You Live, You Learn – Learn to Learn, Learn to Live

A mad, but good week so far. I’ve done some new things this week and have been helping some other people learn too. That started me thinking about the learning process and the stages on the way to becoming competent at something, learning about learning…

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Are you having a 007 year?

Here we are, almost quarter of the way through the year. Is it a Bond-style 007 year? it is 2007 after all! Is there adventure? How is the mission going? Making progress on goals?

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See yourself on reflection

At the start of my career, early on in my professional education, I was trained to be a reflective practioner. This turned out to be a great foundation. Since then I have spent much of my working life in “two strikes and you’re out” corporate cultures, where it is ok to make a mistake, but […]

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Understanding the reality of the situation – Part I

Many transformational leaders talk about the importance of understanding the reality of the situation, from CEOs to life coaches. It is a foundational leadership skill, but not an easy one to acquire. A solid understanding of the mechanics of situational information is an essential tool for working out what needs doing and doing it, especially […]

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Overwhelmed by the to do list? Get back on track and stay on track

I have to confess that I am a bit of a recovering to do list addict. I’m not sure which bit of me is, but I do know that I used to have a to do list with hundreds of items on it. I almost had a sense of pride in the length of my […]

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What does success look like? Start with the end.

Often the simplest things can be the most transformational; you can get hold of them and implement them. Here is a swift way to deal with procrastination, division and overload in one go. It starts with a question… “What does success look like?” I worked for a leader who started every activity with this question. […]

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Chasing Mice and Eating Elephants

Following on from the discussion about planned abandonment, there was an interesting post over on Ron Martoia’s velocityculture blog, where he talked about hunting elephants rather than mice, with the follow on comment by Ron: “…focused on and how do you align time, energy, creativity and any other resource to the accomplishing of that mission. […]

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