Career Planning, Learning and Performance

. . 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 [...]

This discussion is a bit old now, but something I read got me thinking again.  I’m writing this post to simplify the solution.  This ‘successful’ (I think that term should always be in inverted commas) CEO claims he does everything by email as it’s more effective than using the phone, plus it creates a written [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A great resource on mind mapping and visual thinking/organisation software: http://www.mind-mapping.org You can refine your search based on your operating system.

I’m staying in a lovely huge manor house hotel in the English countryside for 3 weeks. It’s perfect except for 1 thing; one of the receptionists won’t smile.  Worse, every time I have to speak to her she steals my smile from me. I’m sorry for what’s causing her to be like this – there [...]

Clear effective communication is the make or break to just about any result.  All other hard work can fall to pieces if communication is poor. The input of time, money and effort from everyone in a team can go to waste on a poorly communicated message.  Your outcomes and consequences are at the mercy of [...]