November 8, 2009 at 8:31 am (Coaching)
How to find your way here?
Dust Consulting is an Executive & Life Coaching practice headed by Nico Liebenberg, a Research Psychologist who practices as an Executive- & Life Coach.
On your right click under ‘Other Dust pages’ on the page you are interested in. There is a page with all the professional services we offer. Alternatively click under the headings below on the link you want to visit.
Coaching
To understand what coaching is or what it can do for you, click here.
To understand what executive coaching is, click here.
To determine if coaching is something you should engage in, click here.
To be trained as an executive or life coach or to engage in a meaningful process of personal mastery, click here.
Strategic planning
To learn more about the strategic planning we facilitate in organisations, click here.
Team building
For building strong teams that operate on synergy, click here. We pride ourselves on building strong working and especially middle- and senior management teams.
EQ training for sales teams
For developing your sales teams, click here. We have adapted our 5 day EQ training programme for the sales environment.
Leadership development
For developing your middle and junior managers, click here. We present a very powerful Accelerated Leadership Development programme for middle and junior managers.
Our clients
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July 10, 2007 at 5:25 pm (Interpersonal effectiveness)
We were having lunch on father’s day, the whole family. It was actually a very joyous celebration because my father and mother returned from an overseas trip the previous week. We were sharing and laughing and the food was good, very good. My sister talked about the change in her father in law when she was pregnant with his grandchild. He used to think about her as a child until she got pregnant. ‘He then changed’, she said. He started to trust and respect her and thanked her for what she did for his son. She was clearly moved by this experience.
She then related a story about him and his seeking to find closure on certain things in his life now that he is much older. He once took his car and drove back to the land of his origin, Namibia, where he grew up. He was on a mission. He was looking for one of his faithful laborers that use to work for him a long time ago. Not knowing where his foreman would be he moved from village to village inquiring from the people where this man could be? Some people knew this man and directed him until he was eventually led by the children to this foreman.
He found his foreman, an old man sitting around an open fire staring into apparent nothingness. When the father in law saw the man he said his name. The old man looked up with weak eyes and wondered who this man was that said his name. He then said ‘Suiderkruis’ (Southern cross) – the name of the farm where the old man use to work for him and immediately the old man recognised his ‘boss’. They both started to cry as they met – once again. The reunion was beyond words. As the tears subsided they fondly recalled experiences of a lifetime that has passed way too quickly.
As I heard this story I was moved. I was thinking about closing the circle, bringing things to a closure. I was challenged in myself by thinking I should never, ever wait till I am old before I really ‘meet’ people and appreciate who they are. I have the chance to live – now. I have a chance to make a difference – now. I thought to myself, ‘I could not, I should not, ever grow old before I start to appreciate other people or anyone I have the privilege to meet, no matter how briefly. I should make a difference and I should make it in the moment it is granted. I should not wait until life has run its course before I realise that I have ‘now, right now’ to make a difference.
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June 20, 2007 at 8:11 am (Change management, Coaching, Mentoring, Paradigms)
As someone that has a passion to develop people to the optimum of their potential, I have recently run into some kind of tough challenge. Now, for me there is not really such a thing as a problem. There might be challenges and difficult ones at that, but problems, no, not really. You see, it all depends on how you choose to define what happens around you.
Your definition of anything, yourself, your relationships, what life throws at you, your roles as a leader, mother or father, other people’s attitude and behaviour toward you, etc. depend on you – your definition. A business man’s choice of defining himself as a business man determines basically everything he will allow. So it goes for the teacher, the preacher and the prostitute. Depending on your definition of yourself you will experience your world. You allow and experience most things in your life based on your definition of YOU…
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May 31, 2007 at 2:00 pm (Addictions)
Many of us are addicted to something. We all have our drug of choice. For some it is pornography, for others it is alcohol or nicotine or shopping or spending or TV or sport… The point is there is most probably something in your life you just can’t get rid of, although you would love to.
I always ask myself how those with an addiction to food can join a group of people who also want to break free from that addiction and then suddenly things start to happen. They loose weight, they start to feel good about themselves, they eat healthy, etc. etc. – all benefits of deciding to join a group of people with the same desire.
Is it the desire that causes it all? Most probably not, but to change you first need the desire before it can happen. I used to be a Psychologist in private counselling practice and there I saw people changed. Those that changed had one thing in common – they wanted to, they were desperate, they couldn’t stand their current state of existence any longer. Surely there is a lot of credit that can go to ‘desire’ when we talk about change in behaviour. The stronger the desire to change the higher the probability that you would change…
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May 30, 2007 at 9:59 pm (Paradigms)
Let me tell you a story that might encourage you to understand that your paradigm determines what you see, irrespective of what you look at.
Two (separate) American shoe manufacturing companies send their top marketing specialists to investigate the market for shoes in Africa. After two weeks both of them reported back to their respective head offices.
The one’s reply read: “Don’t bother to exploit this market, no one in Africa wears shoes.” The other one’s reply read: “You won’t believe what I have found. The most unexplored market in the world. No one here wears shoes yet.
A wise man once said, “Your context gives you the picture to look at. Your paradigm determines what you see.”
No one lives in a vacuum, unaffected by a (certain) context. We all are bound by a certain context where we live, work and play. No two peoples’ contexts are alike, even if they are alike, their paradigms will differ and that will cause them to see their ’similar’ contexts in a different way.
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May 30, 2007 at 5:44 pm (Entrepreneurial)
The principles of the free-market have worked quite well for most of the Western world. Trading on stock exchanges, allowing people to do business, buying and selling, becoming wealthy, acquiring comforts and security – these are all benefits of the free trade most westerners are accustomed to.
Getting use to something and then losing appreciation for it is also a reality amongst most people. People will travel overseas to visit the museum in your city you have never visited, others will appreciate the beautiful sunsets from the hill of your village where you seldom take the time to go. Yes, it’s true, we get use to things, many things and then we don’t utilise and appreciate its wonders, opportunities and beauty anymore.
I think I am quite accurate in saying that most people are not utilising the free-market system they live in daily. In Africa we have primarily two different mind-sets. The one tend to be more “seasonal-natural”, the other more “colonial”.
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