10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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Whenever I answer the question ‘And what do you do?’, I always include at least one of the roles that I have that consists of unpaid work. I think that it gives a rounder picture of who you are and what is important to you. My 2 roles are around chairing my local residents association [...]
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Oh yes, its here. My talk on portfolio careers recently in High Wycombe. If you couldn’t make it there, click here …..
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Study success. Study what works. Play people to their strengths. Build teams with similarity of spirit and diversity of strengths. The words of Mike Pegg at the first Strengths Festival. There is a great write up here of how iSpy, an innovative and very successful digital marketing agency embraced the strengths approach with amazing results.
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There are times when our good friend Hugh MacLeod just manages to sum up a 15 minute spiel. This is one of them. We discuss the importance of doing the work that you love which is usually the work that you do best. This cartoon says it so succinctly.
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For a price of an internet connection, Khan Academy is changing the way we can all access learning. Bill Gates says an education is available to the curious and determined. Hope we will see more of this open source type project. ” I like to teach the world to sing…..” ( sorry showing my age [...]
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Today we have another guest posting. This time from Alexis Bonari who describes hereself as ” a freelance writer and blog junkie”. She is currently a resident education blogger and performs research surrounding http://www.collegescholarships.org. In her spare time, she enjoys “square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop”. Alexis was stimulated by what we had to [...]
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Ahh how to find the Holy Grail…..Mike Pegg as ever offers some great thoughts and practical solutions.
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We posted a video last work from Philip Zimbardo on the secret powers of time and commented on the highly original presentation put together by RSAnimate. Today we are posting another one of their superb presentations – this time to accompany Daniel Pink who is again discussing his new book Drive. We are indebted to [...]
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In our book we emphasise the importance of knowing your values and your motivated skills. These are both of course related to meaning and I was fascinated to come across this 1972 clip of Victor Frankl with a barnstorming display on why the search for meaning is central to each of us.
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