Could Your Product Inspire a Beer?
Traditional business teaches us that the first steps to a successful business – are to Understand who your customers are, Find out what they want and Offer them what they want But this premise is based on these assumptions These are your customers These customers know what they want – and You know how to […]
What is Your Operating Program?
Your business is your hardware.
And you and your team are your software.
You may have your systems and processes developed to direct the flow of your activities, but do you have a clear operating program?
Your operating program is a unified code for HOW you do business.
Unspoken Rules
We are asked to play by the rules and that’s the thing. There are spoken rules which are clear and overt in a workplace. Easy. But what about the unspoken rules? There are usually lots of them.
And different layers of them. How do we get clear about what is expected and the way things are done around our workplace?
Create Space
Things can only come to us when we are open and invite them in. When we create space in our minds, our hearts, our life. Simply put, if we are too busy, we can’t discover. Discovery can only happen in space. Possibility can only be imagined if we step back, create room for ideas to […]
Welcome to the Party!
The Party is my metaphor for The Market Place. Who’s at your Party? Which relationships are most important for your business success?
Australian Values
As I stood in memorial over my candle in the driveway this ANZAC weekend I was transported back. It was the cool early hours of the morning, in October 2007. We were excited as we jumped into the chopper of the True North to head to the Kokoda War memorial in Papua New Guinea, and […]
Embed VS Inspire
Embed. Really? This word gets used a lot in change management. Embedding Values. Embedding Behaviours. But what does this actually mean? What are we actually intending? Embed, literally means to put into bed. Do we have a program chip embedded in us? Are we allowing employers to download a belief system to make us behave […]
Explore Your Perspective
Opinions can divide Opinions can challenge Opinions can stake out mental and moral real estate Opinions when held onto too tightly can be exclusive and abusive. Questions are opening Listening is allowing Intuition is guiding Wonder is inviting, And an intention to understand is inclusive and compassionate. Explore the perspectives of your world […]
Why Facilitate?
I had an interesting discussion with a fellow consultant, who asked, “so why do you facilitate”? He went on to share that he gets invited into businesses and asked his opinion, and he has worked out over the years that these CEO’s only want one of two answers 1 – Some genuinely want to know […]
Are you Activating your Awareness?
A Conscious Business activates its awareness in everything it does, and therefore a Conscious Business is only for the strong of heart and strong of spirit. It’s the nature of life to test us on our journey. Our success in life and business is determined by our awareness of who we are. With our awareness […]