“Life is for Living”.

  

 Also thrown into the mix of the last month, was a John Shackleton seminar that was attended by a large group of our clients and their guests. Once again John really impressed with his talk on health, wealth and happiness. Our staff will be following up with those clients who set 10 week goals at the event, as we would expect our clients to follow up on us with our goals from the event! Those of you who were not lucky enough to get along to the event are invited to look in our library when you next come into our offices as John very kindly left some copies of his book titled “Life is for Living”. As I have mentioned before we have many excellent publications in our library and would encourage all our clients and interested parties to come along to see what is available.

Cheers

Lincoln

Morning Tea Threatens Waistlines

Waistlines are constantly under threat at Campbell Tyson Cooper White. Due to the culinary expertise of many of our staff events such as the recently held International Food Day have resulted in sumptuous feasts being prepared for morning tea. Such was the enthusiasm of the staff involved, lunch and afternoon tea were also catered for. Our active Social Club organise regular events, which combined with the usual birthday party shouts and length of service celebrations result in some pretty amazing morning teas.

As the impact of this wonderful food has become all too obvious for some of our staff (including the writer) other initiatives have been thrown into full drive by our staff. Our recent session with John Shackleton has resulted with more than 50% of the staff deciding upon “body shape” goals and the birth of dieting and exercise clubs amongst staff. We are in the process of organising our Round the Lake relay team for February next year as well as other fitness events. We also have budding half iron men, although this should be referred to as iron women as we are yet to have a man take up the challenge!

Needless to say, our staff are incredibly active, be this working with our clients, on the social scene, or involved in personal development.

Catch you next week.

Lincoln

Goal Setting and Personal Achievement

Goal Setting and Personal Achievement.

At CTCW there is a strong emphasis on staff development. We provide comprehensive in-house training, ensure the staff attend courses put on by the Accountant’s Institute, IceHouse and other organisations that specialise in developing the right knowledge for your staff. We also like to help our staff develop personally. We recently had John Shackleton (http://www.johnshack.com.au/profile.asp) speak to our staff about Goal Setting and Personal Achievement. Everyone came away with a buzz from an afternoon session that had every single person there thinking about what they want and how they can get it. It was an infectious environment, with people setting goals, putting in place rewards (for achieving the goal) and consequences (for not achieving), and even supporting each other in pursuing the goals.

Not one single bean was counted in the entire afternoon. This was an opportunity for our staff to develop themselves as individuals, not accountants. And they loved it! We will be getting John back again on the 24 March 2010, although this time it will be for our clients and their friends. The skills and techniques that John passes on assist not only with clearly defining what is important, but promote the drive and ability to achieve them. We would love to help you and your colleagues get the same buzz that we did at an inspirational event.

If you would like to be part of the Health Wealth and Happiness event please get in touch with me and I will make sure there is a spot for you. John is a superb speaker, being voted 2007 Speaker of the Year by NSANZ, and I am sure you will not be disappointed.

Catch you next week

Lincoln