Some people are born idle, some achieve idleness and others have idleness thrust upon them. For the born idle, it must feel like the golden years have finally arrived.
What’s so bad about being Idle? It worked for Eric.
Category Archives: Various things
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
The aggressive apology is usually a list of apologies: I am sorry that the report you dumped on me last night is late and I am sorry that I couldn’t get the ancient printer to work that you wont replace and I am sorry that I was late getting here this morning because I had to go across town to collect the parcel you left behind and I am sorry that I exist. In other words it is your fault.
what am I worth?
om Cruise was told by Paramount that his salary expectations were too high. It seems that when it comes to salary expectations, there appears to be a large gap between our perceptions of what we are worth and the realities. Part of the problem is that most of us think everyone else is getting more than us. For instance what proportion of Australians as a whole earn over $104,000 a year and what proportion of Australian managers earn over $104,000 a year? More of that later, but first it is worth asking how do we form expectations about salaries? What is a normal or fair salary for a days work?
Why work-life balance might be bad for you!
Enlightened employers implement policies that provide flexible working hours, or condensed periods of work that provide for more “leisure time”. Yet for many of us, we still seem to be at the office 24/7, or we harbour the guilty secret that our work actually gives us more or “kick” than our so-called leisure-time.
Seven questionable beliefs about Stress
A comparison of the ultimate executives – the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the UK, USA and Australia who were born and died in the 20th century shows that if they can avoid assassinations in the US or swimming outside the flags in Australia, they tend to live a lot longer than their male counterparts. One of the reasons could be that they have greater support in terms of people to delegate work to and regular medical monitoring.
which personalities perform best at work?
What sorts of personalities perform best at work? It is a question that seemingly all of us have an opinion about, but this deceptively simple question has no straight answer.
Career Coaching, Career Creativity Courses Specialist PD
The Australian Psychological Society has endorsed the 3-day Career Coaching, Counselling and Assessment Course. APS members of the Colleges of Counselling, Education/ Developmental and Organisational can claim 36 specialist PD points for attending. Other APS members can of course claim 36 generalist PD points as well. The Career Creativity workshop with Norm Amundson and ...