Tapping the unadvertised job market
What’s that?
Do you imagine you must find a job vacancy and then try to fit it? Do you believe you’ll adapt to whatever job you get offered? Would you rather shape the job to suit you? Would you rather have a job that gave you satisfaction as well as the rewards you deserve? Then read on!
Why an unadvertised job market? An employer says…
“It’s expensive to advertise, or use an agency, and time-consuming sorting CVs and interviewing, with no guarantee of getting the right person. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have an enthusiastic and skillful person ready and available just turn Read More...
Comfort Zones, Stretch Zones and Wilderness Skills
Expanding our comfort zone
Many things make us feel good about ourselves: knowing we have done a good job or been helpful to someone or when we are praised for what we’ve done. We feel an inner peace and live within a space that can be called a comfort zone. Each person’s comfort zone will have a unique size and shape. We can extend our comfort zone by experimenting with new behaviours and different ways of relating to other people. I call this going into the stretch zone.
The stretch zone is still pretty familiar to us. We remain in familiar surroundings, with Read More...
The Leapfrog Principle Redefined
What is leapfrogging?
According to John Moravec of Education Futures LLC “Leapfrogging means to jump over obstacles to achieve goals. It means to get ahead of the competition or the present state of the art through innovative, time-and-cost saving means.” www.educationfuturtes.com The power of leapfrogging is that we are not trying to catch up, or keep up, but to overtake. We shift from trying to learn from the one in front, to imagining and then creating a new reality for ourselves. Nations can leapfrog. Corporations can leapfrog. And individuals can leapfrog Read More...