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Self Aware

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:19:04 +0000

As the Delphic Oracle stated … ‘Know Thyself’. Self awareness means having a deep understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, values, beliefs, emotions, feelings, drives, needs, vulnerabilities behaviours & purpose. It also involves being able to recognise, regulate & respond to a particular situation in the most appropriate manner. Giving you the ability to process insights about yourself so you can adapt, evolve & grow to your full potential.

• Resilience Rater™ – Resilience self assessment, feedback, priorities & next steps

• Self Efficacy Assessment – our belief in our ability to succeed in specific situations. Gaps analysis, priorities & next steps

• Seven Signs of Self Sabotage – Highlight any sub conscious trip wires that stopping you from achieving your goals. Tools & techniques to counteract

• Act – Reflect – Evolve – Grow – Practical interactives to build your self awareness

• Spot It … You Got It – Reflective toolkit for higher level awareness

Play to Strengths

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:16:22 +0000

High performers spend over 75% of their time playing to their strengths! And yet, less than 20% of people spend the majority of their time playing to their strengths!(Harvard 2010). What a waste of potential!

Research shows there are significant measurable benefits when people & teams use their strengths
• They are 6 times more engaged & 3 times happier in general (Gallup 2007).
• Performance is on average 36% higher whereas focusing on people weaknesses see a decline of 27% (Corporate Leadership Council)
• Teams can outperform by 86%!

Strengths are defined as a combination of innate talents, skill & knowledge, passion & enjoyment.

1. ID Your Innate / Instinctive Strengths – Complete your Kolbe Instinctive Profile to ID your natural Mode of Operation (MO)

2. Match Your Talents & Tasks – Check the Goodness of Fit (talents to tasks). ID those tasks that light up your brain & invigorate you vs those that drain & deplete you

3. Redesign Your Role – Work from a position of strength … review how you can redesign your role & / or the way you approach & perceive your role

4. Drive Action - ID obstacles & develop triggers, tailor strategies & tactics to drive action to achieve your best. Develop a game plan that grows the amount of time spent playing to your strengths.

Realistic Optimism

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:10:34 +0000

Realistic Optimism is believing you will succeed but knowing you have to make success happen & that there may be difficulties / obstacles to overcome on the way. It involves a ‘can do’ attitude where setbacks are viewed as temporary & changeable.

• Learned Optimism – Optimism is an attitude that can be learned. The end result is an increase in confidence. Practice techniques to grow optimism & confidence in areas where they are low

• Reality Bytes – Interactives to develop balanced & realistic perspectives in the face of adversity

• Mindset Minefields – Victim mentality, learned helplessness & addiction to drama are 3 of the biggest mindset minefields. ID when & where these occur & learn how to disarm them.

Mentally Tough

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:08:34 +0000

Mental toughness builds ‘True Grit’ … the ability to persevere thru challenge, adversity, plateaus in performance & failure whilst maintaining effort & interest.

• Thinking Traps – Lethal pitfalls that hijack your emotions create mental turbulence & divert precious energy / focus. Interactives to ID them, learn how to render them ineffective & develop healthy thinking habits.

• Basement Beliefs – are deep rooted beliefs that affect our performance. When triggered we self edit ourselves out of action. Practice new tools, techniques & triggers to ID, dissolve & ‘act before you think!’

• Mental Conditionally – Criticism, arguments & verbal venting can batter & bruise our egos. Interactives to improve frustration tolerance, desensitise the impact of words / actions & increase mental toughness.

Impulse Control

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:06:19 +0000

Increasing pressures can ‘shorten our fuses’ causing people to lose control or over react. Their ability to stay calm & level headed is affected by strong waves of emotion. Our Limbic (emotional) System triggers a chemical response which spikes our emotions. This chemical response last no longer than 20 – 90 secs. After which time … we can choose a different response. This is Conscious Impulse Control.

Interactives to practice a range of techniques that can be implemented immediately
• Circuit Breakers
• State of Mind Switches (SoM Switches)
• Cool Down Techniques
• Stress Reduction Techniques

Impulsive Behaviour – What does it look like, how it harms & techniques to rein it in

Emotional Regulation

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:03:54 +0000

Our emotional responses can be intense, liable & unproductive. Often they highjack our actions & take over control. Learn how to regulate your emotions / moods so you can maintain your focus & continue to act productively / effectively. Practical techniques to utilise emotion & story as powerful communication & persuasion tools.

• Ride, Regulate, Rebalance – Practical techniques that can be implemented immediately

• Public Perceptions – Examine supportive / unsupportive emotions in the workplace. How are they being interpreted by you … by others? ID new options / responses

• Reframing Past Patterns – Ellis’s ABCD model to retrain the brain

• Emotional Motives – The role of emotions as Intrinsic Motivators to initiate action. ID carrot & stick motivators

• Emotional Enhancement – Using ‘story’ as emotional transport to connect, influence, communicate & persuade.

Thinking Traps

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:01:20 +0000

Face Your Fears

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Fear is private enemy # 1 & it is rampant in business. Fear makes you stupid … it shuts down higher order thinking, it inhibits action & silences opinion, causing underachievement & a lack of growth. The problem is … we’ve grown so accustomed to it we hardly notice it. Master techniques to catalyse vs paralyse your efforts

• Faces of Fear – ID where hidden fears / worries are hampering performance.

• Comfort in Discomfort – Getting comfortable with discomfort is a vital skill for resilience building as it allows you to push forward in difficult times. Simple practical exercises to get comfortable with discomfort

• Clear the Fear – Interactives to practice techniques to dissolve worries, apprehensions & fears

• Creating Courage – Strategies & tactics to build courage in the workplace.

Grapple & Grow

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:49:28 +0000

Life doesn’t go smoothly! We need to work thru our difficulties & learn from our mistakes. Grappling is Good. It improves our problem solving capability, it challenges & motivates us, it stretches our talents so we improve our mastery. Each time we make progress & learn from trial / error we grow our confidence & capability. Giving us MORE VALUE to add.

• Growth Mindset – Interactives to develop higher order thinking skills to promote mental flexibility, focus, anticipation & the ability to listen & change one’s mind

• Whole Brain Thinking – integrates both left & right brain capabilities to produce creative problem solving. Learn new techniques to initiate right brain synthesis & design as well as Intentional switching from left to right thinking.

• Power of Play – Play is the most creative activity of the brain. It stimulates creative engagement & enhances creative problem solving. Interactives to promote individual & group play

• Stress as a Catalyst – Stress without rest / recovery kills productivity & leads to burnout. ID healthy high performance techniques that promote good stress factors to help you to rise to your daily challenges.

Meaning & Motivation

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:42:54 +0000

Resilient people extract meaning & motivation from adversity. They ask themselves the difficult questions & face the truth.

• Bitter or Better – The process of letting go of resentment, guilt & anger to make space for the learnings of ‘How this situation served me’

• Phoenix Rising Moments – Interactives to collect & share powerful life shaping moments from adverse situations or difficult situations. What were the survival/ coping lessons, new meaning & motivation achieved?

• Intrinsic Motivators – Interactives to ID top personal motivators to spark, energise & inspire

Engage with Empathy

Jenny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:38:28 +0000

Is the ability to stand in someone else shoes, sense what they are experiencing, see the situation from their eyes, hear the messages beneath the words, understand their emotional makeup. It’s not a matter of sympathising, feeling sorry or being nice or tolerant of people. It’s the ability to intuit the perspective & feeling of another. This is a right brain skill that requires toning & flexing on a regularly basis. Empathy is not a soft option … it’s vital for individual & team growth, development & success.

• Empathy Inhibitors – Highlight obstacles & blocks associated with the perception of empathy in the workplace. ID how it can be a vital tool for growth & development

• Empathy Enhancers – Practical interactives to spark empathy & build its strength

• Empathy Elements – the art of decoding hidden messages, reading body language, gauging & sensing the unspoken

• Ego vs Empathy – Ego is the trip wire for empathy. Learn to recognise when it gets in the way & how to step over it

• Empathy in Action – Interactive scenarios to experience & practice empathy in action

Leading Leaders

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:45:38 +0000

Lead with Ease

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:45:10 +0000

Lead by Example

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:44:55 +0000

Leadership in the Moment

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:44:26 +0000

Passion + Purpose + Profits

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:44:02 +0000

Fail Fast & Fail Forward

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:43:36 +0000

Reignite & Reinvent

Jenny — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:43:11 +0000

Excite … Incite … Delight

Jenny — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:34:16 +0000

Learn the art of inspired action & self motivation

• Motivational myth busting
• Identify what excites & delights you at work
• Tips & tricks to spark self motivation
• Discover the 7 signposts to finding greater fulfilment, satisfaction & inspired action

Effective teams know what excites & drives them. They understand their needs & how to get them met. They know what a great day looks like & they take the time to delight in their own achievements.

Motivation & inspired action it is the responsibility of the individual. Successful people don’t shy away from this … they take full responsibility for reaching their potential. All they need is the tools, knowhow, support & environment to dig deep & find their drive.

Call Jenny Lincoln on 0408 643 957 (within Australia) or +61 408 643 957 (outside Australia) to help you find your motivational triggers.

Proprietary Pride

Jenny — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:33:19 +0000

Proprietary Pride unites a team / organisation

• Discover what makes us proud & purposeful, individually & as a team
• Experience quick & easy team bonding activities
• Learn how to grow trust, understanding & proprietary pride

Proprietary Pride is a force to be reckoned with! It unifies individuals & creates cohesion. As we share experiences our mutual understanding, respect & appreciation grows. This helps us to find meaning & purpose in our work … two important motivators for everyone!

A shared sense of pride in what you BE, DO & HAVE as a team or organisation multiplies the impact & output of everyone’s efforts. So call Jenny Lincoln on 0408 643 957 (within Australia) or +61 408 643 957 (outside Australia) & get started now.