Finally, Professional Development that Benefits Workers
When your company or organisation pays to send you to do a professional development course, they are doing it for the organisations benefit – and that usually means sending you to training that makes you better at your job.
What your organisation doesn’t generally do is send you to courses that actually benefit your career.
This new Career Catapult coaching and mentoring program has been specifically developed to help employees sell themselves. It will teach you the most important skills for career advancement taken from both the private sector and public service.
For more information, see this article http://life7.com.au/coaching-mentoring/professional-development/career-catapult/
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Improving Brain Capacity For Seniors
Here is yet another great reason to exercise that has nothing to do with your heart, circulation system or resistance to disease etc:
University of Pittsburg researchers recruited 120 sedentary older people without dementia and randomly placed them in one of two groups—those who began an exercise regimen of walking around a track for 40 minutes a day, three days a week, or those limited to stretching and toning exercises.
Magnetic resonance images were collected before the intervention, after six months, and at the end of the one-year study.
Brain images show that the aerobic exercise group demonstrated an increase in volume of the left and right hippocampus of 2.12 percent and 1.97 percent, respectively. The same regions of the brain in those who did stretching exercises decreased in volume by 1.40 and 1.43 percent, respectively.
So, no matter what age you are, if you are doing nothing, you should get up off your backside and get outdoors before it is too late.
Don’t Start with Goal Setting
If you want to change your fortune, you shouldn’t start by setting goals. First you need to benchmark.
Before you consider setting goals for 2011, you should first be honest with yourself and benchmark your strengths, weaknesses etc (SWOT)
Male and Female brains react differently to stress
Fascinating new research helps explain why women are far more sensitive to stress and suffer from stress related illness such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder than males.
The female brains relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala impairs their ability to learn from the experience and ‘move on’.
In experiments with mice, when the connection between these two areas of the brain are cut, the female mouse will learn from a stimulus association.
Supermarket v Farmer’s Market?
In suburbia, most people have no idea when fruit and vegetables are in season. We just go to the supermarket and get what we want. We buy all sorts of produce with no idea about how it was produced, where it came from or in many cases, the best way to prepare it.
The supermarket is a cold place where we are all just consumers. In fact, in many supermarkets we even have to scan our own items and pay the machine. It is all about input and output.
A farmer’s market is a nice reminder that we don’t have to be a number in a supermarket cue. Here you talk to the person who makes the food you eat. They care about you because you are their livelihood, and they take pride in the produce they are selling you.
I, for one, will be voting with my feet.
Earth from the window of a space station
When it comes to a view, this one is hard to top!
Tracy Caldwell Dyson looks relaxed in a moment of contemplation 350 km above the earth.
If you have ever done a meditation, one of the standard ways of beginning is to imagine yourself in a peaceful scene. I can’t imagine it being much more peaceful than this!
This image was taken in late September 2010 from the International Space Station’s Cupola window bay.
Drinking coffee makes you easier to persuade
I’d never heard this before, but apparently apart from keeping us awake, caffeine also makes us more susceptible to persuasion.
Experiments done at the University of Queensland showed that people who drank caffeine were more influenced by persuasive messages than those who had had the placebo.
Read more at http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/11/caffeine-makes-us-easier-to-persuade.php
About Me
Chris Edwards Life Coach
My name is Chris Edwards and I am a personal coach.
I have a great interest in people and personal performance. My clients come to me to improve their business, their relationships and their lives.
The key ingredient in success is Integrity. You must demonstrate integrity in everything you do.
For more on this and how to manage your life, see my personal site http://chris-edwards.com or how to manage your business or the staff in your business, visit my business web site http://life7.com.au
Leadership Coaching- A Visionary Leader Sadly Missed October 7, 2011www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60dheI4ARg Stephen Paul Jobs (1955-2011) was a truly great leader who will be studied for decades to come. He changed the world in so many ways by ‘thinking different’; not just in his range of products and services but in the way he ran his company; Apple Inc. This short interview will give you a [...]
- Workshop Three: Step 3 September 12, 2011Advertising campaign secrets you won’t have time to do and what to do instead. The third in a series of three workshops. In an ideal world, we begin coaching our coaching program with every client at Step One, then we’d move to the material in Step Two, before we begin to look at Step Three; [...]
- Workshop Two: Step 2 September 12, 2011Run your business like a space mission: and discover the Mad Hatter in the cockpit? The second in a series of three workshops. If you haven’t done the first workshop, don’t worry, we frequently start working with clients on the material we’ll touch on in this workshop too. Step One was all about you and [...]
- Workshop One: Step 1 September 12, 2011What every business owner needs to know about people: and how to float your boat! The first in a series of three workshops. This workshop is all about people, because without great people, your business will sink. Your people are your greatest asset, and no one is more important to the success of your business [...]
- 3 Steps in the Right Direction September 6, 2011Business Performance Workshop Series “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin The Problem According to the ACT & Region Chamber of Commerce & Industry, many people, when thinking about starting a business, have ‘stars in their eyes’ and fairly unrealistic expectations about business ownershi […]
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- Living Proof – You Can Do Anything March 28, 2011Last week the community of Hall put on a little fundraiser for Deborah De Williams as she passed through Hall on her world record run around Australia. With her fantastic support crew of Karin and Owen (mum and dad); partner, Glyn; and her faithful Border Collie, Maggie, Deborah has jogged over 16,000km of her 17,407km journey [...]
- Building Business March 17, 2011I’m very aware that it is a long time since I put a post up on this blog, in fact I’ve often thought about doing it but frankly I’ve just been too busy focused on other things. The last month my focus has been on changes we are making to Life7 (our coaching business). We [...]
- An Adventure Before Breakfast February 23, 2011One of the things I often do is go for a jog before breakfast. When I’m traveling, my morning jog can be a bit of an expedition, as it was a few days ago. We were staying in a hotel in Wagga Wagga for a few days and as usual, I’d packed some exercise gear. [...]
- Someone Put a Volcano In My Path February 7, 2011The Great Volcanic Mountain Challenge I love a challenge, in fact like all of us, I need a challenge, because without it, I just seem to let life happen to me. Lately my fitness has suffered from a lack of focus. I need to lose a few kilograms and I need to increase my aerobic [...]
- January Madness January 25, 2011The disastrous flooding in Queensland, NSW and Victoria distracted the country’s attention and whilst all around us has been flooded with water, we have been flooded with activity; social, community, family and work. Stand aside 2010, 2011 is well underway. January is usually a fairly quiet time of the year for us. Most organisations are [...]
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