The Importance of Planning and Organising

The Importance of Planning and Organising

“Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” Planning and Organising is something that excites me. This is most probably due to my high levels of conscientiousness, detail-orientation, and need for order and structure. However, this is not the case for everyone. Some people...
Consider Broader Than Just Your Career

Consider Broader Than Just Your Career

Dr Jordan Peterson, in his book; Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, recommends that we consider the following questions in order to evaluate aspects that contribute to our overall mental health and wellbeing: Have you been educated to the level of your intellectual...
The Role of Self-Efficacy

The Role of Self-Efficacy

We recently completed a very exciting project for one of our clients. One of the main insights that we gained from the psychometric assessment data, was the fact that there were significant relationships between self-efficacy and performance on a complex and ambiguous...
What does it mean to be in flow with your career?

What does it mean to be in flow with your career?

“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Why is it that some people find meaning,...
The role of chance in your career

The role of chance in your career

I recently read a very interesting article, Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities, by Mitchell, Levin and Krumboltz published in the Journal of Counselling and Development (1999). The article is about the role that chance plays in our...