Career Planning, Learning and Performance

What’s the final deal clincher that persuades the decision maker to employ you over someone else? Give this thought before working on your application process. I’m going to share some popular business/sales and marketing advice with you that I think is conjecture, or just plain wrong, and then ask you to apply it to your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a great way to get stuff done.  Do what you feel like doing when you feel like doing it – but ensure you’re knocking things off your ‘important’ list.  I’m a big fan of this approach to working.  Time Management expert Mark Forster knows how to get stuff done and has turned this approach [...]

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 [...]

. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? No idea. Which came first your career or your lifestyle? Erm… well, your lifestyle had a say in your career choice of course. But your career choice has determined your current lifestyle and will continue to do so.  So, do you enjoy your lifestyle inside and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]