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 [...]

This post can help you tighten up your entire approach in your work.  You’ll increase your productivity based on how much thought you’re prepared to put into this.  Despite how unproductive you may feel airlines are from a passenger perspective, they always strive to be more productive and produce a slicker turn around.  Their survival [...]

The problem a lot of employees have during their work is they get paid to perform a specific set of actions, so they rarely tend to do anything outside of these.  Why should they if they’re not getting paid to?  That’s the common mentality. Unfortunately, the deal they’ve agreed to keeps them firmly in place, [...]

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.

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 [...]

I was at a Learning and Development convention some time back and everyone was asked how to create a ‘learning culture’ within an organisation.  Everyone put forward ideas – the usual mechanical ideas that might work.  Being in to accelerated learning and fast approaches that work, I put forward another idea to the floor.  I [...]