Posts tagged Personal Development
Learn More About Yourself With An MBTI Assessment
Apr 17th
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the best-known and most trusted personality assessment tool available today. As many as 2 million assessments are administered annually to individuals across the world. The Myers-Briggs® assessment has its roots in Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type. Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, developed Jung’s theory…
Perform Better By Being A Strategic All Rounder
Apr 17th
Being a technical expert in your field will have got you to a certain level in your business or career, however the more successful you are the more it is necessary to demonstrate a wider portfolio of skills. Often you may find you are doing less of the job you are a technical expert in,…
IQ+Experience+ Emotional Intelligence=More Success
Apr 1st
Emotional Intelligence has been around for many years but for many people it seems a little airy-fairy. This blog is about how Emotional Intelligence can help people who are at the top of their game be more successful. Take two experienced qualified specialists in their fields, for example, two accountants…..they are both ready to become…
Do This to Take Control of Your Career
May 24th
It’s quite common practice for jobs to be described in terms of the knowledge, skills and attitudes require to do them. It is often shortened to KSA. Although these days we don’t like the word “attitudes” because it sounds subjective. So I tend to use Values / Company Culture. Good companies will tend to…
How Do You Give Feedback?
Jan 6th
What are you like as a giver of feedback? I always think that the way someone gives feedback says more about the feedback giver than the receiver. What type are you? Are you a “HALF-FULL glass” feedback giver and look for the positive in how you give feedback? Are you mindful about the impact on…
Questions to ask a coach before you engage with them
Sep 30th
You have decided to engage with a coach but how do you go about choosing a coach. There are lots of coaches out there and there are poor coaches and good ones. Coaching is unregulated so anyone can call themselves a coach so how do you find a GOOD coach? Here are some questions to…
10 benefits a GOOD coach can offer you?
Sep 30th
A good coach can help to 1. Raise self-awareness 2. Increase your awareness of others 3. Improve understanding of your impact on others 4. Challenge you to new ways of thinking 5. Problem solving to create change 6. Motivate you 7. Build Confidence / empowerment 8. Clarify purpose / goals 9. Hold you accountable 10.…
When things go wrong unexpectedly
Sep 22nd
Key Lessons Take stock of the situation and deal with the problem Re-assess your diary and slim down what you can to stay on track Accept that it’s not the end of the world and keep focused on getting things done Today I was raring to go with a packed to-do list. Determined and motivated…
Dream Big, Think Smart, Start Small
Sep 22nd
Key Lessons Don’t spend money you haven’t got Invest extra time to find out more before spending money Dream big, think smart, start small I often coach people who want to start a business or have just taken the plunge. Starting with big dreams and then realising that business is not as easy as it…
Feedback Rules Doesn’t It?
Sep 22nd
You want feedback, you ask for it but little comes back? Or what comes back is platitudes or only from the most verbal people. So how do you get real useful feedback from all sorts of people? We all know that feedback can be useful. Even if you hear stuff you don’t want to you…