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We
are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act,
but a habit. ~Aristotle
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| What's Your English Channel? |
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by Bonni Carson DiMatteo, © 2006
Breaking Self-Imposed Barriers:
If you want to see a great example of the power of
individual and team goals and their ability to
transform people to their next level, don’t miss the
film, “On a Clear Day.” Set in Scotland, it focuses on
shipyard worker Frank Redmond, played by Peter
Mullan, who is laid off. Unable to define his new
identity as the “unemployed” or, as the British
say, “redundant,” Redmond drifts along with pockets
of rage and anxiety until he decides to set an almost
impossible goal at the age of fifty something --
swimming the English Channel. Not only is the feat
improbable physically, but, to compound the drama,
his youngest son drowned in the Channel many years
before as Redmond tried to save him.
The remainder of the film focuses on Redmond's
determination, discipline, and passion to defeat his
demons and transform his identity from redundant to
resilient. The victory is not his alone. His entire team
of friends and family find themselves transforming by
osmosis as well. Suddenly, one will not tolerate being
treated poorly by a vendor, another asserts himself
with a new flirtation, and Redmond's surviving son
breaks the wall of ice that has emerged between
them.
It is a great study in stretching yourself, not
tolerating mediocrity or redundancy, and continually
striving to be more than you were yesterday. It is
also the power of a team that can gather around a
focused goal and together become greater than the
sum of its parts.
Ask yourself these questions:
- When was the last time you reinvented
yourself or your business?
- When was the last time you created a BHAG (Big
Hairy Audacious Goal) stretch goal?
- When was the last time you channeled a
passionate collective focus that not only stretched
your business to exceed expectations but also
stretched the team members to exceed their
individual expectations?
- When was the last time you challenged the
assumptions that held you or your company back by
maintaining the status quo?
- When was the last time you translated your goals
into daily disciplined habits and actions and sustained
the momentum?
Whatever your English Channel is, you need to:
- Identify a stretch goal.
- Challenge the assumptions, attitude and actions
that hold you back.
- Commit yourself to a disciplined action to give
yourself the ability to achieve.
- Make the goal SMART--
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Results oriented
- Time bound
- Gather a team to help achieve the goal.
- Motivate them to stretch themselves.
- Celebrate success.
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Tip #88: Craft a shared vision that is
corporate, departmental, and personal. Include a call for
action, and articulate each person’s, team’s, and department’s
roles and goals in achieving the plan.
This tip is from our booklet, 104 Tips on How to Ignite
and Optimize Your Business and its Leaders by Bonni
Carson DiMatteo. Filled with great tips on Leadership, Managing
Others, Communication Skills, Strategic Planning, and Creating
and Igniting Change, 104 Tips makes a great gift
for vendors and customers alike. You can even have it customized
with your logo and business name on the cover.
for details and a price list. Fifty percent (50%) of
all profits will go to help the survivors of Katrina.
View Bonni's article, "Does Your Company Have the
N.O.M.A.R Syndrome?", which appeared in Executive
Excellence in Sales and Service in December 2004. The
article (yes, it was written before the World Series championship!)
challenges leaders to look at themselves and their executive
team, and ask the tough questions like Theo Epstein might
have to ask to select and groom a winning team. Read
the N.O.M.A.R. article (pdf format).
View Bonni's article on Quiet
Leadership, which recently appeared in IndUS Business
Journal.
Don't miss our next Biz Builder series, beginning
May 2 in Wellesley. Register at www.atlanticconsultants.com/register.htm.
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| Biz Builder Workshop: Developing and Retaining Clients |
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Do you find yourself without a strategy or action plan
to keep your business pipeline flowing? This
eight-week workshop will get you back on track.
Who: For Professional Service
Providers or Consultants: Lawyers, financial planners,
management consultants, coaches, etc.
What: An eight-week Business
Development Program to expand and strengthen your
business
When:
Meets every other week for eight weeks
Mondays: 8:30AM-10AM
Tuesdays: 8:30AM-10AM
Tuesdays: 5:30PM-7PM
Fridays: 5:30PM-7PM
New Groups begin every other month
Next group begins Tuesday, May 2, 8:30AM-10AM.
Where: Wellesley, MA
Facilitator: Bonni Carson DiMatteo,
CMC. President of Atlantic Consultants. Bonni
co-founded Atlantic Consultants in 1982 and provides
coaching, training, and consultation to entrepreneurs
and their companies.
Fee: $395
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| Next Level Leadership Program |
"Executives are focusing on how to build a flexible
and responsive organization to more quickly detect
and respond to market opportunities," according to
Forbes editor John Dobosz and GartnerG2 Research
Director Neil McDonald (April 2004).
What are you doing to build your leadership
competencies?
- Are you looking for a cost effective solution to
developing management and leadership competencies?
- Do you want something that has an impact and
extends the learning into the culture of the company
and the expectations of management?
- Do you want something that is deeper than a
weekend quick fix, that sustains and implements the
learning?
- Do you want a guarantee that is based upon an
agreed measure of success that you establish?
- Do you know that to replace a key employee is
estimated to be 1% to 2.5% of company revenue or
between $10K and $100K per employee depending on
level? (source: ASTD)
- Do you know that the TRS (Total Return to
Shareholders) on training that increases
development, communication, and morale is up to
200%? (source: SHRIM)
- Do you know that research indicates that there is
an average of 5.7 ROI for coaching key employees?
(source: Manchester Group)
- Do you want to retain top talent and groom them
for the next level?
Then you want the Next Level Leadership Program.
This cutting edge program combines:
- Leadership/management training (3 workshops)
- Assessment of core competencies
- 360 assessment telling people how others see
them
- Assessment of personality style and its impact on
communication (DISC)
- Goal setting
- Individual coaching to develop and enhance
competencies, meet goals
- Group coaching to extend learning and build the
team
- 6-month, 8-month, and 12-month programs bring
your leadership to the next level
And all for less than it would cost you to send a
manager to an offsite three-day leadership program.
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Announcement:
Bonni Carson DiMatteo has joined the Board of Directors
of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Massachusetts. To
learn more about this fabulous organization and its good
works, click
www.bbbscm.org.
Save
this date - May 23, 2006! Please be a guest at our table
for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Big Magic Breakfast
at the Westboro Wyndham Hotel (8AM-9AM). Contact Bonni at
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Atlantic Consultants, Inc., was founded in 1982 to
help leaders and their companies achieve extraordinary results.
The Atlantic Consultants team can help solve challenges of
leadership development, organizational development, and strategic
and succession planning.
Services
Management
Training
Leadership Training
Individual Coaching
Management Skills Workshop
Leadership Assessment
360
DISC
LPI
Myers Briggs
Business Consulting
Business Analysis
Organizational Effectiveness
Change Management
Family Business
Strategic Planning
Succession Planning
Coaching
Leadership Development
Partnership
Family Business
Ownership Team
Managers
360
Team Building
Leadership Teams
Management Teams
Family Business Teams
Partnership Teams
Cross-Functional Teams
Work Flow Teams
Change Management Teams
Speaking/Facilitation
Engagements by
Bonni Carson DiMatteo
Upcoming
Events
May 12, 2006 - "Executive Coaching," Human Resource
Roundtable Series
May 2, 2006 - "Biz Builder Workshop," Wellesley
April 11, 2006 - "Building Leadership," Mass
Restaurant Association Trade Show
March 9, 2006 - "How to Be a Successful Consultant,"
Institute of Management Consultants
February 27, 2006 - "Growing Your Business,"
Society of Professional Consultants, Biz Builder
January 24, 2006 - "Street Smart Training,"
Biz Builder
Previous Engagements
"Attracting and Retaining Clients"
Society of Professional Consultants, December 2005
"Attracting and Retaining Clients"
Mass Psychological Association, Business and Psychology annual
conference, October 2005
"Understanding Challenges of Disorganization; Inattention
and Classic Signs of ADD"
Bose Corporation, September 21, 2005
"How To Build Your Leadership Bench Strength"
TEC, June 21, 2005
"How To Grow Your Consulting Businesses"
Massachusetts Psychological Association, March 12, 2005
"Best Practices in OD Work with Financial Institutions"
Organizational Learning Group, February 5, 2005
"Attracting and Retaining Valuable Customers"
NEWBO, July 14, 2004
"Creating and Managing Change"
New England Human Resource
Association Conference
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
May 27, 2004
"What's a Nice Woman Like You Doing in a Place Like
This?"
A Roundtable Discussion
Women's Association of Automobile International
April 26, 2004
"Igniting and Leading Change"
Mass Women in Technology (Mass WIT) Leadership Conference
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
March 16, 2004
"What's a Nice Woman Like You Doing in a Place Like
This?"
A Roundtable Discussion
National Automobile Dealer's Association (NADA) National Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
January 30, 2004
Quoted
in the News
Worcester
Business Journal, March 22, 2006
http://www.wbjournal.com/ archives/2006/current/ happy_workers.html
Articles
by
Bonni Carson DiMatteo
"Employee
Buy-in Turns Company Vision into Reality"
Worcester Business Journal
March 29, 2006
"The Quiet Leader: Legacy of Rosa Parks"
IndUS Business Journal
December 1, 2005
"From Entrepreneur to Corner Office"
Street Smart
October 2005
"Big Ideas, Short Attention Span?"
Street Smart
September 2005
Interviewed for "Investing in One's Own Business"
INSIGHT, the magazine of the Illinois CPA Society
April 2005
"Lessons From the Soup Kitchen"
IndUS Business Journal
February 2005
"Lessons in Communication from the Tsunami"
Women Entrepreneurs in Science and technology, Inc. (WEST)
February 2005
"10 Reasons Why You Should Have a Coach"
Contact
February 2005
"Does Your Company Have the N.O.M.A.R. Syndrome?"
Executive Excellence in Sales and Service
December 2004
World Women In Technology
"Igniting and Leading Change"
Thinking Out Loud
March 2004
"Creating and Communicating Your Vision"
Women's New England Business Association
January 2004
Tips
for Effective One-to-One Communication
FLAIRS(TM)
Focus
on the speaker
Listen actively
Acknowledge perspective
Inquire
Respond
Strategize solutions
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