If I asked your friends about your degree of influence, what might they say? And how would they (and you) assess that level of influence? If you …More
Diplomacy – What’s The Big Deal?
Are you known for your diplomacy? Or the directness (dare I say bluntness) of your interaction with others? Is that always getting you the results you …More
I Get IQ & EQ, But What’s This SQ?
If Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) leverages wisdom, compassion and seeing meaning and purpose in life and work, how and why do you use it beyond IQ and …More
Using Influencial Language as a Consultant
Are you using the right influencial language when consulting to your clients or other stakeholders? How diplomatically assertive are you? If you …More
(When) Are You At Your “Sharpest”?
Do you know at what times of the day (or night) you are at your absolute “sharpest”? You know, at your highest possible level of performance? If …More
Networking @ Your Level & Above?
Are you a networking professional working at your level and above? Or an amateur that doesn't appreciate the difference? If you prefer listening to …More
(How) Can Vulnerability Give You An Edge?
How often do you allow your vulnerability to show in a professional setting? When is that a good thing? And when is it best avoided? If you prefer …More
(How) Can You Leverage A Few Deep Breaths?
When last have a few deep breaths rescued you from overwhelm or a confronting situation? Or can you use them in your favour all the time? If you …More
Who is Filtering Your Messages?
How badly are others "filtering" your messages on their way up or down? How adept are you at playing this form of corporate politics? If you prefer …More
Seeking Approval or Forgiveness?
Approval or forgiveness. Which are you better known to seek for in your corporate or business decision making? If you prefer listening to reading, …More
Business Plan – Big Picture or Micro Focus?
Is your Business Plan having you "sweat all the small stuff"? Or does making and delivering those few key initial sales have your attention …More
The Credibility Leaders Look For
How's your credibility with your leadership? With your line managers? Key senior stakeholders? Their leaders? Is it where you'd like it to be? If …More
What Stories Are You Telling Yourself?
What stories do you keep telling yourself in your mind chatter? If they're negative, what might they be depriving you of? Do you realize how much …More
What Do You Invest In Your Own CPD?
What did you invest in your own CPD (Continuous Personal or Professional Development) so far this year? How are you feeding your goose, if it's the …More
Are You Making A Difference?
Are you making a difference in your career or your life's work, or are you just showing up because you have to? If you prefer listening to reading, …More
Using Head, Heart and Tummy
Can you use Head, Heart and Tummy, leveraging all the keys on your piano to differentiate you as a superior leader? If you prefer listening to …More
Collaboration or Competition
Collaboration or Competition. Is it all or nothing for you, or is there something in it for everyone? Does it have to be "I win - you lose"? If you …More
What Are Your Behaviour Patterns Masking?
Are you aware how much your unconsciously played out behaviour patterns influence your outcomes? Good and bad? What are they masking? If you prefer …More
Being Deliberate
Being deliberate. If I asked people who really know you how genuinely passionate you are towards your purpose what might they say? Would they say …More
Being More Strategic
Are you known more for being more strategic or are you still stuck in the comfort of the detail? What will it take to change that? Prefer listening …More
What Does Your (Personal) SWOT Analysis Look Like?
What would your personal SWOT analysis look like if I asked you to do one right now? Would you be happy with it? Or do we have some work to do? If …More
The Chameleon
How good a chameleon are you in your interaction with those you wish to influence and win-over? Does your behavioural and communication flexibility …More
Front Office and Back Office
Is the front-office and back-office divide alive and well in your organisation?How well do you contend with and manage its vagaries? If you prefer …More
Allies and Foes
Allies and Foes. How do you know who is for and against you and your agendas? And how well can you leverage and influence them? If you prefer …More
Holding The Power In The Room
How well do you "hold the power" in rooms of significance? Can you? Or do you admire others for this and wish you could too? I coach lots of …More
Leveraging “Top Pocket” Anecdotes?
How well are you leveraging your "top pocket anecdotes"? You know, vital, valuable information only you have, that your bosses need? If you prefer …More
Pride and Ego – What Have They Lost or Cost You?
Pride and Ego - think about their incredible power. But gone wrong, what might they have cost and lost you? Prefer listening to reading? Click here …More
Managing Stakeholders – Why Bother?
Stakeholders - those I need to influence or whose influence I rely on for my success. How can I influence and manage their expectations if I don't …More
Keeping Good People
Finding and keeping good people. Ask any leader and this is usually the most common leadership challenge. If you are a leader would you agree? What …More
Managing Distractions
Managing distractions to stay on track towards your goals? Or are they a welcome escape? How do they affect your focus, energy and success? Prefer …More
Fair Dinkum Transparency. Really?
Leadership transparency. Are you really fair dinkum? How "filtered" are your messages? What makes you (and me) think I can trust you? If you …More
Jumping In. The Curse of Modern Day Impatience?
Guilty of "jumping in" too quickly? Do you know how much asking: "What's One More Thing" can help enhance your patience and communication? If you …More
Being More Inclusive. The Power of “We”
How inclusive are you in your interactions with others? Do you naturally attract people towards you? Would you like to do that better? Well, how well …More
Does Age Matter? 70 is the new 60
Does age matter in recruitment, career or retirement planning, or doesn't it? What's your prejudice or excuse? Can you be swayed? What's your …More
Driving your Success
Looking for an idea that will help you raise your game to stay on top of it and ahead of the rest? It's called leveraging achievement. …More
Why Aren’t You Leading If You’re The Leader ?
If you're the leader, why aren't you leading? Well are you? Or are you hoping everyone in your team will "just do the right thing?" If you prefer …More
What are you worth?
How much have you invested in your personal and professional development this year? And last year? Tell me and I’ll tell you what I think what are you …More
How Do You Deal With Adversity?
What will it take for your handling adversity to become one of your primary winning characteristics? What makes it so? Willing to have a go? If you …More
Intuition: How Strong Is Your “Vibe-Meter”?
Can you “pick up vibes”? How well can you “read" situations or people? Can you rely on your intuition? How strong is your “vibe-meter”? If you …More
Writers Block? What’s Stopping You?
An acknowledged authority in your field, you know you have something to say. You want to share it. Writers block seems to paralyze you. Why? If you …More
Delegating. Why such a challenge?
Delegating. Whether new to it or despite many years of practice and experience, why are so many still challenged by it so much? Are you? If you …More
Gossip – Friend Or Foe?
If gossip is "social chit-chat", how is it affecting your team? Undermining your energy and direction or can you use it to your benefit? If you …More
Speaking With Ease
Is confidently speaking with ease with most people hard or easy for you? Want to learn to speak and influence like those that you admire? If you …More
Blitzing Successful Interviews
Having overcome that fear of the interview, are you ready for "blitzing" successful interviews? You know, confidently winning them …More
Why Are We So Afraid Of That Interview?
Why are we so afraid or nervous of that interview? What's at play here and how do you better stack the odds in your favour? You can you know? If …More
First Impressions
How long do you think you have to make first impressions? Minutes? Seconds? You'll be surprised how quickly we all "jump to conclusions"! If you …More
Time to Change is Now. Enough is Enough!
When will the pain of staying the same become greater than the perceived fear or pain of change? When is enough going to be enough for you? If you …More
Goal Procrastination? The Roles of Need or Want
Need or Want. Having to do something or Wanting to? No-brainer because you have options? Or do you feel trapped by the need to "have to"? If you …More
Procrastination
If the belief that "I can, that it’s worth it, that I'm prepared to try and deserve the results" would overcome procrastination, why am I still (not) …More
Goals or New-years Resolutions? What’s The Difference?
How might you looking back on the end of another year? In satisfaction or regret? Could not having Goals have anything to do with it? If you prefer …More
Why Does Planning Seem So Hard For So Many?
How good is your planning? Can an ocean going yacht reach it's destination without planning? What about your business or life or career? If you …More
End of Year “Blues”?
How do you feel about the end of this year? Excited by what you achieved? Relieved its almost over? Ambivalent perhaps? Or can you feel the "Blues" …More
Managing Your State
If and when you “slip into the pit or cave”, how long do you have to “stay down there”? Ready to manage your state and climb out for good? If you …More
Moving Away versus Moving Towards
Moving away or moving towards. Where do you direct your energy and focus? Do you want to be healthy or avoid being sick? Careful what you ask …More
Confidence Certainty and Doubt
Confidence certainty and doubt. Even if you’re unsure, can you at least act with professional certainty? Or are you allowing yourself to doubt even …More
Leadership Transition – Why All The Fuss?
Are you a doer, an orchestrator, a manager or a leader? How do you move from one to the other? And why all the fuss about leadership transition? If …More
I’m An Introvert – Is That A Problem?
Are you labelled to be an Introvert? What does that mean to you? Is it a problem for you, are you ambivalent to it, or do you see its power? If you …More
Trusting Yourself
Your beliefs, your self talk, your experiences and results drive your self-worth, right? If it isn’t where you want it, what's still stopping you from …More
The Price And The Prize
No pain no gain. When will the price of staying the same become greater than the price of the necessary change? Is your prize big enough to drive …More
What will your legacy be?
Who do you think you will be remembered by, what for, for how long and what do you think your life’s work will be remembered for? What will your …More
Self Talk
If our self talk is the basis of our confidence, our self-image, what we project, and who we are, are you mindful enough of what you are saying to …More
Beliefs
If our beliefs were “made in the head” and some no longer serve or support us, does that mean we can replace them with better ones, also made in our …More
The left brain and the right brain
Left brain right brain: which predominates for you? Are you constantly full of thoughts, or can you allow your right brain's intuition to come …More
Embracing Uncertainty
Embracing uncertainty? Can you? Do you relish the opportunity it might invoke or are you the "worrying type"? Could you make it your friend? If you …More
Attached and Detached
Attached and Detached. Are you overly at risk of “buying in” or taking things too personally? Or can you step back and deal with them “at a …More
Enhancing Communication With The Power of Playing Back
How well do you enhance your communication using the age-old technique of playing back what you just heard? Or encouraging the other person to do so? …More
Want to Turbocharge Your Goals?
How would you like to turbocharge your goals to increase the likelihood of achieving or exceeding them by 85+%? Seriously? Yes. Want to know …More
Sharpening your axe
When was your last “sabbatical” to invest in yourself: charging up skills, outlook and energy for what you love doing best? You know, sharpening your …More
Hope
Are you driving your agendas or are you at risk of allowing yourself to rely too much on hope to get you what you need or want? If you prefer …More
Letting Go
What “baggage” might you still be holding on to, that could be holding you back from the success you aspire to? What's stopping you from letting …More
Selling Yourself?
Are you one of the many already successful people that nonetheless still struggle with selling yourself? How much more successful could you be if this …More
Being Relatable
How does being relatable endear you across a broad audience? Does this come naturally to you, or is it hard work? Can you influence it? If you …More
Attitude Determines Altitude
Does the cliche "attitude determines altitude" work for you, or does that irk you? Are you "always up" or somewhat more volatile? Are you in control …More
One Big Idea
If I asked you for "One Big Idea" that you could develop for your career or your business that could catapult your success, what might it be? How …More
Energized or Drained? What Makes It So?
Are you usually more tired or inspired? Energized or drained? Doing daily what you love best or groaning out of bed to the same old same old? If …More
Nick Gole – Testimonial
Nick Gole - Systems and Process Architect at Navig8 Group: Engaging in coaching is a path of growth and self-discovery... Today I am in a different …More
Compared to what?
Are you tired of constantly having to “measure up”? Compared to what? Do you often see others as “better” than you? How can you break out of that …More
Having a Go
What drives you more - having to win or having a go? Are you so focused on winning, that you lose sight of all the pleasure of having a go? If you …More
Stepping Up or Pulling Up?
How well prepared are you to “land” those key roles you so aspire to? Is it up to you stepping up or will your network “pull you up” into such …More
Leading from behind
Sometimes situations require leading from the front, others leading from behind. Can you confidently apply the right one(s) for the right …More
Recognition and the place for Criticism and Praise
It’s not what people say or do that we remember; it’s how they made you feel, isn’t it? Recognition: are you the “good finder” or the …More
Accountability
Are you and your team always crystal clear about the difference between accountability, responsibility and authority? Who or what's holding you …More
Vision
Are you so busy doing that you have lost sight of your vision, or even never known where you are going? How much more could you achieve with real …More
KPI’s
What are your Key Performance Indicators? Whether employee, leader or contractor, are you ensuring your and your people's performance is being managed …More
Edification
Edification. When you tell the person you are speaking with about someone else, can they look forward to meeting them because you have "talked them …More
Trust and Respect
How consistently do your deeds and behaviour prove you “walk the walk” and that you deserve trust and respect? As a person? As a parent? As an …More
Managing Agenda’s
How well are you managing agendas? And those you answer to in supporting you to implement the agendas and expectations that they set in the first …More
How good are you at “I don’t know”?
Faced with an "I don't know" situation, is your fear of being found out preventing you from learning what will prevent you from being found out? If …More
Tim Boyle – Testimonial
Tim Boyle - SMSF Property Finance Specialist Heiner helped me identify personal and business issues I didn’t know I had Although I knew Heiner …More
So when you face a challenge….
When you are facing a challenge, do you focus on the obstacle or can you be inspired by what you’re about to learn now? If you prefer to listen …More
Balance
How do you measure what balance you have across work, life, health and wealth? When do you know whether you are or you aren’t in balance? Are you …More
Power over ourselves and others
How do you go about exercising power - your power? How do you use your power? How often have you abused your power over someone else? How do you feel …More
Values
When last have you defined or refined your values? You know, the filters by which you judge good & bad, right & wrong? Are you truly living in …More
Are You Thriving or Surviving?
You've worked consistently hard over decades, right? Are you now where you wanted to be? With other words, are you truly Thriving or (just) …More
Front Bench or Opposition?
Are you more constructive or destructive? If it isn’t your idea, do you criticize or “find the catch” or do you prefer to add perspectives that might …More
Are you part of the Problem or Solution?
Problem or Solution? Do you need to be a problem solving hero, or can you step back and operationalize so the problem can’t happen again? If you …More
Character and Charisma
Does the character and charisma in your personality enable you to inspire, influence, enthuse and motivate with care and an attitude of “fun and …More
Dancing until it rains
Perseverance. To get what you want, are you just willed to “dance in the rain” or are you prepared to keep dancing until it rains? If you prefer …More
John Cameron – Testimonial
John Cameron - now VP Product at LIFX: the first step you take to driving your own life and career, rather than letting it drive you Here is what …More
Mindfulness: Pleasure only in Leisure?
How great is your mindfulness about your experiencing pleasure any and all the time, or is that only possible when you are in a leisure …More
