Category: Business
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Five Micro Skills Essential to Your Sanity and Success in Life, Your Career and Relationships
A different take on how to equip yourself for the future. This is a companion article to my friend and colleague Jade McAndrew-Barlow’s “These 5 Micro Skills Give You Career Agility”. I take a different approach to Jade’s excellent one, so that all the bases are covered. Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash As the last few years…
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The Power of Words
Words have the power to enable or disable, empower and disempower. So with great power comes great responsibility. As someone whose life’s trajectory (see an earlier article) has been focused on development and growth, I have seen over and over again the impact words can have. For some of my students, friends and family a few…
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Just How Stupid is Career Planning?
If you are like me, you were taught the importance of career planning. What we were taught was wrong. Let’s examine why. I remember sessions in school when we looked at career possibilities and discussed, for those of us who were heading towards what in those days was considered a career, how to craft a…
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Has the Workplace Pendulum Swung The Other Way?
Covid had unexpected impacts on the workforce and the changes are not going to go away, nor should they Over my lifetime I have seen a major swing in workplace relations, from significant power in the hands of workers because of widespread and often legally enforced unionism, to the recent years of virtually destroyed unions…
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A Simple Retail Staffing Model
Finding Better Systems With Some Lateral Thinking Photo by Clark Street Mercantile on Unsplash My wife and daughter both work in retail. For my wife this is her career. For my daughter it is something she does when there is not work on for her in the film industry. Both have worked across many businesses, from national chains…
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Lack of Forward Planning — National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 3
Governments are made up of people, and so a government can exhibit all the same ‘personality traits’ that people do. They can be self-absorbed, naturally defensive, forgetful, distracted, following the wrong path, overwhelmed or completely sociopathic. We’ve seen all of the above from governments during Covid-19. Like people, governments need to be encouraged, and sometimes…
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Casualisation of the Workforce — National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 2
This short series of articles examines the deep, long hidden structural issues that many countries have, that have been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous articles in the series have looked at the Lack of Trust in Science. Here is part two. Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash Casualisation of the Workforce Over my working life there have…