The Career Review … a ‘how to’ guide
Practical Tips: Here are some ways you can undertake your own career review What is bringing you down We tend to focus on what we don’t like about our jobs so let’s focus on this. It could be the content of the work (too easy; too much) or relationships with others (bosses/ colleagues/ customers). It […]
Business Models for Teams
I’m again a co-creator, this time for Business Models for Teams Most of us work as part of a team, often these teams could be more effective. I’ve again been a co-contributor to a book from Tim Clark, Business Models for Teams. You can sign up and get a 63-page sample along with additional materials […]
Review of 2016
You maybe thought of doing this 4 weeks ago, and never quite got around to it. But why not do it now, there is no one perfect time, just get on and do it on a miserable cold day like today! Each year I like to review the year gone and make plans for what […]
2017 Personal Branding Trends
As a REACH Certified Personal Branding Strategist I get regularly updates on changes within this area. Not everything is relevant to all my clients, but it’s useful to understand these trends. Less use of text, more use of pictures. It’s getting easier to share images and create videos, so you may like to add some […]
Understanding your strengths
I’ve always been interested in understanding strengths, both mine and with my clients, one reason I’m a psychologist. Psychometrics can clearly be helpful, in particular using the Highlands Ability Battery to understand natural ability and talent, and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and other personality assessments to understand personality. But we can also identify strengths […]
The Difficult Boss
“I’ve got a difficult boss” is something I hear quite regularly and I follow up by asking the person to tell me more. We are different and your difficult boss could be perfect for someone else. Let’s look at some different situations: 1. Does your boss have a point? Is there some grounds to the […]
The Career Review – time to review your job?
It’s Autumn, 3 months till Christmas and a good time to take stock and make some choices to improve your satisfaction with your career or wider life. Is this the time for a Career Review? Time passes on, we know we would like to make a change: to lose some weight, get a new job, […]
Amazing People Videos
I love creating videos and should do more! On many of the pages on my website you will see videos where I bring to life the content on the page. I also create occasional videos on topics, and I should create more. You can find all my YouTube videos via this page Below you will […]
Become a morning person
I wake early, sometimes too early, and find it easy to start work straight drinking my first coffee. On the other hand, I can find it hard to stay up late. But many struggle, and many tell me it takes them till mid-morning to get down to any work. As one of my clients is […]
50 Productivity Tips
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