Epis­ode 14: Right Focus Organ­isa­tions — fram­ing creativity

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Apr 142012
 

If you’re involved with an organ­isa­tion that suf­fers from missed dead­lines, poor time man­age­ment, unre­li­ab­il­ity, and haphaz­ard plan­ning, then right focus is block­ing your potential.

Like an artist, to do your best work you need struc­ture within which to be creative.

Listen to the last in this series about bar­ri­ers in organ­isa­tions, and find out how to recog­nise and remove this barrier:

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Epis­ode 13: Left Focus Organ­isa­tions — get free from the system!

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Mar 102012
 

This bar­rier cripples organ­isa­tions with its love of bur­eau­cracy. It believes that a sys­tem should con­trol people — who only cause muddle with their irra­tion­al­ity — and struc­tures everything an employee does. Many organ­isa­tions are still run by Left Focus. But in a time of change, when flex­ib­il­ity is essen­tial for sur­vival, this bar­rier is dangerous…

Listen to this epis­ode, the 4th in the series about bar­ri­ers in organ­isa­tions, and find out how to recog­nise and remove the barrier:

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Pod­cast: Play in new win­dow | Down­load (Dur­a­tion: 19:45 — 18.1MB)

Epis­ode 12: Down­ward Focus organ­isa­tions — get­ting rid of the bullies

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Feb 112012
 

It’s the most cov­ert of the barriers…Downward Focus causes anxi­ety and uncer­tainty, and is respons­ible for bul­ly­ing, power play, and stress at work. This epis­ode cov­ers the char­ac­ter­ist­ics of this chal­len­ging bar­rier, shows you which indic­at­ors to look out for and provides solu­tions for over­com­ing it.

Listen and find out whether Down­ward Focus is affect­ing your workplace…

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Epis­ode 11: Inward Focus organ­isa­tions — how to get com­mu­nic­a­tion flowing

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Jan 142012
 

Team­work­ing, nego­ti­at­ing, networking…just some of the soft skills blocked by Inward Focus.

In this, the 2nd in the series about bar­ri­ers in organ­isa­tions, we look at this bar­rier, how it impacts well­being and pro­ductiv­ity, and how to remove it.

Listen and find out whether Inward Focus is dam­aging com­mu­nic­a­tion in your work…

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Pod­cast: Play in new win­dow | Down­load (Dur­a­tion: 18:31 — 17.0MB)

Epis­ode 10: Back­ward Focus organ­isa­tions — how to spot them, handle them, change them!

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Nov 232011
 

Are you affected by the bar­rier of Back­ward Focus in your work­place? How can you recog­nise it — and remove it?

This epis­ode kicks off a new series — about the 5 bar­ri­ers in organ­isa­tions. How does Back­ward Focus dam­age the work­ing envir­on­ment and the over­arch­ing cul­ture? How does it shape the struc­tures and sys­tems? How does it impact your organisation’s pro­ductiv­ity and your well-being?

Listen and find out!

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Epis­ode 9: The story so far…

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Oct 292011
 

The first 8 epis­odes of the Bar­rier Break­ers: Be Your­self Bril­liantly! pod­cast covered all the basic inform­a­tion about the 5 bar­ri­ers that affect our per­sonal and pro­fes­sional lives, and how BBM helps us to identify and over­come them. This epis­ode reviews everything that’s gone before, so if you’ve listened up until now this will be a handy recap; if you’re new to the pod­cast, then it will give you a taste of what BBM is about, and hope­fully inspire you to join us in future.

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Epis­ode 8: Right Focus…structuring freedom

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Oct 012011
 

This is the last in a series of 5 pod­casts out­lining how each bar­rier affects us per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. Break­ing through Right Focus allows you to get you where you want to go, to set up the best sys­tems, to struc­ture the jour­ney, to frame your cre­ativ­ity.  This epis­ode shows you how to do this so you’ll make the most of your ideas, your time and your actions, and you’ll build skills such as decision mak­ing, crit­ical reas­on­ing, and time management.

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Pod­cast: Play in new win­dow | Down­load (Dur­a­tion: 16:05 — 14.7MB)

Epis­ode 7: Left Focus

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Sep 102011
 

Identi­fy­ing and over­com­ing the bar­rier of Left Focus allows you to access your cre­ativ­ity, to travel com­fort­ably with uncer­tainty, and to respond to life’s chal­lenges with flex­ib­il­ity and ima­gin­a­tion. This epis­ode guides you through the fea­tures of the fourth of the bar­ri­ers, enabling you to access and improve skills such as idea gen­er­a­tion, prob­lem solv­ing, and cre­at­ive thinking.

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Pod­cast: Play in new win­dow | Down­load (Dur­a­tion: 16:59 — 15.6MB)

Epis­ode 6: Down­ward Focus

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Aug 202011
 

This epis­ode tells you how to recog­nise and over­come Down­ward Focus, so you’ll be guided by inner wis­dom rather than under­ly­ing fears, have improved peace of mind, energy and clar­ity of dir­ec­tion, and can shine a light on any other shad­ows cast over your live. In doing this you access and develop essen­tial per­sonal and pro­fes­sional skills such as assert­ive­ness, con­cen­tra­tion, and motivation.

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Epis­ode 5: Inward Focus

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Jul 302011
 

The 2nd of the bar­ri­ers, Inward Focus — how to identify and over­come it, and the effect it has on our per­sonal and pro­fes­sional lives. Over­com­ing this bar­rier means you access and develop your innate capa­city for empathic com­mu­nic­a­tion with oth­ers and improve all inter­per­sonal activ­it­ies – from per­sonal rela­tion­ships and social inter­ac­tion through to essen­tial work skills like team­work, nego­ti­at­ing, and networking.

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