Category Archives: Personal & Work Values

Are you in a job that’s making you miserable?

August 19, 2010 – 11:32 pm

It’s time to move on … On the Great Leadership blog a little while back there was a post that resonated with me: Don’t settle for a job that’s making you miserable. It got me thinking about so many career clients I have worked with who were miserable in their current roles and who had [...]

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Ten Career Options to Consider

August 10, 2010 – 8:45 am

Success in today’s world of work requires appropriate attitudes and thorough awareness of your employment environment. To these two, you need to add a self-honest but not too modest assessment of your skills, expertise (i.e. knowledge), interpersonal abilities and what factors make up job satisfaction for the uniqueness of you. As you journey through life [...]

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Is your partner stopping you from having the job or career you want?

August 5, 2010 – 1:18 pm

There are many things that stop of us from pursuing the job or career that we really want, including fear of failure, fear of success, loss of income and personal status. One of the greatest blockers to actually going out there and having a satisfying career can be our “significant others”, of which partners hold [...]

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How Pleasing Is Your Personality?

July 14, 2010 – 1:26 pm

The more pleasing it is the more likely success will follow … Anthill recently ran an intriguing article by Joshua Moore ‘The law of success: Lesson 10 – Moulding a pleasing personality‘. The article explores finding the right balance between self-promotion and taking an interest in what others do that you meet and work with.  [...]

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Executives and high income earners continue to strongly endorse job boards for finding jobs: Executive Monitor

March 7, 2010 – 10:57 pm

The Executive Monitor report, a study to understand the work behaviour and intention of Executives in Australia, has been released today. Job boards continue to remain an important channel for executives to find a job. While only 11.6% of executives credited job boards for finding direct employment, the vast majority (67%) planned on using job [...]

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What Your Career Needs Most: Recess

March 3, 2010 – 1:33 am

If you want to get a boost of confidence, become more creative and have healthier relationships, then you need to spend more time playing and goofing off, psychologists say. Being playful provides a sense of “forgetting time, of feeling that your goals are clear, of getting clear and immediate feedback, not feeling bored or anxious,” [...]

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Does Success Hinge Largely Upon Our Enjoyment In Trying?

January 12, 2010 – 10:53 pm

The article, “How Not Achieving Something Is the Key to Achieving It” by Peter Bregman recently published by HBR offers a terrific read. It provides a good dose of inspiration for us all as the year winds down and we focus our thoughts on our goals for 2010. The article highlights a truth that many [...]

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The Paradox of Choice in Life and Work

September 30, 2009 – 12:57 am

In his 20 minute TED presentation The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz provides us with an insightful look at how we are all inundated with too many choices in our modern lives and the different ways that we cope with these. Schwartz highlights the fact that with freedom brings choice, which is a good thing [...]

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The DIY Job Search & Career Change Program

September 16, 2009 – 12:36 am

The Job Search and Career Change Program has been specifically designed as a Do It Yourself (DIY) program. Using the program’s series of five workbooks you will be guided step by step through the process for making a successful job or career change. Price: AU$39.60 Each of the workbooks includes 28-45 pages of information essential to [...]

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Job Enrichment Pioneer Herzberg’s Theory on What Makes for Job Satisfaction

September 2, 2009 – 2:27 am

In last week’s newsletter, there was a post about ‘What Do Most Employees Want From Their Employers?’ which was prompted by an article written by Jacqueline Maley in The Financial Review this week ‘Money not the key, worker survey finds’.  Today there is a lot of research available in regards to what motivates and engages employees. [...]

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