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The Benefits of Consciousness in meetings

What another meeting? Do you dread the thought?

Running an effective meeting is more than sending out a meeting request to a number of people with a time and place. Time is a precious and limited resource that turning time spent in meetings into sustained results is a priority for any successful organization.  Successful meetings require planning, preparation, execution, and follow up prior, during, and after the meeting. With structure and order meetings become an effective tool and applying the steps used in the Beyond Coaching  training can have an amazing energized result.

 Starting with a clear purpose for the meeting clearly set out in the meeting request. Draw up an agenda then stick to the format and time allocated.

A useful format to follow is :

  • Where are we at today
  • Checking back on assignments/action items (Not getting stuck in story – it is either complete or not? Can you still complete and if so by when?)
  • What has happened since our last meeting
  • Discuss and reach agreement on what we want to achieve. Don’t finish any discussion in the meeting without deciding how to act on it.
  • How are we going to achieve the purpose/ what needs to be done
  • Assign tasks with deadlines and hold each other accountable.

Finally, after the meeting prepare and forward the minutes, This is simply a record of what was agreed upon or achieved and an action item list of who is responsible for what and my when.

When we are in integrity during a meeting and accept an assignment with commitment to complete by an agreed date we achieve so much more. Meetings now shift from being a reporting tool to an action tool.

 

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Beyond Coaching, Business, Business Coaching, Business Trends, Conscious Business, Consciousness, Integrity, Lorna Sabah

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Conscious Capitalism Conference, 21st – 24th May, Boston

I am really excited to be attending the 4th Annual Conscious Capitalism Conference with in Boston in May with fellow smartRevolution Founder, Gina Hayden.  If this is for you, the time to book is now!  Let me know if you are attending, it will be great to see you there.

Conscious leaders driving conscious businesses is informing what we do and how we do it today.  The tipping point has occurred and we are seeing people in business and government talking about ethical capitalism, moral capitalism and conscious capitalism freely – a great concept perhaps?  So when and how and what can we do to move the conceptual into reality?  And why do it?

As the ‘old school’ theories, concepts and road-maps around being a great leader are tested and found lacking in our businesses, communities and world today, the rise of conscious leadership is driving a better, smarter way forward.  We all know that culture is top down.  If you are the leader or part of the leadership team in your organisation, you are responsible for the culture you create and the quality of relationships you have with all stakeholders internally and externally.  You are consciously, or indeed perhaps unconsciously, causing the effects you see around you.

A great starting point in informing your take on this is Firms of Endearment - How World Class Companies PROFIT from Passion and Purpose by Raj Sisodia, Jag Sheth and David B. Wolfe.  Happy reading :-)

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Business, Change, Transition & Transformation, Conscious Business, Conscious Capitalism, Conscious Leadership, Insight, Leadership Brand, Louise Mowbray

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Conscious Leadership: Inside-out vs. Outside-in

There is much to be said about the ability to think from “outside-in” as a leader.  Leaders who are able to focus on the effects of events on all stakeholdersare without doubt the most effective, especially in times of crisis.

Saying this, the leap from inside-out i.e. “how does this affect me, how will I be perceived, what will my peers think, am I an effective leader, how am I going to get through this?” to outside-in is only possible once you know yourself and can get yourself out of the way!

It’s a little like public speaking.  To begin with, most of us are concerned with ourselves.  “I can’t breathe, my palms are sweaty, my heart is racing, will I remember my words, will they like me, am I going to make a complete ass out of myself, what if I drop my crib notes, what if they walk out mid speech..?”  And on it goes.  The voice in our head is full of doubt, full of ego, identity, of self.

And as we master the art of speaking, we gain confidence.  We begin to be concerned with our audience.  “What do I need to do to connect with each and every person in the room, how can I deliver a powerful ‘take-away’, what value can I impart, how can I inspire, motivate, inform, educate and/or entertain?”  We shift from inside-out to outside-in thinking, being and doing.  And that’s a beautiful place to be.

So make the leap, take the chance, dive in, risk it and get going.  We can only be in this incredible space by giving it our all and learning from our near misses and greatest successes along route.  Afterall, there is no static destination, only a rich, varied and eventful journey.

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Business, Change, Transition & Transformation, Chewing gum for the mind ;-), Conscious Leadership, Impact, Insight, Leadership, Leadership Brand, Louise Mowbray, Personal Brand, Personal Development, Success

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The Source – The Wall Street Journal – happiness at work

As reported by Simon Lutterbie in the Wall Street Journal on the 23rd October:

“The Wall Street Journal Europe Global Survey of “happiness at work” has yielded some surprising findings. Over 2,000 individuals completed the recent survey hosted on this site over the past few weeks. People who completed it represent 90 nationalities, work in over 80 different countries and represent over 30 sectors of the global economy.”

Jessica Pryce-Jones’ article introducing the survey garnered over 15,000 hits, becoming one of the most successful articles ever on The Source, the Wall Street Journal blog on which it is posted.  You too can read the original article and complete the survey by clicking on the link.

The survey used the iOpener Institute’s iPPQ, a questionnaire that measures five components, the 5Cs, of happiness at work:

  • Contribution is the effort you feel you make
  • Conviction is your short-term motivation
  • Culture is the extent to which you feel you fit at work
  • Commitment is your long-term engagement
  • Confidence is your belief in your own abilities at work

There were five lessons learned from the first round of this research, which may surprise you:

  1. It’s an unhappy time in finance, but it’s not all bleak
  2. The happiest nationalities may surprise you
  3. Once again, the Netherlands is the place to be
  4. Happiness at work increases with age but you might have to wait for it
  5. The senior VP wobble

“People who are happy at work put in far more effort, work longer hours, and are more productive than those who aren’t. They remain at their jobs twice as long and they work 25% more time than an unhappy employee works”  Jessica Pryce-Jones

If you want to learn more about happiness at work and how it connects to ‘consciously causing the effect’ personally or for your company, contact me…

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Business, Change, Transition & Transformation, Empowerment, Engagement, Happiness, Happiness at Work, Insight, Inspiration, Louise Mowbray, Motivation, Organisational Intelligence

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Future Leaders Now

Never being one to accept the norm I love putting the cat amongst the pigeons and am actively ‘challenging’ current leadership models. With this in mind I offer and run a Future Leaders Now® programme and would love your thoughts, insights, input, and or anything else you’d like to share in this regard.

Why Future Leaders Now®?

Current leadership models tend to lead the world toward self-destruction. These models are directing mankind to pollute earth’s oceans, rivers, air, ground, ground water, the human body, and every other living organism on planet earth. Through greed and ego, the earth is being stripped of what sustains life. Through rampant greed and fear, millions of humans are starving to death at any given point in time. Countries are waging war against other countries partly out of fear and an inability to lead their nations, neighbouring countries, and citizens toward peace and harmony. Money spent on killing machines and war by some of the more powerful nations could feed the human population for countless years to come.

People in general see themselves as masters of the earth, all-powerful, and separate from everything else. The stark reality is that in general, a high percentage of the human population are masters of destruction. As humans we are not masters of the earth. We are abusing our inherent power and are destroying all forms of life on our planet.

The reality is that mankind IS interconnected, intertwined, and interdependent. We are one with all that is. As long as we humans see ourselves as separate from everything and continue to feed our insatiable egos to the exclusion of everything besides ourselves, we will continue down a path of destroying our life-giving planet and therefore mankind as a whole.

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Business Coaching, Change, Transition & Transformation, Coaching, Conscious Business, Conscious Leadership, Consciousness, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Organisational Intelligence, People Development, Professional Development, smart®evolution, South Africa, Steve Wright Krummeck

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