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Welcome to Your Roadmap to Extraordinary Success

- Note From Natalie: Turning on the Heat

- What's New?: "Roadmap to Success" Book

- Feature Article: Ineffective vs. Influential

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“Roadmap to Success” Book

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Periodically I love bringing you stories about how my marvelous coaching clients are doing with their approaches to "changing" what is not working for them. For purposes of telling her story I will call her "Ginny".

Imagine one of the most dynamic, strong, confident and influential women you have ever met and this is Ginny.

She is closing in on 50 years of age and is in the food industry. Well, she is in the "fine dining" level of the food industry. Ginny has 15 years of dealing with stars, athletes, news anchors, celebrities from all walks of life and she does it well. She can talk the small talk and keeps up with the gossip of the trade. Ginny also has staff that has worked with her for the full 15 years that she has been with this fine dining establishment where she holds the title of Vice President. Her title should actually be: VP of Everything. The reason Ginny got in touch with me for coaching is that she felt that she had lost influence with the owner and that he treated her like a glorified admin. She wanted to know what her position is with the company and her standing with the owner.

We did a leadership and communication assessment to gather information and create a snapshot of her current strengths and talents. The assessment also gives us information on how she communicates, motivates, what she values, how she operates and generally what is most important to her in how she leads.

We discovered that Ginny has many strengths. We also discovered that she has some habits that could be contributing to her issues with her position in the company and in her relationship with the restaurant owner.

First of all, Ginny has little or no tolerance for people who think, speak or work more slowly than she does. The problem with her lack of tolerance is that much of the world around her moves more slowly than she does. The habits that she developed over the years to deal with each new added responsibility were to work faster, harder, and move at breakneck speed.

Ginny's speech patterns, pacing and tone are fast (800-900 words per minutes with the average speech patterns at 400 words per minute). She is racing through her conversations with people - especially the people at work.

Her body language as she moves toward people is like watching a racer come toward you. She gives projects a fast, big, powerful, "don't waste my time" kind of image.

Ginny also brings high passion that is interpreted as high emotion to meetings and conversations.

Here is this very effective person charging around, appearing to give orders, too busy to really listen to you, with a conversational pace of REALLY FAST and totally sure that what she is doing/speaking is right and all with high emotion.

Six weeks after working together, Ginny has her influence back. In fact, people are not sure what changed but all of her direct reports have commented on it. People ask her if she has lost weight or changed her hair. Her boss now refers to her as "we" when speaking in organizational and strategy meetings.

We worked together on the following:

• 65% - 70% of the world does not speak, move or gesture like she does
• People need feedback not just instructions
• Passion and emotions are necessary to make a point, not as a conversational habit
• Effectiveness comes in many packages and she needs to recognize that and support it
• Being right only annoys, being effective means you are aware and in rapport with those around you Ginny also feels so much better. She is less stressed and less righteous about things getting done her way.

Ginny recognizes now when she is in her "hard charging" mode and uses it to create influence rather than people running in the other direction.

She has had to become aware and practices her awareness. It is not easy, but it is simple and powerful shift.

Another result is that the restaurant owner is seeking Ginny out and asking her opinion. By creating this powerful shift for herself through coaching she realized that she has a choice.she can either be "right" or she can be "effective".

Smart, success seeking individuals want to know when they are not effective. Ginny now knows her habits and chooses influence, confidence and success each and every time.

How can I be a resource for you? A great way to begin your own discovery and increase your awareness is with our Pre-Coaching Questionnaire: http://www.nataliemanor.com/coaching/quest.html. It asks clarifying questions about where you are now and where you want to be.

Let me help you create your own powerful shift from being and feeling weak and ineffective to being and feeling influential. You do have a choice.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Colors have a energy about them that is fun to know. Each color represents different moods and emotions and one way to enhance your home or business symbolically and therefore your life, is to choose colors that represent energies you'd like more of in your life. Take a look at the color you like and best and see where you use it now in your life.

Red - power, strength, fame, luck, passion, courage, wealth, motivation

Pink - love, pure intent, joy, romance, happiness

Orange - enthusiasm, joy, fun, interaction

Green - hope, growth, inspiration, rebirth, harmony, tranquility, healing

Yellow - optimism, focus, communication, inspiration, wisdom, clarity, loyalty

Gold - wealth, wisdom, luxury, abundance, influence

Blue - new beginnings, imagination, serenity, compassion

Purple - intuition, peace, awareness, power, wealth, spirituality

Brown - solidity, patience, practicality, reliability, diligence, grounding

Black - spiritual depth, wisdom, strength, elegance, protection, intelligence

White - purity, precision, innocence, honesty, grace, faith

Integrate colors you love into your wardrobe and environment to energize your life and accentuate a desired feeling or yearning.

What colors are you complimented on when you wear them? Sometimes others can see things you can't see. And as you change there will be different colors and energies that support you.

Vicki White is a wonderful Feng Shui consultant who can answer all your questions about color and how to use the colors to create success and the feeling of security in your life. http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com

You get the Roadmap Team every time you contact whether it is to help you: grow your confidence, influence and power; develop a way of coaching your best strengths and talents to create outstanding and stainable results or whether you need a top notch training method for you, your team and/or organization to maximize your potential and increase your productivity.

You can learn more about "America's Top Confidence Coaching Firm" at http://www.NatalieManor.com. Let us be your resource in building and navigating Your Roadmap to Extraordinary Success in your organization. Give us a call at 800-666-2230 or email us at Success@The-Roadmap.com.

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