The Sixth Sense

Human Potential - a new small business

For years now I have been fascinated by human potential. I love watching people making the most of their talents. I love seeing organisations be the best they can possibly be. Ultimately, I love seeing both people and organisations move from good to great.

It is because of this that I’m so excited about starting my own small business that will focus on human potential and helping both individuals and organisations unleash that potential.

The next six months are going to be geared to getting everything setup, incorporating the company, building the brand, and developing courses, training, and coaching material. From January 1st 2009 I will be looking for the new business to sustain me for one and a half days. And we’ll see how it goes from there.

It feels like a fresh challenge and one that I’m so looking forward to embarking on.

To the future!

Tags: Human Potential, Life, new business

All change

I mentioned in a previous post at the start of June that there were some changes on the horizon. Well I thought I’d go public with what’s going on!

For those of you who don’t know, since December 1999 I have worked full time as an IT administrator with a firm of accountants here in Sheffield. My work with Mosaic has always been something in addition to this. It keeps me busy!

From next week though my number of days with my employer is going to be reduced to 4 days per week. And then I am going to be doing 1 day a week with Mosaic. I’m excited about the change and opportunity.

Not only this, from next January I am going to be dropping to 2.5 days with my current employer and am looking to set up my own business focussed primarily on human potential consultancy.

I’ll share more about the specifics of both my work with Mosaic and the new business in later posts, but I thought I’d get the basics out on the table. I know some of you have been waiting with baited breath since that last post!

Tags: Human Potential, Life, Mosaic, Work

Bringing out the best in people

Whether we are a leader, a manager, a parent, or any other role where we are responsible for influencing others, we all have the challenge of trying to bring out the best in people. How do we do this though?

Clearly everyone is going to have their own unique approach but, at the same time, there must be some good practices that run true for everyone.

And clearly the person we are trying to bring the best out of is going to affect our approach too. How we handle the passionate but clueless person is going to be very different from how we handle the knowledgeable but apathetic person.

So, linked with this, I wanted to try and start a conversation today and invite as many of us as possible to share our stories of both success and failure in our efforts to bring out the best in people.

Feel free to use this as an opportunity to raise questions and struggles too. I certainly have a ton of questions and I have lots to learn. Hopefully this can be a mutually beneficial process for us all!

What do you think?

Tags: Human Potential