Email Overload – A Curable Disorder
Bloody emails! Ever had that gut wrenching feeling after being out of the office for a week and knowing that you will now need to spend another half a day just wading through your inbox? E-mail overload is a huge problem for many people today. Each day, about 39.7 billion person-to-person e-mails & 40.5 billion pieces of spam (un-solicited commercial emails) are sent worldwide. The average white-collar worker in Australia receives around 150 emails a day! What’s even scarier is [...] Read more »
Pay attention to where you pay attention!
At the recent Mind and its Potential conference in Sydney, I was lucky enough to catch up with Dr Jeffrey Schwartz. In his recent book; You Are Not Your Brain, Jeffrey talks about the concept of ‘veto power’. Simply put this is the .2 of a second delay between when your brain sends us an error message to when your mind carries out it’s response. In neuroscience terms .2 of a second is actually a very long time. The [...] Read more »
What’s your vision?
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. -Steve Jobs Great advice from a great man! But where do we start? I would suggest the perfect place to begin is to spend some time bringing [...] Read more »
The Three Mistakes Most Presenters Make
I often get asked to give colleagues & business owners feedback on their presentations. Over the years I have observed 3 common areas for development amongst the majority presenters, even experienced presenters. 1) Overuse of power-point: If you must use a power-point, please include no more than 3 points on each slide. Consider combining pictures, sound and symbols as a way to engage with your audience and bring what you are speaking about to life (rather than [...] Read more »
What Donald Trump knows, that you don’t!
You don’t know everything! Now I may be stating the obvious here, but it is amazing how many business owners, managers & executives I come across that have forgotten this fact. Is it because they are so use to doing everything on their own that their perceived sense of control is limiting their thinking and preventing them from even asking for help? The most successful & influential people in the world; Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Richard Branson & Eckhart [...] Read more »
Embrace your Shadow
One of the very first actions I ask my clients to do is to write down a list of their top 3 strengths and areas for development. A common example would be: Strengths Attention to detail Broad business knowledge/expertise Results driven/focused Areas for development Time management Inability to delegate Difficulty managing people I then ask them to explore the relationship between these two lists and tell me what they see. Usually, they will stare at the page for a few [...] Read more »