| HP Innovation Day @ DCU
Innovation, Creativity
& Problem Solving are critical drivers for the future
success of your business. Building on Investnet’s
success in convening last year’s 250 delegate conference,
HP Innovation Day @ DCU 2006
on March 29th will highlight and educate on
the importance of continuous Innovation, Creativity &
Problem Solving skills in enhancing competitiveness.
Click
here to visit the conference website and view the impressive
line up of speakers including Mr. Micheál
Martin TD, Dr. Edward De Bono & Mr. Trevor Baylis.
Are you growing or dying?
Is your life what you
expected it to be? How did you once respond when you were
asked ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’
If you keep going the way you are going, where will you end
up?
These are the questions people are often forced into answering
when they experience a tragedy in their lives or are diagnosed
with an illness. But it is healthy to reflect on the direction
of our lives from time to time, otherwise we may end up
one day, a long way from where we hoped to be.
Click
here to complete your own LIFE
AUDIT.
Top Tips - Quality of Life
Questions to ask yourself to ensure you are not
out-sourcing your life!
1. What is
important to you in life? (E.g family, health, relationships,
traveling, learning, security etc.) Does your current lifestyle
allow you to nurture these values?
2. Examine
your daily routine. Are you doing any unnecessary activities?
What could be done more effectively? Where do you need to
ask for help?
3. How can
you inject more fun into you life? What did you used to
love doing that has been eroded by the ‘routine’
of your life?
4. In first
world countries the new poor are those who are money rich
but time poor. Is your life in balance? If you put your
career before your family, ask yourself who will be beside
you when you are on your death bed - it won't be your boss!
Find
out the rest...
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Is Coaching for me?
Every successful athlete & performer has a
coach, so why should it be any different for people and
businesses who want to excel?
What do Bill Clinton, Andre Agassi, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington and Ken Doherty
have in common? If I added in Peter Shields, a business
owner from Cork, Mary Roche, a receptionist from Galway
and John Murray a sales rep from Dublin, the answer may
not be as obvious. The one thing they all have in common
is that they have all utilised the services of a professional
coach to assist them in realising their potential.
Personal and Business Coaching is relatively
new to Ireland. Originating in the US and with its routes
in sports coaching, psychology and the study of motivation,
an ever-increasing number of individuals and businesses
are turning to coaching to assist them in getting from
where they are now to where they would like to be.
People and firms are attracted to coaching for a variety
of reasons. For example, a personal coaching client might
want to explore ways of taking their career to the next
level, or to generate a better work/ life balance or simply
to explore ways of feeling more fulfilled. From a business
perspective, a manager may seek support instigating sustainable
change in the business, or to learn how to motivate staff
or to enhance the firm’s reputation for quality
customer service.
What are the benefits?
From a personal spective the
benefits of coaching include:
- Increased self confidence
- A greater sense of motivation and focus.
- Reduced stress
- Enhanced communication skills
- Improved working (and personal) relationships.
- Better time management.
From a business perspective coaching positively impacts
on staff commitment and productivity, and therefore bottom
line profitability. Coaching employees is the most focussed
use of a firm’s resources, because it brings those
resources to precisely where they are needed. Whilst many
business owners provide training for their staff, they
don’t have a similar resource to draw on themselves.
A coach can be a sounding board for business owners, assisting
them to plan strategically for long-term sustainable benefit.
Click
here to learn more about the benefits
of coaching, to read a short case study
and find about a SPECIAL
OFFER, EXCLUSIVE to readers of Next Steps.
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Editors Letter
 Welcome
to the March 2006 edition of Next
Steps the monthly newsletter of James Sweetman
& Associates.
Our lead article this month is a shameless plug for the
benefits of coaching, but we are willing to put our money
where our mouth by way of an exclusive
offer.
We are happy to promote and recommend two exciting events
to you, the HP Innovation @ DCU seminar and Nick Williams'
latest seminar.
Our Personal Development article this month gives you
the opportunity to do a 'life audit' and is supported
by our Top Tips section, listing ways to ensure you are
not out-sourcing your life!
James Sweetman
Contact Us
For more information on all
the services provided by James Sweetman & Associates, visit
the website, telephone us on (01) 6676 147, or send
us an email. New to the website this month is the first
chapter of James Sweetman's
book Graduate to Success
Nick Williams Seminar
'Attracting
your ideal clients and making money doing what you love'
Nick Williams
is retur ning
to Dublin for an evening seminar on Wed.
April 5th (7.30pm - 9.30pm) in the Stillorgan
Park Hotel. (Tickets €45)
You will learn to:
* Ask for and receive money and be paid paid for what you
love and what comes naturally.
*Create a unique and inspiring business
*Uunderstand how to create your own niche of expertise
Nick Williams
has inspired thousands of people and helped them move to
new levels of success, finding purpose, being inspired and
creative in work and become their own boss.
Nick Williams' first book The Work We Were Born To Do continues
to receive critical acclaim from around the world.
For more
information & to make your booking
An inspirational
seminar, not to be missed.
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