Time to take responsibility for your own development?
It's the New Year. Some people have gone back to work after the break with a heavy heart. Some have decided already that the want a new job in 2010 and ...
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What is affecting your view of the future?
I took this picture to try to capture the breathtaking beauty of the Pentland Hills on the outskirts of Edinburgh when they are covered by snow. It's been almost 3 ...
What do you do if you don’t love your job?
According to the Skills Council in England recent research published this week 74% of the people asked said they were planning to change their career but 25% of those said ...
That’s somebody else’s job
We will all have experienced it. You want something done but the person you are speaking to is not "the right person". Now the good outcome then is when that person ...
What do you do to hide your lack of confidence?
I meet lots of people in all walks of life but there are often some common themes. When teaching speaking skills in particular where I used to expect the least confident participants ...
Business planning – some thoughts in retrospect
In December 2003 I had a conversation with the senior partner of the firm I was working with about whether there was enough work for him to be able to ...
What do you and Tiffany have in common?
Last night I was at a network event where the speaker was talking about brands - in this case aspirational or "must have" brands. As she was explaining how to ...
Retraining – are you too old?
In the current job climate with job losses being talked about more and more and the unemployment rate ( here in the UK anyway) rising the time has come for ...
A follow up on being a bike courier
A couple of days ago I published this post and Daniel of Cascade Couriers commented from a real life perspective "I spent about 8 years somewhere in the middle and finally decided ...
