Welcome to the July Issue of our newsletter.

Thank you so much for all the great feedback on the Top 20 questions for Success, it seems they were very timely for many of you. Do continue to let me know when you find a newsletter helpful and also if someone you forward it to particularly enjoys it.

Thank you also for the great feedback on the Being Resilient eBook, you seem to really like it. It is always a little scary putting a piece of yourself up to be judged, but in this instance the feedback has been wonderful. If you would like a hard copy version of the booklet please contact us we are selling them at £5.75 (inc. VAT).

I hope you enjoy this newsletter and let me know how much of an impact the making an impact questions make to you :)

Featured Topic: Making an Impact

Here are 20 questions for making a greater impact in presentations, face-to-face interactions or over the phone.

If you find these questions useful do forward them onto a friend or colleague.

20 question for Making an Impact

1. When was the last time I made an impact?
2. What did I do that worked so well? – what was I doing, saying, thinking, feeling?
3. What will remind me of this time? Any key learnings for this time?
4. Am I clear on the needs and desired outcome of the other(s) involved?
5. Who do I know that regularly makes an impact? What can I learn from them?
6. How will I get into the best possible frame of mind for this event?
7. What preparatory exercises/rituals work for me?
8. How will I position myself to have the most impact? If I’m going to be on the phone will I stand up?
9. What do I know about the preferred style(s) of the other(s) involved?
10. Am I prepared to vary my language/approach to match this style?
11. Have I planned a clear and concise opening sentence acknowledging their needs or their perspective?
12. Have I remembered how much of an impact I can make without words?
13. How can I engage the other(s) involved?
14. What can I say to encourage myself?
15. Can I visualise myself making an impact?
16. What will it be like when I’ve achieved my outcome?
17. How will I know that what I’m doing is working?
18. Am I prepared to change my approach if I need to?
19. How will I remain centred, grounded and present?
20. Do I believe that I will make the biggest impact by just being myself?

We regularly run lunchtime, half day or full day workshops on 'Making an Impact' contact us for more information. We also regularly work with executive coaching clients in this area, usually with great results (more on coaching in the next paragraph).

Highlights from last month

A lot of the emphasis last month was on coaching, taking the form of executive coaching, coaching surgeries and group coaching.

Here are some of the key themes we worked with in our coaching sessions;

• dealing with change
• developing gravitas/making an impact
• copy with increasing workloads
• dealing with difficult business relationships

 

If you would like to know more about coaching, group coaching or running a coaching surgery in your organisation contact us or take a look at the coaching page of the website.

We've also been running different types of Resilience Workshops mentioned in last month's newsletter, these continue to be very popular.

What is new next month?

Elisabeth Goodman and I will be developing some Team Effectiveness workshops using ideas from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Knowledge Working and Lean Sigma. More on this next month, but in the meantime take a look at our Top Ten Tips for Running Effective Meetings.
For more information on our other current workshop themes take a look at our website.

More next month, when the Featured Topic will be Dealing with Change.

Warm wishes