I’m relatively easily pleased. A lot of reviews do a great job of highlighting the pros and cons of products and services. I can get all excited about something, then see a review that highlights a downside I go “back to the drawing board”. I also like nice things, aka, expensive. So when I spend …
Time Saving! Game Changing! I’ve had this app on my phone forever. It has got progressively better with each iteration so that now, it can pretty much replace my typing. I’ve never used it in this way before, but it just dawned on me that it was possible and it relieves so much resistance to …
How to turn around your worst day ever … Have you ever come home from work (whether you work from home or not), and wanted to just throw something? Like it was the worst day ever! And “worst day ever” was not an exaggeration. It was THE Worst. Day. Ever! (WDE) Now, have you ever come home …
One of the dilemmas of trainers is in ensuring people to retain and apply the learning they have experienced. This is one of my bug bears where I don’t want to spend time with a group, get great evaluations and feel they’ve “got it” only to find very little has been applied. I mean, application …
The SCARF Model was developed by David Rock in 2008. It may seem a deceptively simple model at first, but it creates a broad range of conversations to help develop you develop as well as the people around you and the team/s you lead. SCARF stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness. The model …
When it comes to productivity and to do lists, there is a plethora of apps and processes that promise to alleviate us of our stress and make our lives so much better. Many of these tools help us accomplish those things. But there are also situations where we look at our list, whether it’s in …
Definition: Easily accomplished (Latin, French origins) “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” – Einstein When I started training to be a facilitator, I learnt where the word facilitator came from – facile. To help make things easy to accomplish. That was it, my job was to maker things easier for …
I’m not sure when the “self help” industry started and I’m not sure why it started when it did. Today it’s easy to see why. People are overrun with tasks, deadlines and responsibilities. Not all of which are useful. Many of which could be dropped and no-one would notice. My productivity journey began in 1996. …