Career Planning, Learning and Performance

Hate to say it but most people are ineffective.  They often don’t get the job done on time AND they don’t get home on time.  No one wins. Effective habits don’t come naturally to us.  Our default setting is ‘ineffective’.  And ‘effectiveness’ was never a subject at school.  It would be ironic in my opinion [...]

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 [...]

These books have all made a great impact on my work over the last 8 years or so.  Highly recommend them all. http://www.epi-learning.com/books.html Any to share with us that have made a great impact on your work?  Post them below in the comments.

This is an interesting article about employers retaining employees: http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/35/0C066735.asp?Type=59&Category=917 It’s true that it’s cheaper for companies to retain than recruit new people.  If you’re considered high value, your employer is likely to try to retain you.  There’s a lot of talk right now within organisations about retaining ‘talent’.  But what if that ‘talent’ (that’s [...]

On reflection I’m not so sure Winston Churchill was right when he said, ‘never give in, never ever give in’.  When he said this in context, it’s fair enough, but the stand alone quote can be dangerous if just blindly followed.  That’s true of many quotes of course.  In context, they’re fine but isolated they [...]

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.

Many people just don’t think things through before throwing themselves in to something.  You have… Your inputs: 24 hours a day – less now after reading this $x x energy Your desired outputs: money enjoyment (or positive feelings) Every second of every day uses some of those inputs, and you get guaranteed outputs, but those [...]