Browsing tagged Reflective Practice
Those who can, do…
5/10/2011 · Leave a commentWhat happens when you decide to take time out and plan to change a life? This is the first instalment of my new journey. While I’m not sure exactly how it’ll turn out, I do know it’s taking me somewhere I want to go. Watch this space!
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Time management, or delusion?
3/10/2011 · Leave a commentGurus of productivity and performance would have us believe there is such thing as time management, but I find that most people are relieved when I announce that time can’t be managed. We all know this really and while I am happy to use the term ‘time management’ as a general concept when talking about personal development and training, we should not use it to delude ourselves.
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The positive power of procrastination
1/10/2011 · Leave a commentProcrastination is often bandied about as implied criticism. I am calling for a new deal for delay, or a proposition for postponing things. Ed Milliband recently spoke about Predators and Producers, those who do nothing and ‘take’ vs those who do something and ‘give’. To stay with the rhetoric of politics, I’m suggesting a third way, Procratination may be Nature’s way of saying ‘not yet’.
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Pause or rewind?
12/11/2010 · Leave a commentRemember when video recorders came along and for the first time we could pause the action to answer the phone or make a cup of tea? What a boon that was.
But at work it is almost as if the opposite is true, there doesn’t seem to be a pause button for email, mobile phones, and multiple demands.
So here are five tips to help you reclaim your day by pressing the pause button.
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Our automatic conflict styles
1/04/2010 · Leave a commentHave you ever wondered why, despite so many best intentions, we still fly off the handle over something trivial? Or perhaps when some well-intentioned soul tries to engage you on an important matter you just keep changing the subject? Why does this happen, and what can we do about it?
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Reflective Practice – key ideas
2/03/2010 · Leave a commentThis download is a brief primer on how to do Reflective Practice. Reflective practice is both a development tool and It means using our experience to draw conclusions and inform how we think and act in future. This results in personal and professional growth, more creativity and increased awareness of how and why we make decisions in our professional lives.
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