The Achieve Coaching Group
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.
Power Up - an Achieve Blog Post
By Jodie Barrett | January 7, 2010
The new year is upon us and it is time to think about powering up. Starting afresh every year gives us the opportunity to erase the slate, move on and create the positions that we want for ourselves. Now is the time to empower yourself to make the career transition, a business goal or even a personal fitness attainment. It starts with you thinking about your possibilities, making a commitment and most importantly being accountable to yourself. I was watching an advertisement that Nike has put out with the slogan “Force Fate” and thought that is really what needs to happen. Take control of your fate, force your own position and make it happen. Achieve!
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Empowered Principals - an Achieve Blog Post
By Jodie Barrett | November 12, 2009
I never fail to be amazed when we work with groups of principals who so clearly empower their staff and students to be prepared learners for the 21st century. Kudos to you! As coaches, we focus on so many different elements of a person’s personal world and it is an honour to be invited in to engage in that level of trust. But the true opportunities for transformation only happen if we move beyond the surface and dive right down into the heart of the matter. Being a lover of all things chocolate I envision this work being moving from icing the cake to jumping off of a spring board and diving right into the centre of that layer cake. Do you have the visual? Yes, you are now covered in goopy icing.! That’s what we need to do in order to reach the core of client’s behaviour that needs to change. We have to look at the ‘self’ and determine how they need to be different in order to create change? And we need to not only do this once through the framework of coaching but to keep coming back as many times as necessary until the client sees the impact and success of that changed behaviour. Good thing we like chocolate!
Your question today: How do you need to be different to create change?
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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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