In Just 5 Minutes

In just 5 minutes a day, you can: improve your emotional intelligence deepen connections to yourself and others become more focused feel less stressed gain insight into what makes you (and others) tick and more All you need is a pen, a piece of paper and a little nudge. While you’re waiting for the coffee […]

Metacognition – An important skill for the workplace

What is metacognition? John Flavell (1976) coined the term metacognition. Metacognition refers to higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning. The more popular definitions of metacogition are:  the process of ‘knowing about knowing’; the process of ‘thinking about thinking’; the process of developing self-awareness and […]

Are you self-aware at work … really?

Recently, I asked a group of young adults in a college setting, “how many of you are self-aware?” The whole class (forty-three) put up a hand. “Really,” I said (in a tone reminiscent of “suuuuure”). I then asked them to write down their answers to the following questions: List three positive events from your childhood. […]

Divided Loyalties

We all know the phrase “divided loyalty”. It suggests that one’s feelings toward the object of loyalty (whether that is a thing, a person, a country, a culture or an ideology) have in some way been split or fragmented. That one is trying to hold differing opinions which are causing some sort of personal division […]

4 Hour Work Day

One of my performance goals for the first quarter of 2012 is to be working a maximum of four hours a day. These hours must be (by my measure) productive, effective and 70% billable. If what I have been able to complete today before mid-morning is any indication, I will achieve this goal before the […]