Habits are coping mechanisms we use in our everyday lives. When we carry out actions without conscious thought, we interact with the world through conscious actions, thinking about it, unconscious actions where we don’t think about it because we formed habit. So why do we form habits? We create habits through repeating task or action […]

Your eyes may be telling you lies as in lying by omission. While your eyes see images in the visual cortex, if your brain has no knowledge or experience of the image you are looking at, you do not see or comprehend it. This is what magicians use to create an illusion. However, once you […]

Recently I was asked to give a speech at a tertiary education provider that offered courses in business. I was in a list of other speakers who were faculty, academics, past students and other business leaders. The purpose of the presentation was to welcome new students to the school. I asked to speak last as […]

Performance Appraisals. Do those two words give you a shudder down your spine? Do you get knots in your stomach waiting to see what someone thought of your job performance over the last period? Appraisals are meant to give you an assessment of the work you have done since you were last assessed. A clear […]

I was in Australia last year running some training programmes, and while I was there I heard from a manager about a meeting in the corporate Head Office of Senior Management of HR and LMD where the topic of discussion was staff wellness. This focus was on staff physical health as well as their mental […]

Understanding why the high failure rate of Client Relationship Management (CRM) or Enterprise Wide Technology (ERP) deployments. People don’t plan to fail however they do fail to plan in a meaningful way. When we start the planning process we naturally only work with what we know and work towards what we know that we don’t […]