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I was really confused by the new Orange advert. Then I got it. The message seems - to me anyway - to be that everyone we meet in our lives has an impact on who we are now.
Of course this will be true to a greater or lesser extent depending on who it is. For […]

Good employers will have an induction plan in place for all new employees which will include basic things like pointing out the bathrooms and fire exits ( both crucial) to introducing you to your team to sharing history of the organisation to training in IT processes etc etc etc. This plan may take a week […]

It is funny how the topic of focus always jumps into my brain when I have the chance to play golf. Yesterday I had a wonderful afternoon of golf at Archerfield, a course less than a mile from Muirfield ( one of the courses used for the British Open) in the beautiful East Lothian countryside about […]

REFLECT
Think about what you have done in your life so far.This applies whether you are 16 or 60.
Maybe start with your job history - education history if you are just starting out.
Remember what you did. Write it down. Tell a friend. Talk out loud. Identify what happened and your role in that.
Think about feedback […]

The young people I have been coaching through the project for Oracle have included their story in the final presentation to the client.
In the early stages,  when things were a bit - *ahem* - chaotic ,I pointed them to Tuckman’s  “Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing” theory (amongst others) and I was delighted to find that they […]

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