Ultimate Performance Business Coaching

04/12/2019

Some weeks it feels like nothing is going to plan, life throws these weeks at us and they do suck!! Having a clear vision of what our life is about and what we would like to achieve helps us to get back on track even in these tough moments.

28/11/2019

Creating a winning mindset!

20/11/2019

I found this photo of me at the 68km mark of the last 100km event I did. These races are a physical, mental and emotional roller-coaster it brings out the best and the worst in you and every race there are many lessons to learn. Not to dissimilar from being an entrepreneur, running a business, or living a life well lived!!

14/11/2019

Ultramarathon running is not to dissimilar to running a business, there are times when you need the runners on and push as hard as you can to deliver to your client base, we also need to take stock monitor how we are going, look at our numbers, replenish ourselves for the road ahead and check in with our why. At times progress seems so slow that it feels like a crawl, but if we keep going, keep moving forward despite the immediate pain we are experiencing, somehow we get our energy back, the tide turns and we are back on our feet running again.
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13/11/2019

True leadership is expansive. Are you the bottleneck in your business or are you allowing others to thrive?
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30/08/2019

This is going to be a great discussion around building a strong team culture.

Our next Lunch and Learn is just around the corner. Presenting at the next Lunch and Learn event is Rick Storrier from Ultimate Performance Business Coaching

Rick will be presenting on how to motivate your team so they are excited about getting results. In this workshop we will be looking at what the unconscious drivers are behind your teams performance and what you can do about.

Topics of discussion will be:
• how to create a culture of high performers
• maintain high standards that don’t turn into bureaucracy
• how to foster personal and professional relationships
• achieve improved sustainable results in your business

Register your attendance here - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lunch-and-learn-with-ultimate-performance-business-coaching-tickets-67143968417

14/03/2019

S**t is getting real!! On our way to Canberra for the big race tomorrow! 🏃‍♂️

14/03/2019

This weekend I am taking on a massive undertaking, its no secret that I'm a keen runner, running is certainly one area of my life where I like to explore, push the boundaries, see what I am really capable of.

The Canberra 24hr is a running race held on a 400m athletics track at the AIS in Canberra, the race is reserved for those who are just a little bit crazy for those who want to push their minds and body to its limits and beyond.

While I am on my own personal journey I will be raising money for Ronald McDonald House in Wagga. Ronald McDonald house is a home away from home for families with sick children and expectant mothers and a charity I am stoked to be supporting.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to my T-shirt sponsors and everyone for all your support and generous donations so far it is making a real and important difference.

If you have not yet donated and you would like to please click on the link below

https://www.gofundme.com/running-for-rural-families?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_cpgnsharemore_r&fbclid=IwAR3gn-4cfnADwKoDcHBZ23LgQQpWCUZ88ipR5u9MDb63x3U8pVwnvIfV-JI

06/02/2019

Have you ever had the experience where you have had a great year in business and you wanted to pass some of the profits onto your team, you give them a generous bonus and their behaviour is less than appreciative?

I have, and at the time I was stunned, I did not understand why. Why was I getting this negative reaction to what I thought was an act of kindness and appreciation?

Then and still now I have an immense curiosity into human behaviour what drives people and how to better communicate, enrol and engage people.

This team member I am talking about did not fully understand what the bonus was for, they had worked just as hard as the year before and there was no pay rise then!

Even more importantly we did not understand what the bonus was for, what was the specific actions have they personally taken and how has this contributed to the overall success of the business?

We had not defined the benchmarks that helped our team member see where they had succeeded and now we were paying for it.

Do your team members know what they have to do to achieve benchmark standards in your business?

The time energy and effort that we put towards developing these benchmark standards comes back 3 fold in productivity, because our team know how they have achieved success, they are spurred on to work harder toward a new set of benchmarks!

30/01/2019

03/01/2019

Creating high performance habits!!

This year I have moved my yoga Mat, meditation cushion and foam roller into my office, and rather than make that extra cup of tea for the day between clients, I’m spending that time refocusing my mind, rejuvenating and strengthening my body! Early days still but I’m loving the small changes this is making, the 1%ers

13/11/2018

In his TED talk Simon Sinek puts it beautifully!

Why do you do what you do?

Why does your business exist?

Most of us know what we do, some of us even know how we do it, but few truely understand why we do what we do.

This is something that I came accross early on in starting my coaching business and imediately began to help my client develop their "Why" yet somehow never gave it a thought to develop my own!

Without developing my own "Why" I really limited my business growth, even more than that I began to loose passion for what I did because things became more about process than purpose. I had become a slave to my own business the very thing I was helping my clients move away from.

I had to completely change what I was doing, refocus, develop, build explore and really search from within, why do I do what I do?

Well here it is; I love to help people, I love to see people achieve thier goals, I love it when I dont except someones self imposed limits and they grow into an even better version of themselves a better businessman/women father, husband, wife or whatever it is for them, I love it when someone who was feeling stuck moves forward, when momentum is built, the confidence that comes through progress, the joy in my clients eyes when their dreams are being taken care of!

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...

07/11/2018

Have you ever had a moment when you realized that the illusory vision that you had of yourself was actually quite different to how you are actually being perceived by others?

Kind of like how we delete the photos of ourselves that don't show our best side!

I had this experience recently.

About 10days ago I went down to Melbourne to hone my skills in the craft of facilitation. This training was full on implementation with the best facilitators in the country.

I had gone into this training a bit cocky, I'd been doing pre-learning for weeks and I was sure I was going to nail the facilitation, however I didn't have to be in the room for to long before I realized how much further I still had to go, the mirror was being shone back at me and it was like for the first time I spotted that moal or that pimple on my face, there was nowhere to hide it, I was exposed and naked. People experienced at identifying gaps in facilitation were pointing them out to me, I had many and the truth is at first I did not like it very much.

It was here that I had a choice point, I could opt out or I could lean in, learn and grow. I chose the later, and I continue to do so.

This training stretched me to my limits and then beyond, I had to break through so many personal and professional boundaries, what I thought about myself, who I was chosing to be, what I had been resisting, what I had to embrace, where was I being incongruent with my message, where was I letting my audience down, not respecting them, not loving them!

Before I signed up for this training I knew it was going to be a challenge and this is what I had wanted, I had wanted the discomfort because this is where we learn and grow, become better versions of ourselves.

This training has altered the way I think, the way I do things and the results I am getting both in my personal relationships, with my clients and my business.

Having people kind enough to shine the mirror back on you, tell you where you are doing good, where you are really sucking and how you might be able to improve is one of the greatest gifts we can have!

Where are your challenges? What do you need to embrace? Where are you resisting going into the discomfort? The discomfort is the way, we must go through it to grow!

08/10/2018

I love this Quote from Jack Delosa's book "Unwriten"

If you are feeling some discomfort right at this moment, consider that it may just be a good thing, you may be wanting it to stop, you may want your problems to go away, you may be wishing you had more resources, less work to do!

As I think it was Jim Rohn that said; "Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom"

It is through the discomfort that we grow that we become better, it's through the discomfort that we gain more skills, become wiser!

Maybe discomfort is where you need to be right now!

Enjoy!!

09/09/2018

Get your hit of perspective this Sunday with this great quote!

Something we could all do with being reminded of once in a while.

How often do you let one small remark from someone in a meeting ruin your day? 🤔🤔🤔

How many times have you given up on a health kick for the week because you had one tiny hiccup on a Tuesday?

How many times have you let one small mistake at work stress you out for the week?

How much time do you spend over-analysing conversations? Obsessing over what they said or what you SHOULD have said.

The list goes on….

The truth is it’s easy to fall into the trap of obsessing about trivial, inconsequential things. That’s what humans do, our mind is literally programmed to search for danger and obsess about it until we think it’s gone. Hence why you obsess over things that are painful or threatening. 🚫🚫🚫

Recognise that you are human. You are not perfect. You will make mistakes. You are totally, 💯%, completely, perfect.

Focus on the bigger picture, and remember who you are, above all the small stuff. ☝️

07/09/2018

Recruiting?

What is more important to you? Someone that is qualified and has or the credentials or someone who maybe not as skilled at the specific job but has a cracking attitude, they are a values match and they love what the organisation stands for?

In Jim Collins book "Good to Great" he talks about "who" you get on board being more important than "what" they are actually doing because if the business has to change direction the right people will adapt and embrace that change.

You don't have to continually motivate the right people as they will drive innovation and results, they will want to be great!

Recruiting can be challenging as the right people are not always easy to find, particularly when we start out, as we are building our culture, but if we stay solid on our commitment to get the right people on board then it becomes infectious!!

It all starts setting high cultural standards, if we want a rocking business then we must have a rocking culture!

30/08/2018

Where are you being average at the moment that you need to lift your game?

Listening to a pop up today from "Kerwin Rae" and he said

"you have to be surgical in your application to go from good to great"

This got me thinking what areas of my business do I need to lift my game? Where am I currently just doing enough?

For me the biggest gaps are social media presence, and product development.

Game plan, schedule time in my calendar to make this happen, and seek out help where I need to!

Time to lift my game and practice what I preach!

I would love to now where are you currently just doing enough?

13/07/2018

How to motivate your team so they are excited about getting results!

Are you the small business babysitter? -Tired business owners having to babysit their staff instead of making more money.’

You run a business yet still don’t see more time or money in your pocket?

You’re unable to trust your staff to run things smoothly while you aren’t around?

You want to grow your business yet the more people you put on, the less control you feel you have?

Gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the different attributes people are bringing to your business, recognize how each person depending on their unique behavioural type bring a different set of skills and abilities, learn how to communicate to, motivate, lead and reward each person on an individual level, so you can take the control back in your business.

If 2018 is about business growth, higher revenue and ultimately more time to work on the business instead of in the business, you are in the right place

You will learn the 4 DISC behavioural types and how to;

- engage with any person at their level
- create a culture of high performance
- fast track results through heightened communication and understanding
- develop people beyond their jobs.
- recognize individual strengths and stretches within your team

This workshop will be run on Thursday the 2nd August. Early bird tickets just $47 private message me to claim your spot!