Recently I was part of a panel at this year’s Creative³ conference talking about “Kindness In Design”. My fellow panelists were Rowan Lamont, an amazing industrial designer from Designworks. Rachel Burke an artist and designer creating specialty, wearable art pieces and communal art projects. Rachel documents her creative journey and daily art practice on her [...]
Tag: Goals
Finding Your Bell!
As I’ve written before in my blogs, and adapting some wise words from Arnold Palmer, “business is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” If your revenue is higher than your costs then you make money, simple. But how do you continue to do this in a world that’s full of competition, whilst improving what you do, [...]
A Winning Culture – “It’s Been Emotional!”
I recently ran a training session for my company on teamwork and building a winning culture. It was an odd session. Not because of the content but because of the scenario. I was asked to run the training session over video conference, which in itself sounds normal. However, there was no face to face video [...]
The Confidence of Doing
In my recent blog, Progress - The Unsung Hero Read Here, I looked at how making progress was the key to hitting targets and goals. That with progress comes a sense of achievement which ignites emotions and motivation and helps drive our psyche to do more, to achieve more. Obviously I truly believe this and [...]
Your Storyboard
The "Success of Me" Now before you think this is an egotistical blog and stop reading, please be assured this article is not about ‘my’ success but about discovering your success!! Last year, one of my goals was to find an inspiring new job and write a personal plan and career plan for the next [...]
#Awesomeland
About 6 years ago, a good friend of mine, Alan Jenkins went home to the UK for a holiday with his family. Alan’s English, but has lived in Australia for a long time. His kids are Australian and have not been brought up in the quirky ways of English seaside towns. So when they visited [...]
Promoting Incompetence
Have you ever joined a new company or a new department and met the manager you reported to, excited by the new challenge. At first there is obvious respect to work with them, to learn from them. Time goes by and some of the decision making from the boss seems a little odd, random [...]
My Automobile University
In The Australian newspaper yesterday, there was an article by Andrew Trounson titled “Bite-sized qualifications ‘the way of the future’” Read Here . It was basically saying that in tomorrow’s world studying long university courses to attain qualifications will no longer be necessary. With a business world moving quickly through a technology driven future, qualifications will become [...]
The “Disappointment” of Success!
Have you ever aspired to something, achieved the goal and then been disappointed with how the final outcome felt? Take buying a car you’ve always desired. You finally arrive at a time in your life when you can afford to buy it. You arrive at the garage, the car is in the centre of the [...]
Make One's Mark 