TEAM VALUES ANALYSIS

Values are the specific things in people’s lives that are most important to them. When an individual is aware of their values, they have a set of guiding principles that enables them to behave in a manner that supports who they are and what they really believe in. This can help to prevent behaviours that are subconscious saboteurs of their progress in personal and business relationships.

At an organizational level a clear definition of the values of a company or business defines the culture that develops within the organization. When an organisation’s values are shared and lived by all levels of employees and leadership, a strong core culture develops that sees everyone living and working according to a code of behaviour that supports the vision and mission of the company.

If personal or corporate goals are not being reached there is a good chance this is because individual or company values do not support these goals or are not in alignment with them.

The values analysis process typically involves the following steps:

1. Values analysis of the company and/or senior management
2. Values analysis of key employees
3. Creation of a company or department vision statement describing how the organisation or department sees its future
4. Creation of a company or department mission statement describing the organisation’s or department’s core business
5. Detailed analysis of values at management and employee level and their alignment with each other

There are numerous techniques for eliciting and evaluating values. A simple method is to simply ask the individual to list out the ten things which are most important in their life, and to then rank them from 1 to 10.

This values analysis process can assist in providing a clearly defined vision and mission statement and with:

• Alignment of corporate values with the stated company mission
• Alignment of management with the corporate values
• Alignment of staff with the corporate values

Overall the elicitation and alignment of values leads to more effective direction from management and more motivated action from employees toward the organisation’s vision and objectives.

Who Won the Ticket?

Thank you all who entered into the draw of a FREE TICKET to our one day workshop ‘Change Your Thinking – From Worry to Clarity’ this coming Saturday in Sydney.

We had quite a few entries and some contestants had managed to get 3 entries into the draw!

To find out who won, watch this video:

To all of you who didn’t win – please stay tuned to our future events, seminars and workshop in 2010.

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Win a Ticket to ‘Change Your Thinking’ – Valued at $360

Today for the first time we are giving you the chance to win a ticket to our upcoming workshop ‘Change Your Thinking’ valued at $360.

Before we go any further: Given that our workshop is held in Sydney on the 14 November 2009 this giveaway is probably most likely for anyone in Australia who is wiling and able to make that time and date. However if you have already purchased your ticket or have other commitments for that date we will give you a  free ticket to one of our upcoming one day workshops in 2010 !

How to Enter

Easy! Here are your options:

1. Join Achievement Coaching & Consulting Facebook Page as a fan
2. Join Reach for the Sky Counselling Facebook Page as a fan
3. Write a comment here, in 25 words or fewer, sharing how you believe this workshop might benefit you.

The previous blog post explains all the details and benefits of the workshop. Click here for more information or go to www.achievementcoaching.com.au and click on ‘events’.

For each of the options 1 – 3 you will receive one entry into the draw.

Entries will close Sunday 8 November 8pm AEST (Sydney time).

All entries go into a draw and Anna and Nathalie will draw the winner on Monday 9 November 9am. The draw will be filmed and uploaded here on the blog – we’ll keep you posted.

Change Your Thinking – From Worry to Clarity

Today’s environment is asking all of us to grow beyond the current ways we think and interact with the world. How can you improve your thoughts to become more at ease with any challenges you are facing in your career, relationship, finances, personal life and health?

This workshop will show you how to really understand and stretch your thinking process to find more resourceful ways.

What this Workshop offers:

•understanding the underlying process of thinking
•finding out more about the workings of the mind
•reasons for positive and negative thinking
•learning how to better deal with thought and emotions
•interactive exercises to stretch your thinking
•practical tools to shift from worry to clarity

What the Benefits are for you:

•spend less time worrying and therefore be more efficient
•shift limitations into opportunities
•let go of excuses and judgment
•have more time for the things you enjoy
•less conflicting thoughts and emotions
•increased sense of joy, wellbeing and freedom in everyday life

This workshop is for you if you ‘don’t need help’ but are aware there are more options out there that you want to tap into.

Date and Time: Saturday, 14 Nov 2009            9.30am – 5 pm
Venue: Citigate Central Hotel Sydney

Cost: $360 includes morning/afternoon tea and buffet lunch
Early Bird: $295 if paid in full until 31/10/2009

Fore more Information and bookings call

Anna Guy 0412 560 846 or
Nathalie Himmelrich 0405 701 707

Click here to view the flyer

Comparison – Competition Need

Better, worse, more than, less than, more special, more common… Often human interactions are a game to differentiate ourselves from our fellow human being in some way that makes us feel superior. The ego is racing against the fear of going unnoticed.

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Let’s have a look at a typical conversation:

Person A: How are you today?

Person B: I am OK. I have got a bit of a headache.

Person A: Oh well, that is nothing. I am hurting from my head to my toes…

Here a conversation in relationship:

Husband: I had such a tough day at work. I need a rest.

Wife: Well I’m so tired. I had to deal with the plumber in the morning and could not do the grocery shopping and then in the afternoon I had all the kids from the neighborhood over to feed and look after. I can barely keep my eyes open. Guess how much I need a rest?

In a business setting it might sound like this:

Employee 1: I have got such a fantastic office at my new job with views over the harbor!

Employee 2: We are lucky because we get to work wireless from wherever we want to in the whole complex where I work and one day a week we can even opt to work from home.

Many of our daily conversations follow the ego’s fight for recognition, superiority, specialness or uniqueness of some kind.

Are you walking around your daily life comparing yourself with others? Are you secretly thinking of yourself as ‘worse than’ or ‘better than’ other people? Are you gossiping about others? If this is normal every conversation that you have within yourself or with others and you wonder: ‘And so what’s the point?’ – ask yourself:

• If I could not compete about being better or worse of, having more or less than, having done more or less of etc. who would I be?
• What is the feeling that I try to manage when I compare myself?
• What would there be left to talk about if I could not gossip, judge and compare?

The need for continuous competition costs vital energy and in the end leaves you dissatisfied. Once we start to disengage from these conversations there might be very little left to be said for some time until our habits change. The benefit will be feeling more joyous and content, connecting deeply with others and standing in your own truth.

Hope

This inspiring video was created by a 20 yo as a submission to a contest entitled U@50.

You need to watch it right through until the end (trust me):

Consciousness

This is a very cool original animation by Louis Lefebvre which chronicles the evolution of Consciousness from its inanimate state into human form and then back through spiritual seeking to Oneness. Its inspiration is the spiritual teaching of Wayne Liquorman and Ramesh S. Balsekar.

Courtesy of www.advaita.org

Spiritual Awakening Through Illness

Not feeling well?

Everyone has had the experience of being sick in their life. Did you get the spiritual awakening and the learning that was presented to you?

Many of you who are on the path of becoming aware know about the metaphysical causes of illnesses. There are plenty of great books on that topic, among them my favorite from Louise Hay and Lise Bourbeau, which can be an excellent starting point in understanding your dis-ease.

Let’s look at it on a practical level: Take the example of the reoccurring bouts of flu. What are the benefits and potentials for spiritual awakenings in having the flu?

1.       Prioritizing: When your body is weakened by fever and headache you only do what is really important or urgent, like cancelling appointments, calling work to let them know you are not well. You are not wasting time with or worrying about unimportant, trivial matters.

2.       Focus on Health: You become more health conscious, you are mindful of what you eat, drink and what outside influences you expose yourself to.

3.       Speaking the Truth: You might be telling people to stop talking when you’re physically, mentally or emotionally not able to take in more. How often does it happen that you are keeping your mouth shut, when you are well, because you want to be ‘nice’? When you are sick, you are being more honest with yourself and others.

4.       Looking after Self: When you are feeling low, you have to take your own needs seriously. Looking after your body becomes a matter of self-preservation.

5.       Less Ego Fixation: If you are seriously weakened by your illness you will no longer be bothered making a point. It becomes less important to ‘be right’ and more important to ‘be well’.

6.       Sticking with the Essential: When you have throat pain, for example, you are only saying what is really necessary, leaving out all the fluff. Similarly to the previous point you are less attached to being right or being heard and trust that things will sort themselves out.

7.       Allowing Help: This is a great chance for people who find it not so easy to accept help under normal circumstances. When you are ill and cannot do certain tasks, you have to learn to accept and welcome help. For the person helping you it is also much nicer to help you as they won’t hear: ‘Oh no, that’s not necessary, I can do it myself!’

So do you have to get sick to learn those lessons or can you do it while you are well?

Authenticity: Oneness of Thought, Word, Feeling and Deed

Seeing someone else displaying compassion, love, and grace gives our heart permission to open, and we embrace that authentic person for their courage. This is the practice of the conscious leader.

Authenticity, as much as anything, generates love in the hearts of others because it fills such a deep human need. With it, we can build relationships and inspire one another and our communities, families, friends, customer, colleagues, and suppliers. The opportunities for increased revenues, be it physical, mental or emotional ‘revenues’, are obvious.

What is authenticity?

Are you being authentic?

When we are authentic, our minds, mouths, hearts and our feet are one. We think, feel, say and do the same thing in complete alignment. This is how we become real: by ensuring that what our minds think, what our hearts feel, what our mouths speak, and where our feet walk are one and the same. As we learnt from Machiavelli, we will remain inauthentic as long as we practice separateness between what we think, say, feel and do.

The four personal powers

Humans have four personal powers, two internal and two external powers. Our emotions and thoughts are our internal powers and our words and actions are our external powers. You have the last say over what you feel, think, say and do. If our four personal powers are in alignment we practice authenticity.

Being authentic requires us to be humble, to accept our weaknesses or imperfections and take responsibility for our personal powers. When we are consciously thinking, feeling, saying and doing the same thing in all aspects of our lives – as leaders, of course, but also as parents, children, friends, and spouses we are fully living an authentic life.

Any relationship is enhanced, enriched and often made whole, through authenticity. Indeed, it is the alignment of all these aspects that enables us to experience this sense of oneness.