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12/04/2017 By Isla Baliszewska

Seeing inside your business self with C-me Colour Profiling

Have you ever asked yourself “how can I build on my strengths? How can I make better decisions with greater confidence?” Or wish you had a deeper insight into your behaviours? Try C-me Colour Profiling!

Anita Jaynes of The Business Exchange, had first hand experience of how C-me Colour Profiling can give insights to behaviours and what might be changed to enhance performance and create better relationships.

Effective, efficient and easy to apply – quick to do and quick to get your personal report. What better way to discover your strengths and become more self-aware? And for businesses it is a boon! To be successful, business leaders need to be effective. They need to know what they do best, what they should get others to do, and how best to communicate objectives in a way that engages everyone in the organisation.

As a successful business leader herself, Anita was eager to explore how C-me could benefit her business, through doing her own profile and then taking it deeper in a Debrief session with Halina Jaroszewska, one of our C-me experts.

Read more about Anita’s C-me experience.

31/01/2017 By Isla Baliszewska

Leadership – ‘C-me’ Style

Leadership C-me style

It is so easy to slot into ‘this must be me’, to believe in the stereotype, to accept the personality type designated, default to what is expected, to become the mistress or master of illusion with ‘Once I …. then I will’ ….. rather than to survey the landscape and what lives there and ask

What will suit this best?

What is working well?

What could work even better?

How can I, as a leader, work with the actual material rather than wish it were different?

How to create the climate to significantly improve the landscape?

How willing am I as a leader to put ‘me’ on one side and step into the shoes of the other – to discover what the landscape of the organisation / team / board / department looks like from that perspective?

How willing am I to listen?

How willing am I to use my preferences to understand others preferences?’

C-me Colour profiling describes characteristics of the 4 colour preferences as follows:

Logical and analytical – Enjoys problem solving – Needs time for reflection – Realistic – Sorts out the details – Strong sense of duty – Structured and disciplined

Bold and determined – Confident and optimistic – Enjoys stretching goals – Leads from the front – Sets a winning mentality – Thinks big – Direct and to the point

Considerate and caring – Genuine concern for colleagues –Avoids conflict -Involves others in decisions – Respects others values – Supportive and loyal – Works for a democratic solution

Free spirited – Friendly and optimistic – Generous and open-minded – Inspirational and visionary – Looks on the bright side – Positive outlook – Spontaneous and imaginative

Each colour has its positive and least positive attributes. Each colour is perfect for whatever one wants to achieve providing one is prepared to shift perspective in order to see or recognise it.

For example, every leader needs to be able, agile, appreciative of when to call on the strength of a particular colour preference. Within C-me’s repertoire, which provides the natural and adapted or learned personas, the savvy leader has all the information at their finger-tips to decide or choose which preference or combination of preferences to use in a particular situation.

Coming clean about most effective and least effective ways to communicate is a great place to start. Want to find out more about C-me? Click here.

The elegance, the beauty, the magic of a personality profile is this: you are telling you who, what, how, why you are you? This is especially so if C-me Colour Profiling is used as it reveals preferences, gives insights into one’s natural and adapted or learned persona, provides clarity, challenges assumptions and provokes development potential.

C-me also highlights hidden potential – perfect for identifying routes to succession planning. It alludes to unique pairings of traits not usually recognised. C-me gives leaders both valuable information for their leadership development potential as well as that of colleagues and the competitive edge when dealing with clients and stakeholders, internal and external. Simply it is because knowing oneself better enables one to be more perceptive and insightful around others.

C-me gives an exclusive gift of vulnerability by virtue of the wealth of information it provides enabling a deeper level of honesty and trust to develop and engage with.

It sets the scene for high standards.

It’s a disruptor of the status quo.

Try It!

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04/11/2016 By Isla Baliszewska

We all know that this is the rule most of us live upside down – instead of getting 80% of results for our 20% of effort, we generally expend 80% of our time getting 20% of what we want. Derived from the Pareto Principle where Vilfredo Pareto noted at the beginning of the 20^th century that 20% of the population received 80% of income in Italy, this translates in number terms to meaning 80% of your outcomes come from 20% of your inputs.

An interesting study carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry for Hewlett Packard in 2005 found that productivity was impaired by excessive checking of emails – employees distracted by emails and phone calls suffered a fall in IQ that doubled that found in marijuana smokers. This doesn’t seem like a productive use of time so a tip – set your email checking to once every 2 hours so you maintain focus on the tasks that make that 20% really productive.

If we think about this in terms of give and take, we want to give 20% and take 80%. This sounds a bit selfish really. So let’s turn it around for a minute. If you’re taking 80% you need to get someone to give it to you. They need to be seeing the value of giving it to you. So spreading the value is a good start.

An example in business terms; at Smart Coaching & Training we produce a great many resources for our customers. We will give these to you, and you, and you, and you…….. We will then receive from one or two of ‘you’ enough interest in what we do to start having a conversation about doing business together.

But! It is not that easy. Our resources have to be worthwhile, useful, insightful, valuable, compelling, so that you and you and you and you…. will WANT to have them. That requires us to be thoughtful and creative about what we put in to our resources. We need to make those 20% inputs work for us.

How does that work for leaders? How do leaders implement an effective 80/20 rule?

Here are some tips:

Focus on the activities that give you the best outcomes. 80% of your time should be spent on the important stuff, not the panic things or the diverting things or the stuff that someone else could do better. Determine your priorities, delegate appropriately and define your leadership focus.

Spend 80% of your time on gathering the information you need and 20% of the time in making the decision. (Most good decisions don’t need to be 100% proof in terms of data collection – there is inevitably going to be the element of ‘unknown’ and ‘instinct’).

Listen for 80% of the time. Listening gets you the information and knowledge you need to take the right actions. Keep the talking to 20%, learn to be concise, authoritative and commanding.

The thing to remember about the 80/20 rule and the Pareto Principle is its value in reminding us that we truly need to focus on the 20% that will make the difference.

Next time you have a leadership challenge, try a Pareto Chart. Don’t know how and want some help? Get in touch with us and we’ll give you a hand!

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23/03/2016 By Isla Baliszewska

How mentoring and coaching supports leaders

Following on our theme of sharing the success stories of some of those we work with and come across, here is the story from Svitlana Surodina, CEO of Skein, another of the businesses that connected with Halina under the Growth Voucher scheme. Skein have just been approved by Crown Commercial Services as an official supplier for UK public sector organisations.

“ Skein is actively growing with some new world-known clients such as TP-link and University of Geneva and we are going through multiple client project launches and in addition an investment process for our own projects.

“Developing leadership skills is an integral part of what I do daily, working with a rather large team right now, I need to make sure I communicate the vision and overall business goals by inspiring my team and generating within them the energy and passion that is necessary to proactively make decisions and execute in operations. These skills are developing constantly and as much as they are acquired organically via daily work, sometimes it is important to gain access to professional mentoring advice to more effectively handle new situations or operate in a fast growth environment.

More and more weight is gained by such skills, such as the ability to support a positive and optimistic environment within the team,and understand their aspirations and moods.

For 2016 I am going to focus on scaling up our own product (advertising analytics system, sAnalytix.com) and take a limited number of client technology projects with particular focus on the potential of postive impact the project has. For example, we are working on a library crowd-science project for University of Geneva. And we’re very pleased that Skein has been approved as an official Crown Commercial Services supplier.”

www.skein.co

10/02/2016 By Isla Baliszewska

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David Rigby has years of experience using NLP, emotional intelligence and mindfulness within consulting roles and with individual clients specializing in personal branding, executive presence, gravitas and voice communication. He is developing his |SCT practice focusing on leadership, team building, innovation, change management and customer service, delivering public and in house training to clients throughout the UK and the Middle East.

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