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Note Taking - How to take better notes and accellerate your career

Note Taking - How to take better notes and accellerate your career

Note taking is an essential skill very few of us get taught, and in business, I see very few people really learning how to take better notes. I’ve found that by taking better notes I’ve felt calmer, more in control of my personal development, remembered more and not

Culture versus Salary - a brilliant way to beat market rates

Culture versus Salary - a brilliant way to beat market rates

Culture versus Salary – We don’t all have the chance to “take money off the table” when hiring, meaning to offer a high salary, above market rates. So, we must get creative and communicate another reason why people join a team – culture. Taking cash off the table is done for

Productivity Systems are simply containers with rules

Productivity Systems are simply containers with rules

Productivity systems are all the rage. Use Bullet Journaling, or Personal Kanban, or Jira, or Trello, or good old fashioned Project Management. In work, outside of work, everywhere – people are promoting productivity systems. But here’s an idea I think is worth playing with. What if we looked at the

How to Thrive in Your Career - 10 valuable ideas

How to Thrive in Your Career - 10 valuable ideas

Here’s how (and how not) to thrive in your career. Picture the scene. The year is 2006 and I’m looking a lot younger, leaner and believe it or not, with less hair. Life is good. I’m growing in my career. I’m starting to see more results

How to be effective AND liked

How to be effective AND liked

In this article and video I will share how to be effective AND liked. Have you ever worked with someone who is uber productive and effective, but they leave a trail of human devastation behind them? They get the job done, but they are disliked. Have you also ever worked

Effective Communication - The 11 Principles of great communicators

Effective Communication - The 11 Principles of great communicators

Effective communication is not easy, but once you master it you’ll find you can transcend industries, work with different people and really solve many business problems. Excellent and effective communication skills are universal. They transcend careers, jobs and industries. They are wholly lacking from most workplaces. They will set

10 Behaviours of Effective Employees

10 Behaviours of Effective Employees

I am so excited to share with you the 10 behaviours of effective employees (at least as I’ve discovered). Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. - Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur and Business Owner Every manager dreams of having