5 Things You Should Know About Success

Many people are seeking coaching on how to be successful. In the past eighteen months, eighty percent of my client coaching conversations were around personal success. Everyone, from those born with silver spoons in their mouths to those without anything, is born with the need to succeed. Even those who encourage others that it is okay to fail, themselves do not wish to fail. And those who tell you that you cannot bring your successes to the grave also do not wish to be considered a failure. If you are struggling to succeed, consider these five things.

5 Things You Should Know About Time

In the past weeks, the issue of busyness came to my attention because every one of my 6 coachees is struggling with busyness. Busyness is about fighting against time. You may think that it is natural for everyone to struggle with time because there is always a need to want more time. It seems that there is so much to do and yet so little time. Unfortunately, the fact is that you cannot negotiate with time to have more time. Time just slips us. It was like yesterday that we celebrated perhaps one of the quietest Christmas and New Year of our lives. It was as if like yesterday that Covid-19 was declared a pandemic. And 2020 like many other years ended up with so many things left unfinished or yet to be started. Remember that whatever that you are dealing with you must deal with time.  5 things to remember when you deal with time.

5 Things You Should Know About Career Planning

A career is a profession, occupation, trade, or vocation or what one does for a living. A career can also be the progress and actions that one has taken throughout one’s working years, the titles one has earned and accomplished over that time. A career can comprise of the different jobs that one has held in one or several companies, in the same field or career cluster. Whatever form a career takes many people work make a living and hope to find life’s meaning in their work. A good education does not promise a good career and the door to a good life. Many have been disappointed by this belief. There are five things that one should know about career planning.

5 Things You Should Know About Personal Beliefs

In my last blog I wrote that self-awareness is one of the five components of emotional intelligence. In helping people to become self-aware I found it useful to engage them about their personal beliefs together with their strength finder profile or DISC assessments. Johann Goethe points out that “Man is made by his beliefs. As he believes so he is.” (Johann Goethe). So, any discussion on self-awareness should begin with one’s personal beliefs. Here are five things that you should know about personal beliefs.

5 Areas To Sharpen Your Emotional Intelligence

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” (Viktor Frankl) Your response depends on your emotional intelligence (EI). EI (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage one’s own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict. There are five areas that you should pay attention to sharpen your EI

5 Things You Should Know About CliftonStrengths Assessment

The CliftonStrengths Assessment is Gallup’s psychological assessment that is your guide to improve yourself based on your strengths. Donald O Clifton, Father of Strengths Psychology, and Inventor of CliftonStrengths points out that “your weaknesses will never develop while your strengths will develop infinitely.” So, focus on your strength. Fixating on your weakness is simply barking up the wrong tree and you will get nowhere.

5 Things to Consider: Website or Facebook

When I began to represent the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning in Asia (ITOL), I explored whether Facebook could replace a website. As I was not familiar with Facebook, I did some research. These are 5 things that I learned and would like to share with you.

5 Things You Should Know About Best Sellers

Trainers be aware!
As a trainer I depend on good books to keep myself abreast with the latest thinking, especially self-help books, and books on leadership. However recently I was disturbed to hear internet marketers claiming that they can “help” anyone become a bestseller.

7 Trends in Learning and Development

Despite all the anxieties about what is life to be in the new norms, these five trends predicted for learning and development (L&D) last year and earlier this year will continue to unfold as things normalize. These trends are not the new norms but the digital impact on life in general.