Jonathan Payne Articles

Why have a Coach? - Click To Read Article
Coaching is not another passing fad. It has become an essential management tool, and is used effectively by executives and private individuals for their personal growth and effectiveness.

WHY CHANGE DOESN'T HAPPEN - Click To Read Article
While so many people seek to become more effective, more successful and more fulfilled, so few actually take the steps to implement the necessary change? Why? In this article Jonathan Payne explores on of the primary reasons for change not happening.

WHO IS PULLING YOUR STRINGS? - Click To Read Article
If you are constantly sacrificing your goals and your plans to keep someone else happy, then you are living as a victim.

What is your self-estimate? - Click To Read Article
Your self-esteem is the value which you place on yourself. You can choose what you want that value to be. You can have a low self-esteem, regarding yourself as being worthless, or you can have a high self-esteem and regard yourself as priceless. Nobody else can place a value on you.

WHAT IS YOUR BRAND? - Click To Read Article
Each of us has a personal brand. It is made up of the feelings, impressions and images we leave with people.

WASTING YOUR TRAINING BUDGET - Click To Read Article
Until organizations move from “quick fix” training interventions to a willingness to define exact outcomes and engage in a long term process to reach those outcomes, most of the training budget will continue to be wasted.

WE WORK FOR MORE THAN MONEY - Click To Read Article
Earning an income is usually the first and most important reason we find employment or start a business of our own. Without money life becomes very difficult. But apart from the money, why do you work?

UNDERSTAND OTHERS BY UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF - Click To Read Article
Our imperfections, preferences and prejudices do govern our behaviour whether we are aware of them or not. If we are not aware of them we remain under their control as we can do nothing to control them or counteract them

THINKING ABOUT THINKING - Click To Read Article
Thoughts and actions which are allowed to flow without being considered lead us to instinctual behaviour where we repeat the same actions, and often the same mistakes, as the past.

THE VALUES OF SUCCESS - Click To Read Article
There are many ways to reach our destination, but our values, our tracks, hold us on the right path as we move toward achieving our goals

THE SIX PILLARS OF SELF DISCOVERY - Click To Read Article
The six pillars of self discovery speak about what drives us, who supports us, what we want to have out of life, the resources we have to hand, the need to look for good and the need to appreciate who we are.

THE POWER OF COMMITMENT - Click To Read Article
Successful people understand and use the power of commitment

THE MEANING OF COMMUNICATION - Click To Read Article
The meaning of communication is in the response we get.

THE PLIGHT OF THE PERFECTIONIST - Click To Read Article
Perfectionism can be paralysing. Perhaps perfectionists could be helped if we adopted the motto of a well known sports brand and learnt to “just do it”. Instead of waiting for perfection, life would be a little easier if we just did it.

THE ART OF THINKING - Click To Read Article
Good thinking requires discipline. It requires discipline not to allow distractions to interrupt our thinking. It requires a disciplined mind that does not allow stray thoughts to hijack the process and carry us away so that we end up daydreaming rather than thinking.

STEPPING STONE GOALS - Click To Read Article
Stepping stone goals are like hopping through the stream of life in short bursts, deciding where we want to be and then looking around for our next step. They represent a shorter term commitment of perhaps only a couple of months to a year. These short term goals are easier to plan and achieve for those people who find long range planning difficult

SHYNESS - Click To Read Article
To overcome shyness you have to challenge that label right at the start and speak to people who can help you. And there are people who both can and want to help you – they would be happy for you to ask.

SHYNESS INHIBITS SUCCESS - Click To Read Article
To succeed you have to overcome shyness.

SELL YOURSELF WELL - Click To Read Article
The most difficult CV’s to put together are those of people who have just left school, who perhaps didn’t complete school, have no tertiary education and little or no work experience. It might seem that they have very little to work from. But everyone has something about themselves which they can sell.

SELLING WITH A POSITIVE MINDSET - Click To Read Article
Successful people have a positive attitude about their abilities, about the products or services they offer and about their clients. They have a positive attitude about their work environment and about their colleagues.

SACRIFICE THE SACRED COWS - Click To Read Article
The assumption that we have to do things because that is the way they have always been done needs to be challenged if we desire to live life effectively.

POSTIVE CONFLICT - Click To Read Article
Conflict is not bad. Its value lies in harnessing it to generate energy for powerful solutions

POSITIVE THINKING - Click To Read Article
Reframe your thoughts to state things in the positive, as our brains capture any thought whether positive or negative.

POSITIVE IDENTITY - Click To Read Article
The way we consciously or unconsciously identify ourselves and the words we use to describe ourselves cause us to be who we are.

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TENSE - Click To Read Article
Worrying about the future is another energy-wasting occupation. Preparing for the future is wise – but worrying about it is foolish.

PICTURE YOUR REALITY - Click To Read Article
Behaving as the person you want to be brings about the entrenched change in behaviour so that you in fact become that person.

OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION - Click To Read Article
Effective communication happens when we take the time to become aware of differences, which are barriers to communication, and work to overcome them. That process starts with self awareness, particularly an awareness of our own communication preferences.

OVERCOMING STRESS - Click To Read Article
In dealing with stress, we can invest our energy in moving ourselves forward by taking positive action about the things that worry us, or we can just burn energy by worrying.

MANAGERS MANAGE - Click To Read Article
Managers need to develop a specific skill set in order to manage and not resort to doing the work themselves.

LIFE BALANCE - Click To Read Article
A well balanced life is a life which gives attention to activities in each of the following four areas: physical, mental, social and community. Just as a healthy, balanced diet is made up of food from each of the main food groups, so a healthy, balanced life includes activities from each of these areas.

LISTEN TO YOUR IDEAS - Click To Read Article
How many potentially great ideas come to us each day? And how many ideas do we allow to grow into fruition and how many pass through our minds and disappear? What do we do with those ideas? And if we don’t act on them – why not?

LEADERS ATTRACT THE TEAM THEY DESERVE - Click To Read Article
Because a team follows the leader, leaders have to be both careful and clear about the message they put out, not only in words but also in actions. They will attract the people who subscribe to whatever image they project, good or bad.

HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE LISTENED TO - Click To Read Article
In order to be listened to, we need to become listeners ourselves.

HARNESING THE POWER OF DIFFERENCE - Click To Read Article
In the work situation where people are together for long hours under pressure, the ways in which we differ need to be understood and managed if sound working relationships are to be maintained

Goals – the key to successful meetings - Click To Read Article
Clear goals for a meeting make it more successful

EXPLORING POTENTIAL - Click To Read Article
There is no knowing what the limits of human potential are, but we are certain that most of us are not living up to our potential. One person’s potential may differ from another’s, so the possibilities for each of us vary – but whatever the possibilities are, many of us are functioning below our potential.

ENJOY THE RIDE - Click To Read Article
The best lived lives are those which allow both the need for routing and predictability, and the desire for wildness and spontaneity, to play themselves out.

DEFENDING YOUR TIME - Click To Read Article
Time management is not so much about managing our own time as preventing other people managing it for us.

CREATE YOUR CV WITH PURPOSE - Click To Read Article
Your CV is essentially your marketing tool, the document you use to sell yourself to people who probably have not met you.

COACHING IS NOT ALWAYS COACHING - Click To Read Article
Coaching is a distinct discipline with a definite skill set, some of which are not easy to master. Without using those skills, what might pass for coaching is actually a manager giving instructions and evaluation to a team member.

Choosing Options - Click To Read Article
We always have options as to what we will do. Often, we don’t explore those options or even acknowledge that they exist.

BELIEF SYSTEMS DETERMINE HOW YOU UNDERSTAND LIFE - Click To Read Article
We need belief systems in order to filter information and create an understanding of life. These systems serve us well, but they can also get in the way and prevent us from new ways of seeing the world. An awareness of our entrenched beliefs gives us the power to accept them or change them depending on what best serves our achieving a fulfilled life.

BE AN EXPERT IN YOUR OWN LIFE - Click To Read Article
To be experts in managing our lives, and therefore to take back the power of choice, we need to know ourselves. We need to be clear about what motivates us, what we aspire to be, what energizes us and what drains us, what moves us toward our goals and what gets in the way.

ADD VALUE TO LIFE - Click To Read Article
We can just as easily choose to add value to life as we can to devalue life.


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