Proactive problem solving

PROBLEMS CROP up regularly as part of our working lives. For example, we might get sick, which makes it impossible to meet a deadline or, half way through a job, we might realise that the work involved is going to be much more complicated than we thought, which means...

Honing in on your goals

WORKING ON the premise that if you actually know what you want from life, you have much more chance of getting it, try using the S.M.A.R.T acronym to set your goals to ensure that they are right for you: Specific Clearly define each of your goals so that you have...

Play to your strengths

IF IMPROVEMENT is on your mind, whether it’s to do with furthering your career or beefing up your social life, you might find a few ‘positive psychology’ tips useful. Rather than poring over weaknesses and ways to correct them, this approach to self-development aims...

It’s all in the timing

I used to work with a colleague who was forever frenetically whisking up and down the office like a demented wasp. You could never pin him down and if you managed to corner him in his office, he’d pick up the phone and start speaking into it in that ‘buy, buy, sell,...