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Career decisions
Assessments within the workforce are often performed by line managers, in this case Graham. Evaluations such as these are used to identify ways in which one can improve and achieve. The downside with only the line manager running the assessment is that you are left with one perception and potentially inaccurate as a result.
In our efforts to achieve work-life balance, we all accept a bit of work bleeding into our non-work lives. But how does this vary with seniority?
Squaring a Circle
I run creativity sessions, helping people to use creative, off the wall ways to gain new insights or potential solutions to difficult problems. I will always see the big picture and I tend to treat the details as irrelevant.
We’re inclined to think that we need to know everything before we take the leap and try something new. I challenge that view.
We talk about Work-life balance as though the two were separate. It is almost as though we are saying that when we are working, we are not living.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”. This lovely quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights a common trap that many managers step into.
I’m pretty sure I can claim to have done more psychometric tests than most people. That may make me sound like a navel-gazer, or a neurotic, but that’s not the reason I jump at the chance to do a psychometric. I do them to learn. Its my business to know as much as I can [...]
I came across this interesting post by Ed Batista on Time Horizons. He points out that different time horizons have relatively different usefulness depending on what you’re planning, and what sort of time frames work for you. His graphics make it very easy to visualise something that is often quite difficult to grasp because of [...]
These days many people are being thrust into the position where they are forced to re-evaluate what they do for a living. It may be a result of losing their job, the threat of just that sort of thing happening, or considering whether this is the time for a complete change of scene. Some time [...]