From Energise - The Talent Liberation Company

You are here: Home / Archives for DigitalJenIPC

DigitalJenIPC

Are You Hiding Away Your Talents?

By //  by 

People are really good at hiding their talents away. We all have strengths and yet most people don’t know what their talents are, don’t have jobs that play to their strengths and don’t blow their own trumpet.

The result? They achieve less than they could do, do work that underplays their talents and have less fulfilment from their work. What are your best talents and how could you utilise your talents more in your career?

Are you doing your dream career and if not why not? If you’d like a FREE 30 page report “Pain free career change” – click on this link and download it now:

 http://www.careerstrategies.co.uk/

And I Quote “….

By //  by 

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” Mozart

If you enjoyed this quote, why not opt in to get our free monthly bulletins which include one inspiring quote per bulletin. Click on the link below:

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

We do 4 topics each month:  Human capital, Smart living and working, Self promotion, Career strategies

Why People Are Like Vegetables

By //  by 

I am heading to my allotment to water it with no prospect of rain in sight,  and am pondering the thought that people are like vegetables. They need watering. Different people need to be watered in different ways as they have different values, needs and motivations. If only we came with an instruction manual, like a car or washing machine, it would be a lot easier. 

Put it other way, we all need ‘strokes’, but how often do we get them at work? Not enough. Some employees like to have a quiet ‘thank you’ as recognition and others want a cheering crowd and a big prize. For many employees, like the lack of rain, there’s no pay rise in sight and the prospect of a pension drought too, so watering is even more important, especially as less people are doing more work.

Watering your people is crucial for employee engagement and motivation, which directly impacts on business performance, productivity and profit. What watering are you going to do today?

Are you receiving the Energise monthly bulletins via e mail? Don’t miss out on free insights, tips and inspiring case studies. Click on this link to opt in.

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

  • 4 topics each month: Human capital, Smart living and working, Self promotion, Career strategies 

Ever Encounter ‘Sod’s Law?’

By //  by 

Do you ever encounter ‘sod’s law?’ You work really late to perfect a presentation and then it’s cancelled. You don’t take a great job at another company because you have your eye on your retiring boss’ position and then they give their job to someone else.  

Sod’s law is about things not going according to plan. But then who said there was a plan in the first place? 

Sod’s law is annoying but inevitable, the knocks that make the highs high. How can sod’s law be prevented? It probably can’t, but you can choose your attitude to it and be philosophical. If ever a prospect or client meeting is cancelled, rather than getting wound up, I feel glad of the unexpected spare time. What’s your biggest experience of ‘sod’s law’ and looking back, was it really such a sod?

Are you receiving the Energise monthly bulletins via e mail? Don’t miss out on free insights, tips and inspiring case studies. Click on this link to opt in.

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

Human capital, Smart living and working , Self promotion, Career strategies

Have You Got A ‘Chip On The Shoulder?’

By //  by 

It’s a weird expression isn’t it; ‘Chip on the shoulder’. I don’t know where the expression comes from and whether it’s a “a bit missing kind of chip” or a potato chip?!  My interpretation of what it means is that it’s a sensitivity or insecurity that creates an over-reaction as we are looking for evidence to back it up and ‘feed the monster’!

Chips that I have encountered include; feeling on the outside looking in and excluded; not building rapport; or feeling we are not intelligent enough or creative enough. So we over-notice what other people say and do to prove our perception and then overreact as the chip is activated.  Since there are an awful lot of people out there, that’s a lot of ‘chips’ and feeling vulnerable or dealing with uncertainty can magnify the overreaction. In a political or creative culture, there can be a lot of chips rattling around which inhibit full productivity and performance. Self awareness is key, but a lot of people are cynical about personal development, especially left strongly ‘left brainers;.

Chips on the shoulder` are worth looking at because they can stop people from doing what they really want and truly being happy and fulfilled. A good way is to explore the limiting beliefs that have created the chip – it’s a but like clearing out the loft and creating space for good new things to happen. What’s your chip and what does it stop you from doing that you would like to? What are the chips of people close to you?

Cheers

Rachel

Rachel Brushfield
Energise – The Talent Liberation Company

Tel: + 44 (0) 845 22 55 010
Mobile: + 44(0) 7973 911137 
E mail: rachel@liberateyourtalent.com
Web: www.liberateyourtalent.com
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/talentliberator

Linked in profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/energiseliberateyourtalent
Blog: http://liberateyourtalent.wordpress.com

Bulletins: Are you receiving the Energise each monthly bulletins via e mail? Don’t miss out on free insights, tips and inspiring case studies. Click on this link to opt in.

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

  • Career strategies
  • Human capital
  • Smart living and working
  • Self promotion

How vulnerable is it wise to be at work?

By //  by 

Showing vulnerability creates trust and builds relationships but it also creates risk and it can be abused in the wrong hands, so what is the right measure?

I was ‘very closed’ when I was younger and didn’t trust people easily, so gave little if nothing away about myself. Now I am much more open with people, so it has been a huge personal transformation. I am choosy about who I trust though, they need to earn their stripes!

Those I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours” re vulnerable moments and confiding secrets or fears is a great way of creating a bond with other people. Showing vulnerability shows that we are human and brings out other’s desire to protect and nurture, and helps them realise that they don’t have to be perfect and perform all the time.

It is natural to make mistakes but in business often people cover them up for fear of looking weak and being punished, especially in the current economic climate where headcount is being reviewed. 

What is the balance between showing enough vulnerability but not too much?  What are your thoughts? One of my passions is to get fear out in the open and talked about more.

Cheers

Rachel

Rachel Brushfield
Energise – The Talent Liberation Company

Tel: + 44 (0) 845 22 55 010
Mobile: + 44(0) 7973 911137 
E mail: rachel@liberateyourtalent.com
Web: www.liberateyourtalent.com
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/talentliberator

Linked in profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/energiseliberateyourtalent 

Bulletins: Are you receiving the Energise each monthly bulletins via e mail? Don’t miss out on free insights, tips and inspiring case studies. Click on this link to opt in.

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

  • Career strategies
  • Human capital
  • Smart living and working
  • Self promotion

Cabin Fever And How To Cure It

By //  by 

Do you find that there are certain tasks that you can procrastinate for England about rather than do? Would you rather pluck your nasal hair than do them? I am pretty decisive by nature, but there are a couple that get me dusting my light bulbs to avoid.

For me these are making prospect phone calls and creating proposals. I used to be a brand strategist in the communications industry who was kept in a darkened room and wheeled out for meetings to spout insights that would help the clients make more money. I am happy as Larry doing research and writing, but that other stuff, well I have to create the right conditions to get them done.

If you see a woman aged about 45 sitting hunched over a hot laptop on a long train route, think Stornaway to Penzance, or in a coffee shop long after the drink dregs have gone cold making prospect calls, that’ll be me. If I stayed at my home office, not only would I get severe cabin fever and start climbing the walls, these tasks would take ten times as long. What are your most creative avoidance strategies and least favourite tasks? Off to London to get on that yellow tube line.

At a career crossroads?  Download the FREE Energise “Pain free career change” report. Click on this link: http://www.careerstrategies.co.uk/

Exponential Delays And I’m Not Talking Trains

By //  by 

I read somewhere once that things take on average 42% longer than you think they will. Increase the number of people involved in a project, and a dollop of post credit crunch risk aversion, and it’s probably more like 85%

I hate writing proposals so having given birth to one, feel very chuffed and want an instant response as reward. Months go by with such proposals floating wherever they reside. Frustrated by now, I put myself in my prospect’s shoes and think – very busy and stressed, doing 3 people’s jobs, make them smile. So I send them some tick boxes and an RSVP.

 All our budgets have been cut. All I have left will pay for a packet of Post It notes, one purple magic marker pen with sparkly ink and a college student from Outer Mongolia

 My feet haven’t touched the ground in weeks, I feel like a human helicopter. Bear with me, I will be in touch 

 I have spontaneously combusted and no longer exist 

Project? What project?

Any new ideas for my list?

Also, anyone out there happy to give me some interesting work without a proposal and with an instant decision!? Can’t wait!

Have you downloaded our FREE Energise 30 page report “Pain free career change”:  

http://www.careerstrategies.co.uk/

Do you feel too small to be effective? Mosquitos aren’t.

By //  by 

I love this quote:

 “Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. “

Christie Todd Whitman

Sometimes it can feel difficult doing everything yourself being a small business, especially compared with big corporates. There’s no IT department to phone, you’re head of new business, marketing, accounts, office management and client servicing. And then there’s doing the work!  Last night there was a mosquito in my bedroom and I couldn’t see it before I turned off the light. I could hear it though!

This quote:

“Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. “ Christie Todd Whitman

inspires me keeps me going on difficult days!  Today the sun is shining, even if England’s World Cup football is over.

More and more of my clients want to make a difference, do you? If so, let’s have a chat. This client of mine Duncan Goose has made a huge difference. I helped him to escape from a job he hated and work out what he really wanted to do : http://www.onedifference.org/water

Off to buy some fly spray………..

Have a good day.

Rachel

Energise – The Talent Liberation Company

Career change, senior outplacement, executive coaching and employee engagement

+ 44 (0) 845 22 55 010

+ 44(0) 7973 911137 

rachel@liberateyourtalent.com

www.liberateyourtalent.com

Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/talentliberator

Linked in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-brushfield/0/143/66

Subscribe to receive the free Energise monthly bulletins. Click on this link:

http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1102862873131&p=oi

  • Career strategies
  • Smart living and working
  • Self promotion
  • Human capital

Time or money? What would you choose?

By //  by 

New research by The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) shows that there is a hidden and growing trend of ‘under-employed’ people stuck in part time unemployment or temporary work. It is the highest figure on record, an increase of 45% since the recession began and likely to stay at these levels for 5 years. The world of work has changed forever, and yet I find from my career change Steer your career workshops for executives who have been made redundant, that not many people realise.

Isn’t life ironic? Do you find that? When I do executive or personal coaching, people complain about never having enough time. Then when they have more time, they want more work. Of course people need to have enough money to have peace of mind and give themselves permission to pursue interests for example. Planning time in first for interests would make them feel more resourceful and positive to focus on job search for example, but they don’t let themselves. Aren’t human beings good at giving themselves a hard time?! We chain ourselves to our desks and work harder and ‘do’ more when what most really want is a better work life balance and to ‘be’ more.

I did a workshop in a woman’s prison once and was racking my brains re how to engage them as I haven’t had that particular experience yet, you’ll be glad to hear. Closest I got was setting light to a beer mat in a nightclub on my 20’s and being thrown out.  “The one thing you have that people outside lack” I said “is time. Time to think. And that is precious. “ Their home, an open prison, was a converted stately home with stunning grounds. I might move in for some more time to think. If it’s quiet on my blog, you know where I am. 

Energise – The Talent Liberation Company

0845 22 55 010

info@liberateyourtalent.com

www.liberateyourtalent.com

Twitter: talentliberator

Linked in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-brushfield/0/143/66