Career Planning, Learning and Performance

Often you don’t need to learn theory by attending a course or reading – you can extract it yourself from examples and analogies that you’re already aware of.  It’s an incredibly powerful way to learn and make highly memorable connections in your mind. Use What You Know Learning is attaching what you don’t know to [...]

A lot of people come out in a rash when they hear the word ‘theory’. Theory is boring isn’t it?  We want the fun, hands on, useful practical stuff.  What you may not consider though is that the practical experience came before the theory (and will come again if we apply it).  The theory, usually, [...]

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, [...]

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.

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 [...]

If you’re looking for free mind mapping software, the best without a doubt at the time of writing is Xmind No need for me to review it.  I’ve saved you the decision by using the best mind mapping tools available for quite some time. It rivals the commercial Mindmanager for it’s main functions and if [...]

What’s the fastest and most efficient way to make something happen? What’s the shortest distance between 2 points? What’s the straight line between where you’re at and the result you want? Rather than learning, practicing, investigating, trial and error, waiting, and adopting the ‘journey there’ mentality, what could you do to get your result RIGHT [...]

What happens when you’ve run out of steam? Recently I was working on a project with a group of people.  We’d spent a few weeks working on it with a fair amount of drive and progress only to suddenly hit the dreaded ‘slump’ where energy and progress flickered and almost went entirely out.  And interestingly [...]