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6.Do not Manage, Coach !

Posted by Jacques C.S. on Saturday, April 25, 2009,

By coaching you will release your own time, improve your staff performance, and enhance their productivity. A coach can delegate more and supervise less and empower staff to reach their full potential.

6.1 Understand the needs and dynamics of your team.
6.2 Understand the needs of the “Coachee” (Team member), what will satisfy and fulfill his/ her needs.
6.3 Understand the needs of the Coach. Focus on results, outcome base.
6.4 Make Coaching one of your most important priorities
6.5 De...
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5. Think Strategically

Posted by Jacques C.S. Blom on Saturday, April 25, 2009,

5.1. Involve the Key people to gather information, planning and implementing.
5.2 Gain Commitment and get agreement that you need a new strategy.
5.3 Work on the correct fact that avoids guesswork. Know when to move on - analysis can lead to paralysis.
5.4 Be open for idea’s and new way’s, encourage creativity
5.5 Test your strategy and set boundaries and communicate the feedback clearly
5.6 Priorities, plan and motive people for change
5.7 Have regular review and monitor your perfo...

4. Be an effective thinker

Posted by Jacques C.S. Blom on Saturday, April 25, 2009,

4.1 Use your logic , Use your logic when looking at facts.
4.2 Think Laterally, explore the issue at hand. Make it your challenge to find new idea`s and selutions and sugestions to problems
4.3 Back and trust your Intuition, it sounds less impressive than logic but are intellectual as any other process.
4.4 Encourage other people to use intuition as well.
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1. Have good communication skills

Posted by Jacques C.S. Blom on Thursday, April 23, 2009,

Know what you want before you communicate.
Use you sensory acuity to detect fine details when you comunicate.
Be flexibile in your comunitcation.
Get co-operation and keep it by rapport - be on the same wavelength or feel when you comunicate.

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About Me

Jacques C.S. Blom

Gordon`S Bay - South Africa

I am an unselfish person that has real interest in other people and strong intuitive understanding of them. Skills: I have spend time in the Unisa Business School (South Africa) to educate myself in Project management (PPM), Senior management development (MDP) and completed my Masters in Business administration (MBA). I developed myself further in Nero Linguistic Programming (NLP). The combination of the above gives me the techniques to understand how the business work and what recipe to action to achieve goals.I am an experienced Traveler in Africa and Europe: I had the opportunity to work on projects in Africa and serviced on many IT and System project steering committees or large corporations. Leadership – I see myself as a leader that brings structure and processes that drive results. I set the boundary and get involved. I am a self-starter and I expect my staff the do the same. I love to call on others to bounce off ideas and new innovations. I like to be part of a team that sharing the work, risk and success.

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