Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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 [...]

Happy New Year – I can’t believe it’s 2010! What did you get done in 10 years that you’re proud of? What do you wish you’d done, if only you had the confidence and drive? Your next 10 years starts now.  Where will you be a decade from now?  What will you have earned yourself? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]