Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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, [...]

A lot of people come out in a rash when they hear the word ‘theory’. Theory is boring isn’t it?  We want the fun, hands on, useful practical stuff.  What you may not consider though is that the practical experience came before the theory (and will come again if we apply it).  The theory, usually, [...]

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, [...]

Reading time 3 mins At the end of this post I offer you 4 decisions to sort your life and career out.  Don’t jump straight to them or you’ll fail to understand and do anything about them. Learn to Get Whatever You Want ‘Learning’ is the key to just about anything.  Anyone can learn how [...]

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.

What’s the fastest and most efficient way to make something happen? What’s the shortest distance between 2 points? What’s the straight line between where you’re at and the result you want? Rather than learning, practicing, investigating, trial and error, waiting, and adopting the ‘journey there’ mentality, what could you do to get your result RIGHT [...]

I was at a Learning and Development convention some time back and everyone was asked how to create a ‘learning culture’ within an organisation.  Everyone put forward ideas – the usual mechanical ideas that might work.  Being in to accelerated learning and fast approaches that work, I put forward another idea to the floor.  I [...]

What happens when you’ve run out of steam? Recently I was working on a project with a group of people.  We’d spent a few weeks working on it with a fair amount of drive and progress only to suddenly hit the dreaded ‘slump’ where energy and progress flickered and almost went entirely out.  And interestingly [...]

You’re hired or paid to do a specific job. So you’re kind of a ‘product’, and you certainly provide a ‘service’ to those who pay you.  The thing is, are you the same product/service that you were when you were originally bought in the first place? Of course you’re not.  You’ve learned a thing or [...]