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Elisabet

We have made some important changes to the CanBeClub.

There are still 3 membership levels, Free, Plus and VIP, but we have changed the contents and lowered the membership fees. Our Plus level is now only €2/month and VIP only €5/month.

We have done this based on feedback and to make it clearer what the CanBeClub can do for you. 

People keep telling us that they need regular reminders about their goals, dreams and commitments – to really stick to them!

So this will be a main focus for us going forward, finding ways to help you stick to your commitments and reach your goals.

Specifically, as a paying member, you can sign up to our email service, where you get regular reminders about your goal, to motivate you to continue your journey. 

AND half of our membership fees throughout 2013 will go towards cancer research. So joining the CanBeClub helps you help others too. It is a true win-win.

Join the Club, by clicking on the link at the top of the screen, and let us help you achieve your dreams and goals, while contributing to beating cancer! 

Thank you,

The CanBeClub

There’s no time like the present. Every day offers a new possibility to get started. Let’s do it!

Do you have a dream?

Do you have a goal you want to achieve?

Maybe you want to change jobs, start your own company, get fit, loose weight, change a habit or develop a skill. Or something else.

Whatever it is you want to achieve this year (and beyond) – let us help you!

The focus of the CanBeClub in 2013 and beyond is to help you achieve your goals and dreams, big and small.  Will you let us help you?

There are a number of different things we will do to help. Here are some:

• Tips, ideas and articles on the subject
• Goal/dream achievement exercise to get you started
• Paying members can sign up for regular email follow-up relevant to their specific goal
• VIP members also get a personal individual coaching session to kick-start the journey towards their dreams
• In Stockholm, we will run relevant workshops, competitively priced
• Some or our webinars for paying members will focus on the subject too

And it’s a big win-win, because a massive 50% or your membership fee (Euro 4 or 9/month depending on membership level) for all of 2013 will go to cancer research.

We are doing this in memory of two very special people, Susan Jeffers, author of bestseller “Feel the Fear and do it Anyway” and Birgitta Önneryd, my dear aunt, who both passed away a few months ago from CUP, Cancer Unknown Primary.

Are you ready to make 2013 your year of completion? Let us help you make your dreams come true! And help us beat cancer!  Join the CanBeClub today!

Elisabet Vinberg Hearn

Are you a planner?

Planning can help reduce wasted time and effort, by getting the focus right from the start. If we don’t plan, we can end up anywhere! Our actions become more haphazard, and they rarely lead to the results that we want.

Linking back to our previous article, this is equally true for how you manage your work relationships. When you identify your stakeholders as we talked about last time, and start thinking about them, you often realize that they all need different things from you – some will need a lot of involvement and a lot of data and others only want short, occasional updates for example. Make a simple plan – list your stakeholders and next to their name, write what they want/need from you and vice versa, what communication they need from you and how often. You may also want to think about whether their are colleagues around you that you can partner on – you may have the same stakeholders and could benefit from collaboration!

If you plan how to approach your stakeholders, you can both save time and effort, and meet each stakeholders needs better. It’s a definite win-win!

Who are the people you depend on to be successful at work?

Of course a large part of your success is down to you and how you do your job, but no-one can do everything alone – everyone has stakeholders. A stakeholder is someone who has an interest in what you do or who is affected by what you do or someone whose actions can have an impact on you. In summary, it’s anyone and everyone you need to consider in your behaviours and actions, in your decisions. A few examples of stakeholders are: your manager, your CEO, your colleagues, your direct reports, you business partners, your customers, your suppliers and so on. The exact combination is of course different dependent on your job and your company.

Do you have a clear picture of who your stakeholder are? If not, take a few minutes and list them. The following questions can help you do this:

• Who are my stakeholders? Names of people, teams, groups.
• What’s important to them? What do they want? And how can I use that information to meet their needs and interests, so I have their support if relevant?
• How much interest do they have in my work? How much do I need to keep them informed of what I do? Do they want high-level results or details or what?
• How much power do they have over my work? How much do I need to keep them involved in what I do? How can I ensure that I keep having their support if relevant?

Once you’ve considered this, start making a stakeholder relationship plan, where you next to each stakeholders name write what their key interests are and how you need to work with them to be able to achieve your goals. This should include some idea of frequency and content of communication. You may find that there are so many stakeholders involved that it’s hard to really focus on them all – if so, consider prioritizing your most important once at least.

What you come to realize when you start thinking about how you manage your relationships with your stakeholders is that you already DO manage those relationships. But you may not do it as effectively as you could, so it’s well worth thinking and about and planning it. It can also save a lot of time and effort. More about that in the next article which will follow later this week.

Yes, you are.

No-one is an island. Regardless of your job or personal role, you co-exist with other people.

And to be able to successfully perform your role and your responsibilities, you need to be able to manage your work relationships well.

Relationship management is in all our job descriptions (overtly or covertly).

We start a series of mini articles today on the importance of relationship and stakeholder management. Let us know your thoughts on the subject too – what’s worked and not worked for you? What are your observations and recommendations? Please share with the other members. Thank you.

Always take the weather with you.

A great song title by Crowded House.

And a great life philosophy – we can’t rule over the weather, but we can choose how we see the weather. Even if it’s “bad” weather we can choose to not let it affect us. So “always take the weather with you”!

Or maybe it’s the same old fear as before?

Do your fears hold you back? And by fears I mean everything from big fears to small worries. So many of us live our lives with a fearful mind, where we fear to look silly, to make mistakes, to somehow get it wrong.

That’s not a great place to be. So why not start this new year with a new mindset? One of facing your fears, taking small steps each day to do the things your really want to do, to live the life you want to live. It doesn’t have to be big things, the baby steps are usually the most effective as then we can continuously step out of our comfort zone and feel that we develop and grow all the time, one step at the time.

A great resource when it comes to dealing with fears is the bestselling classic “Feel the Fear and do it Anyway”.

This year, we will be raising money for cancer research in memory of my aunt, Birgitta Önneryd, and Susan Jeffers, author of “Feel the Fear and do it Anyway”, who both sadly died a few months ago from CUP, Cancer unknown primary. They were both an inspiration in their own special way and are greatly missed.

One of the things we will be doing is that we will run a few “2013 Special Edition” workshops based on Susan’s book, in Stockholm. And HALF OF THE PROCEEDS will go to cancer research. So if you want to attend one of these workshops as a way to make sure your fears don’t hold you back, look out for the dates that will be published here shortly.

The other thing we will do is that HALF OF ALL THE MEMBERSHIP FEES paid here on the CanBeClub will go to the same research, with immediate effect.

Here’s to a happy, fearless and successful 2013 for you!

Elisabet:-)