Do you want to show up more creatively for your clients and your colleagues, your family, and your friends?
Do you want to default to thinking about opportunity versus focusing just on problems?
Discovering Hope is full of proactive steps you can take right now, to achieve a more positive mindset or to help maintain the positivity you already have
Getting Positive reveals that more optimism is close at hand
Your Dance. But Which One?
‘Life is the dancer and you are the dance.’ (Eckhart Tolle)
So will it be the funeral March, the salsa or the samba?
Your life, Your choice.
Moral of story, know to what end you’re working for.
If it’s the joy of the job; Great If it’s hard work but it helps you climb the ladder; Fine.
If it’s torturous work and taking you no-where, get out. As even if it’s all for the family, in this context you will suffer and so will they.
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Are you a good listener?
Are you a good listener? For communication to even be functional, a number of steps are required. Effective listening is one of them yet an underrated skill as where in the curriculum is it taught yet,
“Every human being needs to listen consistently in order to live fully.” (J. Treasure).
Yet, even if you are an ‘all-star’ listener, remember what you’re hearing has everything to do with what ‘you’ may have already communicated.
So, when you are not hearing the response you want from others, don’t make your first act to question them better, take responsibility and perhaps listen with the context in mind and with greater focus.
Effective Listening – But How?
“Every human being needs to listen consistently in order to live fully.” (J. Treasure).
So many individual and macro’ issues exist because of a lack of effective listening..and then understanding. The ability to obtain quality understanding is key for strategic problem solvers yet, effective listening is a skill not often taught. Below a 2011 TedTalk that seems more relevant than ever.
As well as ‘our’ understanding of those we communicate with, effectively ‘hearing’ someone else makes them feel heard, understood and appreciated. Key for us, we are more likely to provide them with a sense of trust and connection with us.
Two of the biggest challenges to effective listening:
We aren’t focused – Impatient and/or time constrained, we want sound bites.
We’re biased – However fair we think we are, our upbringing/culture/life experience etc effects how we listen..
Opposite, our a few videos and links that if nothing else serve as reminders for us how to be fully engaged.
On Getting Your Ideal Next Job
– You can never outrun the frying pan! If things don’t work out where you are, stop, reflect, conceive a plan and then have a concrete reasoning for the next job you accept.
– If you don’t know with some confidence why you should better still will succeed, don’t pursue the job.
– Perhaps the culture gives you pause for thought or your potential new boss? Key is to have mandatory things aspects of the job you’re considering , such as an employer that values the role of strategy! Or perhaps a client known for buying great work, or a place with high quality creative output. Know what’s key for you and where the trade-offs are.
– Meet those people the interviewing agency/consultancy want you to meet  ; Also, ask to meet anyone else you feel that our key to your success and know having met them you are making a truly informed decision.
– The clients you will be working with, the personalities of all key stakeholders, the hidden skeletons relating to the relationship with the client. You can never ask enough questions, so ask away. And even when you ask all the questions, you will never have perfect information as things constantly change, but you should still ask away!
Accept change as an inevitable factor and that it is your choice to accept and embrace it or to try and obstruct it. If the latter approach, ensure your stance is on the side of current if not future revenue.
