Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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.

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 [...]

Who do you work for? Yourself. A lot of people say “I’d love to run my own business”.  They already do, and so do you.  Whether you run it well or not is another matter. I believe this mindset is vital for this new decade.  Those who adopt it now will increase their chances of [...]

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 [...]

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 are the top things you’re sick of, can’t stand any more or just wish would go away?  Go on, remind yourself of them. Positive thinkers will be upset with me at first (but they’ll soon see the good in what I’ve just said). There’s so much focus these days on positive thinking, that I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s simple. First decide whatever it is you lack that you want more of. Start with your career.  What do you want more of?  Earnings?  Respect?  Recognition?  Time off? Then, put more attention on how to get it.  Study it.  Write about it, even privately to yourself. You get more of what you put your [...]