Most people, especially senior executives, think they know what they are doing, what they have to do and how to do it. It's their job after all. They know best. What would an executive coach know? What use would a coach, a stranger be in 'our' organisation?
The purpose of the executive coach is not to supplant the executive's management expertise or technical knowledge about the business. As executive coaches we leave that to the experts, the executives themselves. The function of an executive coach is to provide a formidable sounding board, a great support for an already high performing executive who may fall short in certain areas considered critical to the success of the company.
These areas include coming up with creative solutions to difficult problems, thinking outside the square and taking an approach to business decision making that doesn't take a leaf strictly out of the science/art of 'risk management'.
How best to harness innovation and creativity in the executive. Executive cannot be brilliant at everything. They cannot be artists and creativity and innovation requires artistry. As a result they may not be very innovative or creative when coming up with solutions to difficult problems (esp. problems that take a long time to resolve).
Pairing an executive who is very quantitative with an executive coach who is very qualitative can bring out the best in the executive. That doesn't mean an executive coach just needs to be warm and fuzzy. No, an executive coach should also at the same time as being qualitative be highly numerate and bottom line focused themselves.
That is what makes executive coaches unique. They bring an armoury full of skills an experience in the exact subject matter expertise of the executive plus they bring a collaborative "egoless" approach to the job. They share fully and openly of their experience and are prepared to stand side by side with the executive and share both the successes/glory and failures/misery. That is the mettle of an executive coach.
Gaining an understanding of your role as an executive coach takes not only 30 years of corporate experience but sharp skills that allow you to evaluate your subject and determine how to best help him or her.
I have written elsewhere on this web site of a senior female executive who has a paranoid/primal need to be in the limelight. This person always put her photograph on every announcement she makes, even when it is about someone else in her department. On her intranet web page, her photo is bring and shiny.
I find that weird and symptomatic of what is going on inside that person. My guess is that person either did not have a strong father figure and/or was abused as a young child. Her sense of self and identity is with the organisation and she probably works outrageous hours to prove that fact. Now how does one go about helping his person when she herself doesn't know she has a problem.
My approach would be to understand her organisation, which has probably been built in her self-image. She has populated her physical organisation with the fears and shadows that plague her mental self, compensating for weaknesses as she went along. The problem is that these weaknesses are not organisational, they are of the personal self.
My next task would be to understand this 'pretty' person and the hell that is going on inside. Who is the monster within? Who is the monster without? Are they the same? Why this obsession with her portrait. When I wrote of her last, she had her photo regularly on the intranet. Then it was taken off abruptly (maybe someone is cottoning on to the obsessive?).
But you guessed it, her memo is now back on the intranet, spruiking some nonsensical and meaningless announcement using the same tactic as before (some spurious organisational change), her photo is now not on the main intranet site but a link to her intranet site is given with the site featuring her photo (and only her photo). This is one very sick person.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 56
Executive Coaching Approaches to Revenue Challenges
Revenue is the life blood of the company. But what happens if the revenues from the 'cash cows' begin to decline.
What does a major company do when it is faced with a decline in one of its most profitable segments (traditional/old technology/former consumer darling) and new non-traditional segments/products aren't taking the slack yet even though they believe the right strategies, organisation structure, products and marketing are in place?
What are the typical responses of the senior managers and CEO?
Why didn't the myriad of reports tell us of this problem before it became a problem? What about the trend analysis normal in all companies?
Start asking more pointed questions about why this consumer transition was not picked up earlier before it started hurting the company by those whose job it was to pick it up.
Forget the whys, just look ahead and fix the problem. This would tend to suggest that whatever systemic failures caused the problem in the first place still exist & will still exist when the problem is fixed. This is not about finding blame but performing a root cause analysis to determine why the system (not people) failed.
Panic but don't tell anybody, as if they couldn't see it for themselves. Trust blindly in the measures that have been put in place. Someone surely must know what they are doing now?
Patience/wait for the existing strategy to bite and begin to turn the decline around. Monitor the current journey but don't interfere mid-stream.
Change course mid-ocean (before the destination is arrived at). Waste the current investment in the product direction and strategy and go back to the drawing board. Let the existing strategy go forward as a 'lame duck' whilst busily determining an even newer 'better' strategy.
Do nothing, just worry. There is no panic just lethargy, apathy and ignorance. Pro-actively support champion even the status quo. Even if you don't personally support it. Participate in the corporate equivalent of cabinet solidarity. Agree with and espouse a decision you may be opposed to.
Tell yourself, profitability is cyclical. When one goes up, the other goes down and vice versa. This is just a down cycle. If we don't make the revenue targets with this outdated product, then surely something else will pick it up.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 55
Lost that warm glow?
A project manager is leaving an area that I am familiar with. Nothing out of the ordinary with that but most of these PMs never ever tell you why they are leaving. I put it to this guy 'you've had enough right' and he replied 'I don't wake up anymore with that warm glow'.
How not to deal with stress
His way of dealing with stress is to chain smoke almost, take no exercise, eat greasy and fatty foods and drink to excess every night all night, all the while exposed to a punishing environment full of missed deadlines, angry customers and unrealistic timeframes. He is physically very unfit and has a sky high cholesterol level eating huge amounts of red meat and consuming a bottle of red wine a night. Is that you?
Think it will go away if only you can hang a little bit longer. The problem with stress is that it's effect is cumulative. Your body stores it like a battery and only unleashes it when it reaches critical mass and it doesn't take much. Just a small thing and the battery will explode.
If it is bad one day but better the next thinking it is gone for good. A stressful situation can only get worse. There is no such thing as a stress coping mechanism. Stress is bad for you period. These is no way you can live indefinitely in a stressful situation.
Think everything is ok as long as you are able to pull back from the brink (of a break down) every time? It is not and all it is doing is that the pressures are building and building. The key is never to stretch the elastic band to its breaking point and then think you can pull back. At some point or other the elastic will break and the effort required to repair it and you is tremendous and may take two years out of your life.
How to deal with stress
Can a life coach help you get the 'warm glow' and fuzzy feeling back? How? These are some life coaching approaches to dealing with stress (before it reaches the point of no return).
There are multiple approaches to sustain your mental health -
What are your hours like a week? If you are working more than 50 hours on a sustained basis you are heading for trouble. If you are more than 75% occupied during your day you are heading for trouble? If you take work home every night you are heading for trouble.
What can you do in your current job to reduce your stress level? Can you move sections/areas? Can you change jobs within your current company?
Alternatives (paid). Do you have a sidelight that you can run privately whilst still employed?
Interest and hobbies (paid and unpaid). Do you have any other interests that you can turn into a cash paying small business?
Building the platform (health, emotional, relationship and physical fitness) bit by bit every single day and continually nourishing and feeding it with the best that you have.
Avoiding additional stressful situations such as money problems, affairs of the heart and other emotional problems, losing your job, losing your partner.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour can help you re-discover your inner glow by working one-on-one to work on your weak spots and on building your platform for performance.
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 54
Process improvement in a vacuum
There is no such thing as process improvement if it is mandated by a CEO. Process improvement just doesn't work that way and to write a speech or an article or memo to that effect is essentially saying I do not know a brass razoo about process improvement, how to implement it and what its goals are. This 'phrasing' is especially suspect if it is accompanied by an organisational restructure.
Wherever I read of 'best practice tools, processes and expertise' written by a CEO especially written by a CEO I think to myself blah blah blah/yadah yadah yadah. Why this uncompromising attitude to process improvement as mandated by a CEO?
A memo written by a CEO detailing a restructuring is one of the hardest things to get right. It has to strike the right note without instilling fear in people. But sometimes that is impossible when the restructuring is accompanied by large layoffs/retrenchments. Certainly honesty is required but unfortunately
it is not palatable so has to be sweetened.
This usually takes the form of we will work smarter, better with more sophisticated technology to really know our customers. Customers cannot be managed by computer software even the world's most sophisticated CRM and database marketing systems.
People who think like customers manage customers best, software is merely an adjunct and a poor one
at that.
Any large investment in CRM type systems is bound to fail if it doesn't also recruit and train people who can use the software and know when not to.
I know because I am an expert at process improvement and database marketing technology as applied to banking. From the bottom up not from the top down. Because it is not an adjunct to a restructuring, it is not a by product of restructuring, it is not something that will happen naturally as a result of a restructuring.
It is something that has to be developed pro-actively and requires only the best people and real expenditure in training and time for these people to gain the experience necessary (and made mistakes along the way). In short process improvement is expensive and takes a long time to gain traction and it is certainly not mandated from the top down.
Something to be especially wary of in an announcement is something to the effect that 'we will involve you or inform you as we make further changes'. That simply means they will not inform you when they make changes, they will make the changes and perhaps let you know after the event. You may care if you still have a job after the restructuring.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 53
Managers who overwork their managers
Crime and punishment in the corporate workplace
The crime? Not being perceived as hard working enough? The punishment out of all proportion to the crime is being overworked by 250%. The result of sustained punishment? A break down. A hell or more like a purgatory where nothing moves inside you.
One cannot fix an overworked manager situation by giving his work to another similarly overworked manager or to another manager light on who then becomes overworked. That is, overwork and stress is a zero sum game. It is a constant when there is too much work in the organisation and all that can be done with it is to move it from areas/people of high stress to those of low stress but that strategy is quite short sighted.
The problem is there is too much work and not enough resources or there is a normal volume of work (for the resources available) but the resources are not adequately trained to deal with it effectively or the work that is being generated is not useful work or in Six Sigma terminology not part of the 'value stream. That is, work is being carried out that doesn't directly contribute to the main goal.
There may be other systemic reasons why overwork is part of the culture, the very fabric of the organisation. There could be a culture of achievement, a culture of hiring only the very best of the best and expecting the very best from them all the time, which is of course impossible. But the problem is that those high achievers probably don't know or don't care that high achievement for a sustained period comes at a price. If it is sustained too long, the price is a breakdown.
A breakdown is something one would not wish on one's worst enemy. One minute you are able to climb Mt Everest in a day, the next getting out of bed is next to impossible and doing the most mundane of daily tasks is a great struggle against an overwhelming inner inertia. It is as if the inner self has been emptied and is devoid of any motivation and drive. It is a purgatory, hovering between life and death, more death than life, more hell than purgatory.
In some countries it is against the law to overwork your staff but highly paid executives probably don't care about that, what they care about is results which will drive their bonus calculation. Executive health is not only about their health but the health of the people they depend on for their results.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 52
Corporate coaches as employees in a corporate setting
In coaching leadership is side by side not from the front
There are some people who have in their job title the word 'coach' or simply the word 'coach'. Now what do these people actually do? They are used primarily in call centre and contact management environments but they are also used in more formal corporate settings and are also known under the name of corporate advisors.
What are the qualities required of a coach (as employee) in a corporate setting?
An underlying expertise with the subject matter of the group or area the coaching is taking place. This is basic and is usually taken for granted.
A very high reputation generally within the organisation. Not necessarily in the subject matter but as someone who is open, generous and giving.
Someone who doesn't stand on ceremony, on position, on hierarchy.
Someone who is innovative, creative and brings a fresh approach to everything.
Someone who brings a high energy level (properly directed and controlled) to the job. But also doesn't push too far ahead of the people in the group. In coaching leadership is side by side not from the front.
Someone who understands the importance of methodology as sign posts on the coaching journey. There are many coaching journeys and change is one of them, albeit a very important one.
Where change in an organisation is concerned an understanding of Six Sigma & Lean, Project Management, Life and Executive Coaching is highly relevant. The key here is understanding how it is to be applied especially without baffling people with too much double talk and science. Know the technique then coach without ever consciously thinking about it or referring to it.
Be aware of the modern methods of coaching. There are approximately 16 million web sites out there and that is only on the one search engine. What is the right technique? What is the right approach?
The only gauge is whether it resonates with you and means something to you. If it does it is good technique. If the same approach is advocated generally over a number of top web sites, then that is an agreed (and probably an effective) approach to coaching.
In short, a very special person. Now are all employee based corporate coaches that good? No. If they were they would probably be freelancing at $25, 000 per month, not be employed on $65,000 per year. But then the people in the world who operate at the former are extremely few. They are the very best of the best.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 51
People off key in Corporate Environments
Have you met these irritating people in corporate environments where everything they do is off key somehow, always either behind or in front of the game never in line or in tune with the game.
I am not asking for perfection, only the very best corporate performers can approach that, even then they still make mistakes sometimes. I am talking about those performers who are consistently missing the mark.
They somehow don't have the underground sensitive native DNA to perceive what is really going on. They have a perception (false) of what is going on and this base leads them astray in almost everything they do.
They mistake enemies for friends and vice versa. They ask for things way before they're due and should know it. They have no patience when a little patience is probably all that is needed.
They are eager but without being able to express or control it with any finesse.
They have an energy but this energy is flatulent without any rhyme or reason. There is no central nervous system guide. The guidance system is out of control.
These people stand out a mile if you know what you're looking for.
These people makes waves but don't even know they're doing it.
These people try to work with colleagues and associates without knowing that the glue that holds it all together is friendship, amity, trust and respect. They somehow cannot grasp or comprehend these basic needs.
These people have a large father figure missing in their lives. Someone what should have given them the encouragement and reinforcement that they are sadly trying to find in that most soulless of environments: a big corporate. Nobody knows, nobody senses, nobody cares.
These people are uncomfortable wherever they go, in every setting including the social one.
They are gauche, maladroit with people. Some of these clumsy performers may be sociopathic. In fact, there is a great dumb unawareness about them.
The reason they have such a hard time in a corporate environment is that they have no heart, no instinct, no emotional connection with the place.
Ironically, even though a corporate environment is heartless and soulless the people who do have these scarce qualities can use them as currency. These clumsy people are broke.
About Gilbert Labour
Mr Labour is a strategist, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching, project and program management, Six Sigma process improvement and people management.
He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, utilising Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly innovative advice that will create a sustainable competitive advantage. Mr Labour exercises his skills and influence with compassion and deep understanding of the human condition especially where restructures result in overwhelming change and job loss.
He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing and believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across all industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally. He has 30 years corporate experience in these industries.
Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, aviation, retail banking, insurance, outsourcing) faces fundamental challenges to continued survival and prosperity in the 21st Century and Mr Labour is well placed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to uncovering insights for competitive advantage.
He sees the management of strategic, compliance and operational risk as one of the key issues facing executive managers on a daily basis. But not all companies can take advantage of formal Basel II and Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) governance models.
For those companies that are not in the financial industry but still require strong governance around the management of operational risk, Mr Labour is an expert on creating strategies for managing operational risk supported by strong programme management structures to ensure compliance.
He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project and production environments. He has delivered Six Sigma Green and Black Belt process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement whilst maintaining and enhancing employee morale.
He also owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing over 1500 pages of advice and more than 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has also been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles.
He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public. He has also written a book on executive coaching, Executive Coaching for Process Improvement Excellence, that provides daily insights for top managers looking to succeed in today's fast paced environment.
He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a landmark paper on this topic at PMISA 2004 (World Conference on Project Management) in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest and research for coaching and coaches around the world.
For PMISA 2006 he is presenting a paper entitled
Project Management and Six Sigma - a convergent and divergent model. He seeks to develop a theoretical and practical model to extract readily applicable business approaches from both divergence and convergence of these two disciplines.
He will explore whether coaching can facilitate the extraction of some of the benefits of this convergence? This will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented at PMISA 2004.
Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and service.
His unique value proposition is bringing to bear, on difficult even intractable business problems, a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management.
He has a refreshing engaging and vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He does this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.
He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of any recommendations resulting from these engagements. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.
He forecasts a greater demand for people with his unique blend of skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient companies in otherwise dynamic industries face head-on competition from more efficient home grown companies and those companies thriving in the tiger economies of China and India with their vast pool of cheap, educated and trained local talent.
Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type.
Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination.
Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).
Executive Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 9
Process Improvement (PI)
The management consultants can show the way but it is the people on the ground who relish and welcome change who have to create the change it and there are too few of these already
An organisation with say 20-25 brilliant middle managers who are exceptional change agents can do well in the new world of 2010
Nothing causes more argument and angst in an organisation than this subject. It is perceived (perhaps rightly) as a distraction from the day to day business of the business and beside the purpose for the existence of the business. Wrong. PI is the business or one day soon there will be no business. People don't want to
do it and those that do hate it mostly.
In an organisation there are the EXECs (and senior managers) who champion and sponsor the change they want change but won't do the bottom up changes required to make it happen but they will take the credit and the reward when (if) it does. There are the middle managers where the ranks of the change agents need to come from
but there are vast vested interests at work putting a brake on change at that level, the people who are middle managers and making change happen are too few. Finally there are your day workers, your drones they have absolutely no interest in making any change happen so there is no point in looking in their ranks for the change agents.
Working in these constipated spaces are the management consultants, the laxative of the corporate world. They work at the EXEC level putting in place the program and the governance for change but they cannot make the change happen which must come from the too few middle managers who are the only ones who can make change happen by changing things
on the shop floor. An organisation with say 20-25 brilliant middle managers who are change agents can do well in the new world of 2010.
Executive Coaching contributes to and makes possible PI and PI improves the P&L, cost centre bottom line and operational KPIs. That's it sweet and simple. There is no other truer connection in the corporate world. But the problem is that the real world needs to change (operationally) for the numbers to work.
For example if you reduce your household spending budget by 10% you need to cut your consumption and costs by 10% meaning less soft drink or restaurant meals.
Process improvement must connect with and be directed by (and directs) the P&L. There is no other way to ensure PI sticks. It is not enough to improve processes and systems in a vacuum. This vacuum must be filled by the financial aspects of each process improvement effort. Having said that, a PI effort cannot be directed by a management or cost accountant at heart. They have
no imagination, no vision, no innovation in their bones. They are as dry as dessicated coconuts. For PI you need creative and innovative geniuses in the work context. These are few and far between.
It must be directed by a PI professional trained in the Six Sigma methodology. Why? Because at the heart of process improvement is the reduction of defects to an infinitesimal figure and removing waste within the process which is underlying to and underneath the financials associated with the process. The process is fuelled by finance but it is the people involved at the technical, operational
and project management level of the process that can change it.
Can it rightly be said that after PI the same business exists as it did before? No I would say, what now exists is probably a more efficient organisation needing new management and senior staff. The former managers and senior staff simply won't cut it in the new organisation. That much is crystal clear. They will oversee the carnage but will not be there to pick up the 'pieces'. A new management
team needs to be brought in, fresh and without the scars of the cuts made to the former organisation and the associated residual pain and ill feeling that lingers after any major re-structure.
PI will cause fear (of the unknown) and pain (when the unknown becomes known) and it affects someone deeply on a personal level.
About Gilbert Labour. Mr Labour is founding President of the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA). In pursuit of his worldwide life and executive coaching activities he is hosting an Executive Coaching Retreat (ECR) and Workshop in Mauritius in June, 05. This has not been affected by the recent events in South-East Asia.
Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 10
Obesity and the roller coaster ride from nadir to zenith and back
There are five journeys in obesity, which one are you on now?
Why are there obese people when there are people starving in the world? Is obesity a medical problem rather than
one of lack of self-control or perhaps even one using food for sexual/sensual gratification for masking (?) the real problems?
How successful is someone who is 250 kilos at 'masking' or hiding the problem?
The five journeys is obesity are -
Getting there becoming obese, this is the easiest journey of all and happens almost without you knowing. This journey is on the road to death.
Staying there at a steady weight, this is a hard journey because the tendency is to put on more weight not less. This journey is a slow death.
The next journey is one into hell and that is on the road to putting on more and more weight. This is the last journey these people even embark on.
This journey ends in death.
The penultimate journey and the one with the most difficulty starting is the road back away from obesity. The enormous journey back is not the problem
but the first step back, the first gram lost. This journey is not a journey of weight loss but a journey to lose the fears and problems that the weight gain had
temporarily put on the back burner. This second last journey is the life coaching journey and has much less to do with weight loss, exercise and fitness and more to do with
facing problems in their real intensity and fury perhaps for the first time since the decision taken to embark on the first journey.
The last journey and that is to keep the weight at the target weight after the massive task of weight loss because again the tendency is to put the weight back on
even faster than before and much much faster than it was lost. For every gram lost a kilo is put on.
Work with a life coach who understands your weight problem is not a weight problem but a personal problem posing, impersonating a weight problem. Someone who knows which
journey you are on and can make sure you either move to the next healthy journey or stay at the healthy journey you're on.
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The 555 Program is complementary to the 333 Program and is part of a family of programs called The Numbered Series, a simplification of a plethora of products, services and programs into
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The key goals of the 555 Program is to be able to run 5k in 5 months, to solve 5 life coaching issues or problems in 5 months and to investigate and resolve 5 executive coaching problems
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The 555 Program
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dealing with personal issues and an executive stream to supercharge your work, business and corporate environment.
The first stream is a fitness element. The goal is to be able to run 5k (non stop) in five months and be able to lose 5 kilos in the process. This is a modest achievement and is considered a healthy approach to fitness generally.
I am a former fitness instructor and dance teacher and can provide guidance in this area. You will need a clearance from your doctor if you're over 45.
The second stream is a life coaching element. The goal of the life coaching is to investigate a number of current personal issues and focus on 5 for resolution in 5 months. One to be resolved or at least worked on each month.
The third stream is an executive coaching element. The goal of this element is to come up with five goals or issues to be dealt with in the 5 months of the program. These could involve working towards a promotion, changing jobs, changing careers,
leaving the corporate environment and developing a small business. For the hard core executives and other corporate thrivers and survivors there will be a number of areas that include executive interview training and executive decision making that can be covered.
There are many others and these can be chosen based on your current goals. The aim of this stream is canvass all the possibilities and focus on only 5 and work through each one.
The cost of the program varies. To take part on a one-on-one basis with Gilbert Labour will cost $5000. To take part in a group setting will cost $2000. Individual programs can start at anytime considered suitable.
To provide this program on a company wide basis (more than 10 people), please call Gilbert Labour for a quote.
Please call Gilbert Labour on 0409 223 436 if you would like to take part. Further information on the 555 Program is available from the portal.
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I also do a small amount of pro-bono work in the area of life coaching. I belong to the Life Coaching Pro Bono Group (LCPBG), a group of life coaches I am putting together to do this type of work for people in need but who may not be able to afford the services of a full fee life coach. We make allowances for your circumstances and also on the understanding that once you're back on your
feet, your capacity to contribute to your life coaching will also improve.
Generally speaking, we will set clear goals, we will put in place plans to attain those goals, we will execute the plan effectively. We will monitor and survey the results and ensure our goals are met. In most cases, we will envelope what we are trying to achieve into a coaching programme.
I operate flexibly taking into account the needs of the client as we progress with the programme.
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