Restoring Balance
As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so is success in the minds of the beholder. The beholder lives in two worlds, the innate world representing how one receives, processes and acts on information. This is often referred to as the person’s psychological type. The second world represents the beliefs, norms, skills and cultural practices that one acquires and or inherits from the environments in which they are born and live. The mind is always seeking for harmony between these two worlds. Achieving Intentions will work with you to enhance your level of awareness of these two worlds and how to optimize your potential in resolving any conflicts between them so you can realize balance in your life.
Unlocking your Potential
We are all familiar with the statement that “we are all born equal”, however we are well aware that we experience and travel through our life journeys differently with different outcomes. Born equal is not the same as being born the same. We all have different innate characteristics which grow and mature differently among individuals. The growth, maturation and application of our innate characteristics is greatly influenced by the environment in which we are born, raised and live- our inherited or acquired world. At AchievingIntentions we believe that every individual has the capability to alter their life journeys to outcomes that they desire and are passionate about. We will support you to identify, develop and take actions confidently to unlock this potential.
Achieving your goals
Goals can only be achieved when they are clearly defined, plans are developed and acted upon. Goals and action plans have to be SMART (Specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and measurable). Setting goals and developing action plans are necessary but not sufficient for achieving your goals. Passion, motivation and accountability are key ingredients in this process that often get ignored to the detriment of may would be successful individuals. Achieving Intentions will support you to identify and define goals that you are passionate about, plans that are SMART, be motivated and remain accountable to yourself during the whole process.
Improving people skills
Success in life requires that one is not only able to unlock their own potential but also has the ability to unlock the potential of the people around them towards achieving shared goals. These may people in their personal lives or in work environments. As the world has evolved, we have increasingly moved away from the environments that were defined by family members, members with we shared the same cultures, beliefs and practices. We are now having to relate to and live in complex environments that stretch beyond our own comfort zones. A key skill required to succeed in this complex environment is that of being aware of one’s innate, inherited and acquired worlds and that of the people they have to relate to in their personal and work-lives. Developing cultural intelligence has now become necessary and required of each one of us. Achieving Intentions will support you to become more aware of your innate and acquired worlds, assess your intercultural development needs and develop plans for further improvement and build improve on your cultural intelligence.
Leading and managing for success
The concept of Cooperate Personhood is receiving more attention gaining a foothold in how we define companies and corporations. This is more so following key court rulings in the United States that have granted rights to companies that have been traditionally reserved for human beings. This has implications for the complex, multicultural globalized economy that leaders and managers have to deal with requiring new skills and strategies. Underlying this concept is the recognition that corporations and companies represent shareholders, leaders, managers and workers who are people and by being part of the company they do not abdicate their personal and individual rights and responsibilities. Therefore, companies reflect and represent a collective and very complex innate and acquired world. In addition to being able to set goals, develop plans and manage their implementation, today’s leaders and managers need skills to be more aware of and manage their own innate and acquired worlds and those of the different constituencies within the corporations and companies they lead. AchievingIntentions will support leaders to acquire these skills and apply them in their different contexts.
Strengthen Teamwork
Teams are made up of individual who have different innate, acquired and inherited worlds. This makes building successful teams a more complex process requiring skill sets that reflect understanding of these underlying concepts. Apart from teams need to have shared goals, fair rules guiding attribution and distribution of roles and responsibilities in order to be and stay motivated. AchievingIntentions will support you create, manage and optimize teams within your organization.
Transitioning in life and career cycles
From the time one is born to the time they live this world, we experience life differently through the different stages of life. We grow up and seek for independence from parents, those in power and in relationships; we become more aware of ourselves, our needs and expectations change; we move from familiar to unfamiliar environments and cultures. Times when one worked one job for most of their life are now a thing of the past. Individuals are staying in jobs for shorter periods and seeking for jobs and work conditions that allow them more flexibility to cope with their lifestyles. On the other hand, employers are also adopting work arrangements that give them flexibility to hire at terms that give them more control of their relationship with their employees.
With globalization of our economy companies are having to operate from multiple sites often in different geographic and cultural settings requiring staff to not only be competent in their basic skills but in adopting to different cultural settings. Forced or voluntary migration has increased in the recent past creating scenarios where immigrants and host populations from different cultural settings have live together. AchievingIntentions will support you to develop the ability to anticipate, plan and deal with these transitions.
Building A Successful Business.
The globalization of the economy, has challenged businesses to adapt and adopt new practices that are needed to ensure their continued survival, growth, profitability, improved performance of employees, resolve work morale and turnover within the a diverse political, social, cultural and business contexts.