Recently, I have been reading From Know How to Do How by Dave Corbet and Ian Roberts. Dave was kind enough to send me a review copy of the book and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a book about…
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Personal Development & Professional Success
Are you content with your own performance and productivity at work? Every year, millions of dollars are spent by major corporations on training sessions and courses which are meant to help employees become more productive and efficient in the workplace.…
I Love You But Your Attitude Stinks!
What do you do when the most negative person in your life is your partner? That’s the question I was recently asked by one of our readers. As I thought it was a very good question, I thought I would…
The Laws of Success – Part 10
This post is my summary of Lesson 10 in the Laws of Success in 16 Lessons by Napoleon Hill; it concerns the subject of developing a pleasing, or attractive, personality. Hill uses both terms but, personally, I prefer to think…
Your Image: First Impressions
Its quite remarkable how quickly and abrasively people formulate opinions about others merely based on appearance. At times, there is presumed intersectionality between style socioeconomic status and background. For instance, a girl walks into a designer boutique store, wearing some…
The Games People Play
A number of years ago, I remember attending a workshop in which someone introduced me to the concept of transactional analysis. It is an interesting idea and a useful tool for thinking about conversation and how and why our communication…
Posted in Communicating, Personality, Relationships Tagged with: Customer Service, Inter-Personal Skills, Personality, Soft Skills, Transactional Analysis
What Makes a Good Team Leader?
If there is a single characteristic that sums up what makes a good team leader, it is encapsulated in the little word, trust. High performance teams are high trust units and developing mutual trust, both between individual team members as…
Posted in Management & Leadership, Personality, Relationships, Teamwork Tagged with: Inter-Personal Skills, Leadership, Soft Skills, Team
How to Change
Personal development is fundamentally concerned with the process of change so, in this article, I want to address the question of how to change. As human beings, we are all essentially change-resistant. We don’t really tend to like or embrace…
Posted in Personal Development, Personality, Self Improvement Tagged with: 7 habits, Change, Personal development, Self Growth
Perfection: A Time to Finish
You may remember that we considered the type #1 personality (The Perfectionist) a little while back when we looked at the Enneagram. Today, I was reminded of the importance of getting things finished and I started thinking to myself about…
Enneagram Type 9 – Mediator/Peacemaker
This personality type wants to create harmony between themselves and the rest of the world. They will suppress their emotions for fear of rocking the boat. They believe that you shouldn’t make waves - you can’t please everyone so why bother even…
Posted in Personality, Self Improvement Tagged with: Enneagram, Inter-Personal Skills, Personality, Psychology, Self Growth
