Jon Dale of Small Fish Business Coaching interviews Tim Shaw
Jon Dale of Small Fish Business Coaching interviews Tim Shaw – “But wait, there’s more” .
Go to the Our Manly website to read Jon’s interview with Tim Shaw on Social Media for Small Business. Jon conducted this interview for the Northern Beaches premier netwokring group Pittwater Business Limited.
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Business Blog - Metacognition and Peak Performance
Are you aware that human beings are the only species on earth who have the ability to evaluate their thinking? Metacognologists believe that the ability to consciously think about thinking is unique to homosapient species and indeed is one of the definitions of sapience.
Metacognition refers to a level of thinking that involves active control over the process of thinking that is used in learning situations. Planning the way to approach a learning task, monitoring comprehension, and evaluating the progress towards the completion of a task: these are skills that are metacognitive in their nature. Similarly, maintaining motivation to see a task to completion is also a metacognitive skill.
Individuals with a high level of metacognitive knowledge and skill identify blocks to learning as early as possible and change "tools" or strategies to ensure goal attainment. The metacognologist is aware of their own strengths and weaknesses, the nature of the task at hand, and available "tools" or skills. A broader repertoire of "tools" also assists in goal attainment. When "tools" are general, generic, and context independent, they are more likely to be useful in different types of learning situations.
Executive management skills involve planning, monitoring, evaluating and revising one's own thinking processes and products. Strategic knowledge involves knowing what (factual or declarative knowledge), knowing when and why (conditional or contextual knowledge) and knowing how (procedural or methodological knowledge). Both executive management and strategic knowledge metacognition are needed to self-regulate one's own thinking and learning.
Metacognition helps people to perform many cognitive tasks more effectively. Strategies for promoting metacognition include self-questioning (e.g. "What do I already know about this topic? How have I solved problems like this before?"), thinking aloud while performing a task, and making graphic representations (e.g. concept maps, flow charts, semantic webs) of one's thoughts and knowledge.
Question?
A. Do you believe thinking about what you think can help you get better results?
B. Do you believe there is a cause and effect relationship between your thinking and your results?
Most people might say that their thinking is fine, it’s the results that need improvement, or that they are too busy to think about what they think about, and their thinking has nothing to do with what happens in the real world.
Quite the Contrary!
It has been proven that the more aware you are of what you are THINKING about, the easier it is to improve your thoughts and thus your performance. Because ultimately each of us become what we think about, and as you upgrade your thinking your performance will change accordingly. Once you have established a higher plane of thinking you will more likely become more like what you think about.
Each of us can build the habit of using metacognition and to continue asking ourselves “…. Is this thought moving me closer to or farther from my ultimate vision?” When we truly understand the cause and effect relationship between thinking and vision, we will place ourselves in the best position to move forward and accomplish our goals. For top performers in any profession, it all begins first with what is happening inside the mind.
Gordon Frandsen
Business Coach
Small Fish Business Coaching
Redmond, Oregon
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Business networking - a long term investment or a time-sink?
You can group business networking into three types – casual contact (just getting together – places like the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary or Lions), strong contact (whose purpose is overtly about passing referrals to each other) and a third whose name I forget but which is about groups with a specific purpose, like a professional group where members support each other.
They are all good – all have value and any business owner should consider all three types a serious contender for his or her time.
In fact, join more than one – they will all help you grow your business if you do it properly – which is the key, of course.
Small Fish (Jon) is involved with Pittwater Business Limited – an excellent business networking and education group in Sydney’s north. Members meet to network, socialise and learn from the carefully selected breakfast speakers. It’s been a boon to Jon’s personal coaching business – it’s helped him meet people, build relationships, get some local profile and also enjoy himself (which also counts)
Lately, all of us at Small Fish have become enthused about BNI – a strong contact group (www.bni.com.au) whose purpose is for members to meet, build strong relationships and get to know and trust each other enough to be able to pass real referrals between each other. They boast millions of dollars of business passed between members and a global franchise.
I’m still new to it (Jon) but very enthused. I’m expecting most of Small Fish’s coaches will be joining a BNI Chapter, too.
We’ll let you know how it goes for us.
Verdict – networking good, BNI looks good but the jury is still out.
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Hear Tim Shaw, Master Salesman, talk about TV Selling on the Internet
Quick notification of the next Pittwater Business Limited Breakfast, October 21st, 7.00 am, Royal Motor Yacht Club, Newport
(If you don’t live near Newport, forgive me – these emails go to everyone we know. We used to be only Northen Beaches based but now we have coaches and clients across the eastern states. Expect to see announcements from our other coaches about other local events. I’m sure you can filter)
Speaker is Tim Shaw of “But wait, there’s more” fame.
He’s a great speaker – engaging and funny – and he has interesting comments to make about selling online and about using video to make it more interesting.
See you there
Jon Dale
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