Are you courageous or merely conforming?

Have you ever wondered what drives successful people? It's the courage to take calculated risks and learn from ALL their experiences.

“The opposite of courage in these days is not cowardice, it is conformity”
Anthony Robbins (May 2009)

How courageous are you? What can you do to increase your success in the current economic climate?

Find out here:

http://www.incitecoaching.com.au/articles/Courage%20Vs%20Conformity.pdf

Masterful Communication

Do you communicate what you actually want to? Do you get the responses that you desire when communicating with others?

Have you ever been in a situation where you've been so worried about getting the content of your communication just right, that you forget to look at the person that you are speaking to, wait for responses or even listen to what they are saying?

Quite often we get so caught up in what we are going to say to our boss, colleague or friend, that we put more focus on that than how we say it.

Scarily only 7% of our communication comes from the actual words we use....learn how to make the most of the other 93% and become a master communicator.

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Define your Direction

I can't emphasize enough the importance of goal setting. Do you know where you are headed?

It has been found that 90% of those people who have achieved great success had a vision or a goal. What is yours?

To maximise the effectiveness of your goal, ensure that is is concise and that you clearly know what the outcome will look like, sound like and how it will make you feel.

Write your goal in positive tense, so that it is as if it has already happened, and put a date on it so that you know when you will achieve it. If you always write "next month I will make enough for an overseas holiday," then guess what? It will always happen next month!

Invest time in creating compelling goals and go about making them happen. Enjoy the process.

The case for work life balance

Over recent years, numerous surveys have found that employees are wanting better work life balance, and it has consistently been in the top 4 requirements of employees looking for a new job.

We have seen some businesses embrace this requirement and offer more flexible working hours and others offering better maternity or paternity leave. How does this actually impact employees? Do they actually see the benefit of these new policies?

Some of my clients have told me that although their company releases new policies and says that they are working hard to offer improved work life balance, it can often be frowned upon when employees actually TRY to make the most of these benefits.

Other companies see work life balance as fluffy and not relevant to running the business. These companies are severely missing out on potentially making increased profits. Improved retention, motivation and performance as a result of better work life balance arrangements has been shown to increase organisational profits.

Freek Vermeulen has written an article in the Harvard Business Publishing to address such issues. It is a most interesting read and is a must for all Business owners and executives.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/vermeulen/2009/04/the-case-for-worklife-programs.html

For more information on how you can manage your work life balance visit our website or email Jennifer.

How can you manage redundancy and the current job market?

Smart Company cite today that job advertisements in Australia fell by 8.5% in March as unemployment rises to a four and a half year high of 5.5%

With these statistics being published daily, more and more employees are feeling increasingly uneasy about their job security.

So if you have been made redundant what can you do? How can you ensure that your job applications will be selected or even read? Recruiters and employers are now receiving a high number of applications for each position they advertise (in some cases over 100). In order to get through such volume, very tough "culling" activities are common.

With this in mind it is now more essential than ever to ensure that your resume and job applications are appealing to the recruiter. You will have approximately 3-5 seconds to grab the recruiters attention. What are you doing to grab their attention? How are you demonstrating that you are the BEST person for the job?

Read through Overcoming Resume Roadblocks to increase your job application to interview conversion rate.

For further advice on ensuring your career transition is as smooth as it can be visit Incite Coaching's Career Coaching Page.

Are you taking your chances?

I was playing solitaire today, waiting patiently for the aces to come out, moving over the remaining cards to eventually get out. I got out once out of, I don't know how many times, I lost count. I suddenly realised that the reason I was only winning 1 game every now and then was because I was just waiting for my opportunities to come to me. In the next game I started looking for my opportunities and sure enough I found them and I got out.

Economists are telling us that we are currently in the midst of one of the greatest financial downturns in history. We have seem a significant increase in job losses, people are becoming more conservative with their spending and some of the world's best know organisations are no longer. There are always people who prosper in times of financial difficulty, by seeing the opportunities which are available to them. John D. Rockefeller was able to make millions during the great depression to eventually become America's first billionaire.

Seeing and creating opportunities is critical at this time. What opportunities have passed you by? Can you create new opportunities to get you closer to your goals?

Focus on what you want, take advantage of everything you can and you'll soon see your cards coming out.

To find out how you can realise opportunities before waiting for them to appear, email info@incitecoaching.com.au to get your free report

Crack the Easter Egg Calories

Easter is a great time, you get to relax, catch up with friends and family, it is generally less pressure than at Christmas and you get to indulge in Easter eggs! Excellent!

Have you ever thought how much you are consuming? Are you feeling the pangs of Easter indulgence guilt? Do you feel sluggish?

Here's a bit of an after Easter reality check and some tips to cracking those unwanted calories.

Indulgence:
1 Cadbury's Creme egg
Calories: 170
Crack the Calories:
2.74km walk (approximately 33 minutes at a steady pace)
18 minutes jogging
20 minute playing singles tennis

Indulgence:
1 medium hollow chocolate bunny
Calories: 260
Crack the Calories:
4.19km walk (approximately 50 minutes at a steady pace)
29 minutes jogging
31 minute playing singles tennis

Indulgence:
1 large chocolate bunny
Calories: 1050
Crack the Calories:
16.93km walk (just under 4 hours at a steady pace)
1 hour 56 minutes jogging
2 hours 3 minutes playing singles tennis

How will you crack your calories? Can you get off the bus a stop early? Go to the gym before or after work? Go for a run in your lunch break? Organise some friends to go for a walk after work? Join a local sports team?

Exercise is a great way to release tensions or frustrations from work. The increase in endorphins in your body will leave you feeling great, motivates and will help both physical and mental wellbeing! Tell a friend or colleague of your plans to increase your accountability

Take action now, call a friend, make a decision or get up and go for a walk.