Thanks to my friend and NLP guru Andie Hemming for this one.  Make sure that all the words in your visuals (powerpoint, keynote, whatever software you use) can be read easily.  Now this might sound like common sense...but it isn’t common practice.  Andie and I heard – and struggled to see – some very clever people give presentations recently, and that was how I tested her assertion that you can really annoy people more than you think by using too small a type size.  Annoy them to the point where they won’t believe you, no matter how persuasive your (small) words are. Why?

Surprise, surprise.  Older workers are seen as less optimistic and more realistic than their younger colleagues. In a recent Department of Work and Pensions report, Professor Dominic Abrams (University of Kent) and colleagues surveyed 6000 UK respondents.  48 per cent of this group viewed age discrimination as a serious issue. 

According to Daniel Pink, carrot and stick methods of motivating people are soooo last century.  So now what are employers, leaders, managers (and for that matter parents) supposed to do? Make some radical changes, according to Pink, because as he says, “there’s a gap between what science says and business does.”  Only when we take heed of the science will we arrive at what he calls ‘Motivation 3.0’.

You want to develop, both personally and professionally.  You’ve asked for training and been told there’s no budget left.  You’re not alone.  Many a budget holder has got part-way through the year to find there’s not enough budget to go round. If you’re affected by this, what can you do?  Here are some thoughts:

Ten pounds for a lot of life coaching is a pretty good bargain.  I tried it and it worked.  No hype, no hocus-pocus, no hare-brained woo woo nonsense.  This is a refreshingly down-to-earth book, based on sound psychology, made totally practical. If you work through the chapters and apply the tools, frameworks and exercises as you go (and keep going) you will coach yourself to change, in 12 chapters. How do they do it?