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Routine versus ritual. What’s the difference? Ever thought why that might matter? Are you routinely “treadmilling” life away? Or does your life’s work have purpose? Supported by meaningful rituals? If you prefer listening to reading, please click here for an audio version: I’ve seen the difference between a routine and a ritual being described as the attitude behind…More
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Reaction vs Response. Which are you better known for? Can you be triggered into a reaction? Or do you consider the options before a response?
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Are you known for your generosity? What makes it so? Are you aware of when you're giving? Or does it just happen naturally for you?
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What tools and techniques make for good blogging? To serve and suit both the reader and the writer in a great blogging experience?
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So you want to start blogging. What does writing a good blog take? What makes it engagingly readable? And findable via SOE?
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Even time poor leaders are readers. And if not yet, do you know how much better a leader you can be(come) as an avid reader?
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What is executive life coaching? Could it be right for you? Do you know what the benefits might be that you're missing out on?
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Most leaders seem to have a coach today, right? Why? What are the benefits of coaching? Is it a talkfest or what makes it a growth and success differentiator?
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How much is your actual delivery responsible for the awesome presentations you deliver when they're really awesome?
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Do your audience "feel" your message ? Is it a connected presentation that has them truly engaging with you?
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How seriously do you take your presentation preparation? Do you plan to perform by preparing? Or do you just "wing it"?
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Are you one of those few admired for your presentation skills? Or are you just getting along? Or are you like most, that often admit to struggle with this?
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Does your resume allow the hirer to easily conclude that "you're the one"? Or is it full of words impressing you with all you've done?
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How can you not use the phrase “who do you know that...?” when you’re networking with purpose? Do you know what you're missing?
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Do you have a clear picture of where your career is headed? You know - career clarity? Or do you just keep showing up, hoping "this is it"?
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When you're dealt a tough card in life or in business, what are you better known for? Dealing with it and moving on, or hanging on?
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Amidst all this pandemic hype, we find many businesses being focused so heavily on protection, that there's nobody left flying the plane.
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Find you're almost "always on" working from home and that your hours are creeping up? Easy to slide into, isn't it?
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Find yourself suddenly working from home? Whether employee or employer, there can be quite some challenges, can't there?
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You know how people get labelled, rightly or wrongly? It happens, right? What might you be being labelled for, that you are unaware of?
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Sometimes guilty of "beating up on yourself" when you've fallen short of expectations? Do you know how powerful reframing the word "yet" is?
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If I asked your friends about your degree of influence, what might they say? And how would they (and you) assess that level of influence? If you prefer listening to reading, click here for an audio version of this blog: Don’t we all admire certain people for their confident level of influential interaction with others…More
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Are you known for your diplomacy? Or the directness (dare I say bluntness) of your interaction with others? Is that always getting you the results you seek?
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If Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) leverages wisdom, compassion and seeing meaning and purpose in life and work, how do you use it beyond IQ and EQ?
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Are you using the right influential language when consulting to your clients or other stakeholders? How diplomatically assertive are you?
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Do you know at what times of the day (or night) you are at your absolute “sharpest”? You know, at your highest possible level of performance?
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Are you a networking professional working at your level and above? Or an amateur that doesn't appreciate the difference?
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How often do you allow your vulnerability to show in a professional setting? When is that a good thing? And when is it best avoided?
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When last have a few deep breaths rescued you from overwhelm or a confronting situation? Or can you use them in your favour all the time?
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How badly are others "filtering" your messages on their way up or down? How adept are you at playing this form of corporate politics?
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Approval or forgiveness. Which are you better known to seek for in your corporate or business decision making?
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Does the detail in the startup business plan template really matter so much? Or do you realize that nothing happens until a sale is made?
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How's your credibility with your leadership? With your line manager? Key senior stakeholders? Their leaders? Is it where you'd like it to be?
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What stories do you keep telling yourself in your mind chatter? If they're negative, what might they be depriving you of?
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What did you invest in your own CPD (Continuous Personal or Professional Development) so far this year? How are you feeding your goose?
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Are you making a difference in your career or your life's work, or are you just showing up because you have to?
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Can you use head, heart and tummy, leveraging all the keys on your piano to differentiate you as a superior leader?
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Competition or collaboration. Is it all or nothing for you or is there something in it for everyone? Does it have to be "I win - you lose"?
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Are you aware how much your unconsciously played out behaviour patterns influence your outcomes? Good and bad? What are they masking?
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Being deliberate. If I asked people who really know you how genuinely passionate you are towards your purpose what might they say?
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Are you known more for being more strategic or are you still stuck in the comfort of the detail? What will it take to change that?
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What would your SWOT analysis look like if I asked you to do one right now? Would you be happy with it? Or do we have some work to do?
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Can the chameleon in you enhance your influence by adapting your communication style to that of whom you are speaking with?
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Is the front-office and back-office divide alive and well in your organisation? How well do you contend with and manage its vagaries?
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Allies and Foes. How do you know who is for and against you and your agendas? And how well can you leverage them and influence them?
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How well do you hold "the power" in rooms of significance? Can you? Or do you admire others for this and wish you could too?
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How well are you leveraging your "top pocket anecdotes"? You know, vital, valuable information only you have, that your bosses need?
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Pride and Ego.Think about their incredible power. But gone wrong, what might they have cost and lost you?
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Stakeholders - those I need to influence or whose influence I rely on for my success. How can I influence and manage their expectations if I don't know or care about who and what they are?
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Finding and keeping good people. Ask any leader and this is usually the most common leadership challenge. If you are a leader would you agree?
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Managing distractions to stay on track towards your goals? Or are they a welcome escape? How do they affect your energy, focus and success?
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Leadership transparency. Are you really fair dinkum? How "filtered" are your messages? What makes you (and me) think I can trust you?
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Guilty of "jumping in" too quickly? Do you know how much asking: "What's One More Thing" can help enhance your patience and communication?
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How inclusive are you in your interactions with others? Do you naturally attract people towards you? How well do you use "we"?
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Does age matter in recruitment, career or retirement planning, or doesn't it? What's your prejudice or excuse? Can you be swayed? What's your story?
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Looking for an idea that will help you raise your game to stay on top of it and ahead of the rest? It's called leveraging achievement. Interested?
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If you’re the leader, why aren’t you leading? Well are you? Or are you hoping everyone in your team will “just do the right thing?” If you prefer listening to reading, click here for an audio version: Leading: Making It Personal The art and science of leading has and continues to change. Old style leaders…More
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How much have you invested in your personal and professional development this year? And last year? Tell me and I’ll tell you what I think what are you worth
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What will it take for your handling adversity to become one of your primary winning characteristics? What makes it so? Willing to have a go?
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Can you “pick up vibes”? How well can you “read" situations or people? Can you rely your on intuition? How strong is your “vibe-meter”?
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An acknowledged authority in your field, you know you have something to say. You want to share it. Writers block seems to paralyze you. Why?
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Delegating. Whether new to it or despite many years of practice and experience, why are so many still challenged by it so much? Are you?
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If gossip is "social chit-chat", how is it affecting your team? Undermining your energy and direction or can you use it to your benefit?
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Is confidently speaking with ease with most people hard or easy for you? Want to learn to speak and influence like those that you admire?
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Having overcome that fear of the interview, are you ready for "blitzing" successful interviews? You know, confidently winning them over?
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Why are we so afraid or nervous of that interview? What's at play here and how do you better stack the odds in your favour? You can you know?
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How long do you think you have to make first impressions? Minutes? Seconds? You'll be surprised how quickly we all "jump to conclusions"!
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When will the pain of staying the same become greater than the perceived fear or pain of change? When is enough going to be enough for you?
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Need or Want. Having to do something or Wanting to? No-brainer because you have options? Or do you feel trapped by the need to "have to"?
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If belief that we can, that it’s worth doing, that we are prepared to try and that we deserve the results would overcome procrastination, why am I still (not) doing it?
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How might you looking back on the end of another year? In satisfaction or regret? Could not having Goals have anything to do with it?
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How good is your planning? Can an ocean going yacht reach it's destination without planning? What about your business or life or career?
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How do you feel about the end of this year? Excited by what you achieved? Relieved its almost over? Ambivalent ? Feel the "Blues" coming?
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If and when you “slip into the pit or cave”, how long do you have to “stay down there”? Ready to manage your state and climb out for good?
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Moving away or moving towards. Where do you direct your energy and focus? Do you want to be healthy or avoid being sick? Careful what you ask for.
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Confidence certainty and doubt. Even if you’re unsure, can you at least act with professional certainty? Or are you allowing yourself to doubt even that?
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Are you a doer, orchestrator, manager or leader? How do you move from one to the other? And why all the fuss about leadership transition?
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Are you labelled to be an Introvert? What does that mean to you? Is it a problem for you, are you ambivalent to it, or do you see its power?
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Your beliefs, your self talk, your experiences and results drive your self-worth, right? If it isn’t where you want it, what's still stopping you from trusting yourself?
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No pain no gain. When will the price of staying the same become greater than the price of the necessary change? Is your prize big enough to drive you?
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Who do you think you will be remembered by, for how long and what do you think your life’s work will be remembered for? What will your legacy be?
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If our self talk is the basis of our confidence, our self-image, what we project, and who we are, are you mindful enough of what you are saying to yourself?
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If our beliefs were “made in the head” and some no longer serve or support us, does that mean we can replace them with better ones, also made in our heads?
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Left brain right brain: which predominates for you? Are you constantly full of thoughts, or can you allow your right brain's intuition to come through?
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Embracing uncertainty? Can you? Do you relish the opportunity it might invoke or are you the "worrying type"? Could you make it your friend?
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Attached and Detached. Are you overly at risk of “buying in” or taking things too personally? Or can you step back and deal with them “at a distance”?
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Do you enhance your communication using the age-old technique of playing back what you just heard? Or encouraging the other person to do so?
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How would you like to turbocharge your goals to increase the likelihood of achieving or exceeding them by 85+%? Want to know how?
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When was your last “sabbatical” to invest in yourself: charging up skills, outlook and energy for what you love doing best? You know, sharpening your axe?
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Are you driving your agendas or are you at risk of allowing yourself to rely too much on hope to get you what you need or want?
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What “baggage” might you still be holding on to, that could be holding you back from the success you aspire to? What's stopping you from letting go?
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Are you one of the many already successful people still struggling with selling yourself? How successful could you be if this were easy?
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How does being relatable endear you across a broad audience? Does this come naturally to you, or is it hard work? Can you influence it?
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Does "attitude determines altitude" work for you, or does that irk you?
Are you "always up" or somewhat more volatile? Are you in control?
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If I asked you for "One Big Idea" that you could develop for your career or your business that would catapult your success, what might it be?
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Are you usually more tired or inspired? Energized or drained? Doing daily what you love best or groaning out of bed to the same old same old?
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Nick Gole – Systems and Process Architect at Navig8 Group: Engaging in coaching is a path of growth and self-discovery… Today I am in a different world, revitalised and with a new self-belief. Here is an extract of what Nick wrote on LinkedIn about his experience of Heiner’s executive coaching. (Read here the full testimonial):…More
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Are you tired of constantly having to “measure up”? Compared to what? Do you often see others as “better” than you? How can you break out of that thinking?
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What drives you more- having to win or having a go? Are you so focused on winning, that you lose sight of all the pleasure of having a go?
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Well prepared to “land” those key roles you so aspire to? Is it up to you stepping up or will your network “pull you up” into such roles?
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Sometimes situations require leading from the front, others leading from behind. Can you confidently apply the right one(s) for the right circumstances?
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It’s not what people say or do that we remember; it’s how they made you feel, isn’t it? Recognition: are you the “good finder” or the “nit-picker”?
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Are you and your team always crystal clear about the difference between accountability, responsibility and authority? Who or what's holding you accountable?
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Are you so busy doing that you have lost sight of your vision, or even never known where you are going? How much more could you achieve with real clarity?
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What are your Key Performance Indicators? Whether employee, leader or contractor, are you ensuring your performance is being managed and measured regularly?
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Edification. When you tell the person you are speaking with about someone else, do they look forward to meeting them because you have "talked them up"?
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How consistently do your deeds and behaviour prove you “walk the walk” and deserve trust and respect? As a person? As a parent? As an employee? As a leader?
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How well are you managing agendas? And those you answer to in supporting you to implement the agendas and expectations that they set in the first place?
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Faced with an "I don't know" situation, is your fear of being found out preventing you from learning what will prevent you from being found out?
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Tim Boyle – SMSF Property Finance Specialist Heiner helped me identify personal and business issues I didn’t know I had Although I knew Heiner through a mutual professional network for a number of years we had never really had the chance to work together. However six months ago I wanted an impartial, experienced, straight shooter…More
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When you are facing a challenge, do you focus on the obstacle or can you be inspired by what you’re about to learn now?
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How do you measure what balance you have across work, life, health and wealth? When do you know whether you are or you aren’t in balance?
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How do you go about exercising power - your power? How do you feel when others use power over you? How often have you abused your power over someone else?
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When last have you defined or refined your values? You know, the filters by which you judge good & bad, right & wrong? Are you truly living in synch with them?
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You've worked consistently hard over decades, right? Are you now where you wanted to be? With other words, are you truly Thriving or Surviving?
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Are you more constructive or destructive? If it isn’t your idea, do you criticize or “find the catch” or do you add perspectives that might improve it?
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Problem or Solution? Do you need to be a problem solving hero, or can you step back and operationalize so the problem can’t happen again?
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Does the character and charisma in your personality enable you to inspire, influence, enthuse and motivate with care and an attitude of “fun and fetch”?
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Perseverance. To get what you want, are you just willed to “dance in the rain” or are you prepared to keep dancing until it rains?
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John Cameron – now VP Product at LIFX: the first step you take to driving your own life and career, rather than letting it drive you Here is what John had to say on LinkedIn about choosing a coach then getting guidance and inspiration from the coaching program he embarked upon with Heiner as he…More
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How great is your mindfulness about your experiencing pleasure any and all the time, or is that only possible when you are in a leisure situation?
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Choice or chance? Are you leaving your destiny to chance, or pro-acting what will raise the possibilities of these choices to be better supported by chance”?
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Todd Coppin – Director at Thrive Corp Pty Ltd He gave me confidence to leverage opportunities few would have Whilst in a mentoring program with Heiner Karst, his recent specific professional support and guidance far exceeded my expectations when he successfully helped me through a substantial business negotiation. His wisdom, experience and coaching style and…More
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How often do you allow yourself to find a quiet space where you reflect and visualize deep down into who you are and what you want most? Can you meditate?
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Does “the harder I practice, the luckier I get” work for you? If self-talk becomes your self-fulfilling prophecy – does yours invoke the Law of Attraction?
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Who is actually in control of your career - your boss or the company or you? Really? Career control - isn't it strange how often we leave that to others?
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Gratitude. Are you able to use your “what I’m grateful for” list to inspire you to raise your game even more or through tough times when you may be “down”?
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We are who we hang out with, aren't we? If I asked you to “show me the friends you keep”, what might they tell me about “who you are”?
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Healthy wealthy and wise - how well are you balanced across these 3 key attributes in your life's work? Are you in, out or on top?
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Do you embrace the trust triangle with a track record of consistently delivering what you promised, every time, over time? Are you impeccable with your word?
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How might adding more humility into your leadership style add to your success? What can you learn from leaders that have gone from "good to great"?
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How do you keep your outcomes free of nasty surprises? And how well can you plan a surprise to really drive an uncommon outcome?
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How versatile is your influencing and communication? How many different techniques including drip feeding are you willing to try to achieve better outcomes?
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How would you like to strongly leverage the benefits of using silence into most of your interactions, presentations and negotiations? Shhh, it’s no secret.
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Is humour and laughter your best medicine, or do you still need to get over yourself? Do people call you for a laugh, or have they stopped calling you?
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Wanting to raise your life or business or career game? What's right just for you? Coaching or Mentoring? What’s the difference? Or might you need both?
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How strong is your need for significance and how much of it can you fulfill through belonging? Could this be a weakness or one of your inspiring strengths?
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Whats coming out of your eyes? A self awareness that "you know that you know", or a doubtful "I think I (k)no(w)"? What's it going to take to change that?
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If you aren’t, how would you like to be one of those people that seem to “stand out” over the others in the room due to their presence? You can, you know?
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How aware are you of your own personality traits? And the personality types of others around you? To leverage them so as to better relate to more people?
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What's holding you back from playing at that level you aspire to? What personal breakthroughs do you yearn for to catapult you to that elusive success?
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When the dog’s in the hunt there’s no time for fleas, right? Isn’t it amazing the fleas we can come up with when we‘re lacking purpose? What is your purpose?
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Scenario Planning: Worst case scenario? And the best possible outcome? Do you really think either extreme's likely to happen? So let's plan the likely ones.
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Continuing as you are now, and looking back at age 90, what will you feel – satisfaction or regret? What’s required to make it an extraordinary life?
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Going into a networking event, is your most prevalent feeling excitement, expectation, ambivalence or fear? Are you more self assured or more self conscious? What's that cost, lost or made you?
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Can you allow yourself to see things the way “they” are (differently), or are you stuck in seeing them the way “you” are? Do you permit new perspectives?
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When you get "goosebumps", do you recognize what your intuition is trying to tell you is important right now? Or does the running treadmill drown that out?
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Momentum, the power residing in a moving object, kept so through inertia – fuelled by doing. Is your doing strong enough to maintain and grow your momentum?
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Is your treadmill burning your candle at both ends, heading for burnout, wondering where your life’s going or do you know where you are on your life’s intended and planned purpose? And (when) might that plan include a sabbatical?
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Are you building your team around you to be the best they can be in what they do for their success, so that you can be the best in what you do for yours?
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If I asked your friends about your authenticity, what might they say? Would they have to think about it or respond straight out about how genuine you are?
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Pro-active, Positive and Responsible – it's all about having a positive thinking attitude? You are in control. Or are you?
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Are you consistently biting off more than you can chew? Wondering how you and your capacity management ability are ever going to catch up or get ahead?
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Finding the edge: where are you at with finding yours? You know, finding "that" edge that allows you to always be the best you can be?
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How often do you think unfulfilled expectations are the root of anger, frustration and disappointment for you and those around you?
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How concerned are you about “what others might think of you”? Do you allow the "Committee of They" to control or influence you and your self confidence?
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What power do you grant “the little voice in your head” to self sabotage you achieving your goals? Or do you speak over it and drive what you really want?
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Wondering why you are working so hard and have so little to show for it? Could the way you are prioritizing time & money have something to do with it?
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So here we are early February 2014. If I asked you where you were at in terms of your goals for what you really want to achieve this year, what might your answer be, I wonder? Is your goal setting in place and your goal tracking for 2014 on track?
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Have you ever wanted to read or listen to an executive life coaches' view about Performance Management in one convenient place? Well, this blog post is a collection of three individual articles making up my take on the important personal and business process of individual performance management.
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As a leader, are you leaving performance to chance, or are you pro-actively driving it? Are your reviews a chore, or do you relish the growth they can motivate for your subordinates, for your team, for you and for your organization?
If I were to ask your staff this question, what might they say about your leadership?
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How many times have you come out of your performance review and felt you had been “rolled”? Can you honestly say that you had invested in the best preparation you could have? How would you like the next one to be a “punch in the air” experience?
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How can any form of managed performance to expected (personal or organizational) outcomes be achieved if you don’t have a system or a process that defines and enables the measurement of good or bad, better or worse and right or wrong?
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When are you driven or willing enough to let “the mongrel in you” come out? What needs to happen for that to eventuate? Is it when you are confronted? Or when you really badly want something? Or do you sometimes use it as a tactic to further the achievement of an outcome? Or does it only happen when you’ve “lost it”? Are you maximizing your behaviour management?
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How much are you really caring about your people? In your leadership role or business, how well are you empowering your people to doing what it takes for everyone to succeed? Or are you really only caring for the “bottom line” numbers?
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If you were to compare your performance or that of your business (large or small) to the “best in class”, how might you fare in such benchmarking? You know, having confidence in knowing where you stood and what you needed to do to get there, or stay there? Would you know where to start? And then?
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So you’ve chosen to go out on your own and you’re wondering how on earth do I find the right pricing strategy to charge for my services, right? A very typical question every new start-up wrestles with. Shall we have a look at it together?
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Whether you are an employee, contractor or running your own business, how disciplined are you to sticking to your own values based rules? Have you and / or your business got well defined good governance and how well do you adhere to it?
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So when do you think it will be time to “pull up stumps” on your career or your business? Do you have any retirement planning for how to get there and make it happen? And what are you planning to do with yourself then?
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OK, Let's Talk Coaching, shall we?
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How many small business growth thresholds have you already encountered in your start-up business? Are they "testing your mettle?" Perhaps you're wondering whether you have the best approaches?
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Are you considering your own business? What's driving you? Or what's stopping you? Are you going in with your eyes open or your fingers crossed?
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Is your selling made easy enough for them to want to buy from you? Or are you so busy selling that you get in the way of your client being able to buy?
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How strongly do you think that your being curious affects the manner in which you connect with them when you are talking to or influencing other people? Doesn't your being interested in them make you more interesting to them?
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Has it ever dawned on you that the wrong person might be owning responsibility? Without clarity on whose journey is it, who is deprived of the learning?
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How well does your small talk unfreeze or put people at ease ahead of a business conversation? Or are you one of those intense people that “have to get straight into it”?
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How well are you able to apply posturing for strengthening your presence, enhancing your position and influence in meetings, presentations or negotiations?
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How good are you at remembering names - other people’s names? Knowing how important our names are to us, is it a skill or struggle? What if it were easy?
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Would people call you an inspiration? Or are you bored or boring? When do you inspire with your charisma and passion or when might you go “over the top”?
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If I asked about your awareness, how awake, alert, aware and connected would you say you are right now to what’s going on with, in, on and around you?
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What prevails – urgency and chaos or focus on what matters? How well are you able to filter the urgent out from the important in your life and work right now?
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Are you genuinely connecting with those you are speaking with? How strongly can they feel your interest, empathy and engagement? And the way you make them feel?
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Do you have the complacency of a thermometer that just measures the temperature or are you a thermostat that turns up the heat on what really matters?
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Daryl Turner - Owner, Graphic design and Graphic Design Specialist:
I would like to recommend Heiner for any situation where you need inspiration setting up a business or a career. Heiner with his wealth of knowledge and experience coupled with his friendly and approachable personality makes him the perfect coach to help with that next step.
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Do your leadership attitudes serve those you lead, or do you prefer to have them serve you instead? Is it all about you or more about empowering them?
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How often have you been in a situation where you knew the boundaries of your business integrity (your “price”) and compliance thereto was being tested? And how often have you failed that test?
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What interests or agendas do most of your decisions and actions serve: self interest of your own career, those of your unit, your company, your clients or stakeholders?
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How important a part does Networking play in your business success strategy? Not Networking is akin to not working. Can you really leave this to chance?
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Ben Davis - Director of ICT at Citipointe Christian College Brisbane:
Heiner was able to assist me in matters relating to internal staffing (team building) and negotiating performance reviews. I found Heiner to be very personable but to the point, encouraging and yet able to push me out of my comfort zone. Heiner's wealth of experience in leadership is a major strength and his ability to execute has reaped great results for myself and my team!
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Pam Macdonald - People performance expert. Director Broadspring Consulting:
I am proud to have Heiner as part of the network of accredited associates with the Institute for Independent Business because he is deeply experienced, highly professional and always committed to delivering the best results for his clients.
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For your business, how well are you expanding your network with Linked-In? Is it part of your compelling marketing strategy or just another tool?
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How well does your external networking strategy support your visibility and value proposition for your organisation so as to always keep you relevant?
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How effectively does your internal networking promote your visibility across your organization so that what you stand for is apparent to those that matter?
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What real business value does the quality of your personal network add to your reputation, your career, your business, and your stakeholders? Is this one of your true assets?
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Do your leadership styles make things happen or do you just let them happen? Does your team know what you are shooting for and what their part is in helping (you) achieve that?
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How well do you watch your language? Does it give away the inner view of your self-worth? Is it indicative of your current station or already reflect the next level you are shooting for?
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How good are you at putting yourself first? How healthy is your sense of self worth? Is it too low, too high or what would make it "just right"?
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Some think we are “born” into a either Ford or Holden family. Which do you think you were born into – abundance or scarcity thinking? Or is it a choice?
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Does your What’s In It For Me (WIIFM) reflect only what matters to you or can you see others too have a WIIFM? Are you aware of its power as an influencing tool?
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Are you interested or interesting or boring? What makes us “interesting” to others? Could being interested in others have something to do with that?
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