Craffies Coaching

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

I attended a leadership talk last week by Prof. Rija and these are some of the thoughts and insights I had:

He talked about how to create organisations that evolve, grow and dominate the market..

The key is to unlock the energy of the people in the organisation and the community!

How can leadership unlock this energy?

Herb Keller said the following: “The main role of leadership is to continuously energise the people.”

The question then is: Am I as a leader putting on the lights “energy”, or turning of the lights? Secondly am I energising (influencing) my team/group towards effective results?

The processes must be efficient and sustainable.

How can a company create a competitive advantage?

• Add value
• Product/service must be difficult to imitate or duplicate
• Keep on innovating to stay ahead of competitors.

With a constant changing environment, the company must have the energy (attitude) and ability to continually ensure alignment to be able to execute effectively. The company must have people that is committed, have the talent(Ability) and Attitude(energy) to execute.

To be able to create this there must be a legal contract of employment but also a contract of accountability that can only happen if there is employee engagement/belonging.

Key to sustainability is the company’s ability to be responsive to change. The agility to change (ability to anticipate change, to respond to change, to be able to change) is determined by the learning culture of the organisation. The  quicker the learning curve the bigger the change of the organisation moving from change, to survival, to success, to sustainable results, to significance in the market space. It is also important for the company to create a learning environment for individuals to learn / experience.

The individuals in a group or team will form the group intelligence.

Each member of the group is a leader as such.

To conclude the Leader and the learner make the difference. Leadership must be intentional and not accidental at all times.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

-Goethe

A study done by Dr. Micheal Cavanagh revealed the following behaviour between Low performing and high performing teams:

What is the language that is that is being used in your team? Remember the conversations of today create the stories of tomorrow!

So make sure that the conversations in your team are creating a legacy that you and your team can be proud of !!!

Here, Almagtige, oneindige Skepper, Voleinder,

‘n jaar is vir U net ‘n oogwink,

maar vir ons is dit 365 dae lank — ‘n lang pad.

Here, vir ons is elke jaar volgepak met goed en kwaad.

U is Here van elke uur en dag en jaar.

Maar ons is vasgevange slawe van die tyd

wat so vinnig verbyvlieg.

Here, en tog bring elke jaar ons nader aan U.

Mense word jaar vir jaar ouer,

maar aan u kinders gee U die krag van die jeug.

‘n Jaar lê agter ons, vir altyd verby.

Plek-plek loop die pad reguit deur die vlakte,

ander kere met kronkelpaaie oor die steiltes,

vol slaggate, pap bande, verpaste treine,

verspeelde kanse.

Here, oor die geleenthede wat

onbenut verbygegaan het,

sou ek wanhopig kon raak,

as dit nie was dat vergifnis u gewoonte is nie.

Here, elke dag is u genade vars en nuut,

sedert Noag se reënboog,

en u goedheid is elke more splinternuut

sedert Jesus Christus.

Here, as U die hare van my kop getel het,

het U sekerlik ook my dae getel, die minute en sekondes

daarvan — alles hou U in die palm van u hand.

Here, ek vra U vir gesondheid in die jaar wat voorlê,

vir genoeg kos vir elke dag.

Maar veral bid ek om ‘n honger na u Woord, na U self.

Here my God, daar is geen twyfel dat hierdie jaar weer

‘n jaar vol van u vars genade sal wees nie.

Amen.

‘n Gebed uit Ghana.

Uit God seën Afrika, Ewald van Rensburg, bladsy 175.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke

Mag God, wat vrede gee, julle volkome aan Hom toegewyd maak en julle geheel en al, na gees, siel en liggaam, so bewaar dat julle onberispelik sal wees wanneer ons Here Jesus Christus weer kom! Hy sal dit ook doen, want Hy wat julle roep, is getrou.

1 Tess 5:21-24

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart