Do you know many corporate leaders that lead their people with heart and soul? That have that special magic of unleashing the power of the whole person – body, mind, emotions and spirit?
If you do, I want to hear about them please. This type of leadership is something that I haven't seen too often, particularly in the big organisations and yet I know there are some heart and soul leaders out there somewhere. Please ask them to get in touch.
I'm researching how these types of leaders came to lead this way, whether they've always led this way, who and what influenced them to be such inspiring forces behind people's jobs and lives. Where did they start, whether there was a pivotal moment that stirred them to focus on the latent energy and purpose within their people.
Over the coming weeks I want to explore what other leader's attitudes are towards leading with purpose and whether they are willing to change, adapt trial some of the ideas that I hope are going to come this way. I'll gladly share my research with anyone that is willing to help.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
TV Appearances
Hi I'm Ann Martin
Recently my web strategist Kirsty of http://www.openbookagency.co.uk/ put together a show reel of some of my TV appearances over the years and reminded me of the huge success at such an early age and so quickly.
Most of the are snippits from a previous business I ran, Ann Martin Associates, which included corporate clients such as Marks and Spencer, IBM, Hilton Hotel Group, Britannia Airways, British Midland Travel and others but today as a Professional Speaker and Executive Coach many of these loyal customers have asked me back to Coach their Executives and run Coaching Courses with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
So I hope you enjoy the short video - do excuse the interesting hairdos!
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Aa2a-lYXM
Ann Martin
Recently my web strategist Kirsty of http://www.openbookagency.co.uk/ put together a show reel of some of my TV appearances over the years and reminded me of the huge success at such an early age and so quickly.
Most of the are snippits from a previous business I ran, Ann Martin Associates, which included corporate clients such as Marks and Spencer, IBM, Hilton Hotel Group, Britannia Airways, British Midland Travel and others but today as a Professional Speaker and Executive Coach many of these loyal customers have asked me back to Coach their Executives and run Coaching Courses with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
So I hope you enjoy the short video - do excuse the interesting hairdos!
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Aa2a-lYXM
Ann Martin
Are you in your flow?
Hi, I'm Ann Martin and this week I had an amazing coaching session with one of my corporate clients. I'll call him Jim for confidentiality reasons.
Jim holds a very senior position in a UK blue chip company and although he has led people in large organisations for over 30 years in recent months he admits he has lost his leadership edge. He has been very overwhelmed with workload and staffing challenges and came to me wondering whether to leave his company for a complete change in life. As we started to discuss the options it was soon apparent how much he has enjoyed working at this organisation and how he feels such a part of it but that he had been working so hard and so many hours that he had become completely sucked into all the problems and could only see negatives.
One simple question shifted his thinking. I asked him to describe to me a time when he felt he was completely 'in his flow', when he had an abundance of energy, when he found things 'easy' and he was at his very best, performing and getting fantastic results.
He smiled and immediately it clicked with him that in recent months he had stopped doing all the things he is so brilliant at ie listening to and motivating his managers and instead had got stuck in the workload.
I received an email from him a short while ago telling me he had delegated much of the workload and had spent 2 days coaching and inspiring his managers, something that he is a natural at and certainly puts him back in his flow.
Why not take advantage of a free 15 minute coaching discovery session email me on ann@the-alternative-network.com.
Ann Martin
Friday, June 19, 2009
Starting A New Business Scary or Thrilling?
I was delivering a Financial Planning workshop yesterday for Nottinghamshire Business Venture in conjunction with the Business Link New Start Up Service. www.nbv.co.uk and www.businesslink.co.uk
One of the delegates, a wonderful guy whose business idea is teaching team working skills through outward bound courses, unbeknown to me spent much of the workshop thinking about how scary the idea of going into business is, although at the same time he was very excited about the opportunity.
He later came to chat with me and told me that there had been a particular point of my presentation at which he had completely switched from the 'scary' thoughts to how thrilling it was going to be. That point had been when for some reason I broke away from the financial speak and started to talk about the fact that the first few years of struggling to get my business started and trying to get over the hurdles, although difficult and exhuasting, were the best years of my life. I called those years 'character building' years, but that this character building had led me to help other businesses such as the ones right in front of me yesterday.
This all had come to pass because the night before, my web strategist, Kirsty Farelly had uploaded to my website a video of 20 years of television appearances I had made. These included the BBC, ITV, GMTV and a show I had partnered with Marks and Spencers for which was filmed and appeared on The Clothes Show. As I clicked on the 'view' button the memories of all those fantastic years came flooding back. These are video clips that had been retrieved from old tapes 20 years or so ago (your ought to see the varying hairsyles!). I was amazed at how emotional I had become watching the video uploaded to my website.
Well it's a sight for sore eyes, but I hope for any new start businesses it gives you a little hope. All the TV appearances and PR came very easy - it was just a matter of picking up the phone and writing a few letters (they'd be emails today!) and being very, very persistent.
Enjoy the viewing http://www.the-alternative-network.com/.
Ann
One of the delegates, a wonderful guy whose business idea is teaching team working skills through outward bound courses, unbeknown to me spent much of the workshop thinking about how scary the idea of going into business is, although at the same time he was very excited about the opportunity.
He later came to chat with me and told me that there had been a particular point of my presentation at which he had completely switched from the 'scary' thoughts to how thrilling it was going to be. That point had been when for some reason I broke away from the financial speak and started to talk about the fact that the first few years of struggling to get my business started and trying to get over the hurdles, although difficult and exhuasting, were the best years of my life. I called those years 'character building' years, but that this character building had led me to help other businesses such as the ones right in front of me yesterday.
This all had come to pass because the night before, my web strategist, Kirsty Farelly had uploaded to my website a video of 20 years of television appearances I had made. These included the BBC, ITV, GMTV and a show I had partnered with Marks and Spencers for which was filmed and appeared on The Clothes Show. As I clicked on the 'view' button the memories of all those fantastic years came flooding back. These are video clips that had been retrieved from old tapes 20 years or so ago (your ought to see the varying hairsyles!). I was amazed at how emotional I had become watching the video uploaded to my website.
Well it's a sight for sore eyes, but I hope for any new start businesses it gives you a little hope. All the TV appearances and PR came very easy - it was just a matter of picking up the phone and writing a few letters (they'd be emails today!) and being very, very persistent.
Enjoy the viewing http://www.the-alternative-network.com/.
Ann
Monday, June 15, 2009
It's what's behind the problem that's the real problem
There's an old Chinese saying "there's plenty of room at the top but it's very crowded at the bottom".
On a sales and marketing course I was delivering, just at a point where we were discussing our top customers someone asked me to describe my target market. I told her that I choose to coach only people that are truly committed to changing something in their lives. She said, oh are you a bit like a councellor? Do you fix people? I said no, I definitely don't fix people. She said, ok so do you advise people? I said no, I don't advise people. She said do you train people? I said yes I do deliver training courses and give people access to information for them to improve their knowledge, but when I'm coaching people it's really a matter of helping them to access answers that are already within them.
Having said that, at the appropriate times, I do spend approx 20% of my coaching consultations explaining some models that they might find very useful such as how 'changing someone's environment won't always solve the problem, but helping them discover their top values might.
Take for example, someone who is finding it difficult to manage their team. They could try moving to another company, but sooner or later the old problems are likely to crop up again. By understanding what's important to the manager about managing their team such as respect, recognition, rewards you have the motivation behind finding solutions.
Running away from problems doesn't help. But finding the motivation behind solving the problems is key to success.
So what problems are you trying to ignore at the moment? Not enough customers? Not enough income? Working too hard for too little? Well that isn't the problem. There are plenty of customers out there and plenty of money.
What is the cause behind you not finding the right ones?
Speak again tomorrow.
Ann
On a sales and marketing course I was delivering, just at a point where we were discussing our top customers someone asked me to describe my target market. I told her that I choose to coach only people that are truly committed to changing something in their lives. She said, oh are you a bit like a councellor? Do you fix people? I said no, I definitely don't fix people. She said, ok so do you advise people? I said no, I don't advise people. She said do you train people? I said yes I do deliver training courses and give people access to information for them to improve their knowledge, but when I'm coaching people it's really a matter of helping them to access answers that are already within them.
Having said that, at the appropriate times, I do spend approx 20% of my coaching consultations explaining some models that they might find very useful such as how 'changing someone's environment won't always solve the problem, but helping them discover their top values might.
Take for example, someone who is finding it difficult to manage their team. They could try moving to another company, but sooner or later the old problems are likely to crop up again. By understanding what's important to the manager about managing their team such as respect, recognition, rewards you have the motivation behind finding solutions.
Running away from problems doesn't help. But finding the motivation behind solving the problems is key to success.
So what problems are you trying to ignore at the moment? Not enough customers? Not enough income? Working too hard for too little? Well that isn't the problem. There are plenty of customers out there and plenty of money.
What is the cause behind you not finding the right ones?
Speak again tomorrow.
Ann
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Copywriter Please
Hi there
I'm looking for a copywriter to speak at my Alternative Network Event on 17 September in Nottingham. Do you know anyone who:
I'm looking for a copywriter to speak at my Alternative Network Event on 17 September in Nottingham. Do you know anyone who:
- Is very experienced and has plenty of examples to share - copywrite for websites, blogs, articles etc?
- Is an engaging speaker?
- Is local to Nottingham and will value the opportunity to speak to a group of 30 - 35 business owners and have exposure to several hundred more
Let me know if you do.
Many thanks
Ann
7 Tips for Social Networking
I've recently started spending just an hour or so on a Saturday morning browsing videos on UTube and I am finding this a great way to speed up my learning. I suppose it depends on how you learn best but for me watching short clips and then moving on to the next gives me a good all round perspective on different subjects.
I've just been watching David C Skull on social media networking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-qmF7vgBZ8 so easy to listen to, really nice guy who makes things simple.
Kirsty Farrelly of www.openbookagency is currently giving me one to one lessons too - I've found it really helps to actually put things into action as you are learning.
Let me know who or what you've been watching to learn.
Speak soon
Ann
I've just been watching David C Skull on social media networking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-qmF7vgBZ8 so easy to listen to, really nice guy who makes things simple.
Kirsty Farrelly of www.openbookagency is currently giving me one to one lessons too - I've found it really helps to actually put things into action as you are learning.
Let me know who or what you've been watching to learn.
Speak soon
Ann
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