Category Archives: Personal Development

Richard St John’s 8 Secrets of Success

As a student of success I like to hear other people’s perspectives and views. This three minute video from Richard St John is one of the most succinct perspectives I have seen. It’s cleverly pieced together too!
I’m interested in hearing your examples for each of his 8 secrets of success. You can view the short video here.

To start things off I’m a big believer in being passionate about what you do. I love helping people get better at what they do and quite simply rejoice when they achieve the success they are striving to achieve! Recently one of my Executive Coaching clients shared how someone who they thought ‘wouldn’t make it’ in terms of the organisational change he was catalysing had, “had her light come on and could now see what we are trying to create!”. Now that’s a ‘Ka-Ching! Moment’ that re-enfoces why I am passionate about what I do.

The energy that you receive from living your passion, in my view helps us to sustain some of the challenges that are imbedded in the other seven secrets.

What is an example that you might have of implementing one of Richard St John’s 8 secrets of success

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Mastering ‘Effortlessness’

My good friend and colleague Jock MacNeish has recently written a short article about effortlessness. He describes the scene of an old solo sailor manoeuvring his way out of a Flemish seaport.

Jock describes the important role that practice and experience have in enabling people to work out the best way to do what they are doing. I’d also add an openness to learning because without that you won’t keep looking for better and more effortless ways to do what you are doing.

You can read all of Jock’s article here.

What would you add?

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
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Webinar Recording OTM Plan For Personal Success

This is a recording of the OTM Plan for Personal Success™ Introductory Webinar.
In this webinar you will learn about:
* One concept;
* Five principles; and
* Six vital strategies.

That are all required to achieve personal success.

More information on all the options available for creating an OTM Plan for Personal Success™ is available here.

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
Visit Gary at http://garyryans.com

What Really Matters! Volume 3, Number 1, 2011 ebook released

Hi folks!

Please access your free copy of the most recent addition to the What Really Matters! ebook series. Selected articles from January 1st 2011 through to March 31st 2011 have been included in this ebook.

Please download your copy of What Really Matters! Volume 3, Number 1, 2011 here.

Please send your feedback and suggestions for the next ebook in this series to feedback@orgsthatmatter.com .

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
Visit Gary at http://garyryans.com

An Introduction To The Discovering Your Personal Values Activity

As a result of an impromptu request from audience participants after his TEDx Talks ‘Plan For Personal Success’ keynote, Gary Ryan facilitated an exercise to help staff identify their personal values.

This short video includes the introduction piece to this activity.

Please Contact Us if you would like to speak with Gary regarding discovering more about personal values or facilitating a program for your staff.

The complete exercise is included in Gary’s new book What Really Matters For Young Professionals!

Length: 6 mins

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
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What Really Matters! Volume 2, Number 4, 2010 ebook released

What Really Matters! Volume 2, Number 4, 2010 is now released.

This issue includes contributions from Tanya Rutherford and Alicia Curtis.

The ebook is created from the top articles that have appeared on the OTM Academy during the period October 1st 2010 through to December 31st 2010.

Topics include:

  • How to create the conditions for team members to maintain their motivation
  • The role of awareness in providing service excellence
  • Various ways to ensure a consistent and high level of service delivery
  • The link between listening and conversational skills
  • Identifying personal values
  • Workplace trust
  • Problem solving
  • Planning for 2011
  • and much, much more!

As this is a free ebook you have permission to share it with others, providing you do not change or alter the ebook in any way.

You can download the ebook here. 

I encourage you to search the blog tags on this site for all the other free ebooks that are available for you.

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
Visit Gary at http://garyryans.com

Inspire 2011! ebook out now

Congratulations and thank you to all our OTM Academy members who contributed to the creation of our first ever OTM Academy member created ebook – Inspire 2011!

I’m confident that you will agree that after reading Inspire 2011! you will be bursting for 2011 to come along so that you can hit the ground running!

Please note that the entries in this ebook are, for most people, their first written piece to be published, so a huge congratulations to each of them and thanks again for taking the time to make your submissions.

The purpose of this ebook is for it to be shared, so please follow the instructions on page one and share it as broadly as possible.

You can download Inspire 2011! here.

Enjoy!

Gary Ryan

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
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TEDx Talks Plan For Personal Success by Gary Ryan

Keynote speech for TEDx Talks at NAB, Docklands Australia on Thursday 21st October 2010.

Gary Ryan, founder of Organisations That Matter explains the underlying concept and five principles and six vital strategies for creating a Plan For Personal Success.

Please visit here to discover more about our options for creating a Plan For Personal Success.

Gary Ryan enables individuals, teams and organisations to matter.
Visit Gary at http://garyryans.com