Posts Tagged ‘Core4’

Your Perfect Week

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Think about the best work week you have ever had.  Maybe you just started day­dream­ing about that award trip to the Bahamas, or the lead­er­ship con­fer­ence (golf­ing vaca­tion) in Palm Springs….but for the pur­pose of this exer­cise, let’s con­sider some­thing else.

Think about a week that you really brought your “A” game to the office. 

You were on time, fully present and pre­pared for all your meet­ings.  You closed the deals you were work­ing on.  You exe­cuted with excel­lence.  Not only this, but you had time to think, to plan, to exer­cise, and you were home in time for din­ner!  Did I men­tion email?  Yes, you were even caught up on all email cor­re­spon­dence.  Not just your work email, but your Linkedin, Face­book, and per­sonal email accounts.

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You Have to See the Whole Picture

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

If you were to call me and ask if I could fly out and meet with you on March 11th, the old me would pull up my CRM to see if that date was open.  If so, I would say sure, see you then! 

But what I could miss is that I was sched­uled to be at my daughter’s bal­let per­for­mance on the evening of the 10th, and that the fol­low­ing week, I am to make two major pre­sen­ta­tions.  Not to men­tion, this all comes after three very full weeks of meetings. 

The old me would have made a com­mit­ment to that date with­out assess­ing how it would impact me and those around me dur­ing that larger period of time.  Out­look was not good enough.

The solu­tion was to go back to a paper tool. 

Daniel's Yearly Fold-Out Calendar

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A Day That Will Change Your Life

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

BCE Life PlanningAs many of you know, I have spent the last 13 years of my career build­ing an exec­u­tive coach­ing com­pany

What my team and I get to do each and every day is to help busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als improve their think­ing, their abil­i­ties and their actions.  We walk our clien­tele through a model we call the Core Four, which is com­prised of four crit­i­cal ele­ments:  Life Plan­ning, Vision, Busi­ness Plan­ning and Pri­or­ity Management.

When we begin our jour­ney with a new client, the Life Plan comes first.

I believe Life Plan­ning is not just a strat­egy for life, but also for busi­ness.  Think about it for a moment.  What causes a huge per­cent­age of pro­fes­sion­als to crash and burn, or to just per­form at mediocre levels? 

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