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A small change to my Monday tips

I have been writing these Monday tips since June 2009. When they began, they were mostly about management development. And of course, a big part of becoming a better manager is developing yourself, so over time personal development found its ...
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Author spotlight: Learning Transfer at Work

Paul has been invited to do an author spotlight session for Learning Transfer at Work📗 for Prominent Book Club. It’s happening on Friday 4pm BST / 11:00 AM EST [UTC-4]. Here’s the link if you’d like to join him… Book ...
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The secret to changing your life

The secret to changing your life Do you want to change something in your life, in your work, in your relationships; your health, weight, happiness, job, confidence…? Here’s the secret. You can change your life only to the extent that ...
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Why the real test of any training isn’t what happens in the room

The title says it all really… We spend so much energy on training events themselves, but the ROI lives entirely in what people do afterwards. Paul Matthews new article on TrainingZone offers five concrete ways to shift that balance and ...
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It’s not over until you quit

Most of us have a small pile of abandoned goals somewhere in the background. Not the dramatic failures. The quieter ones. The course we meant to finish. The business idea we still think about. The habit we wanted to build. ...
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Are you really that bad?

We’re very good at measuring ourselves against the wrong things. We compare our behind-the-scenes to other people’s highlight reels. We notice what we’re not good at and quietly decide we should fix that first. Call it the comparison trap. The ...
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The Business of Training: Learning Transfer

*** Here’s the recording if you missed it. Watch or listen on YouTube  *** Learning transfer is key to turning training into real business impact—but it’s often where programmes fall short. Jan van Delsen, Inmisceo, has invited Paul to The ...
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When your bubble starts to bend

When your bubble starts to bend At a conference on Friday, a speaker shared a Jack Welch quote: “When the rate of change outside an organization exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is near.” It was meant for ...
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