Coaching preparation
Here are some coaching preparation questions you can ponder if you wish: 1. What do you want your next career move to be? (or if it’s easier, what do you NOT…
Surviving corporate restructures
Surviving corporate restructures is really hard. Things move slowly, and it’s painful. It feels like you’re undergoing surgery, but the surgeon is using…
Looking for a job
Looking for a job is tricky. Try these tips. Know your outcome Decide what you want to do next. What’s your “brand”? What are you already known…
Promote yourself
Self-promotion is an essential soft skill. Hiding your light under a bushel may be polite, humility is all well and good, but it doesn’t get you the promotion,…
Introverts
I had a large introverted group of clients recently who wished to behave more extrovertedly. Here are my kindle highlights from Eric Barker’s Barking up the…
What is worth measuring
What is worth measuring? Is what we’re measuring worth measuring, or just easier to measure? Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks…
Smarter data people Podcast: What's in it for you?
Want to build your personal brand, evangelise your personal insights on how to live a productive life, share your productivity hacks? Have you learnt valuable lessons…
Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). BPR your life takes the principles of business process re-engineering and applies them to the way you manage…
What chess teaches us about relationships
If you’re smart and you want to be smarter, this podcast is fabulous. Shane Parrish’s Knowledge Project hits the spot every time. This one, where he…
They're not idiots, they're just not you
I’m a fan of using type tools to give teams insight into what often seem like startling facts to them: that behaviours and preferences are kind of predictable…