Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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 [...]

A lot of people in my seminars say to me ‘but I’m not a creative thinker’.  What they don’t realise is that they have the ability, they just don’t know how to turn it on. Here’s one way: Whatever area you’re trying to get creative solutions for, list the common popular solutions (the way it’s [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Ok, you can’t make them pay you more, but you can make decisions and act to provide more value to those who pay you.  In time you can then justify asking for more money, if you earn it. Your goal should be to always make your ‘customers’ (or boss, or employer) SMILE. That’s it.  Clear [...]

Many people just don’t think things through before throwing themselves in to something.  You have… Your inputs: 24 hours a day – less now after reading this $x x energy Your desired outputs: money enjoyment (or positive feelings) Every second of every day uses some of those inputs, and you get guaranteed outputs, but those [...]