Calendar

September 2010
M T W T F S S
« Aug    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930  

Archives

We are off to see the wizard the wonderful wizard of Oz

Enjoy Life

Today is the start of a new and fresh journey in life for Alistair and Nora.  Taking on new adventures and challenges in their lives, no expectation and no concerns.  Creating their own future and meeting life it what it brings each day to them.  Looking to learn something new each day and [...]

Redundancy Crisis or Opportunity

Look for the Opportunity

It could be said that the word Redundant has connotation that one is not worth anytime any more.  Often this is how people feel when they are faced with redundancy in the workplace.  We know that redundancies are about the position and not the person.  But often one can’t help feeling [...]

Become Who You Are

Look for it's Beauty

In life our circumstances change sometimes very slowly, creeping up on us, sometimes totally unexpected and there before we know or have time to consider what’s just happened.  One can decide to embrace and welcome  the changes or become defensive within ourselves and reject them.  If our lives are not changing [...]

Who will break the mould

When will the ripples of change start

I have not written around the area of politics lately but I feel the complete lack of accountability and responsibility taken by a lot of Politicians is becoming more ridiculous. There are those who are doing considerable good work and are extremely effective in their roles and [...]

Call Me Old Fashioned If You Like

Would you like a Seat?

“Next stop, change here for Dart or Bus transfers”, how many of you have heard this type of announcement or something similar when you travel on the intercity commuter trains.

Having started to travel more by train lately I can’t get over the amount of men, especially young men that will [...]

Human Resources (HR) what function does this department actually do?

People at Work

How many times have organisations changed the functional name of the department or section that considers itself with the responsibilities for their employees?  What is this department called in your business? Here are some of the names I have come across over the years:-

Personnel Department
Human [...]

3 Things we all have in our lives

Water of Life

What have we all got that is equal in our lives?.

Here are just three things:-

Time – we all have 60 minutes in one hour – it is up to you to decide how, where and with whom you will spend it.  How, where and with whom do you spend your time?

Uniqueness – [...]

Change in our lives

Only one Day

If things did not change one would never grow and experience new opportunities in ones life.  For most people it is the fear of change that stops them from doing what they have always wanted to do.  To be the person they have always wanted to be.  It is better to make [...]

Your Mask

Our internal and external worlds are a challenge to us all. Each day we protect, communicate and project an external image of who we are and what we do in our world. Is the external image that we project each day the same internal image we have and want for ourselves. Matching both is difficult, [...]