Improvement

Wednesday 26 July 2017

Business (and Life) Essential Skills

We often talk about our professional skills and how to improve them. Some of the factor we tend to ignore are the bases on which those skills are built on. One effective and reliable method to ensure we have solid bases to build our professional skills is to also develop and master a basic set of skills in our own life: Self-Management: Effectively manages self Clearly lives their own values, beliefs and attitudes Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development Relationship Management: Meets Code of Ethics and professional standards Honest and sincere rapport Trusting and caring association Communication Skills: Attunes with their peers and friends Maintains effective communication Genuinely champions their clients, peers and friends Career Skills: Demonstrates effective listening Demonstrates impactful and effective curiosity for new ideas Moves the clients, peers and friends to action and results Facilitating Progress: Inspires learning and growth Develops goals and action plans Manages accountability and advancement
Monday 24 July 2017

Improvement without change?

Some people want to improve, while at the same time do not want any changes… Other people dream to be a lot more successful while they keep thinking and doing what they always done… I wonder… How are people going to improve anything without making any changes? How are people going to be more successful without changing the way they do things? Knowing that change is a constant thing in life, how is it that so many people resist it?
Friday 07 July 2017

Self-Imposed Limits?

Throughout history, many times people (and businesses) have said that something was impossible and then someone did it. After that it became normal. Examples are that the automobile would never replace the horse, that human would never fly (we also have gone to outer space) and the list goes on and on. I wonder how much farther we could go, how much more we could accomplish if we were to challenge our own limitations… Imagine how many new possibilities and opportunities we could find if we were to replace “impossible” with “I’m possible”…
Thursday 06 July 2017

How suitable to me is my thinking style?

We currently have the mean to assess the level of education, knowledge and problem solving skills. We also heavily use these means when hiring someone or looking for work, among other uses. However, very little focus is put on the drivers behind on the how we use the education, knowledge and how we approach problem solving, “thinking style” is I may. Imagine how much more we could do if we understood and gaged our own thinking style, see where we are and how we can improve it to excel at what we want to achieve, just the same way we can understand and assess our qualifications to do something, like being an accountant. I wonder…
Thursday 06 July 2017

Creating the future

Businesses and people are often concerned with the speed things change in the present… I wonder if it would be better to focus on how to create the future we want to have.
Wednesday 05 July 2017

Imagine, a work meeting or workshop, where the people focus on the message and the process needed to achieve the desired outcome, instead of who gets the credit, what words he or she said, etc.
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