Career Planning, Learning and Performance

I hear (according to the New York Times) that publishers are selling more books at the moment to help people get a job quickly rather than getting in to the right line of work.  Rather than using the current economic situation as a chance to put things right in their career and life, many people [...]

This post is written to help you make your own life in and out of work easier.  Imagine if all your employees learned and identified with what I’ve written here.  If they are in the right job, and they are exposed to this information, they are likely to turn it into new actions and results [...]

Most people I come across act for short term gratification, rarely for long term.  It seems that most people’s minds are ‘wired up’ such that they act on things that give them a quick direct obvious return.  They rarely spend their time, money or energy in the present for a return that they’ll experience much [...]

I don’t like ‘corporate speak’.  I think it makes people feel like they’re talking about something important, but often what follows after a corporate buzz word is a lot of impractical ill-thought-out nonsense. It’s often as if once the buzz word has been dropped in, the work is done, and it doesn’t really matter what [...]

How many people do you know who are in the right career?  Who’s earning a living in a highly rewarding way?  Are you? Most people are far from it, and unfortunately it’s the way people think that’s holding them back. Many people think that to find and get in to the ideal career is a [...]

Just a quick thought; what’s the impact on your organisation’s bottom line of how your office looks and feels to work in? I don’t mean, what do you THINK the impact is on your bottom line.  I mean what actually IS the impact? What’s the reality? Because how your office environment looks and feels will [...]

Want to save loads of time in your life? How much time do you spend writing? Think about it.  Surely that’s an area to focus on streamlining a little?  Whether you’re communicating, emailing, texting, or writing notes to yourself, it all takes time to write, re-write, and re-read. I’m not going to tell you how [...]

Question for you: Is everyone in your team in the right job? Are you in the right job? The thing is, when people are not in the right job, you and they are going to struggle.  If the bricks to the wall are the wrong shape, the wall is going to be weak and may [...]

Are you using Twitter to get ahead in your career? Whether you’re on Twitter or not, you should be using it with this purpose in mind, alongside any other you have! I understand that you either get Twitter, or you don’t.  I didn’t ‘get it’ until recently.  Now I not only ‘get it’ but I’m [...]

FREE HELP to the first 20 people who answer 1 question… I will directly provide some thoughts and tips, by email, to the first 20 people who answer this question: What, challenge or frustration in terms of your career, is MOST ON YOUR MIND this year? Many people are fearing job cuts what with the [...]