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)
