Career Planning, Learning and Performance

It’s coming your way! Change is everywhere in your life and work right now, sometimes it will hit you head on and bowl you over, and other times opportunities for you to change things will keep popping up, tempting you. But will you change? Will you embrace the change, or even proactively encourage and force [...]

. . Do you work in sales? Yes you do. Do you educate others in your work or life? Your colleagues? Your kids? Then you’re definitely in sales. Educating others is largely a sales challenge. They don’t teach you sales skills at school, but they should. They don’t teach people sales skills outside of the [...]

Attention Mind Mappers! First, Why You Really Should Mind Map I’ve loved mind mapping for years.  Mind mapping has improved the quality of my thinking and learning, helped me generate thousands of ideas, helped me plan for my business, my work and personal life as well as saved me time and effort in many areas.  [...]

I’ve met a lot of teachers over the years who want to get out of teaching.  Why? I’ve also met and worked with lots of people over the years who consider teaching for one reason above all else: because it’s great for the holidays.  What?  What about the longer working part?  And the effect it [...]

I’m going to show you how you can make a huge leap of progress in your career. I meet plenty of people through my work, all at different stages in their career.  It doesn’t take me long to decide which of three general attitudes they have towards their work: 1.  There are those who think [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]