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Act on your passions

Act on your passions

by | Aug 2, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat, Rejig Focus To Take Inspiring Action

Act on your Passions

I don’t entirely agree with the expression ‘do what you love, and the money will follow.’ You might love what you do, and eventually the day may come where you are financially rewarded for it, but what will you live off in the meantime? Passion does not pay the bills.  We need to make a plan!

When you discover your passion, something you would really love to commit to full time, you must start developing your long-term plan and taking action on it TODAY. As much as we would all love to quit our job and jump into our new venture feet first, it is just not viable or practical for most people and for those that can – awesome and congratulations.  But that is not the norm. 

But dreaming is not enough, visualising is not enough .. we need to take ACTION to gain that experience and feeling you imagine from doing what you are passionate about. 

The good news is with the right mindset, quality questions and a plan, there is a way to succeed.

Where do I begin?

An exercise to identify your passions and establishing which of those could be used to create an income.

Step 1: Ask yourself the following questions.

  1. What are your strengths?
  2. What are you passionate about?
  3. Can you align your strengths with your passions?
  4. Where these passions and strengths align, would you be able to use them as a source of income?
  5. Is that source of income a service to others; will it benefit others or the world we live in?
  6. How will you generate revenue by doing this, what would be your differentiator?
  7. Can you anticipate the hurdles you will encounter along the way?
  8. How will you overcome these hurdles?
  9. What are your 5 short-term and long-term goals?
  10. What are your top priorities to focus on to begin achieving your short-term goals?
  11. What would you need to do more of, less of for short and long term plan? (including less of or more of which humans in your life) 
  12.  What will motivate you to continue reaching your goals, even when you encounter difficulties?
  13. Write a story about how you will experience or feel when you have realised a sustainable income from following your passion(s).  Who is the first person you would tell, how would you describe the journey to them? 

Step 2: Start Saving

Think about your finances. Eventually you will have the stability to commit full time, but during the initial stages, it is unlikely that you will have that luxury. It takes the average business 2-3 years to start making a profit. Begin to prepare your ‘back-up’ finances and start saving for start up costs. Cut out unnecessary spend now. 

Step 3: Start Networking

Start forming connections to expand your network. The accessibility of social media makes it easy to reach out to similar individuals for inspiration, support, and information. Having a supporting network before you begin your venture will be a great asset to your long-term success.  Limit yourself to research, dont get lost in what everyone else is doing, gain enough insights then get off the ‘research’ merry go round and apply your plan. 

Step 4: Get guidance from a professional

Run your ideas past a mentor.  Their role is to assess your circumstances and support and guide you towards a successful path, applying their experiences in a positive and inspiring way.  You have what it takes within you, this is your dream, your passion.  A good mentor helps you improve your intuition and where you trip up inspire to keep going. They might point out obstacles you have not seen, or mitigations to risks you had not foreseen, or even shift your focus to another way to create an income from your skills and passion. If you still don’t have any ideas after asking yourself all the above questions, a mentor is a good place to begin.

Step 5: Don’t wait around

Studies have found that the longer your dreams spend in the ‘one day pile’, the less likely you will ever achieve them. Make a plan and start to take action today and every day from now forward.  Even if it is only 15 min a day .. it is a step to your future. 

Your old career or pathway is always going to remain in the background, but the chance to make a change to achieve your dreams will not. It does take time, energy, persistence and motivation but it is possible and worth it.  It is time to put the excuses aside and start making a change – you deserve it.

Love Life, Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Want to Learn More?

I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

To learn more follow me through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FerneElizKing888

Alternatively, you can contact me for a 1:1 coaching session.

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Book a Call

About Ferne

My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

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Organisational Transformation Success Stories

Organisational Transformation Success Stories

by | Jul 6, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Organisational Transformation Success Stories

Organisational transformation involves examining the future and the now of your entire business.  The advice I’d like to pass on is agree up front who your primary stakeholders will be, will you use and advisory team, agree what you will NOT do, agree a list of quality questions you wish to ask of yourselves, articulate in a story telling manner what your future looks and feels like.   Do not jump to ‘how’ you will transform.   By agreeing and signing off what you will not do and what quality questions you wish to ask will save significant time – I guarantee it ! It will also inspire those involved in designing the opportunities.

Here are a few of the don’ts I would put on a list and then below a few transformation stories.  If you wish to uncover some quality questions to ask of yourself – message me.   And these same guidelines work in your personal life as well as business !

Ferne’s list of DO NOT’s …  

  1. …start in the now; start with the future in mind and work backwards
  2. …build from bottom up; if you start with pixels you will end up with pixels
  3. …commence on a journey without a story to tell; you may not know the destination but the value proposition and the experience and feeling people will realise, customer and employee, is critical to articulate
  4. ...build an organisational design that cannot flex a % of its workforce and operating model to strategic priorities
  5. …start an organisational design change without agreeing a method; you do not need to reinvent the wheel, you will not be as unique as you think you are.
  6. …let change management be your achilleas heal !  Design the strategy, assess against your current values and culture, understand what are the big ticket items that need to change, execute change activities and as you develop your delivery roadmap map your projects or programs to one or more big ticket change themes.  Do not drive change at individual project or initiative level, drive it at the program or portfolio level and let the change needs dictate your priorities and scope.
  7. …don’t let others influence your culture to say agile and change are like water and oil!

Organisational changes can occur on a range of different scales from hiring new or training existing people to acquiring a bulk new customer set, to modifying processes, to shifting the way teams operate alongside one another, to large scale initiatives that involve changing the entire direction of the company.  But what to do first, second, in parallel, what is critical vs important.  That is the art of transformation vs the skill of it.  Alignment of your executive team is critical.

Although organisational transformation is driven by management, the employees are heavily involved in the design, it is critical to keep them engaged and informed and embrace the vision of the transformation and commit to the journey.  Organisational change is essential for business longevity. It enables your company to remain competitive, evolve with the times and survive.

Look up the % of businesses who DO NOT survive post year 10.  Look at the primary reasons why.

Below are some examples of companies who successfully implemented an organisational transformation, and will continue to evolve and test themselves.

Google

In 2015 the co-founder of Google, Larry Page made the decision to transform the entirety of the Google enterprise by launching a new company called Alphabet.

At the time Google was operating well, but Page believed that “in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.” In fact, Google had become so large and diverse that it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage. In order to avoid future difficulties, Page made the decision to break down the entire company and branch each area into its own company under the parent company Alphabet (Google being the largest of those companies).

Page is now the CEO of Alphabet with Google co-founder Sergey Brin as president. Each company under Alphabet has its own CEO and goals unique to its vision. Other than Google, some of the companies under Alphabets umbrella focus on areas such as high speed technology solutions, healthcare and disease prevention research, investment options for start-ups, self-driving cars, global internet access, drone delivery services, self-driving cars, solar and turbine energy to name a few.

In page’s announcement of the new company launch he states “Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren’t very related. Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence.”

Microsoft

While Google deconstructed and branched out, Microsoft banded together. With the rising success of Google and Apple, Microsoft was struggling to stay relevant. Additionally, Microsoft was experiencing a toxic culture. Partnering teams were operating as rivals, and there was an overall low morale throughout the corporation. Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014 and immediately began the transformation of Microsoft. In his own words he stated that “Innovation was being replaced by bureaucracy. Teamwork was being replaced by internal politics. We were falling behind… When I was named Microsoft’s third CEO in February 2014, I told employees that renewing our company’s culture would be my highest priority.”

He began by setting a handful of shared goals throughout all divisions of Microsoft to bring the company back to together to focus on a shared vision. 2 years later he combined all artificial intelligence sectors together to create a team of roughly 5000 engineers and computer scientists. This team had a shared mission to focus on innovation across Microsoft product lines.

Under Nadella’s guidance Microsoft acquired technology such as GitHub, LinkedIn and Azure and transformed the company from product to service base. Microsoft’s market value has increased from US300 million to US1 trillion. Nadella’s initiatives provide employees with a shared vision that created productive collaboration used to develop innovative technology to reconstruct Microsoft.

 

As depicted in the above examples, the needs of each business are diverse and thus each organisational transformation program are very unique. The first step for you is to establish where you wish to be in the future via what unique value proposition, where are you today in relation to that vision including values, experiences and feelings for customers and employees.  Agree your stakeholders and if necessary and advisory team, agree the dont’s.   Then ask yourself a range of quality questions that will inspire and innovate as to what changes do I need to make to get there?

Love Life  Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Want to learn more?

I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

To learn more follow me through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FerneElizKing888

Alternatively, you can contact me for a 1:1 coaching session.

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Book a Call

About Ferne

My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

Rejig Focus To Take Inspiring Action

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Health Scare

Health Scare

by | Jun 22, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat, Health & A Clean Green Home

‘Can you please come in to discuss your results?’

I can’t describe my entire thought process when I heard these words. This was a phone call I received from my Doctor in early 2019. I was 54 years old; I have a daughter who was only 5 at the time. I have never in my life had to go in to discuss results in person. I knew this was going to be bad news! I booked an appointment ASAP but still had to wait 2 days and 2 sleepless nights to get the results. 

I spent those two days operating on autopilot. I somehow got my daughter to school each day, I sat through work meetings and I think even contributed in them, I got dinner on the table each night all the while I obsessively going through all the possible scenarios in my head. The rational side of me was telling myself not to stress, wait until I know for sure before I worry, after all I have had symptoms for years and I am still alive and well- but in this situation all logic and rational goes out the window. My darkest thoughts- which would creep into my head at night was thinking about how life will be for my daughter without me, I had her at 49 my plan was not to leave her at 54. 

Rewind a few years further. I have had discomfort in my stomach for years, a history of glandular fever, rose river fever, irritable bowel syndrome and a leaky gut. Initially I was put on antibiotics, after some time I switched doctors. Everything started to improve then the unexplained weight gain hit. Nothing worked. When I got 15kg above my comfortable weight I decided to talk to my doctor who assured me it was because of ‘my age’.  I began to research stomach reduction surgery as it seemed like my only course of action. I insisted on getting a referral to a gut specialist. The specialist had to run some routine tests to determine whether I would be eligible for the surgery. 

And that is when I got my phone call. The phone call that turned my life around. In the course of testing for a ‘cosmetic surgery’ is when the specialist found Adenomatous polyps.  If left, these growths have a high chance of turning to cancer of the stomach and intestines. He wanted them removed within days. As relieved as I was that it was not as bad as I had feared, I knew this was serious. 

After my surgery I had a discussion with the specialist to understand what I needed to change to reduce these polyps forming again. He told me it is not about making drastic diet changes, I don’t have to completely cut out alcohol, or become a strict vegan, or quit sugar, or eat completely organic, but I do need to consider the quality of the product I choose to put in our bodies his advise was research sugar, additives put into meat products (he advised only purchase meat from a reputable butcher); research where I buy my fruit and vegetables from and quality of the water I drank and lastly, review the chemicals I used in my home.  His advice was amend those things and a long life you may have. 

Research I did – in abundance! 

During my recovery, while I was most motivated to make some lasting changes, I spent so much time researching .  There was one phrase that kept popping up: ‘Alkaline Water.’ I discovered that largely due to the foods and drinks we consume our bodies are becoming too acidic (low pH). A lot of serious illness can be attributed to having low pH levels in our bodies, and it is important for our health to keep our pH balanced. Alkaline (high pH) water can help stabilise our pH levels by counterbalancing the acidity in our diet. Ok I thought, I am going to give this a go!

Overwhelmed was an understatement when I decided to purchase an alkaline machine. There were so many products out there and such a huge difference in price. I read a lot of articles from sceptics, but I was in a desperate position and I didn’t see any articles saying it would hurt you. I noticed a lot of companies were putting information out there to discredit their competitors, they sounded like our politicians, saying more about what the other party was not doing and less about what they would do. Honestly, had I not been on bedrest I would have put it into the ‘one day’ pile.  I decided with confidence on the machine that produced variant ph levels of water from tap water. 

I started drinking my alkaline water. I’m sure each person is different, but for me I felt the changes straight away. To name a few I had more energy, I found it easier to consume than regular tap water and I didn’t get the bloated feeling afterward. The machine I purchased produced water with different levels of pH and after about a year of putting it into the ‘to do’ pile I finally got around to experimenting with the other settings. I wish I had done it sooner! I have not bought a single cleaning product since I started using the high acidic water for cleaning (it is a natural but powerful disinfectant that is stronger than bleach and used for sterilisation in some Japanese hospitals), another setting cleans meat, fruits and vegetables prior to preparing them (I have been amazed by what washes off them when washed in the right pH water), and I have even began experimenting in making my own beauty products and elixirs with amazing results that is saving me hundreds of dollars, let alone great results. So, in addition to creating a healthier version of myself, I have made my home free from toxins and chemicals, I’m saving money on beauty and cleaning products and saving storage space throughout my house.

I have made several changes since my health scare, I’ve become an advocate for natural oils, I use doTerra and am in love with their products and their ethos of giving back, but the use of the adjusted water has had a massive  impact on the health of myself and my family- my 86 year old, very set in her ways, mother has even been converted.

My advice to anyone who is looking into improving their health with alkaline water, essential oils or any other product: as overwhelming as it is, please please do your research. Not all products are made equally, expensive does not always mean quality and cheap does not always mean inferior. I would much prefer to see people make the change than be disheartened by all the information out there so I, of course am happy to share my research and personal experiences to anyone for free, no catches, that is passionate about improving their health and wellbeing. If you are one of those people feel free to get in contact with me at [email protected] 

Love Life ❤️ Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King 

Want to learn more?

I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

To learn more follow me through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FerneElizKing888

Alternatively, you can contact me for a 1:1 coaching session.

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Book a Call

About Ferne

My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

Rejig Focus To Take Inspiring Action

Health & A Clean Green Home

Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Create the Tiny Life You Crave

Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

by | Jun 22, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

We all wish for wealth. We want to be able to pay off a home without feeling the financial pressure, we wish to be able to live the life that will fulfill us and those we care for and the world around us. We want to be able to splurge occasionally without feeling guilt. We want to stop living in scarcity mode! But… If you are honest with yourself, you have probably caught yourself thinking about having so much more. You don’t dare to dream it for risk of being avaricious, but it pops into your mind from time to time. There is a stigma around wealth and how people perceive it. I am challenging you today to shift that mindset if you have it.  It does not serve you.  There is NOTHING WRONG with dreaming big, in fact, I believe it is critical for success.

How much would you like to earn to live abundantly?
What would the experience be, how would you live, what impacts would you make, what legacy would you leave .. so many questions.

Shifting your Money mindset
Your money mindset is how you approach and make decisions about your finances. Your overall mindset towards money can have a big impact of your success so the first thing we need to do is address is any stigma you have around money. What is your earliest memory of money? Was it positive? The answer is almost always no, whether it be overhearing your parents worry about the bills, being deprived of something you really wanted because of money such as a school camp, a trip to the movies, or a toy that everyone else seemed to have, or overhearing trusted adults speak negatively about other people’s wealth. What we heard influences us.  How many heard “money does not grow on trees you know”? While it is very healthy to be exposed to the concept of money and budgeting from an early age, it may also put you in scarcity mode, it may stop you from putting yourself out there for fear of how others may perceive your success.

A big part of this journey is to be comfortable in yourself and remember that ‘those that mind don’t matter, and those that matter don’t mind.’

Surround yourself with people that will celebrate your success and be proud of you.

Take a moment to consider these questions.

  1. What is the worst thing that could happen if you succeeded in earning all the wealth you could imagine?
  2. What is the worst thing someone would say about you? Does that person really matter?
  3. What is the best thing that could happen with your abundance of wealth? How could you use that wealth for good?
  4. What are the best things that people would say about you?

Do your answers to 3 & 4 outweigh the answers to 1 & 2? If so, congratulations, you are on track to shifting your mindset. I often say in my bloggs… the experience you imagine when realising your goals needs to outweigh your fears.  If your fears outweigh the experience of the gaol you will fail to achieve what it is you dream for.   Either up the anti on the experience of the goal, or decrease your fear – balance the scales in your favour. 

Creating a positive relationship with money

  • Be positive, and use positive language (and believe it)
  • Be thankful when money comes to you, in your wage, in a gift, if you find 2$, be thank ful and say it out loud, say it to yourself, believe it
  • Don’t focus on your problems, focus on your solutions (focus on the things you can control)
  • Break bad habits by keeping your goals in mind (e.g. go from spending less on take away food to have more money for bills, to spending less of take away to have more savings to purchase something that will help you achieve your goals).
  • Know where you are right now in your financial situation, be real about your starting point
  • Think of 6 month, 12 month and 5 year financial goals
  • Write your goals down and keep them where you can see them everyday
  • dont be afraid to ask for help if needed, but I find that 90% of people have it within them to make this shift, others do not alter your mindset, you do

It is okay to dream, it is okay to set your aspirations high, it is okay to want more. Greed is the root of all evil, but money is not!

 

Ferne Eliz King

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Want to learn more?

I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

To learn more follow me through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FerneElizKing888

Alternatively, you can contact me for a 1:1 coaching session.

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Book a Call

About Ferne

My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

Rejig Focus To Take Inspiring Action

Health & A Clean Green Home

Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Create the Tiny Life You Crave

Establishing a trusting relationship with employees

Establishing a trusting relationship with employees

by | Jun 22, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Establishing a trusting relationship with employees.

‘Once bitten, twice shy’, the reason few will have complete trust in your management at the onset of their employment. Sadly, most people have encountered a negative experience with a manager or supervisor at some point in their career, so as a manager, do not assume trust, it is your job to gain the trust of each of your employees. We know about the amazing things that happen when employees trust their superiors. It creates a culture of satisfied and motivated employees which is important for productivity and revenue. Personally, I don’t believe trust is hard to earn if you work with integrity and compassion, and you will find the more trustworthy you are, the more you will in turn, trust your employees.

Regardless of your current situation with employees there are a range of strategies you can implement to your management strategies to gain, regain or renew a trusting relationship with your employees.

Characteristics of a trustworthy manager

  • Know your values, know the values of the individuals in your team, know the values of your company – articulate them, demonstrate them, celebrate them
  • Honest: Even when it involves delivering sensitive or difficult information. Be compassionate, but aware that in business, people want the truth even if it hurts. Stand in the shoes of the receiver.  NEVER DELIVER BAD NEWS ON A FRIDAY, in fact never deliver any news on a Friday. 
  • Integrity: Simply do what you say you will do.
  • Respectful: This involves some self-awareness as many people may not even realise that they are not demonstrating respect to others. Simple gestures such as stopping a task to provide your undivided attention to someone, making eye contact, acknowledging people as you pass them.  When there is a conversation in play – give it your all.
  • Approachable: If you aren’t liked, you aren’t trusted.
  • Compassionate: Always remember your employee’s are human beings with feelings, opinions, aspirations and, personal lives. Treat them in a way that you would expect a loved one of yours to be treated by their managers.
  • Supportive: Even during the difficult times or when mistakes have been made

Actions of a trustworthy manager

  • Be a person when you introduce yourself. Use your name, not your position
  • Acknowledge mistakes and failure happens (even by you): Create a secure environment in which employees are comfortable owning up to their mistakes to ensure they are rectified as a team promptly. Learning together and sharing failures will help your design thinking and innovative approaches to problem solving. 
  • Show respectful interest in your employees lives. Personal lives can affect work performance. During difficult times employees are more likely to open up to managers that have shown a genuine interest getting to know them. The compassion you have during the difficult times will not easily be forgotten in the good times.
  • Ask more than tell: What is the most effective way to build trust? Ask, Ask Ask! Simply asking your employees as individuals what would build their trust, how they prefer you to give recognition or feedback. It is a lot more effective than guessing.
  • Listen: We typically do not hear 60% of what has been said, listening, hearing and understanding are important skills to learn in management. Be quiet and allow time for the speaker to talk. Paraphrase what you have heard back to check understanding.
  • Model the behaviour you expect: There is no quicker way to lose the respect and trust of an employee than adopting the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ attitude.
  • No unpleasant surprises: No one likes to be surprised with a performance review, bad news, redundancy, or anything of that nature. Transparency and communication are crucial for building trust.
  • Praise your employees often. This small but incredible gesture is often forgotten, meaning most employees are only hearing from you if there is a concern. Being praised releases dopamine and oxytocin. Organisations with a culture of praise are 20% more productive and profitable.
  • Confidence: Treat them as though you trust them. Trust is a two-way street, if you want your employees to trust you, you must be willing to do the same for them. Give them the freedom to complete tasks without micromanaging them and allow them to develop their own ways to achieve.
  • Confidentiality: This is basic management, but especially important. Be mindful of what you say about one employee’s performance or personal circumstances to another. Office gossip spreads like wildfire, and one slip of the tongue could lose the trust you have built up within minutes.
  • Be silent: Give you employees the chance to think, problem solve and contribute their ideas. If you have all the answers, no one will grow.

Trust can be earnt be establishing a relationship and demonstrating strong communication and respect. Trust goes both ways; the more trustworthy you are, the more trustworthy your employees will be. The smallest of kind gestures, such as buying a round of coffee or shouting a lunch will go a long way.

Love Life  Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Want to learn more?

I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

To learn more follow me through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FerneElizKing888

Alternatively, you can contact me for a 1:1 coaching session.

Love Life Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

Book a Call

About Ferne

My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

Rejig Focus To Take Inspiring Action

Health & A Clean Green Home

Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Create the Tiny Life You Crave

How many people are you helping this month?

How many people are you helping this month?

by | Jun 22, 2022 | Ferne Eliz King Chit Chat

Selling My Services!

What would happen if we begin to measure success by the number of people that we have helped instead of a dollar amount? I know money is important and ‘good feelings’ don’t pay the bills. But I have recently explored this concept and while it may not be for everyone, I thought I would share what I have discovered.

I have always loved what I do and I get a massive kick out of people doing something different tomorrow because of their engagement with me today.  I am finding myself more motivated than when my focus was meeting financial targets.

To state the obvious, by helping X number of clients, I am still going to be generating X amount of revenue, but this mindset shift has helped me with my Achilles’ heel, the one area of my job I have never felt comfortable: Selling My Service!

I know I am not alone. No matter the passion, or how amazing you are at what you do, the reality is: Selling makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, Dean Graziosi explains the secret to selling is to “change what selling means to you. Start thinking “I’m happy to sell them this because I know it can make a positive impact on their life” …I love what I do and the service that I offer. I know I’m making a difference for people, so much that I feel I’m doing a disservice if I don’t get them to take action.”

Let’s refresh the way we look at generating the revenue we need to live.

How will your product or service help your client? What would be the consequence to your client if they did NOT purchase your product or service? Keep reminding yourself of that consequence, you are HELPING your clients improve their quality of life. Your business goal is to offer an amazing product or service that will be of value to your clients.

So instead of thinking and experiencing “doing what you love and watching the money follow”, amend this to “do what you love and see the difference you make to peoples lives” – and be proud of that services and valued for the payment you receive for it.

How many clients do you want to help this month, what is the value of that service to them, be proud!

Ferne Eliz King

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I specialise in prioritising and sequencing initiatives, projects, programs to facilitate businesses to achieve their aspirational future along with easy and clear practices to manage strategic change and tactical change.

I have over 30 years’ experience as a globally renowned consultant and have managed over 2.5 billion in programs of work as well as set up complex portfolio management offices.

My goal is to help individuals and businesses of all sizes achieve their aspirational future with key focuses on:

  • Prioritising and sequencing to achieve goals; essentially doing the right things, at the right time, in the right way
  • Critical thinking for strategic and tactical change
  • Shift in mindset, principles, and practices
  • Attain clarity in your focus, improved prioritisation and decision making
  • Advice for merger and acquisitions – day one readiness and beyond

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My superpower is to ignite change and inspire actions to achieve the imaginable future of individuals and businesses. The first step is facilitating you to unlock your curiosity.

 

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