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How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

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Published on March 12, 2017 01:25

Crossing the bridge

Many people talk about crossing the bridge, figuratively speaking, only when we get to it. Perhaps they are suggesting not to allow possible future obstacles hinder our progress today. If so, such thinking seems valid.

Yet once we have reached the proverbial impediment, crossing the bridge in front of us many times becomes a major enterprise. And the importance we give to whatever is on the other side influences us in our efforts in crossing the bridge.

When motivated by a heartfelt goal we surely embrace the action of crossing the bridge fully. In all likelihood, we remain focused on the objective as we go about taking whatever steps are required to get us beyond the difficulty.

A goal set by another person, on the contrary, may not fill us with the same level of enthusiasm with regard to crossing the bridge. In this instance, our progress could be stilted at best.

Crossing the bridge of time I note we have reached the moment to bring this post to a close. Accordingly, let me just end by thanking you for reading this ‘Crossing the bridge‘ today.

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Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on March 08, 2017 21:19

How to clear the way to free our potential

Many ideas are thrown around nowadays relating to how to clear the way to free our potential. Some may involve the use of time management strategies, others could make reference to tips generated by studying productivity and efficiency.

Right now, let’s look at a simple practice to respond to the question of how to clear the way to free our potential.

When faced with numerous calls upon our time, we have the option to apply the ‘Do, Delegate or Drop‘ approach to each activity. Holding our goals, and from these our priorities, in mind we might wish to sort each task to one of these categories.

The benefits of operating with a strict guideline will be evident from the progress we make towards desired objectives. How to clear the way to free our potential is not so much a case of doing everything possible, but rather only doing things of value.

By focusing on plans, we are able to maximise our resources for the sake of completing them. Doing what we need to do, delegating what we consider secondary or unimportant jobs to those more aligned with the undertakings, and having the courage to drop things of no importance to us, certainly liberates our potential for strategic endeavours.

And when we are required to do things outside of our interests, we can at least be comforted by the fact such items are the exceptions instead of the rule as we go about reflecting on how to clear the way to free our potential.

Good luck with your efforts and thanks for reading this ‘How to clear the way to free our potential‘ post.

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Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on March 05, 2017 02:05

Moving with determination

Just because our pace is not in step with others does not mean we are not moving with determination. What could be construed by one person as a teeny-weeny stride might be a giant leap for us. Perceptions are individual and possibly the only one we should refer to is our self-perception.

How we would actually go about summing up what it means for us to be moving with determination is likewise a personal matter. The choice of our words, perhaps the metaphor we employ and the like, all hold significance for us.

We may attempt to describe moving with determination by pushing a chair along the floor. The initial effort needed to get it moving represents our early input. As the chair slides, we can say it is a portrayal of us moving with determination towards our goal.

Or then again maybe not. If asked, how would you put into words your way of moving with determination, imagining you are doing such a thing? If you’d like to share your input, feel free to leave a comment below.

To explore your efforts and evaluate options in the form of a coaching conversation, please get in touch. For now, thanks for reading this ‘Moving with determination‘ post today.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on March 01, 2017 23:05

To what extent do you review your assumptions?

Assumptions seem easy to jump to, yet not so easy to set aside. Without assuming you have any more assumptions than anyone else, let me just ask you to what extent do you review your assumptions?

Rather than responding immediately, please permit me to put down a few points of possible value to the exercise.

Reviewing assumptions need not be undertaken from a position of judgement. Assumptions, at times, make life simpler and keep us safe. For example, by assuming walking in front of a bus is dangerous we save ourselves from a harmful outcome.

Reviewing assumptions could be done as part of a broader investigation into our progress to date. Seeing where our assumptions have brought us to may offer valuable input for the next stage of our journey through life.

Lastly, reviewing assumptions – as per reviewing values, beliefs and long-held opinions – ensures our current thinking is relevant to our actual way of being and overall outlook. We develop, grow, change even, and it is not written anywhere that we cannot let go of no longer valid assumptions and the like.

So, to what extent do you review your assumptions? To share your input on this issue, please leave a comment below.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on February 26, 2017 00:34

How do we know it really matters?

To deal with the question ‘How do we know it really matters?‘ let me list ten brief responses, in alphabetical order, for you to a) ponder, b) ignore, or c) use as a starting point for the creation of your own answer:

01) By listening to our heart.

02) If it didn’t matter we wouldn’t be considering it.

03) It represents our best efforts.

04) It’s a matter of instinct.

05) It’s a question of aligning actions with values.

06) It’s common sense.

07) Life feels better as a result.

08) The smile we receive from X tells us so.

09) We don’t, but the alternative could be worse.

10) We get to sleep peacefully at night.

Thanks for reading this ‘How do we know it really matters?‘ post.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on February 22, 2017 23:04

Why giving it a go can bring positive results

The feeling we might experience from knowing we at least attempted a seemingly tough task may be enough to explain why giving it a go can bring positive results.

Many endeavours we are obliged to undertake do not offer guaranteed outcomes. The possibility of failing makes success sweeter we could say in such instances. And this is perhaps why giving it a go can bring positive results in terms of putting ourselves into the arena of life.

Winning is rarely an option if we are not prepared to at least ‘give it a go’. To underline why giving it a go can bring positive results, let me quote a saying attributed to the former professional ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

To avoid labouring the point I will stop now. In any case, if you’d like to share your input on the issue of why giving it a go can bring positive results, please feel free to leave a comment below.

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Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on February 19, 2017 00:40

If we are not happy now, can we be later?

In a recent workshop this question was asked by one of the participants:

“If we are not happy now, can we be later?“

Now, as then, the issue possibly needs to be considered from a number of perspectives.

Firstly, we may wish to ponder the relevance, or otherwise, of believing our happiness is linked to external elements such as time. The labels ‘Now’ and ‘Later’ merely indicate a passing of minutes, hours, days, and so forth.

Secondly, to what extent does our definition of being happy now include or exclude every area of life? Could we not be happy with our home life whilst feeling unhappy with our professional one or vice versa? ‘All or nothing’ thinking invariably closes us off from seeing a fuller vision of life.

Thirdly, we might not be content to be in the middle of a testing situation, but we should not forget the transient nature of everything, nor that we have the opportunity to enjoy – or at least appreciate – our efforts of rendering the moment as good as possible before it passes.

If you’d like to explore the issues referred to here as part of a complimentary coaching session, via Skype or Google+ hangout, please get in contact.

In the meantime, thanks for reading this ‘If we are not happy now, can we be later?‘ post today.

Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on February 15, 2017 23:11

How long does a good idea need to be pondered?

The knee-jerk response to the question “How long does a good idea need to be pondered?” is possibly “As long as necessary.”

This, of course, doesn’t really help if we are dealing with a good idea that in reality is limited to a certain time restriction. Not everything is available forever. There will be a limit to how long we can ponder something before the opportunity associated with it slips from the horizon.

Instinctively we know when a solution is of interest to us. Taking a while to investigate various aspects related to it is one thing. Letting the chance escape from us is another. Finding the right balance between these two positions is a task we all have to undertake using our experience, knowledge, and again, instinct.

If right now you are dealing with an issue akin to the question “How long does a good idea need to be pondered?” and would like to discuss it as part of a complimentary coaching session via Skype or Google+ hangout, please get in contact.

Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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Published on February 11, 2017 23:02

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams

Along with our capacity to think we also have an ability to dream. Whether we follow our dreams with action remains, quite rightly, up to us to decide.

I produced Heart Poems Captured From Dreams because I wanted to offer some heartfelt words as an encouragement throughout the daily adventure called Life.

Combining with your existing knowledge and resources, Heart Poems Captured From Dreams might make the difference between ‘just going through the motions’ and ‘letting your light shine’.

The ability to live life to the full exists in us all. But being human we forget this from time to time. Accordingly, Heart Poems Captured From Dreams is aimed at helping you remember this as you go about being you.

A collection of poems from a person who is not a poet may appear a strange offering. Words, in any case, have an impact and it is hoped this small volume of ‘heart poems captured from dreams’ gives you something positive.

The words set out in Heart Poems Captured From Dreams were indeed captured from dreams. In certain instances the lines arrived complete. On other occasions nagging fragments forced me to sit and finish the thought.

Once the ideas were drafted, giving them an outlet seemed only right. Despite having written and published eight other books – admittedly all focused on my principal area of work involving coaching, training and development – the decision to release this first collection of poems was not easy.

Notwithstanding doubts, Heart Poems Captured From Dreams is available and you are here, so it just leaves me to thank you for your presence and wish you Happy Reading!

Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

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How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)