What is covered in The Art of Deliberate Success?


What's covered?

The workshop is designed to give you a framework and specific tools and techniques to help you focus on the 10 key aspects of living a successful professional and personal life.  We explore:

 

  1. Decide: What’s Important

    • What are your underlying values?
    • What is truly important to you?
    • What is not important to you?
    • Challenging assumptions and expanding perceptions
    • Setting professional and personal milestones and targets

       

  2. Eliminate: Focussing on the Important

    • De-cluttering your life
    • Reviewing and auditing your “stuff”
    • Reviewing your network of associates and work colleagues
    • Reducing complexity

       

  3. Language: Your Internal Soundtrack

    • Developing and listening to your inner voice
    • Using Deliberate language
    • Creating and delivering positive messaging for yourself and others
    • Holding effective management conversations

       

  4. Information: Managing Inward and Outward Flows

    • Identifying your unique way of handling and managing information
    • Knowing when to use which information tools
    • Creating strategies to avoid information overload

       

  5. Beliefs: Guiding Your Behaviour

    • Recognising your unique beliefs
    • Understanding how beliefs influence behaviour
    • Getting alignment between different sets of beliefs

       

  6. Energy: Synchronising your Body and Mind

    • Recognising your unique energy cycle
    • Planning to manage your energy levels
    • Techniques of energy management

       

  7. Responsibility: Accepting and Taking Ownership

    • Harnessing the power of choice
    • Cultivating ways of saying “no”
    • Putting personal responsibility to practice

       

  8. Action: Getting Work Done

    • Staying focussed on the immediate task
    • Overcoming procrastination of yours and others
    • Weighing the pros and cons of multi-tasking

       

  9. Time: Setting and Executing Priorities

    • Identifying your priorities and your team’s
    • Common time-traps and time-wasters to look out for
    • “Chunking” your time
    • Being flexible while staying on-track

       

  10. Evaluating: Managing your Overall Performance

    • Measuring and tracking what is truly important
    • Putting a system in place to track your performance and your team’s
    • Learning from, and celebrating, the past

       

The workshop will teach you a unique way to integrate these ideas so that your professional and personal life is balanced and fulfilling.

 

How Deliberate are you?

You can easily measure how DELIBERATE you are by taking our DQ Quiz of 100 simple questions.  Based on your answers to the quiz, we calculate your DQ Score (like an IQ or EQ) which shows you your strengths and weaknesses and where you efforts should be directed.  Workshop participants have free access to our on-line DQ Quiz and Dashboard from the Resources section of this website.

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Understand and practically apply a framework and integrated range of tools and techniques adopted by successful people
  • Link your personal goals and aspirations with those of your organisation
  • Identify your own unique method of work so you and those around you can be more productive
  • Dramatically reduce unwanted stress in your life
  • Gain greater alignment between what is important to you and what you actually spend your time doing
  • Become a master of managing your time
  • Become a more decisive decision maker
  • Identify your priorities and therefore improve you delegation skills
  • More effectively interact with your support staff (for example, PA’s)
  • If attending with colleagues, you develop a common understanding and greatly enhance how you work together
  • Achieve a better work/life balance for you and your family.