Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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’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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Most people seem to throw around the idea that you must be a big ‘risk taker’ to make it in business.  It’s a viral message passed between people who haven’t thought about it enough.  Unfortunately it gets passed on to some poor hopeful who is rather risk-averse.  He definitely doesn’t want to risk making himself [...]

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, [...]

This post is about flying solo in business, but the same ideas apply to you in your career too. If you’re flying solo in your work or thinking about flying solo do you know clearly what sort of flight you’re going on?  Have you thought about: where you’re flying to? why you’re flying there? what [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]