Weird Careers and Planned Happenstance Theory

Have you ever wondered how you ended up in your current job or career? Was your career path carefully planned with a specific course and action plan? Are you still in the role you intended to pursue when you graduated from university or school? My guess is probably not. Conversations with people often remind me …

The Coaching “Business” Conundrum

Always interesting to read about the many different flavours of business, executive or career coaching psychology on LinkedIn and the web. Coaching, of course, is fast becoming an ever increasingly popular tool for supporting personal & professional development. With a raft of 2-week life-coaching & business mentoring courses through to MSc qualifications in coaching psychology, there …

Make Your Workplace Training Stick

I have a thing about the lack of evaluation and assessment (E&A) of workplace training & learning, my problem I know.  So while I am getting over that, lets be more positive and look at a few great ways to make your training & learning programmes stick. Needless to say, there are many benefits of …

Freelancers Guide to Staying Motivated

Now I have to declare my hand here. This post is a bit of a catharsis for me. Being self-employed there are times when its a bit like being a resting actor. The Peter Sellers character of the actor  Warrington Minge, who was forever lurching between feast and famine.  Taking his play Fulfilling less Last …

Is LinkedIn your new CV/resume?

Following on from the recent blog on face-to-face networking and how important getting you out and about is for your career, the question now is, has LinkedIn become the new CV/resume? Of course well crafted & up to date CV/resume is primarily a historical document of your experiences, skills, abilities & competencies etc and is still necessary …