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• Денис Бердник: Коуч, как бонус к регалиям

  Сейчас в резюме людей различных специальностей нередко можно встретить фразы типа: «Тренер по активным продажам и переговорам, коуч», «HR-менеджер, специалист по обучению, рекрутер, коуч» или «Тренер личного роста и успеха, коуч». Примечательно в них то, что слово «коуч» почти всегда сто...

• Jennifer Day: The 10 Habits of REALLY Emotionally Intelligent People

  Not an article per se, but a list 10 Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People (yes, I claim 10 – not 7!) - a list I have found to be remarkably helpful for clients to focus on, helping create REAL and practical transformation. Emotionally intelligent people 1.    Label f...

• Ronda Degaust: What Causes Low Self-Esteem?

  Ask yourself the question, “What is most important in my life?”   What is your first response?    Does financial wealth come to mind or do words such as happiness, health, contentment, love and peace of mind have more resonance with yo...

• Ronda Degaust: Attracting The Perfect Partner

  What may be perfect for you in a partner may not be perfect for your best friend, your mother, father or siblings. Perhaps you are thinking how will I know if I meet the perfect partner for me.   Making The List In order to know what you want….you...

• Ronda Degaust: When The Voices in Your Head Haunt You

  Some people claim to hear voices inside their heads. Many others convey that such individuals are crazy, as it isn’t considered normal. However, it can happen more often than you realize, and in many different ways.    George Miller, well known physiologist...

• Ronda Degaust: Which Emotions Amplify Your Back Pain?

  The back is made up of many muscles, but when we speak of back pain, we usually speak about the spine. The spinal column is a stacking of 33 vertebrae, distributed as follows: cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral. To simplify this I’m going to refer to these areas as lower, middle and upp...

• Ronda Degaust: Living In The Space I All Me

    With so many programs on television to redesign your home to make you feel good, what about the space you are living in every where you go? The space in which you live your whole life no matter where you move, this space is called you.   Feng Shui Your Sp...

• Ronda Degaust: Relationships: What makes them work?

  You may have heard of the saying “You become one parent and marry the other”.   If this is new to you, you may be in for an interesting awakening.   Why do nice women pick not so nice men and vice versa?   <...

• Christine Alexander-Smith: Good Leadership Never gets Forgotten

  Here is a truthful and exemplary homage to Ken Olsen, CEO of digital Computers, who died on Sunday. I can honestly say he was an amazing Leader.  A man who inspired every member of his organisation to want to be the best.   This was not a man wh...

• Guy Farmer: Team Building Ideas: Creating a Healthy Work Family

  Many leaders and organizations say they’re like a family and then behave in thoroughly dysfunctional ways. I've found we get different results if we create a work family that gets along well and where everyone treats each other with respect and kindness; you know, like in a functional family. ...

• Guy Farmer: Diversity Training: How to Get Along with All Your Employees

  Leaders frequently ask me why they can’t get along with certain employees in the workplace.  The answer that most often comes up after some exploration is that they are interacting with others based on reactions, assumptions and behaviors that don’t yield positive results. Many  leaders and...

• Gilbert Aubert: Leadership Lessons from the San Jose Mine

  Leadership Lessons from the San Jose Mine By Dr.© Gilbert Aubert With more viewers than the last World Cup in South Africa, over a billion people wa...

• Guy Farmer: Ten Benefits of Workplace Team Building

  Proactive leaders and organizations use team building as a vital tool to improve many elements in their workplaces. Here are ten key ways team building can positively impact your workplace. 1. Reduced conflict. 2. More collaboration. 3. Fewer turf struggles. 4. Pe...

• Guy Farmer: Effective Communication Tips for Leaders

  Many leaders and managers get frustrated trying to figure out how to communicate well with their employees.  This happens because, in general, we’re taught to communicate by talking at people (giving direction) rather than with them. Talking with someone creates a natural ebb and flow that ...

• Guy Farmer: Team Building Tips for Your Workplace

  I coach and train a lot of leaders who have somewhat of an idea that they’re interested in team building and that it might benefit their workplace in some way but when it comes to starting a program going they feel like they’re in unfamiliar territory. This happens because our standard...

• Bradley Foster: Review: Richard St. John Presents 8 To Be Great

    I saw Richard St. John present a talk on his new book: 8 to be Great: The 8 traits successful people have in common. He interviewed hundreds of successful people to find out what they all had in common (spoiler alert: I’m going to tell you what they are). He distilled the inte...

• Carlos Rosales: How a Business Coach is like a Good Fishing Guide

  When my youngest son Brennan was in high school, he and I would schedule a trip together just before summer ended and the new school year began. If at all possible, our journey would include fishing.   On one such occasion we went to the White River in northern Arkansas near the Bull ...

• George Torok: Presentation Success: The First Question You Must Ask

  Before you deliver your next presentation you must ask yourself one critical question. If you ask yourself this question before every presentation you will create a more effective presentation every time - and you will write it faster. You will be better able to adapt the length of your presentat...

• Annette Simmons: When The Brain Has No Answers, Ask The Body

  Have you ever noticed what you do when you feel bad; fearful, angry, resentful, worried - anything that you might describe as ‘emotional pain’.  Do you groan, wince, sigh?  Perhaps all of the above, or variations thereof?  And, then what do you do?    Perhaps you try to get out of tha...

• Manuel Arturo Cueva, MBA, PCC, NCOC™: Compasión

       El principio de compasión permanece en el corazón de todas las tradiciones religiosas, éticas y espirituales, y siempre nos pide tratar a los otros como nos gustaría ser tratados. La compasión nos impulsa a trabajar sin cansancio para aliviar el sufrimiento de nuestros semejantes...

• Lilliana Gibbs: “Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times” – Winston Churchill

  Lose weight, stop smoking, drink less, be on time, exercise more — perennial issues that many of us struggle to realise. Changes that would make a real difference, yet despite numerous attempts and resolutions, we find very difficult to achieve. All the more frustrating as these are directly unde...

• Ana Almeida Melikian: What is Life Coaching?

      This is a question that many people ask me when I say that I’m a life coach. Sometimes I answer this question with another question: “Do you know the saying : ‘we go where our vision is’? Well, as a life coach, I help people create a clear vision of what they want, and work with them to make ...

• Guy Farmer: Tips on How to Be Happy

  My clients frequently ask me how to find happiness. Over the years I've noticed that a common characteristic of people who are happy is having a strong awareness of who we are and where we are going.  Self-awareness is a deep understanding of who we are. It literally impacts how we treat ourselve...

• Денис Бердник: Хит-парад заблуждений о коучинге

   Как явление молодое в нашей стране, коучинг окружен ореолом таинственности и  загадочности. Как известно, самый лучший способ что-либо понять, это сравнить это с чем-то уже имеющимся. Или додумать недостающее, на основе уже имеющихся знаний. На этой почве у коучинга возникло много толкований, ча...

• Денис Бердник: Колесо баланса

   Колесо баланса — инструмент, который используется для того, чтобы понять с какими сферами своей жизни вам стоит поработать, чтобы достичь гармонии. 1. Составите список, из каких областей состоит ваша жизнь. Например: ·         Здоровье·        ...

• Денис Бердник: Когда коучинг продуктивен

   Коучинг приносит наилучшие результаты, если вы: •    Готовы выйти на новый уровень своей жизни •    Считаете, что настало время двигаться вперед •    Готовы выйти за свои рамки •    Хотите использовать свой потенциал •    Готовы меняться сегодня и сейчас •    Го...

• Денис Бердник: Как воспринимать неудачу

   Прежде всего мне очень помогают две пресуппозиции. 1. В основе любого поведения лежит позитивное намерение. 2. Нет поражений, есть только обратная связь. Они постоянно со мной и все мои неудачи проходят сначала через этот «фильтр». Практич...

• Michelle Ward: Yes (Wo)Man

   "The world's a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it." -- Allison in Yes ManLast week, I finally got to see Yes Man, the romantic comedy starring Jim Carrey. I remember the hulabaloo around the coaching communi...

• Liz Cosline: Why Teams Fracture

  There are symptoms that teams are beginning to not function well even if they have in the past. These manifest in different ways. The most obvious are that more absences begin to happen along with people being late. But more will occur that has to do with attitude. Employees will seem to lose ...

• Mervin Straughan: Why businesses turn to a life coach

   Life's too short to hide our talents. If we are a leader, we need to lead with conviction. If we are an employee, we need to achieve our best. It's well accepted that life coaching coaching can make a major contribution in the workplace because it focuses on human potential and encourages ind...

• Bernard Chanliau: Who is Accountable in Executive Coaching?

  Margaret McHale, MBA student, conducted a primary research project as part of her thesis - Executive Coaching as an Intervention Tool, from the Coachee's Perspective - with the help of Xenergie Consulting Ltd, a long-established executive coaching practice predominantly operating in Ireland and U...

• Liz Cosline: What Gets a Team Noticed?

  Most of the time when a manager, supervisor, or coach takes over a team they are not building it from scratch. Instead a team has been a team for awhile or at the very least a group of people have been together for awhile. At times this is looked at as the team already exists and just need...

• Lilliana Gibbs: Time Well Spent

  We’re all familiar with time management wisdom, but it always seems to involve doing more; So I was delighted to read Stefan Klein’s latest book, Time: A User’s Guide, which explains why we feel stressed by time, and explores our fascinating relationship with time.  ...

• Ana Almeida Melikian: The Three Good Things Exercise

  You can find descriptions of “the 3 good things exercise” in several internet sites, for instance Happier.com. This exercise comes from Positive Psychology - a recent...

• Tom Swank: The One Question You Can't Avoid...

  Regardless of whether you operate a large corporation, home based business or are a sales professional... your future success may rest entirely on one single question. I have come to refer to it as... the “Magic Question”. Where ever you go in the future... a Chamber of Commerce funct...

• Tom Swank: The "Magic" Answer...

  In my previous article “The Question You Can’t Avoid”, I addressed the subject of The Magic Question. I hope that you have earnestly considered how you have fared in the past from your previous responses to the MQ. In like fashion, I also hope that you have begun the process of contemplating how ...

• Professional Coaching Alliance: The journey to success lies on a long and perilous road

  "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (attributed to Lao Tzu – founder of Taoism)  Most of us have heard this saying or variations of it, especially when we feel we have a mountain of tasks to complete and friends are trying to help us get started. The q...

• Jennifer Day: The Hidden Crisis Behind All The Others!

  Headline news tells us about one crisis after another, but the one that underlies them all is never mentioned. The real crisis, the one that we are not addressing but that is behind all the others, is about our emotions. Our emotional states create the behaviour that lead to cris...

• Anita Boska: The Gift of Coaching

  "One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. "-Antoine de Saint-ExuperyCoaching is a powerful tool that allows clients to implement meaningful chan...

• Michelle Ward: The Dreaded Question

   Do any of these exchanges sound familiar, fellow creative?Them: “So…what do you do?”You: “I’m an Executive Assistant.” (leaves out that you’re a certified life coach & kicks ass at it & won’t be an Executive Assistan...

• Jennifer Day: The Coherent Coach

  We don’t need research to show that when we are internally coherent – that is when we feel physically and emotionally balanced, safe and in harmony – our brain works fast and accurately, ideas emerge naturally and effortlessly, we find the right words to say what we want to s...

• Michelle Ward: The 5 Ways I Set Myself Up For Success

   On Monday, June 1st, I graduated with my life coaching certificate from the International Coach Academy. The day started out as a normal one like any other, but when I got home at 6:30p and realized that this night's activity was going to consist of my graduation ceremony, I literally froze...

• Jonathan Flaks: Taking Breaks

  Greetings from the beautiful Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania!Yes, friends, I decided to take a little bit of a breather from the hustle and bustle of New York, and so this blog is coming to you from the serene calm of a two-day vacation. I’m relaxing, playing a bit of golf – a sport ...

• Sue Koch: "Success" vs Success

  What is success? Getting up in front of a room of professionals and posing the question leads to very common answers:  • An esteemed title • A “C-level” position • A significant salary • Owning a luxury car • Living in a extravagant home • Holding ...

• Michelle Ward: Safe is a Four Letter Word

   I’ve been encountering a super bad four letter word lately, spoken by both my clients & myself. The word ain’t s*** or f*** or even crap-tastic. No. The word is safe. And it’s as bad as any of the words I just listed. Now, when I think of safe, I think...

• George Torok: Public Speaker: Do Not Think on your Feet

  Your feet are for walking and standing not thinking, especially when in front of an audience.  Public speakers should not think on their feet. Presenters who try to wing it often fail, and fail miserably. Trying to deliver your presentation by thinking on your feet is an attempt to wing it. Wingi...

• Jonathan Flaks: Preparing for a Peaceful Summer

  With Memorial Day approaching this weekend, officially launching the summer season, there’s a general sigh of relief and well-earned, wide-armed welcome after the very long winter we’ve endured. And while I’m the first one out there dusting off the grill for a summer of sundrenched days of pools,...

• Jonathan Flaks: Powerful Brain Tool

  As an ambassador for the Riverkeeper organization, I value the importance of water – both in our ecosystem and in our bodies. So in honor of World Oceans Day (Tuesday, June 8th, 2010), I decided to share a few benefits that drinking water...

• Ashley Guberman: Notice Where You Stop

  Recently, I heard a very compelling story for why so many of us "stop" in our efforts to get what we want in life before we get them. It is a story about a teeter-totter. On the left side of this teeter-toter are piled up all of the reasons we can't have something... say, a b...

• Mervin Straughan: No one said it would be easy

  Not long after New Year, comments abound in the newspapers and on the radio from readers, listeners, columnists and presenters lamenting their inability to follow through with resolutions.However, as most life coaches tell us, there's no such thing as failure – just fe...

• Mina Watkins: New Year's Resolutions: How will YOU finish 2010?

  A study led by John C. Norcross reported that after 6 months only 46% of people are successful at their New Year resolutions when it comes to mostly three things: weight loss, an exercise program, or quitting smoking.* Another study led by psychologist Richard Wiseman from the University of He...

• Michelle Clarke: Network you Way to Success Shape Magazine Feb 2010

• Morry Morgan: Negotiations: Focusing on what you Need

  You may have heard the story of the two children are arguing over an orange. They are smart kids and soon realise that they each must make a concession in order to reach an agreement. One of them, it is decided, will cut the orange while the other will choose their pieces. They believe that th...

• Michelle Ward: Money is Payment For...

   As a struggling actress, I knew that in order to feed/clothe myself & keep a roof over my head, I had to take as many day jobs as I had limbs. These day jobs equaled money, and comfort, and a Girls Night Out or two. Even though I was auditioning every spare second I had, and taking almo...

• Jennifer Day: Mastering The Elephant!

  Last summer, I came across an analogy in a book (The Happiness Hypothosis by Jonathan Haidt) that struck me as quite clever. Encountering it again a few months ago in another book (Switch by Chip & Dan Heath), my esteem increased by several notches from ‘that’s clever’ to ‘th...

• mario cavolo: Mario Cavolo Gives Us An Overview of News Certified Exchange

  A Special Message from Mario Cavolo: Introducing News Certified Exchange, featured at Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Huffington Post Advisory and coaching often focuses on a client's communication skills and client's facing the media have an even greater opportuni...

• Clayton Mercieca: Is the grass ALWAYS greener on the other side?

    I've had many moments in my life when the thought crosses whether I would be better off if I leave my job for another one, or be single rather than in a relationship, or live life with a different set of values and outlook to life. I think it's a natural tendency for mankind to want or desire t...

• Christine Alexander-Smith: Issues in Maintaining Productivity in Challenging Times.....

  As Corporate UK along with the Public sector wade through the challenging climate, high on their minds will be the thought of how they can maintain productivity in these difficult times.  Most organisations would have restructured and reshaped in order to maintain their competitive ed...

• John Kenworthy: Is leadership more than management, or is it just aspirational?

  There is a debate we need to address, and that is the distinction between leadership and management. Chris Mabey suggests that seperating the qualities of leaders and managers is traced back to Zaleznick (1977). Kotter (1990) rei...

• Bernard Chanliau: Increase Your Top-Line Revenue by 20% with Effective Sales Coaching

  Few companies truly capitalize on effective sales coaching's potential to increase top-line revenue by up to 20%International sales and leadership coach, Bernard Chanliau, explores why many sales coaching programmes fail to hit the markIn the current climate, most companie...

• alberto marcoaldi: i moltiplici sè

   L’uomo è un animale sociale: non mi arrogo la paternità di questa affermazione ma da qui parto per la consiederazione di oggi. Il suo “essere uomo” si manifesta nel suo relazionarsi con gli altri. Ogni individuo esiste a prescindere dagli altri ma ha un senso solo in relazione con altre persone....

• Jennifer Day: Imagine.....

  Imagine a medication that could really slow down the aging process – and I mean really! Imagine that it could also reduce stress, anxiety and depression, help us sleep better, concentrate easier, and perform more effectively at work and in life generally. Imagine further that this...

• alberto marcoaldi: il viaggio del coaching

    Ci sono diverse definizioni, più o meno ufficiali, del coaching.Da quella di wikipedia.... apri la paginaa quella dell’ICF (la associazione di coach professionisti più “importante” a livello mondiale)... apri la paginaIn...

• Guy Farmer: How to Stop Trying to Be Perfect

  I often work with clients who set a goal and then throw all this other stuff on top of it and paralyze themselves before doing anything. They often tell me that they are afraid of doing something imperfect; afraid of messing up. The idea that we mess up comes from many places, very ...

• Guy Farmer: How to Find Your Flow in Life

  We often fight the natural flow of our life by committing all our time and energy to things that don’t really speak to who we really are.  This causes tension and dissonance that is hard to ignore.  We can live our whole lives trying to circumvent our true path but there is another alternativ...

• Patricia Clason: How to do everything you want and still have time left over!

  The feeling of not having enough time is a common one, and it's based on what we've learned.  As children, when we asked our parents to do things for us, we often heard the response, "I don't have the time."  And so we believed them, that there isn't enough time.  We've a...

• Anders Weinberger: How to build an Article?

  Now you can easily create an Article that contains visual, audio, and video elements. When you add a new article, it opens in Edit mode. There, you can add and edit texts and multimedia elements of your choice. At any given time, you can...

• bindu rathore: How to build an Article?

  To build an Article you use Elements (Add Element: at the bottom of the page in Edit mode). There are 4 types of Elements: Text, Picture, Audio and Video. This allows you to bring out a typical article text, or a blog-like post. You can ...

• Michelle Ward: How to Become an Expert While Honoring Your Renaissance Soul. It Ain’t No Oxymoron.

   Last month, I attended a pretty fantabulus webinar where Seth Godin, marketing genius guru extraordinaire deity, was interviewed about career stability in relation to the launch of his new book, Linchpin. While I’ve yet to read the book, I knew that the overall message was that you need to make ...

• Michelle Ward: How is This My Life?

   Chances are, if you're a creative type who's pounded the pavement, you've had a day job. And while you know the benefits of having a day job (roof over your head, clothes on your back, shoes on your feet, food in your mouth), you might have also caught yourself (more than once?) muttering u...

• Jonathan Flaks: Growth & Courage

  Writer and producer Douglas Wood said “Fear of failure has always been my best motivator,” and considering the man has worked with Spielberg, I suppose the sentiment is valid. When it comes to small business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals, however, the “fear of failure” is sometimes les...

• Michelle Ward: Grown-Ups in Mirror May Be the Total Opposite of How They Appear

   Have you noticed lately that the person you’ve been worshiping isn’t as “perfect” or “together” as they seem?Take that friend you envy for her freelance writing career, for example. You see her & think “Someone can make a living as a writer? Awesome!” You might have even been thinking of her...

• Bradley Foster: Gratitude Gives you So Much to be Grateful for...

    I’ve been considering gratitude a lot lately. I never used to think much about it, maybe because it was something I always took for granted and when we are a certain way we don’t give it much of a thought. I notice it now and appreciate expressions of gratitude whether it’s because o...

• Hally Rhiannon Nammu: GO THE EXTRA MILE...

   Perhaps going the extra mile is not about removing the past and all the elements we wish to escape, or in the very least sweep under the rug for another day. Going the extra mile is about stepping up and allowing the potential that exists in each and everyone of us. The ...

• Guy Farmer: Five Ways to See the Big Picture

  What if you could see into the future or have access to more information?  We frequently get stuck staring at what’s right in front of us while amazing opportunities lie just outside our field of vision.  This kind of tunnel vision can keep us from achieving things that might make a huge diff...

• Liz Cosline: Employee Accountability

  Without fail employees will notice when there is a lack of accountability at any business it doesn't matter what industry is being talked about. It is almost certain that employees will test the boundaries. Especially when there is a new supervisor employees will test to see where the lines ar...

• Lilliana Gibbs: Easing the Pain of Change

  Changing behaviour within organisations is much more difficult than we like to think it is. We recognised this recently at Enthum Coaching when we introduced a new CRM system, with a calendar feature. We all agreed it was useful tool, and yet some of us have resistance to using it. ...

• Michelle Clarke: Constant Careerists - Take Heart

  In 2001, the same year of his passing, Thorsons publishers published Heart Surgeon Professor Chris  Barnard’s book 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart.  In this definitive guide, Barnard highlights the obvious lifestyle habits that support a healthy heart—don’t smoke or eat too much fat or fry your food. ...

• Gladeana McMahon: Confident Networking

  Networking is a crucial business skill and many individuals find the concept of meeting new people challenging due to a lack of confidence.  However, when confidence is broken down it is only a set of skills that can be learnt in the same way as you learn to drive a car.   ...

• Mervin Straughan: Comfort zones fence us in

  Many of us set goals to move forward with our lives and often the process requires breaking out of our comfort zones. These zones appear “comfortable” but, in reality, they curb our growth because they fence us in. Breaking free makes us stronger.  Our minds...

• Michelle Ward: Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are….

   The biggest thing I learned when I pounded the pavement as an actor was, well, me – my uniquity, my spark, what makes me different & where I thrive. From those handful of post-college years, I learned that I loved (& got cast!) singing loud & funny; creating new, SNL-like characters;...

• Christine Alexander-Smith: Coaching Through the Threat of Redundundancy

   The UK is currently working through the difficult period, where employees even if they have a job today, are living with the constant threat of being made redundant tomorrow.    Stuck in the realm of what they are currently doing, dreaming of the day when they can become fully engaged in somethi...

• Christine Alexander-Smith: Coaching in the 21st Century

  Coaching in the 21st century is all about designing someone who will personally champion and support your successes, challenge your thinking and stand on that next mountain top encouraging you to take that next step.  Technology and the availability of vast amounts of information, has created a v...

• Christine Alexander-Smith: Coaching - A tool for driving employee engagement in challenging times

  The world climate is now dictating that we find different vehicles to mobilise and engage employees.    Historically coaching has been used for just the senior employees or potential leaders.   Today, this should not be true.   In an environment where it is not always possible to give financial r...

• Jennifer Day: Building Healthy Self-Esteem with Children

  Much has been written on the subject of self-esteem – particularly as it pertains to children – over the last few decades. A great deal of it has been valuable, some of it controversial, and most of it has in the very least contributed to a heightened awareness of the importance of...

• Liv Miyagawa: Brainwash Yourself to Higher Self-Esteem

  Many people who come to me tell me “I have realized that I need to increase my self-esteem, but I really don’t know how”.   Switching from low to high self-esteem is nothing that you do overnight. There are no magic cures. Even I, as a self-esteem coac...

• George Torok: Boardroom Presentations: Sweat like a Horse

  Boardroom Presentations: Sweat Like a HorseMaybe you heard that horses sweat, men perspire and women glow. But in the boardroom everyone who presents sweats – some more than others. If you are in management or want to be, you will need to present in the boardroom. This is the w...

• Carol Simeone Dip LC (Inst LC) Dip NLP: Believe In Yourself

  When you have Low Self Esteem and Low Confidence you tend to view life in a negative way which can make things seem pointless, hopeless, too much effort, you see yourself as worthless, thinking others are better than you.You have difficulty saying what you really feel and want, you la...

• Morry Morgan: Awards in Training

  2007 marked the first year that ClarkMorgan won the 'Training Firm of the Year', an award which at that time was in its 11th year. The award highlighted a rapid rise in the success of ClarkMorgan Corporate Training, which had only begun 6 years earlier in 2001.

• Morry Morgan: Awards in Entrepreneurship

  RMIT alumnus Morry Morgan has been honoured as a finalist in the inaugural Australia China Alumni Association Awards.Morry was shortlisted for the Austrade Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship for his work as founder of aaKen McGarity: A Team Exercise in Defining Terms - Busyness vs Productivity

  Often times we make the mistake of staying busy as opposed to staying productive. Busyness is meaningless and simple activity. Productivity has a definite goal in mind, a process and is measured by results.  - First as a team discuss the difference between being busy and productive. ...

• Jennifer Day: A Study in Delayed Gratification

  Imagine for a moment being four years old, and having an adult give you this proposal: Sit down by a table with a big soft marshmallow on a plate in front of you, while she steps out to run an errand. If you like, you can eat the marshmallow right away. However, if you wait for 15...

• Manuel Arturo Cueva, MBA, PCC, NCOC™: Aprendiendo distinciones de Coaching con mi nieto

  Este año pase 3 semanas de vacaciones con mi nieto de 3 años, quien vive fuera del Perú, el vive en  Torrance  CA, USA.   Primero debo agradecer al Dios y a la vida el tener salud para disfrutar los momentos que estoy con mi  nieto y desde esta gratitud  y de esa experien...

• Mervin Straughan: An email that sends us back to the future

  On the face of it, being able to send an email to our future self might seem like an amusing diversion but it could be an invaluable tool for helping us achieve our professional and personal goals.If we were to receive a message from our past self, how would we measure up to the self ...

• Michelle Ward: 7 Quality Questions For Rockin' Resume Results

  As ironic as it sounds, the day before I published my newsletter with the article Jobs Suck(about how I hate career coaches who exist to "find you your next job" ("job" should be a 4-letter word!) or "fix your resume" (eye roll)) , I found myself spending...

• Michelle Ward: 5 Ways to Stop “Passion” From Scaring the Bejeezus Outta Ya

   Lately, I’ve been seeing something repeatedly that scared me, shocked me, shook me to the core as both a person & as a creative career coach. During talks with clients, & in their written responses to the question, “What are you passionate about?”, I started getting answers like these:

• Hally Rhiannon Nammu: 5 TIPS TO SUCCESS

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