What Is Your Genius Factor? And Why it Matters!

Your Genius Factor is far more special and deep than just a strength. It’s your energy field, who you are and what makes you special. It is your gift to the world.
People who align their work to their Genius achieve their goals at a remarkable pace, because they pursue things that matter to them and make full use of their talents.
With this understanding people can be themselves in the truest sense. They don’t need to compare themselves with anyone else. They don’t need to pretend to be something they aren’t. It gives them power that others feel and want to be part of.
Without this understanding people have little idea about who they are, so it’s little wonder that other people struggle to understand who they are. Listen 3m.43s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYa3Z7qOTY

Successful leaders operate beyond their conscious mind

Are you a powerful leader or does your subconscious let you down.

Successful leaders know about 90% of what they do is done at a subconscious level.

They operate well beyond their conscious mind. They have learned to trust their intuition, gut-feelings and operate well beyond their rational minds. They know it’s important to create positive mental pictures of what they want to achieve before they start. They make this picture as big as they can make it because the subconscious has no way of knowing whether it is realistic or not.

Here are some simple tricks to amplify your success. (5m30s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51jk-8Uejw

MANAGERS ARE BUSY. THEY COPE WITH THE URGENT, BUT PUT OFF THE TRULY IMPORTANT.

One of the most important things managers can do is to create a bold Vision of the future. Bold enough to excite the youngest recruit. And, bold enough to excite the oldest recruit who has seen it all before.

The Vision needs to find exciting answers to the following questions:

*What legacy will we leave behind for the organisation, New Zealand and the world?
*What will we do that no one else can do?
*What will make us unique?
*What will our business be?
*What will we not be doing?
*How will we add value?
*Who will our customers be and what will they be saying about us?
*How will we treat our people and other key relationships?

This link shows you how:
http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/Strategy%20and%20Alignment.pdf

What else do you think is truly important?

HAVE WE CREATED A BUSINESS MONSTER?

The monster I have in mind sucks the life out of its victims. The traditional top-down hierarchical business model sucks the life out of millions of people at a time when we need every ounce of creativity and human energy more than ever before. The best managers know they are managing a network of living systems. They are not managing a bureaucracy or a machine. What is your experience? Listen to my talk 5m14s:

http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaNetworks.mp3

USING SYSTEMS THINKING? HOW SUCCESSFUL IS IT?

I think systems thinking is a powerful business tool.

We tend to think of organisations in mechanical terms that can be understood by analysis of the parts. 

With systems thinking we get a totally different understanding. It helps us look at organisations like living systems. Living systems can’t be understood by understanding the parts. They are far more than the parts. Just like the human body is far more than the individual organs that make it up.

Systems thinking explains the ‘emergence’ of many important things like trust, culture, relationships and self-reliance that cannot be explained with mechanical thinking. All emergence takes is for each person to follow a few simple rules.

Systems thinking helps understand “wicked problems”. These are problems where the solution is technically difficult and there is no consensus about how to fix it.

Bruce Holland explains the benefits to business of systems thinking:

http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaSystemsThinking.mp3

SHOULD YOUR MANAGER MANAGE THE WORK OR THE WORKPLACE?

Irresistible leadership is not about the work. It is about the workplace. It's not about double checking the work of others. It is about creating a workplace where everyone can do their best work, then getting out of the road as much as possible. It's about trusting the system, not over managing. Share your stories about busy-body and/or irresistible managers so we can all learn. Listen to this secret 2m51s: http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaWofrkplace.mp3

SAVE TIME. ASK QUESTIONS.

Irresistible leaders know that questions, not answers, are the key to leadership. They ask questions when someone brings them a problem. They dig for the real problem rather than accepting symptoms, personal biases or assumptions. What is the most important question you have ever asked? Listen to this secret 4m06s: http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaQuestions.mp3

IRRESISTIBLE LEADERS ARE GIVERS.

As a leader they give priceless gifts, including their time, their relationships, their knowledge, their experience, their trust, their belief in people and have high expectations. Givers are BIG people, getters are small people. Givers not only make others strong, they also make themselves strong. Givers get what they give.They are radiators, not refrigerators. Listen to this secret 5m11s: http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaGivers.mp3

WORK ON YOUR OWN STRENGTHS FIRST

Irresistible leaders make their people strong. But first they work on their own strengths. They know strong people find strengths in others and weak people find weaknesses in others. Listen to this secret 4m19s: http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaSubconscious.mp3

SIMPLE CHOICES THAT MAKE THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY

Irresistible leaders never forget that they always have a choice. They choose to include rather than exclude. They choose to join rather than separate. They choose to find the good in people not the bad. Making these positive choices every day makes ordinary organisations extraordinary. Listen to this secret 4m47s:
 http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaChoice.mp3

Why are we drawn to certain people?

It happens at a subconscious level without knowing why. It happens when we sense the person is helping us to be our best. Listen and become a better leader (1m.32s):

http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaDefineIrresistibles.mp3

WHAT IS YOUR GENIUS FACTOR?

Irresistible leaders know each person has a genius factor. They help their people find it and put it to work for the benefit of the organisation. Listen to Bruce Holland tell how they do this (5m02s):
http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaGenius.mp3

A TOTALLY NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT LEADERSHIP

The video

This Strategic Snippet introduces a video to help you develop your leadership skills. The link to the video is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sqftACE0k

Leadership is confusing because so much has been written about it and as a result, most managers focus on the wrong things and get what they don't want. The video shows how the whole area can be simplified down to three eyes. Leaders need: 1. An eye that looks inward. 2. An eye that looks outward. 3. An eye that looks between.

The eye to look inside

In many ways the eye that looks inside is the most important. There are three reasons why it is most important:

1. If managers are not strong on the inside, there is no way they can be strong on the outside. As inner strength grows, other can't help but notice and be attracted to it. 
2. The manager's authenticity depends on knowing themselves. If they don't know who they are, how can anyone else know who they are? 
3. When managers understand why they are on this Planet and their genius factor, they are well on they way to achieving their destiny.

The video introduces "Genius Factor." Your Genius Factor is far more special and deep than just a strength. It is 'what you can do that no one else can do.' It is your gift to the world. People who align their work to their Genius Factor achieve their goals at a remarkable pace, because they pursue things that matter to them and make full use of their talents.

Managers that understand their Genius Factor can be themselves in the truest sense. They don't need to compare themselves with anyone else. They don't need to pretend to be something they aren't. It gives them power that others feel and want to be part of.

Without this understanding managers have little idea about who they are, so it's little wonder that other people struggle to understand who they are. Because they don't know what makes them special, they don't spend enough time on activities serving their purpose or using their special gifts and intelligence. Also because they don't see themselves as Great they don't expect to find Greatness in other people.

The video covers:

• How to understand your purpose
• How to discover your Genius Factor
• How to liberate the human energy of every person within your organisation.

The eye to look outside

The eye that looks outside is the most developed. 

Most managers are in touch with their external world. It is what managers have been trained to do. It is how they spend most of their time. They scan their organisation and their environment for opportunities and threats. They study their competitors and their customers to identify what is changing and how they can take advantage. 

Yet, even this eye has limited focus. It can see to analyse, break things apart and understand the detail. It is less successful at synthesising, and seeing the patterns in the bigger system. Also managers' worldview is often dated; based on mechanics more than organics.

The video covers: new insights from: 

• Chaos Theory
• Complexity Science 
• Systems Thinking.

The eye to look between

Physicists used to see their science as the study of physical material like solids, liquids and gases. They are now starting to see it as the study of how things are organised and relate to each other. In business, we need to come to the same realisation. 

Building and managing relationships is one of the core skills for any manager both within the organisation and beyond it. Yet many managers see their organisation as an 'organisational tree' rather than a network of interrelated networks. 

Managers skilled in relationships know that it is the space between people that makes the most difference. 

Instead of seeing emptiness between people, they see emotions, heat, vibrations, energy, trust, information, communication, synergy and love.

The video covers: 

• How to build stronger relationships within your organisation
• New insights into how to build collaboration, breakdown silos and build strong networks.

How Do You Rate?

Rate your organisation from 1 to 10 (where 1=poor and 10=world class) on how familiar your managers are in each of their three worlds:

Their World Inside __ Their World Outside _ Their World Between _.

Are your managers familiar with their three worlds? How well are you developing your managers? 

How to make the change

Virtual Group Business Consultants has developed the following Leadership Program so your people can make the change.

Developing the eye to look inside

Our Irresistible Leadership Program, helps managers develop this world, including:

• Understanding your Purpose
• Understanding your Path
• Understanding your Genius Factor
• Understanding your Thinking Preferences
• How to access the power of your subconscious mind
• How to listen to your inner-voice and gut feelings
• Developing your confidence, influence and personal power.

Developing the eye to look outside

In our experience managers are usually in touch with their external world. They are better at using their five senses than their sixth sense: intuition. They are better at analysing than synthesising. Our Irresistible Leadership Program helps managers develop skills in:

• strategic development
• strategic execution
• Chaos
• Complexity and 
• Systems thinking.

Developing the eye to look between

Managers skilled in relationships know that it is the space in between people that makes the most difference.

Our Irresistible Leadership Program helps managers develop this world, including:

• Understanding how to build Collaboration
• How to Break Down Silos
• How to build strong Networks
• How to ask powerful questions
• How to manage your manager
• How to “colour” your customers
• How to build trust
• How to liberate the human spirit at work.

Most organisations have lived with this confusion for too long. Their leaders focus on the wrong things and get what they don't want. The benefits are great. The investment to put it right is surprisingly small.

Don't put it off any longer! 

Warmest wishes,

Bruce.

Irresistible Leaders Know a Secret - People are Fundamentally Different from Each Other.

Irresistible leaders know a secret - people are fundamentally different from each other. Treat them the way they want to be treated and they will give magic. Listen to this secret 5m27s. http://www.virtual.co.nz/uploads/BruceHolland/AnnaPeopleAreDifferent.mp3

OVERCOMING TIME STARVATION

Time starvation is arguably the most insidious threat to managers in the 21st century.

Every day I see managers burning out as they douse spot fires (cope with the urgent) but procrastinate over what’s truly important.

In the course of my work, I have identified six ways to help managers focus on what counts. See: http://tinyurl.com/m79bunw

IS RETENTION THE REAL PROBLEM?

While employee retention is an important problem for many organisations, it is not nearly as significant as tbe hidden costs of good people who have 'left' but haven't left.

In other words, those people who are still on the payroll but whose minds, hearts and souls are elsewhere.

How can we reclaim this waste?