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Prompt: What Have I achieved so far this year? Hopefully you have been keeping track of your achievements this year as part of your general free-writing in your career journal. However, if you haven’t now … Continue reading Prompt: What have I achieved so far this year?
You have a great idea for your business or the organisation that your work for or you want to carry out a change in your business or organisation by introducing a new product, a new … Continue reading How to: Overcome Resistance to Change
Prompt: 10 things I learned from … Pick a person. Any person. A mentor, a sponsor, someone you go to for advice… and write down 10 things you have learned from them. They can be … Continue reading Prompt: 10 things I learned from…
What is discretionary effort? Discretionary effort is the level of effort people could give if they wanted to that is above and beyond the minimum required. Most organisations only motivate employees to do just enough to … Continue reading How to: Inspire Discretionary Effort in your team
Prompt: Mid Year review How is it going so far? We are now in June. We are half way though the year. We have now had the longest day of the year. Take some time … Continue reading Prompt: Mid year Review: how is it going?
The Science of Persuasion An old video, but a good one on the Science of Persuasion and the 6 shortcuts that we can use to persuade and influence: Reciprocity Scarcity Authority Consistency Liking Consensus Watch … Continue reading The Science of Persuasion
Prompt: What skills do I want to improve? How am i going to do this? One focus when thinking about Career Development is focussing on your skills. Think about what skills you want to improve … Continue reading Prompt: What Skills Do I want to Improve?
Prompt: Tell me about a time when you suffered a set-back. How did you recover? Think about a time when things didn’t go as you planned. This prompt can be a great prompt for practicing/preparing … Continue reading Tell me about a time… When you Suffered a Set back. How did you Recover?
Prompt: What could I have done better this week? This week we are asking you to reflect on the past week. Reflect and think about what you could (or should) have done better this week. … Continue reading Prompt: What could I have done better this week?
Sometimes you just need to get noticed…. This can be hard, particularly in a large team of talent. Be great great what you do – this one goes without saying – if you are good … Continue reading How to get noticed…