Creating Tomorrow

Dear Friends,

Are you one of the many people taking stock of the status of their business or career?

Although it’s good to sometimes just “be”, where our businesses and careers are concerned what we actually “do” makes all the difference in the direction we take and the level of satisfaction we achieve. Sometimes, though, it becomes obvious that doing what we’ve always done won’t be sufficient to take us where we want and need to go.

• What would make a real difference in the success you’re having with your business?
• How can you not only improve your on-the-job performance, as well as increase your job satisfaction?
• When is the right time to make that big career or business move you’ve been visualizing

Take part in the Career 2010 Survey to take stock of your present professional situation, as well as to short-list possible solutions.

Trina

P.S. Eine deutsche Version - Beruf 2010 - gibt es selbstverständlich auch!

Dear Friends,

I rung in 2010 with several new projects on my personal roster. One of them is coming to fruition right now, so I’d like to share the preliminary results with you.

Beginning with the Creating Living Leadership series, I am podcasting some of the most successful leadership tips I’ve developed over the past two years. The first titles in the series:

1. “How Can You Suceed If You Don’t Make Mistakes?“
2.  ”What Can You Do When Great Employees Find The Grass Is Greener On The Other Side?”
3. “Is There A Crisis Going On Between Your Ears?”

My plan is to have no less than 15 leadership info-bytes online by June 2010 - and to begin augmenting my English-language podcasts with German-language editions by the beginning of March.

So: Click. Listen. Comment.

Because feedback is the food of the gods…

Trina

Dear Friends,

In my handy online reference dictionary, the word “purpose” is described as:

1. the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
2. an intended or desired result; end; aim; goal.
3. determination; resoluteness.
4. the subject in hand; the point at issue.
5. practical result, effect, or advantage: to act to good purpose.

Click here to listen to yesterday’s recording of my BlogTalkRadio show “Five Coaching Questions about Purpose“.

Trina

Dear Friends,

Join me on Wednesday, 20 January, at 1.30pm EST/7.30pm CET for the kick-off of my show “Five Coaching Questions about…” on BlogTalkRadio.

“Five Coaching Questions About…” is a content-rich, year-long dialogue between me and a selection of inspiring international business professionals who are willing to share the stories of their own personal and professional development with me – and with you!  Each month I will continue to highlight such pivotal “life drivers” as

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Dear Friends,

Now that the last champagne cork has been popped, most of us has laid out a more-or-less detailed list of both personal and professional goals we plan to achieve in 2010. Many of us are also aware of the basic rules of effective goal-setting ; e.g. choosing s.m.a.r.t. goals and breaking long-term goals down into short-term milestones.

Those are some of the  functional things we can do to make it easier to tackle our goals effectively. But these rules don’t address one of the most important issues of goal-setting and goal-achievement: ATTITUDE.

To positively influence your attitude while you are going after your goals in the coming year, be sure to counter-check each of your goals against the following criteria:

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“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
(David Weinbaum)

At the beginning of the New Year,
as well as the beginning of a new decade,
I wish you many inspiring and productive beginnings!

Wishing you all a joyous Holiday Season!

 Dear Friends,

Over on one of my favorite sites, WebWorkerDaily, Amber Riviere wrote an article* outlining what she has gained from working for the last three (!) years with her accountability partner.

Because one of my main functions as a coach is the rôle I play as my clients’ “accountability partner”, I was not at the least surprised by Amber’s list:

1. More Focus: Working with an accountability partner shifts your attention away from your varied lists of individual tasks and projects to the bigger picture of your overall business or career objectives. Doing this allows you to set a benchmark against which you can now measure each of the ideas that pop into your mind or the projects you undertake. Once you decided that an idea or project pays into your achieving your goal, you are even more motivated to add that particular piece (i.e. that specific completed task or project) to your professional puzzle.

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Dear Friends,

Tomorrow Lillian Ogbogoh (Waking Passion) and I will be conducting the final session of a telecourse that is part of her “Releasing Your Inner Diva” teleseminar series. In this telecourse, “Putting Down Your ‘S’: Don’t Turn ‘Help’ Into A 4-Letter Word“, we have been discussing a phenomenon that has contributed greatly to the imbalance in life that many women (and also some men) suffer from. Somewhere on the road to equality we got the idea that we not only had to “have it all”, but also to “do it all” along the way.

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Dear Friends,

If you have never been coached, do you know how a typical coaching relationship works? You can actually divide a coaching relationship into seven distinct phases. Although in practice one phase may flow into another, the following description gives you a good idea of what you can - and should - expect from your coaching agreement.

1. The Introductory Session - In this initial meeting the coach and coachee get to know one another better by discussing professional backgrounds, identifying the key coaching issue, and deciding how they could best work together. During this phase the foundation for a trusting coaching relationship should be established. If this meeting goes well, the actual coaching objective, as well as the recommended length of the coaching relationship, may be discussed.

2. The Coaching Agreement - Once you have established that there is a positive wavelength between you and your perspective coach (and vice-versa!), it’s time to define the framework for your coaching relationship. What are your goals and expectations? How many sessions will you need? Where should they take place and when? What if you have to cancel? And, also important: What is this all going to cost?

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