Top 5 ways to manage conflict at work

Conflict at work is the number 1 biggest stress factor for those signed off from their work. I covered those stresses in my last post. So here’s my top 5 ways to keep conflict to a minimum at work:

1. Be generous with information
It’s a challenge to stay in relationship with a colleague when they can’t do their job as effectively because they don’t have all the information. When projects, teams, schedules or leadership change make sure everyone who needs to know – bosses, peers, direct report, PAs – has the information and the context. If at all possible inform your network before the decision is done and dusted because there may be knowledge around that, if shared in a timely way, could influence a richer outcome for all.

2. Name the challenge
If I had a pound (or a dollar) for the number of times I heard a professional not take accountability for something not going 100% to plan I’d be … well, richer than I am right now. Here’s how to name a challenge: ‘I would be more effective next time if I:

• develop my communication skills’
• shared more information before the meeting
• ask for contributions from the board, the team, our customers in time to influence the outcome
• learned how to use that software more efficiently
• was completely prepared around the numbers before I make a decision
• listened more and talked less
• let go of a bit more control and perhaps delegated some of the tasks to other departments who’re better informed

When you’re in the business of taking responsibility for your contribution you’re in the business of successfully being able to refine your skills to get a better result next time. Blame is exhausting, demoralising and  part of ‘the old game’.

3. Respect difference
It’s comfortable to surround yourself with people who agree with your style and those who affirm to each other how right they are. It’s also a sure sign that the business you’re in will have a shorter life-cycle than a competitor with a healthy culture of challenging, debating, refining processes, and exploring new markets, clients, systems, team mixes and partnerships. It’s not necessarily about having a mix of age, gender, culture, belief, sexual orientation, mental & physical ability or faith groups among your employees (although that’s a good start), it’s more about having an openness to feedback and new suggestions whether from employees or from customer.

What worked historically may not be a guaranteed formula for the product or marketplace to come. Developing a culture of many right ways is a formula for reducing conflict. Stepping away from black and white thinking and embracing infinite shades of grey!

4. Use time as a tool
It’s tempting to want to have a conversation or a decision concluded in a first meeting or by the close of play today. Information or conversations that make you uncomfortable are often pointing to areas that you many not have considered or may not be as familiar with as your professional norm. Ask yourself ‘where is there value in further considering this point’; ‘how can I test to see if what’s being said makes business sense’; ‘how can I learn to listen more un-judgementally’. And then give it a day or two – everything softens. Just because a conversation had a difficult outcome last time doesn’t mean that’ll be the case next time you try. Ultimately everyone finds conflict stressful, so use time to allow all parties to find a peaceful way forward.

5. Take nothing personally
Most people don’t mean to offend or challenge. Communicating with tact and being good with change and difference are skill sets; they can take years to develop and even then they’re constantly in need of refinement because business, diversity and social acceptability are moving, changing entities. Developing a mindset of ‘allowing’ is part of the process of mastery in leadership and professionalism. It’s not reasonable to go through life or work expecting never to be offended. When the times do come (and they will)  this STOP method is often a good prompt:

• Stop for a moment before you speak
• Take 3 deep breaths and smile (if you can)
• Observe what’s just been said; ask ‘why am I reacting to that’
• Proceed with compassion

Mastery in handling conflict is not about doing it better than other people, it’s about doing it better than you did last time.

 

About Author

Jennifer Broadley is one of the UK's leading executive coaches. She works with corporate leaders, business directors and successful entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and providing the most cutting-edge and intuitive leadership and personal success programs in the UK. Jennifer is passionate about the ongoing self improvement of the world's future business leaders – the way-showers for our precious next generation. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs workshops on 'The 7 Steps to Personal & Professional Freedom'®. Her book of the same name from www.Amazon.co.uk You can call, email or message Jennifer from www.jenniferbroadley.com

 

An Executive Coach – Your ROI

What’s the Return On Investment of working with an Executive Coach? This is such a juicy question. Ten years and over 1000 clients ago, as I tentatively opened my doors to my first incarnation of being an executive coach. I had very little understanding of the value I was bringing to my market. I charged accordingly at £50 to 100 an hour – where I could get that fee and I worked with some middle managers, some junior executives and many small business owners most of whom hired me out of their own salaries.

What happened? My clients thrived. There’s no other way to say it. They were already good at what they did and since most of them had genuinely never had an agenda-free, them-focussed, you-define-your-own-success kind of conversation in their lives, the executive coaching conversations worked to massive effect. My clients were promoted, they got salary increases, some moved to dream jobs, others made huge personal changes and all of them thought thoughts and took actions that they wouldn’t otherwise have known were within their sphere of choices.

How did I measure these results? It just couldn’t be done on monetary terms. How do you measure clarity, reduced anxiety, increased courage, richer conversations and raised awareness? It could only be measured through lives lived out and success stories shared.

After about 50 clients and repeatedly seeing their huge shifts, I had to put my fees up. I continued to work for individuals – authors, publishers, editors, film producers – and then increasingly I go taken on by small then large corporates. I was seeing 2 – 6 clients a day and loving every conversation and every little light-bulb moment – of which there were many.

At this time – about 2004 – I was adding to my executive coach skillset with some further study around metaphysics. Thoughts become things. What we believe is what we see. Limited thinking produces limited results; courageous thinking creates extraordinary & fast-tracked outcomes.

How did I measure the success of this extra service? Again, it couldn’t be done on monetary terms. My clients were loving it though – doubling their sales numbers, launching (and closing) new brands and some even starting families where they’d previously given up hope.

Every year I reviewed my fees and reviewed my client results until I was working with MDs, senior directors and international business owners. At this level the fact that I charged £400 an hour and £2500 a day really wasn’t that relevant to an individual or a company. If a finance president had a breakthrough realisation, his company was the 7-figure beneficiary of that. If a marketing director left a coaching session with a richer strategy, her CEO and shareholders would celebrate those results and bank the bonus.

The money and the sales were never the point – they were the measurable outcomes. The point was (and still is) that a progressive professional could hire an executive coach to expose more of their potential and make their life easier, more meaningful and more successful.

When you hire an executive coach you believe your work life and your personal choices will change for the better. If you pick an experienced executive coach this will undoubtedly be the case. Your results can be measured by the improvements in your own life then and also in the lives of your colleagues, your family & friends, and those you’ll never even know that you’ve touched and change.

A worthwhile return on investment is not just about what’s released in your own experiences, it’s ultimately about what you give back –  your ultimate life’s legacy.

About Author: 

Jennifer Broadley is one of the UK's leading executive coaches. She works with corporate leaders, business directors and successful entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and providing the most cutting-edge and intuitive leadership and personal success programs in the UK. Jennifer is passionate about the ongoing self improvement of the world's future business leaders – the way-showers for our precious next generation. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs workshops on 'The 7 Steps to Personal & Professional Freedom'®. You can buy her book of the same name from www.Amazon.co.uk You can call, email or message Jennifer from www.JenniferBroadley.com.

Coaching conscious leaders

It takes an aware and bold leader to continue to step into areas of discomfort as they stretch themselves in the name of personal & professional development. They know already the link between self development and higher results – and they make conscious decisions to commit the time and effort to the ongoing refinement of thoughts, words, actions, skills.

Most leaders I’ve worked with are:

• Clear thinkers – the conversations they’re having in the moment have a ‘how is this contributing to the biggest future’ slant on them
• Resilient – they don’t take knock-backs personally. They learn, adjust, get up and approach again from a different angle
• Risk takers – the next steps are calculated and when the key people are in the position they’re going

Beyond this awareness are servant leaders who in addition:

• Engage their heart – they consider the individuals, they go beyond ‘biggest future’ to ‘legacy’
• Emit authenticity – they’re healthy, disciplined, inspired and conscious that ‘all of it’ (people, attitude, ethos, standards, respect …) contributes to ultimate success and results
• Live accountably – there’s no blaming; just the highest personal standards of clarity, impeccable speech & motivation and they ‘be the change they want to see’

In a recent conversation I heard this: ‘most of the adults I work with use the same emotional strategies they were using in their teens’. Thankfully that’s not my own experience with my clients, but I get what he meant in saying that.

If you take 100% responsibility for evolving into the sort of person who can be, do, have and achieve the things you dream about, you can experience the freedom that goes with it; because then everything’s something you can do something about.

Coaching conscious leadership is tough head, heart & soul work. Persistence in strengthening those skill-sets though brings with it unparalleled results, extraordinary rewards and individuals who literally become beacons in their lifetime.

Jennifer Broadley is one of the UK's leading executive coaches. She works with corporate leaders, business directors and successful entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and providing the most cutting-edge and intuitive leadership and personal success programs in the UK. Jennifer is passionate about the ongoing self improvement of the world's future business leaders – the way-showers for our precious next generation. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs workshops on 'The 7 Steps to Personal & Professional Freedom'®.You can call, email or message Jennifer from www.JenniferBroadley.com.

Say it like it is … the ‘whole’ truth

I can talk about leadership development and companies can hire me as an executive coach to encourage more advanced and successful leadership but I may as well be a lorry driver (a secret fantasy of mine since the Yorkie advert era) and they may as well torch their people-investment spend if we can’t talk about the truth. The WHOLE truth. Here’s some of what I’ve been processing with various executives this week:

• We’re definitely committed to your part in the company’s succession planning – but we are making a round of redundancies and it’s unconfirmed as to who’s in that mix
• We value your experience and your results are unparalleled – however, we can’t invest further in your team to free you up to do what only you can do
• It’s just the culture of the company – the systems are established and can’t be changed. It’s too big a conversation over too long a period to take advantage of the opportunity that’s presenting itself right in this moment

Here’s why change takes SO long to put in place in some large corporates … because even the finest leaders find it challenging to support a concept that may result in them losing their job!

I’m not saying that leaders, MDs, board members and directors don’t have exceptionally valuable experience to offer to the corporate mix … in the majority of cases, of course they do! But if you keep telling the story that ‘the next stage of how this company can serve its clients (readers, listeners, customers, patients, subscribers) has to be designed to keep me in the picture’ you may be limiting your service to the company, making decisions from a place of fear and lack as opposed to freedom and abundance.

The truth will set you free means that:

• when you sense something is right and purposeful – trust that you will be respected and rewarded by speaking it out and boldly enabling the most enlightened solutions to come to pass
• you may have to learn to communicate at a much higher level – and trust that chaos and ‘pruning’ are part of the process of developing a healthier, more flexible, transparent and authentic way of doing future business
• you stand up and take action with 100% integrity – even when speaking out the tough parts requires humility – and by doing so, in today’s world of corporate leadership you will set yourself apart

I leave you with some word from one of the biggest rule breakers and new thinkers of our recent corporate business heritage, Steve Jobs:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

The CEO and Business Leaders’ Solutions to Simplify

When conducting seminars and workshops for leaders of medium and large companies, occasionally I’ll meet a“revealer.” These are the people who will speak out about their success process without being nervous of disclosing techniques.

It’s a positive trait, and one where I can take the opportunity to further explore a leader’s strategies: “How did you do it?”, “What were your biggest challenges”, “what kept you motivated”.

For some it was the right timing, for others they brought the right team around them, and for others still they acted ‘consciously’ as much as possible, constantly refining their vision and leadership until the point of breakthrough. Without exception though every successful leader I speak to hasdeveloped methods of belief and persistence and they’ve invested time… A LOT of

Some talk about the early days when 16 to 20 hour days were required just to meet their objectives for the month! We’ve all touched on a bit of that madness, but sustaining this sort of time commitment is a catalyst for a breakdown. So …

How do we create sustainable success? How do we accomplish growth over short and long periodswith the least effort possible? How do we use our unique talents in the most effective way

to lead and to inspire increase?

The secret … simplify!

Here’s what the “revealers”, and the more reserved CEO and Business Leaders, say about cultivating simplicity:

Develop deep intuition:
Don’t be guided by your impulses or by a range of opinions from others who aren’t fully invested in the vision or the outcome. Relax, sit down, and ask yourself, “how does this process / decision contribute to the big picture”, “what other choices and resources do I have available”, “Is this the most efficient& effective way to proceed?”

Delegate efficiently:

Micro-managing is limiting. You can pioneer a new process … but then source someone who’s gifted in that area to do subsequent repetitions – a designer, administrator, presenter, team-builder or technical genius. They needn’t be in-house. Train them, empower them and trust them to do what they do best. And you? You move forward and do what you do best.

Embrace technology:

Banking, accounting, communicating, sharing, updating, planning, storing, processing — there are some awesome technologies out there (and more cost effective and innovative than in-house teams sometimes)that aren’t taken advantage of by the biggest companies. Embracing technology may take some investment but when it streamlines your business and reduces your long-term costs – you’ll be glad you were smart and brave ‘back then’ to make the shift.

Honour deadlines:

Put a limit on how much time you spend on marketing, financing, recruiting, innovating, delivering and conducting meetings. The goal here is to keep to a flow of innovation, development, launching, feedback and refinement. The ‘pressure’ of a deadline can expose extraordinary creativity. And I’ve seen inspired leaders ‘un-develop’ their perfectionist tendencies and create rapid growth using the mantra ‘good is good enough’.

Collaborate:

The best strategic partnerships will shortcut the amount of time you spend looking for new customers, suppliers, vendors, networks and systems. The successful business Future is becoming less about secrecy and competition and shifting more towards rich customer relationship, service, sharing, collaborating, empathetic joint ventures and transparentshared knowledge.

Jennifer Broadley is one of the UK's leading success coaches. She works with corporate leaders, business visionaries and successful entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and providing the most intuitive and best leadership and personal success coaching in the UK. Jennifer is passionate about the ongoing self improvement of the world's future business leaders – the way-showers for our precious next generation. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs workshops on The 7 Steps to Personal & Professional Freedom. You can call, email or message Jennifer from www.JenniferBroadley.com.
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An Investment in Yourself – with Infinite Returns!

Experiencing spiritual intelligence for the first time is like having spent your life eating spaghetti from a tin. You’re then flown to Italy, and in a little, local, 5th generation restaurant in a cobbled back street in Rome you taste true, authentic, tomato-packed, garlic-infused, basil-topped pasta Neapolitan– and UH!! my days - heaven on a fork!!

The Success with Soul 1-Day Intensive will be for many like a spiritual taste bud awakening. It’s intelligent, relevant, powerful in its simplicity, authentic in its claims and will change the mindset and lives of those who attend.

The strength of the program is based on the 12 Universal Success Principles. They’re taught on the day and then the exploration of how they could be best integrated for each person begins. What is powerful is that the Success Principles apply across all people, all cultures, all ages, all faith groups and all abilities. Each person on our planet uses the principles every minute of every day whether we know it or not (much like gravity – it permanently applies to all).

The seminar offers ground-breaking, way-showing, innovative new thinking to open-minded professionals and seekers of answers. It educates, equips and empowers. It’s for people who want to:

· release greater potential
· excel with all 4 elements – body, mind, heart and soul
· communicate powerfully
· generate greater wealth
· live in fitness and health
· experience rich love and relationship
· attract abundance and happiness

Jennifer Broadley is the Success with Soul Coach. She works with corporate leaders and successful women entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and using the law of attraction. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs seminars about personal, business and global raised awareness.

Future Business Leaders

If I say 'successful business leader', think about a picture that instantly forms in your head. What's the stereotype? Do you still see a suited, tall, heterosexual, white, man sitting behind a oaken, boardroom table? Yes? Well, it's time for an update!!

Our present day leaders are a much wider diversity - different genders (Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey, Irene Rosenfeld), ability (David Blunket, Stephen Hawkins), sexual orientation (Johanna Sigurdardottir, Charles Allen), ethnicity (Barack Obama, James Caan), faith groups (Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu), ages (Mathew McCauley, Cameron Johnson) and all the rest.

As we begin to norm the physical perceptions of what makes a powerful leader it's freeing up leaders themselves to focus solely on talent and delivering excellence. So how are the most progressive leaders equipping themselves to keep ahead today? By engaging in:

Enlightened thinking: it's getting to be common knowledge that, proven in metaphysics, what you think about expands. Leaders with a can-do, creative, inspired mind are attracting the most diverse and exciting teams and consequently delivering off-the-chart results.

Responsibility: the blame culture is over. Leaders who give permission to teams to push the boundaries and learn boldly from mistakes are the ones with the future in their hands. This mindset gets rid of limiting thinking fast and attracts success faster and on more levels than just financial. With a gifted and responsible leader - all experience is good experience.

Awareness: Future Business Leaders know that success is no longer only about body and mind - about physical prowess and intellect. Today it includes big developments in heart and soul too - emotional intelligence and spiritual connection. Leaders in the know are confident to hold a vision without pushing for the 'how'; they're trusting that challenges have a purpose that's bigger than the bottom line; and allowing of difference in ideas, strategies, works styles, and contribution.

These 3 characteristics contribute to success with soul. Something rich, meaningful and future-proof for workforces and the customers they serve. Integrating soul in a corporation is more than just progress - this is quantum leap territory.

Who's for jumping?

Social Media Obliterated Schedule

SMOS

Hands up if you get sucked into an unscheduled Face Book, Twitter or Linked In frenzy more than once a week?

Here are the symptoms: you intend to go into one of these platforms and update your status. You then read a 'quick' few updates from friends, colleagues, contacts; you comment on a few of the smart ones, watch an inspiring video (that 3 minutes later wasn't actually that life-changing), check back to see who's commented on your comment, 'like' their acknowledgement of your point of view (only polite), re-post an article, check over to your next platform, repeat as before and... 'oh b****cks', did 60 minutes really go by?

I haven't done my morning meditation, updated my blog, written my teleclass (which is tonight!), sent that email or schedule my next 15 ezines because... I just got myself into a SMOS (a Social Media Obliterated Schedule).

In my experience every good business activity is improved by having some healthy boundaries in place. These are mine for FB, Twitter, Linked In and any other professional SM platform you're into:

* no more than 15 minutes for ALL platforms per session. And no more than twice per day ... if you must!

* un-click from having emails sent to you to inform you who's commented on a comment (really! - it's just too tempting and it can't be more important than your marketing, your mastery or the delivery of your product or service to your clients. Why look at chocolate cake when you're slimming?!)

* make a list of what 'business' social media includes for you (promoting products, teleclasses, corporate events, industry conferences, job openings, networking) and do ONLY that sort of SM in your 9-5 time. The truly social stuff (chatting, sharing videos, photos of your bbq) - stick to early mornings and evenings.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit", said Aristotle. So, my daily re-claimed SMOS hours will be used for further excellence in coaching, writing, meditation, marketing and personal.

In this instance - Less is More!

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Jennifer Broadley is the Success with Soul Coach. She works with corporate leaders and successful women entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and using the l aw of attraction. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs seminars about personal, business and global raised awareness.

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The Big CEO Challenge

CEO Challenge

What am I hearing most about in leadership CEO Coaching and these days? ... 'The stretch'.

* How do we downsize and innovate?
* How do we isolate retrainable talent, let go of change resisters and attract inspired leaders?
* How do we plan our future strategies when we can't yet see where our products and services might fit?

Business pace is speeding up - from global corporates to entrepreneurial start ups. Technology, information availability, outsourcing, professional development, consumer education, global availability ... all of it contributes to more choices being offered more frequently and creatively to more people. There's a definite sense that if you stand still the world will move by so speedily that you'll struggle to catch up.

Here's the Big CEO Challenge then: "how do I create a future-healthy organisation with inspired, open-minded, way-showing leaders who will motivate their teams to serve our customers, clients, readers, viewers and listeners with respect and integrity in this opportunity-packed new business era".

We've got to get our heads around the fact that the past doesn't equal the future. The way forward requires a shiny new road map. And the beliefs and values that built railroads, encouraged competition, and taught 'job for life' are not those that will succeed in this time of 'more for all, less to none'.

A Chief Executive Officer's most powerful strategy is to be clear and to be bold - and if you're not quite in that head-space & heart-space it doesn't take much to shift there; invest in your personal & professional development until you fully sense you're out front and re-energised.

Hundreds perhaps thousands or millions are looking at your every move - all you've become has been leading to this moment: if a complete re-organisation is required, communicate it, plan it and do it. If the hiring of new talent is the solution for your business longevity, make it happen. And if you know you've got to managing the decline of selected brands before launching a new phase, do it with transparency and integrity - how you handled it will become part of your legacy.

And wait ... there's more (happy days!); best leadership coach in uk and teams are looking to their CEOs to have something beyond a great strategy and rich experience. The world wants to see honorable decision making, transparent accountability and respectful communication go hand-in-hand with innovative product and brand development and pristine customer service.

About author:

Jennifer Broadley is the Success with Soul Coach. She works with corporate leaders and successful women entrepreneurs. She specialises in CEO coaching, prosperity coaching and using the law of attraction. She coaches, speaks, writes and runs seminars about personal, business and global raised awareness.

For more information, please visit our Site:
http://www.jenniferbroadley.com

The Best Success Coach - You!

What does it take for anyone to be the best at anything? And does being labelled the best leadership coach in uk take different traits to being the best runner in the Olympics, the best artist of the Turner Prize, the best actress at the Oscars or the successful leadership in your organisation?

The word 'best' is often used to compare one person, talent or event to another. In this sense, I would steer clear of using it unless it's in a context of comparing me with myself. Wayne Dyer once said that 'true nobility is not about being better than anyone else, it's about being better than I used to be'. With that in mind, here's some of what I think it takes to bring out the best in who you're striving to become:

Compelling Vision:

When it's cold and wet and you have to get up for training, when you fingers are blistered from strumming those guitar chords a thousand times over, when you've got to dig deep to spend another day of business waiting for the breakthrough, a compelling vision will re-ignite passion and motivation to underpin the drive to keep going.

My vision is defined in writing, on a vision board and in a series of mind movies - so that however I'm reminded, it's inspiring.

Personal Responsibility:

No one became the best in their field by looking outside of themselves for the answers, by comparing themselves to another or for finding someone to blame. Each person has a definition of success that's as unique to them as is their fingerprint and a route to achieving that success that navigates through unchartered territory.

I regularly shake off the echos of 'if you could write like her...'; 'if you had money like him...'; 'if you were as smart as...'. I'm 100% responsible for the thoughts I think, the choices i make and for how big I choose to show up in the world.

Increasing Self Awareness:

What other's can observe about you will only ever be a tiny piece of the jigsaw. When you develop the skill of tuning in to the physical signs, the intellectual promptings, the emotional resonances, and the spiritual meaning of the vision you're choosing, then you can fully expand into the truth about your purpose. Only then can you stretch for the heights you secretly dream about. No limits remember?

For me, self awareness and self development are two circles with a Venn-diagram-like cross over point. My personal aim is to expand that central part to a point where awareness and development are entirely overlapping and function with synchronicity at all times... a work in progress.

I've worked with clients whose compelling vision, once defined clearly and courageously, has been enough to change their thoughts, their feelings, and their ability to take inspired action. Subsequently results begin to appear, sometimes so significantly and speedily that you wonder where they could have been hiding for all this time.

So, is it possible for you to be the best at whatever it is you expect for yourself? With vision, responsibility and awareness I say 'yes'. The most important thing as I always say, is to go inside for your answers - to take some quiet time, shut your eyes, focus your mind towards your heart and let the best you step forward!

Successful Leadership - Get Plugged In!

I've often heard when working with a corporate leadership client - 'well I haven't told anyone I'm working with you - I don't want them to know there's a problem'. And I have to ask myself 'where has this message come from' because I certainly don't work with clients because there's a problem (nor do any of my associate executive coaches) - I work with clients who are whole, capable, already successful AND have unreleased potential.

And here's the thing - everyone I know has unreleased potential, even the highest fliers in their field - JK Rowling, Bill Gates, Paul Polman (CEO Coaching), Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Founders, Google), Roger Federer - whether sport, business or creative arts there never comes a point when you can say, 'I know all I could ever know' or 'I have contributed all I'm able to contribute'.

The shift I work with my clients on is to become conscious of their infinite power to create and contribute. You see 99.9% of people on our planet don't yet know that with every thought they think, they create something - thoughts are things. So we meander through life with unchecked thinking - what will I write in that proposal, I wish I had a different boss, wouldn't it be great to win the lottery, who would I date if I could choose anyone at all, what shall I have for dinner tonight, oh, yes, that proposal - having no idea that these thoughts are creating an attraction to the outcome as we think them.

Also, about 97% of the thoughts that occur in our mind happen at a subconscious level. Anything that has to happen frequently - movement, driving, assessing a persons status, choosing the words we speak out, our emotional response to seeing lovers kissing - is predominantly in the domain of the automated part of ourselves. To actively manage what we're creating, we have to override some of that automation (where there are limited beliefs) with some new likelihoods.

Infinite possibilities come from our ability to tap into our soul - the design of who we are in connection to all that is. It's like a toaster plugging into the electricity supply - it can only do what it's designed to do by having this network of power run through it. And that electricity is always there - just waiting. It doesn't care if it's powering a kettle, an iMac, a hairdryer or a mobile phone. It just gives out the essence of what it is to allow a product to be of service.

Same thing applies with Infinite Possibility (or universal potential) - our soul's the plug by which we get consciously connected to it. And the 'flow' we connect to doesn't make choices around worthiness, status or level to which we aspire; it's just fully available to everyone - man, woman, rich, poor, clear, confused, young, old - all cultures, all abilities, all visions.

So when you're considering what it takes for you to be even more of a successful leadership that you already are, ask your executive 'electrician' about how to connect your soul to unlimited Source energy. Infinite Possibility is what dynamic, fluent, innovative leadership is all about. Make the shift from unconscious to conscious business leaders; from ambition to meaning; and from seeing problems to acknowledging unreleased potential.

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