Like most of us, there have been times when I wondered whether I was good enough. These questions arose throughout primary school, high school, business, sport, university, and my personal life. A term often associated with this is ‘Imposter Syndrome’. Ask some or all of these questions to conduct a reality check!

Curiousity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back!

In the Sydney Weekend magazine on March 11-12, 2023, Matt Deighton wrote a feature article titled ‘Big Bang Theory’. The story is about a young Australian scientist who was appointed as the youngest Professor of Physics at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the ripe old age of twenty-seven.

Career changes are driven by many factors, some by external influence or circumstance (extrinsic), some by design or intent (intrinsic), and some by a combination of the two. Irrespective of the cause, this can be quite daunting for the person making the change and may lead to them seeking support, advice, and guidance.

From time to time, we all have what we think are original or novel thoughts, but when we do some research, we find that hundreds of others have already had and expanded on that thought. Does that mean our thought was not original?

It all begins with an idea. Someone in your organisation has decided it’s time for a change! It doesn’t matter who, what or why, but you’ve been tasked with implementing that change.

No one is either indispensable or irreplaceable, but we tend to spend much of our working and personal lives trying to be or pretending that we are. A few years ago, I spent some time with Gwen Pinnington (Gwen Pinnington Consulting & Coaching), who introduced me to the concept of our ‘Ego’ story and our ‘Soul’ story.

First and foremost, learning doesn’t end after school or university. You model the processes within your business, generally or hopefully using ‘smart’ tools, and constantly look for methods of improving and refining those processes, but do you do the same for your employees, i.e., model a career path for them in a positive way? In this post-Covid world, how important is it for you to retain those employees?

How often do we do things because we’re told to?

We do things because our bosses, parents, partners, and even friends and colleagues tell us to. This is called extrinsic motivation. It doesn’t mean we have zero say or influence over what gets done, but we do it for reasons not wholly within our control. Within the discussion of self-determination theory (SDT), considerable empirical research supports the importance of intrinsic motivation and how we move towards that