Personal Effectiveness

Your Personal Effectiveness Makes a Difference

Below you’ll find the posts from Elephants at Work from the Personal Effectiveness category. This is where we get personal. The way you interact with others directly affects how successful you are in accomplishing your career and personal goals. I know change is difficult. Perhaps you will find wisdom or your AH HA right here!

Some of the topics within the Personal Effectiveness category include:

  • Interpersonal communication skills
  • Relationship building and mending
  • Growing your social and personal networks
  • Recognizing good and bad behaviors
  • Dealing with stress and change
  • Facing our own fears
  • Becoming more personally accountable
  • Active trust building

That’s right the work starts here to being more personally effective! If you have a topic that may interest our readers and satisfies an itch of yours to get a fresh perspective, feel free to send me an email.

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Are writing skills impacting your professional career?

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes There has been a lot of focus on writing skills with my clients. Three of my clients find that their writing skills are hurting them in their professional careers. Are your writing skills impacting your career? Here are a few facts about the group: Client 1 is an attorney and their firm identified their writing skills as a deficiency. Client 2 is educated as an engineer and is not working. Client 3 is senior manager and is applying to top-notch universities to enroll in their MBA program. He continues to be denied even with ...

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes The difference between winners and losers is identifying what you want versus what you need. Just ask yourself, if you know what you want – why have you not gotten it? The answer is likely buried in what you need. It is much easier to say what you want than to define what you need. Sometimes what you need is not clear, and that’s one reason why you are not getting what you want. Let’s work through an example together. Select your own topic. Create two columns. Write down what you want in one ...

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes One of the biggest barriers to successful coaching is time. New clients or sponsoring companies want results right away. Personally, I do too, but guess what – success is dependent on personal readiness and working through the coaching process. Coaching Readiness Factors Here are a few of the personal readiness factors that I screen for when taking on a new coaching client: Introspection and self-awareness Reflection on the good, bad and ugly Commitment to make changes and keep momentum Willingness to try new things Follow through on your plan Your degree of readiness will ...

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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Feedback just got better with the I Like, I Wish, What if Method from Stanford University Institute of Design. This approach is simple to use and focuses on getting feedback in a positive framework. The I Like, I Wish, What if Method is appropriate to use with teams or one on one.  As with other feedback techniques, always use “I” rather than “you” when providing feedback. Here’s an example: You statement: You make me mad when you are late. I statement: I get mad when you are late. Avoid “You” in Feedback The “you ...

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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes In the HBDI Questions Series: Part 3, I’ll address some of the questions about applying the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument or HBDI model to other important people in your life. If you are unfamiliar with the HBDI, you can start with these two articles: The HBDI Question Series: Part 1 – explains the basics of the HBDI assessment The HBDI Question Series: Part 2 – focuses on personal interpretation How easy is it to profile someone else? Most likely before you took the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, the person doing your assessment asked you ...

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