“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other” – John F. Kennedy Personal Development Planning has changed. Thanks to the work of Seligman(2003) and others. Who say that to help you plan what to do with your life. The first thing you need to do is to find out what your strengths are....
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Personal Development Planning originated as a management development tool for business organisations in the 1950s. In the 1960s it was introduced into Higher Education in the US to facilitate academic achievement and into UK third level education in the 1990s. Around the same time it also entered the mainstream as part of the self-improvement...
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Goals work like the “set and forget” mechanism of a guided missile (Maltz, 1960). Our subconscious mind automatically kicks in. And works to achieve the goals that we consciously set for it. Why then do I fail to keep most of my new year resolutions? Where do I go wrong? Like everyone else I...
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You must decide how to manage your debilitating weaknesses. Since these weaknesses hold you back from using your signature strengths it is imperative that you manage to successfully limit their capacity to frustrate your efforts to achieve excellence. My cluster of debilitating weaknesses is led by scheduling, which is followed by procrastination and negative...
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