“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.” Jay Leno
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Managing Your New Year’s Resolution
Competencies: self-development; self-control
Who benefits: you
Consultant Usage: background material for coaches and trainers
What’s it about? I am continuing to write this [...]
Maybe you’re thinking that this is just the time to head back to school. If you know what you want, you should consider the newer, more narrowly focused programs that have been springing up recently. They’ve been especially noticeable in business schools.
Since 2001, the number of business students enrolled in specialized programs has increased by [...]
“Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.”
John Wooden
The last few Blogs have introduced a powerful performance coaching model that can be used to engage and develop talent at all levels.
I’ve provided this case study and reflective questions in the spirit of seeing how well you have applied the [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about sleep, saying “No,” your pregnancy and [...]
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Managing Your Time
Competencies: self development; self control
Who benefits: you
Consultant Usage: background material for coaches and trainers
What’s it about? Ha! According to blogger Peter Bregman, no person in the business world [...]
My wife put her new cookbook down. Hard.
“It’s another stupid ‘just-like’ cookbook,” she sneered.
My wife hates “just-like” cookbooks. They’re the cookbooks that suggest that any dish, no matter how complex, can be created in half the time of the famous recipe, if not less. They claim it’s “just like the original.”
My wife knows what every [...]
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
Jim Rohn
Each week the Guide Dog trainers work with the volunteer puppy raisers to focus on one specific skill or behavior that the dog really needs to work [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about job search books, advanced degree programs, [...]
“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” Author Unknown
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: New Year’s Resolutions
Competency: self development
Who benefits: you
Consultant Usage: background material for career coaching
What’s it about? It’s the first week of a new year. If you are like about 40% to 45% of American adults, [...]
There’s much ado about “lifelong learning” as a requirement for our fast-changing times, but not much about how you can enrich your life and, perhaps, your career by teaching yourself.
There’s a fancy word for that. It’s “autodidact.” Become one and you join a distinguished club made up of people who’ve taught themselves important things. Members [...]