Barrier Breakers

Episode 14: Right Focus Organisations — framing creativity

Penelope — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:53:41 +0000

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 [...]

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

Penelope — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:54:50 +0000

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:

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

Penelope — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:00:06 +0000

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 [...]

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

Penelope — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:02:48 +0000

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…

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

Penelope — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:15:50 +0000

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!

Episode 9: The story so far…

Lady P — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:32:14 +0000

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.

Episode 8: Right Focus…structuring freedom

Penelope — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:00:09 +0000

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.

Episode 7: Left Focus

Lady P — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:00:38 +0000

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, [...]

Episode 6: Downward Focus

Lady P — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:00:54 +0000

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 [...]

Episode 5: Inward Focus

Lady P — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:00:42 +0000

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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