My attention is always caught by creativity; because it’s a great springboard to unusual ways of thinking & problem solving. This cab driver’s sign is a great example & got me thinking. What do you carry? The things we carry tell stories. They serve up memories from … [Read more...] about What do you carry (11 cabbages & a grudge against your father for never coming back?)
Fiona Jarvis, from the Canadian High Commission, is this month’s Learning & Development roundtable speaker (the group I founded & facilitate for people interested in learning, training &/or teaching). On Friday, May 18th she’ll guide us through an interactive workshop on Making … [Read more...] about How your tribal dynamics affects your decision making
Are you geared to lean in or lean out? Move towards or away?Here’s what I’m talking about, why it’s important for you to know & what you can do about it. Did you know you’re in the business of change? No matter what you do you’re likely at some point aiming to change behaviours. … [Read more...] about Do you lean in or out? How to tell & what to do about it
Last week I wrote about drive. And how, if you know which of the 6 different types of drives you respond to, you can customize your own way to achieve the goals you want. One of the types of drives is affiliation, which got me thinking. Draw close – pull up your … [Read more...] about It’s been a tough week; here’s my response (& an interactive gift to you)
Think of a goal – something you want to achieve? (And yes, I know goal setting isn’t a sexy topic & it can be confusing but hang in there because it’s important.)Got one (a goal that is)?Have you been slogging towards it? Feeling unsuccessful? Held back? Discouraged? I may have your … [Read more...] about How to id & harness this powerful force that drives your everyday behaviour
There’s IQ, EQ (emotional intelligence) & now GQ (guts or grit quotient). A little girl puts her nose to the table, eyes wandering everywhere but the fluffy marshmallow in front of her face. She’s part of the famous marshmallow experiment, which showed that kids that could delay … [Read more...] about Getting it on with GQ (but not the way you think)
When my kiddos were little I told them about our brain ears. You know, the ears that are buried deep inside your brain that aren’t so smart. The ones that hear you (or someone else) say ‘you can’t do that,’ ‘you’re not smart enough,’ ‘there’s no way you’ll succeed at that,’ … [Read more...] about Sshhh don’t tell your brain ears this effective communication tip
This November it’ll be 20 years I’ve been self-employed (insert a loud & raucous woot woot here; & more on that later). In all that time I’ve never not been paid for a service I’ve delivered. That recently changed. I have a client who hasn’t paid me for a training I … [Read more...] about An unpaid bill, life lesson #38 + continuum thinking
You’re sitting in a really comfortable, deep red, crushed velvet theatre seat. You look up when you hear the swish of matching red velvet curtains open to display an imaginary scene set at a workplace. Relax. Settle back & watch the four act play about employee engagement … [Read more...] about Your employee engagement via a 4 act play
I never meant to get so involved with tech. In fact when a university came asking if I’d design & teach a course on how to use social media for learning, my first thought was ‘who me?!’ That was about 9 years ago & since then I’ve been on an intriguing, useful, practical path towards … [Read more...] about Your 7 day tech challenge for life hacks (+ a gift)
Overwhelm. Unease. Frustration. Despair. Embarrassment. Those are just some of the emotions participants tell me they feel when they’re trying to use technology.I’m here to tell you it not only doesn’t it have to be that way, tech tools can actually serve you & make your life a … [Read more...] about 3 ways you should be using digital tools for life 360 hacks
‘All’ I had to do was to choose a picture of a chair from the ones on my computer screen & drag it to the centre of my screen & then write my name below it. It was an introductory exercise for an online course I was taking. Could I grab that damn chair picture & drag it into … [Read more...] about From overwhelm to organized; technology tips & techniques to serve you
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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