Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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 [...]

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 [...]

Super Smart Note Taking for Mac and iPhone Users – 6 Productivity Tips Tip 1: Buy an iPhone – I’m confident you’ll make the cost back if you use it to the full in terms of saved time, money and effort over time (and much more than that if you download and use the right [...]

Its about time I nailed this. Positive thinking is encouraged everywhere you look these days. But I think it can land some people in trouble. How to Think Smart Smart thinking requires looking at potential consequences, both positive and negative of decisions and actions in the short, medium and long term. You want to check [...]

People often say ‘you get out what you put it’.  Rubbish.  You can get loads more back than you put in, if you ‘put in’ to the right places in the right ways at the right times.  Whatever you’re currently getting out of your work, you can almost certainly get much more. How? I learned [...]

I sent this post out as a newsletter back in 2008. For those who missed it, it’s worth a look: My advice this month was given to me 10 years ago by a colleague who I deeply respected.  It still holds true and I often think about it.  He explained to me that to increase [...]

Hate to say it but most people are ineffective.  They often don’t get the job done on time AND they don’t get home on time.  No one wins. Effective habits don’t come naturally to us.  Our default setting is ‘ineffective’.  And ‘effectiveness’ was never a subject at school.  It would be ironic in my opinion [...]