Career Planning, Learning and Performance

. . If you could work from home, would you? I find myself having or hearing this conversation a lot. Many people surprise me by saying, ‘I just couldn’t work from home’. What ‘Working From Home’ Really Means What they may be overlooking, is once you work ‘from home’ you’re pretty much managing yourself. So [...]

A major choke point to improved performance (and the resulting personal rewards) occurs directly after having learned something potentially useful. Thats when all your efforts can fall down. Translating new knowledge, skills and behaviors back to the job is a huge weakness and limitation for most people. Let me tell you one thing about turning [...]

A major choke point to improved performance (and the resulting personal rewards) occurs directly after having learned something potentially useful. Thats when all your efforts can fall down. Translating new knowledge, skills and behaviors back to the job is a huge weakness and limitation for most people. Let me tell you one thing about turning [...]

A major choke point to improved performance (and the resulting personal rewards) occurs directly after having learned something potentially useful. Thats when all your efforts can fall down. Translating new knowledge, skills and behaviors back to the job is a huge weakness and limitation for most people. Let me tell you one thing about turning [...]

Are you playing a game you can win? Are you currently playing in a league you can win? If not, choose a game, or league, or career that you can win. Choose your competition so that you can win in certain areas (and get rewarded appropriately). Of course at the same time you want to [...]

Are you playing a game you can win? Are you currently playing in a league you can win? If not, choose a game, or league, or career that you can win. Choose your competition so that you can win in certain areas (and get rewarded appropriately). Of course at the same time you want to [...]

. . I just finished reading Harvey Mackay’s new book ‘Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door’ which in my opinion had some useful tips in, but was nothing particularly ground breaking.  There were two major points that stood out to me that people should take on board above all others.  The [...]

I think this is a great question to ask yourself every so often.  I ask myself this question a lot.  This post shows how I escape what I’m caught up in.  It works. There’s nothing worse than being (or feeling) caught up in something, whether it’s work, relationships, business, your environment, whatever.  If you feel [...]

Really?  You can be more productive than your computer allows you to be? Yep.  Well, of course your computer is the right tool for certain jobs.  But it’s all too easy to get lazy and try to do everything via your computer.  Ultimately, using your computer for too many things chokes your productivity. Ever heard [...]

Here’s some of my thoughts on how your age relates to your work and the value you can provide: Life’s Too Short As you get older, you increasingly realise that life’s too short.  Life’s definitely too short to be in the wrong line of work.  In fact, it’s too short to be in the ‘right’ [...]