT : PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT : COMMUNICATION
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT : CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

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Article Archive

MAKING LEARNING AT WORK EASIER
We all know knowledge multiplies when you share it. What challenges many businesses today is how to share knowledge effectively, retain industry knowledge, role specific knowledge, and even general experience when many in the work force move regularly as they advance their careers. Two years in a role seems to feel like a lifetime for some people and we all know the old scenario of 40 or so years in one role is likely gone forever. Read full article >> 

PRESENTING REMINDERS IN THE WORLD OF MANY VOICES
The potential to connect your voice to the world is now there for the talking. The world really is an effective presenter’s oyster. Still, many people are working with the fundamental challenges of finding their voice and packaging their messages for more local presentations to clients, conferences, meetings, and social occasions. These challenges remain in spite of the potential for a global audience because ‘public speaking’ is still perceived as ‘scary’ by many– and when the human system perceives something is scary it stands to reason it must have a fear response. That’s why it is nigh on impossible to ‘talk your way’ out of butterflies, palpitations and other physical manifestations of fear. Read full article >> 

THE POWER OF THE DEBRIEF - A THREE STEP MIRACLE MAKER
(thanks to Chris Harris for the inspiration!)  The power of reflection is a human superpower.  So is the power to imagine.  As far as we know, we are the only creatures that can pause and reflect on our attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviour.  We are the ones who have the power to candidly review our results and freely choose how we behave today, knowing we are impacting our tomorrows.  “If we keep going in the same direction we will end up where we are headed.” (Chinese proverb). Read full article >> 

ACTIVATING YOUR HUMAN SUPERPOWERS - A CHRISTMAS GIFT
The purpose of this article is to present you with an expanded way of thinking and feeling about yourself, and to offer a view of what the present ‘moment’ in our unfolding process as individual and species truly and realistically offers if enough of us only knew how to use it well. Read full article >> 

Personal Development Offerings - Sorting the wheat from the chaff
Have you noticed the explosion of self-improvement offerings in the last few years?  So much promise - ‘live the life of your dreams’, ‘the easy way to spiritual awakening’, ‘secrets’ and so on that tempt us to buy/enrol/leap aboard in the hope that we might improve the quality of our lives.  Along with more to choose from comes the challenge of sorting the wheat from the chaff - what offers genuine pointers to transformation and what is mere hype? Read full article >>

Dreams Worth Dreaming - Visions and Values
When your imagination is engaged, energy is released, ideas flood in and action becomes compelling - you become a vehicle for the manifestation of a Vision. So how do you find a compelling Vision? Read full article >>

The Relationship with Your Physical State
In this article I want to move from the psychological to the physiological, from the thinking to the being.  In all parts of the world there are continuing discussions about conservation of ecological systems, and sustainability of the natural environment, and our responsibility of protection and care of the planet earth. Read full article >>

Team Development Strategies
I’ve written before about Leadership and the wonders of Teamwork (we are very passionate fans of effective teamwork!) so here are some specifics to help get your team off to a great start this year. Read full article >>

Cranking up your Conscious Evolution - Seeds for 2010
Because of the risk (for me) of ‘banging on’ till the cows come home, herewith a very few little ‘seeds’ for your ‘consciousness garden’ going forward. Read full article >>

Leader as Facilitator, Coach, and Servant
Listening to conference speaker Matt Church, an Australian “Thought Leader” (see www.thoughtleaders.com.au) a few weeks ago, he made it very clear that Leadership and Innovation are currently the key topics organisations are convinced are the most valuable lever points for flourishing in our rapidly evolving environment.  This is not a matter of legislating ‘thou shalt now step up and be more creative’. Read full article >>

The Very Real Value of Self Awareness
Self awareness has been said to be a profoundly important key to personal and organisational success.  Daniel Goleman is a leading authority on this subject and he found from research done in 1995 that emotional intelligence is twice as important as IQ and technical skills, and what’s more, the higher up an organisation’s hierarchy the more important our ‘EQ’ seems to be. Read full article >>

Challenging our ‘Sacred Cows’
‘Sacred cows’ are thoughts or people or customs that are usually unreasonably immune from criticism.  They are the ‘no go’ zones in families and organisations and cultures.  They are the things that can make us cringe when an ‘innocent’ questions or challenges or even raises them as a topic of discussion. Read full article >>

USING JUDGEMENT TO ACCELERATE GROWTH
To experience oneself as a ‘conscious evolutionary' or co-creator of a lifetime is incredibly exciting because it puts us in the drivers seat and aware we are in the drivers seat, centre stage, the architect of our own life - a very different experience to that of passenger, audience or slave! Read full article >>

THE ESSENCE OF RESILIENCE (and don't we need it now - in spades!)
Resilience seems to be a 'buzz word' at present. That sought after ability to access a deep inner strength in the face of adversity, to have the resources to 'bounce back' from set backs, these seem to be more and more important as we face multiple challenges as individuals and as a species. Read full article >>

Composting The Past So It Fertilises Your Future…
In talking about ‘conscious evolution’ - moving from unconscious to conscious choice - I mentioned the idea of ‘composting the past’ so it can fertilise rather than inhibit our future. Read full article >>

An Introduction to Conscious Evolution
We all know what happens when you drop a pebble in a pond…there are ripples. Imagine what happens when a larger than life avalanche leaps into an ocean….seas rise and there are much bigger consequences. Read full article >>

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