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A collection of blog posts about Personal Development and Self-Improvement.
Planning for Progression: maximise your business case Once you have worked out the best pathway for your career and benchmarked it against the published guidelines you then need to think about what else you can … Continue reading Planning for Progression: Maximise your Business Case
End of Year Review As part of your plan for progression, you should be carrying out an end of year review to assess where you are and what needs to be done. This should be … Continue reading End of Year Review
Planning for progression Start your plan by understanding the traditional and alternative pathways and progression routes. Remember: Promotions are a way for the firm/company to manage numbers and salaries. Therefore there will quite often be … Continue reading Planning for Progression: Pathways and Progression Routes
I was determined to do something more with my lunchtime and not just grab a quick bite and work on through my lunch. At first, I focussed on trying to have lunch with more people … Continue reading Things to do in your Lunch break
Whether it is positive or negative. feedback is always meant to help. Feedback (whether solicited or not) is common in the workplace. In addition to more formal appraisals, people will often just voice their opinion. … Continue reading Positive or negative, feedback is always meant to help.
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
So you have heard of Imposter Syndrome… but what about Tiara Syndrome? Well apparently Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb, the founders of Negotiating Women, Inc. coined the phrase to describe how women often operate in … Continue reading Tiara Syndrome: What is it? What can you do if you suffer from it?
What is Imposter Syndrome? According to Wikipedia: “Impostor syndrome is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. Despite … Continue reading Imposter Syndrome: What is it? What action can you take if you suffer from it?
Last week we discussed assessing your personality perferences using Myers Briggs. This week we are looking at a simple jigsaw tool from Jigsaw at Work which works in a similar way and can be used … Continue reading Understanding Yourself: Relating your Personality Type to Others
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions. The MBTI test is available online, … Continue reading Understanding Yourself: Myers–Briggs Type Indicator – and how it can be used in the workplace