Six reflection tips

Often when working with new career practitioners on reflective practice, I get a flavour of the learner  being intellectually curious, but r...

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Goal setting research

It is easy to day dream about an idea that we have. However, to move a day dream into the real world can sometimes simply take a conversatio...

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Beginning to reflect

Recently I had a question from a student asking, when we are new to the field, how do we reflect on our practice? A great question. My adv...

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10 tips for a healthier business

If you have business goals, do you find it strange how we can slack about for the whole year, and then - lo-and-behold - at the beginning ...

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Entrepreneurs: the means prescribe the ends

Knowing several entrepreneurs, I don't think it is original ideas that entrepreneurs run on. From what I have seen, it is more often o...

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Ab initio

I came across an interesting Latin phrase the other day, "ab initio", meaning 'from the beginning'. From the beginning. ...

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Making all new mistakes

It is the time of year where we have had a break, and where we plunge into the excitement of a new year. We have caught up with family. We...

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SMART Goals

I have written before about where SMART goals come from ( here and here ), but I have just realised that I didn't ever write an artic...

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Where Brainstorming Comes From

I posted the question "Does anyone know the history and creator of SMART goals" on the HRINZ LinkedIn group page in late Octobe...

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Where SMART Goals Come From

I have written before about SMART goals ( here ) in a search for the founder of this very useful acronym. In that post, I had thought that ...

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SMART Goals - where do they come from?

A colleague of mine, Kelly Mitchell, wrote an article on SMART goals recently (see references below), and reminded me that I had intended wr...

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