December, 2011

Anese Cavanaugh

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Assume Good

Anese Cavanaugh

I believe that people generally come from a place of positive intention. If there is a disconnect, it often happens in their impact and the stories that get made up about their intentions. The impact of this? Resistance, mistrust, broken relationships, unintended influence, and at a minimum, lost opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and doing their best work. .

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10 places to look for leading into 2012 – some a bit off the hook

Anese Cavanaugh

Today I hosted a group of business owners, at my office in Rocklin, for my Biz 2012 Intention Event. A whole morning of reflecting on 2011, looking into 2012, and setting intentions for what we’ll be celebrating and discussing NEXT year at this time. (After all, if you set INTENTIONS for what you want – and act of course, you’re more likely to be celebrating those same things later.).

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Adding Value (in all the right places)

Anese Cavanaugh

“Adding value” A commonly used term used by people in business. You hear about it from vendors, organizations, products and services, and in employee performance conversations and sales pitch meetings. Adding value: the value added benefit this person/thing brings to the table. If you look up the definition, you’ll get a bunch of finessed words, which to me all point to one simple thing – how do you make the “thing” that your contributing to…better?

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Are you “becoming”?

Anese Cavanaugh

It’s an active state…the act of becoming. Stepping further and further into yourself, becoming more and more of the person/spirit/sage/parent/leader/writer/friend/salsa dancer you want to be. It is an active act. And if done intentionally, a really powerful one. Who will you “become” in 2012? I notice that as 2011 comes to an end and 2012 is around the bend, people (present company included) talk about what they will “do” in 2012, what they want to “have

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