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The Achieve Coaching Group is a specialized coaching firm that provides a full suite of integrated coaching services that span all aspects of leadership development - from assessments and executive coaching to workshops and specialized team programs. We are committed to the success of your organization. We believe in achieving individual, team and organizational objectives through outstanding coaching that is measurable and above all, sustainable. "Achieve" embodies the essence of who we are and what we do. Using a collaborative approach we maximize your potential by coaching to increase insight, skills, accountability and consequently transform your exceptional future to create sustainable change and results.
Reflective Leadership - an Achieve Blog Post
By Jodie Barrett | November 12, 2008
Do you ever notice how the reflections on the water create beautiful picturesque moments? How often do we whip by and miss the chance to take a look? How often do we fail to notice an opportunity to move ourselves closer to wisdom? I have been finding lately when working with clients that everyone wants to race by the reflection because it is much easier to go by rather than stop and pause; see what is being presented. Is it the technological influence of immediate delivery/response or perhaps the spiraling economic times pushing us to the next great thing? We will leave the economy for the moment that is a whole other blog topic.
The process of coaching in leadership provides the time and space to stop, breathe and reflect. But we are busy, we are rushing, we are pushing to the next deliverable, deadline and we are always, always searching for that elusive ‘time’ factor. I wonder if the search itself is what propels us to create this crisis of time?
It is the element of missing or avoiding looking at what is really presented to the world that I find fascinating. Unless we take a glance we will never create the transformational change that frequently needs to happen to really allow the client to achieve their goals. It requires real trust and space in order for that change to happen and the carefully placed reminders to come back to the waters edge… look. Look again, look again. This process can occur over and over until finally there is a breath and the client is able to see the real self that needs to change.
Have you been taking and making the time for reflection?
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What is your focus? - an Achieve Blog Post
By Jodie Barrett | September 9, 2008
Have you ever noticed that when you focus all your energies on your goal you are able to create your own success. Yet, when you reverse this process the same thing happens. When working with coaching clients I ask them “What do you want?” The answer I most often hear is what they don’t want. I don’t want to feel so overloaded. I don’t want to follow this career path. I don’t want to be tired anymore. All their energy is focused on what they don’t want. Guess what~ that is what they get! Why? Because that is what you are focusing on. That is your goal. What happens when you become a new parent? Besides a sudden lack of sleep you also start to notice how many other new infants your friends have. You go to the mall, everyone has new babies. Before you know it there are new babies everywhere. But it is only your perception, personal experience and your focus that has changed. There as many new babies out there in the world as there ever have been.
“What do you want?”
1. Focus on what you want.
2. Create measurable actions
3. Engage in coaching
4. Achieve your goal.
Have you phrased what you want in a positive frame?
I will to reach my next career goal of….
I will make my first million by 35…
I will…
Question of the Day:
What do you want? What is your focus? What will you do?
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Hybrid Coaching - an Achieve Blog Post
By Jodie Barrett | August 23, 2008
Going to the gas pumps can easily cause heart failure as you watch the dollar signs creep up very quickly. With the high cost of fuel hybrid vehicles have been forefront in the media. Wickpedia lists the hybrid as “a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to propel the vehicle”. What about the concept of hybrid coaching?
Hybrid coaching allows a coach to tap into a clients’ rechargeable energy system that they may not realize is within themselves while at the same time using their internal combustion engine otherwise known as ambition. This enables you to focus your energy towards your specific goals without having to keep returning to the gas pumps where you have input but gain minimal output without great costs. I’ll bet you can think of attending seminars or meetings that drain and deflate you just like the oversized SUV at the pumps.
Hybrid coaching; giving you the get-up-and-go without the high cost of fuel!
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