Nicos Paschali, International Author, Designer & Facilitator of Learning Workshops. Mental Discipline Coach.

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  Nicos Paschali 2:49 pm on December 12, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Do you really want your new habit to stick? 

  A new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, published recently in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, found that immediate rewards are strongly associated with persistence in a long-term goal, despite a delayed reward being the underlying motivation.

  In other words, if your goal is to lose weight but you sincerely dread each minute of your run, consider enlisting a running companion or trying a Zumba cardio class instead.

  Choosing a fun workout provides an immediate reward, enjoyment, and ultimately increases your chances of repeating the process and staying committed to your exercise and weight loss goals.

  Have a go. You never know!

   

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  Nicos Paschali 4:55 pm on December 11, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Be clear what you want and how you tick. 

  

  Understanding what drives you is essential if you want to be successful. Just as you won’t get far by putting petrol in a diesel-powered car, so you’ll struggle to attain personal goals if you don’t understand what fuels your drive and determination.

  Couple that understanding with learning and you will make the most of your gifts by clarifying the opportunities that will work best.

  There are three elements that influence your style:

  • define what success looks like for you;
  • your relationship to risk and management of dissatisfaction;
  • what sort of achiever you are, (stable, consistent, serial).
   
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  Nicos Paschali 9:26 am on December 7, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Becoming an authentic leader, be a Navigator! 

  

  We have made some fascinating discoveries about how best to teach, grow, and coach people in an environment of freedom, creativity, and play.

  A comprehensive disrupting learning and training to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This learning platform—training, facilitation & coaching, will teach you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself in all five domains of authentic leadership! —Nicos Paschali

  Get in touch with me directly at nicos@nicospaschali.com, or nicospas@gmail.com, to arrange a top management presentation on how we get the job done and how we address your desired real-needs.
   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:44 am on December 6, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Act in new ways and notice what works! 

  Seven steps to experimentation!

  1. Act a new behaviour as opposed to just thinking about it.
  2. Write down on a scale 1-10 how effective it was. Did it work?
  3. How did it feel to you on an internal level? Was it awkward?
  4. If you were to do it again, what would you do differently?
  5. What did you learn?
  6. Where else might this new behaviour work or not work?
  7. Repeat.
   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:11 am on December 6, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Creating the dynamic experience. 

  Great trainers do three things very well.

  1. They understand exactly what their clients need in the deeper level;
  2. They develop experiential full of activities training designed to address that need;
  3. They effectively deliver the training using approaches that motivate the audience to action.
   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:08 am on December 6, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  On becoming a leader, how to look like one! 

  On becoming a leader is based on the assumption that leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully. They know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain their cooperation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals.

  The key to full self-expression is understanding one’s self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning—from one’s own life and experience.

  Becoming a leader isn’t easy, just as becoming a doctor or a poet isn’t easy, and those who claim otherwise are fooling themselves. But learning to lead is a lot easier than most of us think it is, because each of us contains the capacity for leadership. …

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:17 pm on December 5, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Eight barriers to change, #5 

  Barrier #5 is cold, raw fear. You dread a negative outcome that may never come to pass and ignore the probable good that would occur if you did change.

  You fear possible failure, disappointment, rejection, pain, and a host of other horrors, all of which freeze you in your tracks.

  In an effort to protect yourself from what you fear, you pass on probable success, accomplishment, acceptance, pressure and all the other riches life offers.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 9:52 am on December 4, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Execution as learning. 

  Execution as learning is a way of operating as an organisation that combines continuous learning with high performance.

  Simply stated, execution as learning means getting the work done today while simultaneously working on how to it better more creative and more innovative tomorrow.

  In a way, it folds the mindset and behaviours of learning into the discipline of execution, allowing middle level managers to get as much done as possible.

  The defining attribute of execution as learning is its integration constant, unremarkable, small-scale learning into day-to-day work, reflection of action, rather than reflection after action.

  The challenge behind the concept is for the teams to rapidly collaborate, adjust, and learn!
   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:07 am on December 4, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Eight barriers to change, #4 

  Barrier #4, supplies perfectly good reasons not to change and encompasses all the “yeah, but”s and excuses you offer to defend the ways things are and convince yourself that change is unnecessary. You know you are finding perfectly good reasons not to change when you claim things are not so bad or could be worse, build an airtight case for staying the same, or counter every suggestion with a “yeah, but” statement.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 5:48 am on December 3, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Build Your Leadership Authenticity! 

  

  Did you know that the process of learning, growing, and developing an integrated self is a process of construction and meaning–making?

  Becoming a better leader by achieving your best self to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team.

  By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you’ll find that you’re modeling good behaviour and effective decision-making, and that authenticity is contagious.

  Discover the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.