Career Planning, Learning and Performance

The best advice I ever acted upon.  I can hear these words bounce around my head so clearly.  They were the words of my Grandad who sadly passed away a few days ago. When I was very unhappy in my career years ago, he repeatedly said this to me.  I eventually acted on his advice.  [...]

Better Business Businesses do best when they continuously give their ideal customers what they want.  This applies to individuals too (where their customer is their boss or employer). Better Learning Learning works best when the learner learns information using their own strengths.  If you read well, you should read.  If you learn best by video, [...]

This post is about flying solo in business, but the same ideas apply to you in your career too. If you’re flying solo in your work or thinking about flying solo do you know clearly what sort of flight you’re going on?  Have you thought about: where you’re flying to? why you’re flying there? what [...]

These books have all made a great impact on my work over the last 8 years or so.  Highly recommend them all. http://www.epi-learning.com/books.html Any to share with us that have made a great impact on your work?  Post them below in the comments.

Business thinking transferred to your career as an individual can turn your career and rewards around.  Not enough people do it.  They just accept that they’re a cog in the machine.  You’re not a cog if you’re reading this.  You run a business that’s either growing or failing. What’s the Purpose of a Business? I [...]

Ok, you can’t make them pay you more, but you can make decisions and act to provide more value to those who pay you.  In time you can then justify asking for more money, if you earn it. Your goal should be to always make your ‘customers’ (or boss, or employer) SMILE. That’s it.  Clear [...]

You’re either attracting or repelling. At any given moment in your life or career, through your thinking and actions you’re attracting some things and repelling others. It’s cause and effect. You’re attracting or repelling: problems clients employers relationships more work respect attention moods better odds happier moments Are you attracting and repelling the right things? [...]

Reading time 3 mins At the end of this post I offer you 4 decisions to sort your life and career out.  Don’t jump straight to them or you’ll fail to understand and do anything about them. Learn to Get Whatever You Want ‘Learning’ is the key to just about anything.  Anyone can learn how [...]

Who do you work for? Yourself. A lot of people say “I’d love to run my own business”.  They already do, and so do you.  Whether you run it well or not is another matter. I believe this mindset is vital for this new decade.  Those who adopt it now will increase their chances of [...]

This is an interesting article about employers retaining employees: http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/35/0C066735.asp?Type=59&Category=917 It’s true that it’s cheaper for companies to retain than recruit new people.  If you’re considered high value, your employer is likely to try to retain you.  There’s a lot of talk right now within organisations about retaining ‘talent’.  But what if that ‘talent’ (that’s [...]