Jun
9
Volunteer - to broaden your experience
Filed Under Leadership, Personal development, Personal awareness | 4 Comments
I so often hear people say that they want to get a job in a certain sector but they don’t have the experience that hiring organisations are looking for and they don’t know how to get it.
I also hear about employers who hire for attitude first and will teach skills later.
One of the best ways […]
Jun
6
Maximise your potential - use the technology available!
Filed Under Personal development, Personal awareness, Networking, young people | 3 Comments
Wally Bock in his Three Star Leadership Blog posted about young people helping him with a house move. It’s a great story in itself but I loved his observation
Young people are technologically-savvy in the way that fish are water- savvy!
I spent this afternoon working with young people exploring the uses for social networking in the […]
Jun
3
Too old to get another job?
Filed Under Personal development, Career development, Job search, Personal awareness | 2 Comments
The driver who brought me back from the airport told me that he had retired as a traffic cop a few years before. He had a decent pension so did not need to earn a living but he was bored so he took this job driving and loved it. He loved meeting new people and […]
Jun
2
Making choices - review your opportunities
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“We all have to make decisions on what’s most important to us. There’s a saying:
We can do anything we want, but not everything we want.
So we have to decide what we want most and go for it.”
I read this this morning on Lillie ’s excellent blog and it made me think.
Sometimes we have many opportunities […]
Mar
5
I was invited to a breakfast seminar this morning - starting at 8am - which was quite a challenge for someone who really does her best work between 4 - 6 in the evening. However my fellow delegates - and indeed the hosts - were very chirpy and I was soon bowling along nicely with […]