Coaching can benefit from animation company Pixar and their rules of story telling. Pixar has 22 rules of story telling, according to David Price, the author of Pixar Touch - see his blog here. He gleaned these rules from the tweets of Emma Coats, a Pixar storyboard artist. I think they can be usefully ...
Are we stuck in rather unimaginative approaches to how we deliver coaching or counseling sessions? How can we start creating creative coaching sessions? This post is prompted by Madeline Paterson who commented on my post Act before you think as follows: "I would be interested in hearing more about your thoughts on the tendency of our ...
We get frustrated when we are unsure how to act, and feel disheartened when we voluntarily or involuntarily act in ways that are not true ourselves. We can get lost while searching for the sweet spot that lies between pattern and surprise, consistency and spontaneity, security and risk, familiarity and freedom, and order and disorder. ...
"Nothing will be achieved if first all objections must be overcome" said the wise Eleanor Roosevelt. Objections prevent action. Objections to our own actions are ultimately authored by ourselves. Others may advise caution or object, but it takes us to take on board and own those objections to prevent us from acting. It is our ...
We are all familiar with all the advice on how to get rich. However here I analyse George Clooney’s wealth and provide a possible reason for his wealth. George Clooney apparently earns $15m per film Assume Clooney appears for 60 minutes of a 90 minute film That works out at $250,000 per minute on screen. George likes coffee, in ...
LinkedIn report the top 10 clichés found on LinkedIn profiles in 2011 (see here). So how do these words stack up in terms of historic usage? Using a relatively unknown google research feature called Ngram, we can see how often each of these words have appeared in books since the 1500s! It is interesting to ...
here is a link to my column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers on parents and careers. The role of parents in career development is critical. Here I share some thoughts on the role of parents in career development and thought on my father. Vale John Robert Bright 1925 - 2011
