Guy Farmer

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Self-Awareness Coaching and Consulting Expert

Guy Farmer Quick Facts

Main Areas: Self-Awareness Coaching and Consulting
Career Focus: Helping People Become More Self-Aware at Home and at Work
Affiliation: The Self-Awareness Guy

I'm Guy Farmer, The Self-Awareness Guy. I specialize in thoughtful self-awareness coaching and consulting to help creative, forward-thinking people celebrate how amazing they are and enjoy deeply meaningful personal and professional lives.

Visit me at www.theselfawarenessguy.com.

My self-awareness coaching page.

My self-awareness consulting page.

I look forward to chatting with you. Cheers, Guy.

Free Articles & Book Excerpts

What Is Self-Awareness

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/what-is-self-awareness

Ideas to Start Building Self-Awareness

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/52/how-to-start-building-self-awareness

Benefits of Self-Awareness

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/64/10-benefits-of-self-awareness

Think It and You Can Do It

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2863/think-it-and-you-can-do-it

Increasing Your Confidence as a Leader

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2895/increasing-confidence-leader

Leadership and Creating a Happier Workplace

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2887/leadership-training-creating-a-happier-workplace

Are You a Proactive or Reactive Leader?

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2891/are-you-a-proactive-or-reactive-leader

Change and Diversity

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2868/change-and-diversity

Real Communication Versus Information

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2874/real-communication-versus-information

Moving Past Criticism

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2873/moving-past-criticism

Healing Your Workplace

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2950/team-building-healing-your-workplace

Leaders and Egos

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2871/leaders-egos

5 Tips to Stop Micromanaging

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2917/5-tips-stop-micromanaging

Leadership and Being Creative

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2937/leadership-training-are-you-creative-at-work

Leadership and Overcoming Your Fears

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2932/leadership-training-overcoming-your-fears

The Importance of Your Employees

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2910/your-employees-are-the-most-important-people-in-your-workplace

Reduce Stress at Work

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2953/leadership-training-5-tips-to-reduce-stress-at-work

Leadership and Welcoming Change into Your Workplace

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2920/leadership-training-welcome-change-workplace

Why Care about Diversity?

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2925/why-care-about-diversity

Singular. A Poem

http://www.poemsandpoetryblog.com/singular-a-poem-by-guy-farmer/

Team Building and an Employee-Centered Workplace

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2959/team-building-creating-an-employee-centered-workplace

Delegating Is an Art

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2954/the-art-of-delegating

Workplace Political Correctness

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2960/political-correctness-in-the-workplace

Create an Easy Strategic Plan

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2980/leadership-training-how-to-create-an-easy-strategic-plan

How to Run More Effective Meetings

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2979/leadership-training-5-ways-to-run-more-effective-meetings

How to Believe in Yourself

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2972/leadership-training-how-to-believe-in-yourself

In Control. A Poem

http://www.poemsandpoetryblog.com/in-control-a-poem-by-guy-farmer/

5 Ways to Achieve Your Goals

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2970/leadership-training-5-ways-to-achieveh-your-goals

What is Diversity?

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/3011/diversity-training-what-is-diversity

Leadership and Not Being Perfect

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2987/leadership-training-you-dont-have-to-be-perfect

Find Meaning at Work

http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2992/leadership-training-how-to-find-meaning-at-work

I Don’t Know What to Do in My Relationship

http://www.freeonlinerelationshipadvice.com/895/i-dont-know-what-to-do

100 Ways to Be Happy

http://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/3979/100-ways-to-be-happy

Ego Leads to Being Unhappy

http://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/3218/ego-leads-to-being-unhappy

How to Be Happy without Friends and Family

https://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/4419/how-to-be-happy-without-friends-and-family

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The Powerful Secret to Success

There is a secret that many people don't tell you about success and that is within your reach this very moment. You get to achieve it whenever you decide to start taking action. There are three important concepts that can guide you toward great achievements: following your dreams, taking action ...There is a secret that many people don't tell you about success and that is within your reach this very moment. You get to achieve it whenever you decide to start taking action.

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Managing Conflict at Your Organization

The scene is familiar. Two or more amazing people who are dedicated to furthering the wonderful work our nonprofit conducts are actively in conflict. It starts with a perceived slight, follows with silent anger, gradually simmers into personal jabs and eventually escalates into outright confrontation. Well-meaning leaders and managers find themselves mediating a situation they do not have the tools to resolve. The conflict goes unresolved, ebbing and flowing between moderate calm and outright explosion.

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5 Top Characteristics of Ineffective Leaders

I design and facilitate leadership training and have a unique opportunity to examine many kinds of leadership styles and approaches with many smart people. Over the years I've noticed a type of leadership that creates all kinds of workplace distress. It's an approach where a leader is so caught up in his or her own insecurities and limitations that he or she makes everyone else's life nearly impossible. This creates workplaces where people are unhappy and morale is low.

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10 Key Diversity Training Tips

When I talk about diversity training with leaders they sometimes look at me like I'm talking about seeing a ghost. For many leaders and organizations diversity is a bit like seeing an apparition, it kind of creeps them out and they're not sure it's real. I tend to look at diversity training as a tool leaders can use to build stronger workplaces. Here's a few tips to get you started on using diversity to

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Ten Tips to Improve Workplace Communication

My clients often ask me how to communicate more effectively. We all are capable of practicing effective communication we just haven't learned how to actually do it. Here are some basic tips on how to get started.

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10 Reasons Why Soft-Skills Training Doesn't Work

I design soft-skills training programs that help leaders create happier workplaces and I've noticed a recurring pattern over the years: Many people think that you can change behaviors ove ight. They talk earnestly with me about team building or effective communication and expect that a one-day training will resolve everything. I’ve even had leaders and HR managers ask me to change how their employees communicate in one hour.

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Team Building - Practical Tips for Leaders

Team building is an abstract concept for many people. I talk with a lot of leaders who have a general idea about what team building is and that it might help their workplace in some way but, when it comes to actually designing and implementing an ongoing program, they have trouble envisioning how it fits with their other priorities.

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Where Happiness Begins

My clients frequently ask me how to find happiness. Over the years I've noticed that a common characteristic of people who are happy is self-awareness. Self-awareness is a deep understanding of who we are. It literally impacts how we treat ourselves and others and what kind of life we live. Let me give you a real world example to illustrate what I'm talking about.

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Team Building Benefits for Your Workplace

Forward-thinking, proactive leaders and organizations use team building as a vital tool to improve the functioning of their workplaces. When we practice effective team building we improve the morale and productivity in our workplaces. Here are ten key benefits team building produces for your workplace. 1. Reduced conflict. 2. More employee collaboration. 3. Less power and turf struggles. 4. Increased empathy and understanding. 5. Greater sense of a common goal. 6. People feel important and valued.r

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How to Get More Respect

Everyone is on a quest for respect. Parents want their kids to do it, employees want bosses to do it, spouses demand it of each other, teachers ask their students for it and people in general feel good when it happens to them. Why is it then that so many people have no clue what respect means? Let’s take a look at this elusive quality by first defining the term.

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The Path to Happiness

My clients frequently ask me how they can find happiness. While there are many elements that create happiness, I've noticed that a basic characteristic of people who are happy is healthy self-awareness.

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How To Improve Your Relationships

Improving your relationship often requires doing things differently and gathering new information. In this article we've highlighted some useful ideas and advice for people who want to create meaningful and lasting change in their relationships.

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Self-Awareness Coaching

Thoughtful self-awareness coaching to help you discover how amazing you are and live a deeply meaningful life.

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The Self-Awareness Guy

Tips to become more self-aware at work and at home. Brief articles on personal development, leadership, team building, effective communication, and diversity from a self-awareness perspective.

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Self-Awareness Consulting

I enjoy working with open-minded, forward-thinking leaders and organizations to improve the functioning of their workplaces through increasing self-awareness. I specialize in helping organizations get rid of behaviors that don’t work and replace them with ones that do.

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