Work Can Be Different

Christine Middleton is the founder of the Gokotta Group, and a business strategist who partners with leaders to develop their brands, create trusted connections with the audiences, and ignite growth. We talk about breaking through conditioning and patterns to create new and more fulfilling experiences, how to initiate change and tune in to what’s most important in your life. Inner truth, self care, resilience and the spirit of Gokotta – the act of rising early to greet the dawn and see the sun rise.

In today’s episode, I talk with Mary Cantwell, founder of Enriched NYC about her 18-year career as a teacher and administrator in New York City, and her decision this summer to take the entrepreneurial leap to open a literacy education company.

Create Boundaries to Keep Crazy Out Reflect back on the last 24 hours. What occupied your time, attention and energy?  If you were pulled away into someone else’s chaos, fear and crazy … no problem. We have some work to do. What we’re experiencing is an information and sensory overload, easily allowing distractions to take us off course. Listen in for 5 tips to take your power back.

Keep the trains running while you're out of the office. For new managers: how to best prepare before you leave for vacation or are out of the office. Tips for making the most of your time off, and giving your colleagues the heads up they need.

How to create a positive mentor relationship at work. Tips for mentors and mentees to build a win-win partnership.

Discover tips to help you focus better at work, whether it's a quick task you need zero distractions to complete, or you need the motivation to complete a bigger, more complex project. Focus is your friend.

Acknowledge your strengths. Take the time to reflect on the great things you are contributing to your team and organization. Learn one of the most important tools to effectively communicating your personal brand.

Are you talking yourself out of success? Discover how you may be diluting your power and impact through weak conversation. Strengthen your communication and speak with impact. Be the observer, stop tearing yourself and others down and align your conversations with what you really want to create in your work and life.

Dealing with a difficult co-worker? In this episode, learn the strategies to handle any difficult person, situation or conversation. Take a step back, gain multiple perspectives and take direct action to create a different experience.

Starting a new job or position as a manager? Here are the 5 tips you need to do to have an immediate impact. Set your vision, know your people, have a 90 day plan, be visible and have a strong voice, and always be sharing your team's value.

In this episode learn how to make your boss work for you; or rather, make the relationship with your boss work for you. The secrets of managing up. Plus tips from both ends of the spectrum: how to deal with a boss who micromanages, and how to deal with a boss who's not engaged in your day-to-day duties.

In this episode, discover 7 tips to make telecommuting work for you. You'll be able to master the polarities of freedom and structure, discipline and flexibility and bring out the best in both worlds for success. #telecommuting #podcastsaboutwork #timemanagement #workfromhome #tipstoworkfromhome

Work sucks! Dread Mondays? Celebrate Humpday and TGIF and live for the weekends? Is this really how you want to live your life, slave Monday through Friday and living for Saturday? Only to feel down on Sunday because you have to start it all over again? What are your familiar, familial or group thinking around work? If it's not giving you energy, it's time to change it. Discover how to rewire your patterning around work and your job for a better, happier experience.

Kick off 2016 by setting goals and strategic direction for your team and yourself. Setting Your Team’s 2016 Objectives Schedule a conversation with your team with this agenda: 1. Celebrate 2015: take time to celebrate the big and little victories from last year. 2. Have a candid conversation: what worked well and what could’ve worked better? 3. Define 2016 goals and priority actions. What do you want to achieve, and how will you know once you achieve them? Plot out your goals, strategies and actions.Be specific. Set deadline or milestone marker. What will you do by when?Plot actions needed to get from where you are now to where you want to go.Set responsibilities. Who is doing what.Discuss needs. Does everyone have what they need to succeed? (technology, skills, equipment …. also what do you need to lock into this …mindset, attitudes)Discuss expectations. Set accountability. Secure agreement. Repeat. Personal Goals: have each team member write down 3 goals: 1) team goal: what they’ll contribute to the team, 2

In this episode, we're tackling bad habits - how to consciously break them and create new neural pathways and patterns of success. Establish promoting habits. Demoting habits attract 4 sisters. Learn insights from yogic science to use the sound current and use daily meditation to break addictions. Learn the 3 minute addiction meditation from kundalini yoga to re-write your neural pathways for more powerful behavior.

Episode 006 - the power of your meditative practice Discover the benefits of meditation, how long you should meditate and the most powerful time of the day to meditate. A powerful meditative practice will help you strengthen and balance your three minds: negative, positive and neutral minds. It will also help you ease stress, build mental stamina and can build the gray matter of your brain.

Episode 05: insecurity is an energy drain. Energy is everything, and it's important as a high performing professional that you identify and plug your energy drains. We lose 30% of our energy to insecurity. Dig deep to find where you may be losing precious energy to insecurity and discover how to reverse the trends. 1. where are you comparing yourself to others, or where are you being self-conscious?2. where are you worrying about a situation or outcome3. where do you believe that you're not good enough, not enough or not worthy? Discover how to overcome self reference with self reverence. Learn to trust. And fake it till you make it, show no insecurity.

In this episode 04, we’re talking about powerful conversations and how you can be a better communicator. In order generate, participate and promote powerful conversations, you need to be aware of your personal frequency and your sound current. It’s all about the energy you are bringing forth through your intention and as you communicate. Draw awareness of this powerful tool, refine your communications and come from a powerful place of personal truth. Value your words. Talk to everyone with reverence. Talk passionately and act compassionately. View every communication as an act of service. Also learn breath techniques to strengthen your sound current and become a powerful communicator. Use your sound current to open the door to powerful conversations. Being a powerful communicator is more than just puffing your chest and steam rolling your way through conversations. Communication is a subtle dance. And you need a mix of strength to lead and sensitivity to listen and hear. Are you aware of your sound current, h

Ep. 03: taking on the workplace bully — whether you’re tolerating bullying behavior or you’re the target of the bully’s actions, you’ll discover how to eliminate this behavior. See it as an energetic exchange, not a battle of the wills. And energy goes and flows when you use it with intention.   Work with a bully or tolerate bullying behavior? When you get to the heart of the problem, bullies get to come in, take all the energy in a situation and use it for their own personal gain. They’re selfish, manipulative and they breed fear. And allowing this behavior erodes team culture, trust and focus. You can positively impact this lopsided energetic exchange with or without direct confrontation. Speak up and say you no longer tolerate this behavior - say it's selfish and bring it back to the greater good. Speak up and ask what the bully really wants - focus on the facts and how to move the team forward, not the emotion. You can also shift the energy away from the bully back to the team's goals (or the project, the