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 [...]

Here’s the common long way to do your job search: (afterward, I’ll show you the fast way) 1. start sighing, and begin your job search (sighing every so often to spur you on) 2. find and read tarted-up job spec ads designed to promise you a wonderful career doing wonderful things with wonderful people (ensure [...]

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 [...]

. . If you could work from home, would you? I find myself having or hearing this conversation a lot. Many people surprise me by saying, ‘I just couldn’t work from home’. What ‘Working From Home’ Really Means What they may be overlooking, is once you work ‘from home’ you’re pretty much managing yourself. So [...]

. . I just finished reading Harvey Mackay’s new book ‘Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door’ which in my opinion had some useful tips in, but was nothing particularly ground breaking.  There were two major points that stood out to me that people should take on board above all others.  The [...]

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 [...]

Here’s some of my thoughts on how your age relates to your work and the value you can provide: Life’s Too Short As you get older, you increasingly realise that life’s too short.  Life’s definitely too short to be in the wrong line of work.  In fact, it’s too short to be in the ‘right’ [...]

It would be tricky to aim to be the best, fastest and smartest in your team.  But certainly fun trying.  However you can and should be one of them, or at least the ‘something-est’ in your team.  Tip: don’t be the lazi-est.  Go for something positive! I learned this idea from Mike Michalowicz who wrote [...]