by Pablo German | May 1, 2020 | communication, learning, personal development
Would you like to help someone improve? Providing feedback, when done effectively, allows the person receiving the information to improve their performance. When done incorrectly, it may be ignored, it may be discouraging, and it can even damage the relationship...
by Pablo German | Mar 8, 2020 | learning, personal development
More than a decade ago when I became interested in personal development, I started setting myself a series of goals. Setting goals for yourself was the mainstream advice I was getting. Not only set goals, visualise them. Every day repeat to yourself in front of the...
by Pablo German | Dec 8, 2019 | communication, personal development
More than 20 years ago I watched the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson for the first time. If you haven’t watched it, I recommend you do. I remember that I sympathised with Nicholson’s character R.P. McMurphy. He seems to be rebelling against...
by Pablo German | Nov 23, 2019 | audience, communication, learning, personal development
It is perhaps ironic that I became so interested in communication, when in my teenage years my passion was playing chess. When playing chess there is no need for communication with other people, in chess the best idea wins. There is no need to convince other people...
by Pablo German | Nov 10, 2019 | learning, personal development
In the last three blog posts we looked at the importance of reflection for learning, how to reflect, and creating a learning portfolio. If one wants to learn and get better, reflective practice should be a very common habit. However, my intuition and personal...
by Pablo German | Oct 27, 2019 | communication, learning, personal development
In the previous blog posts, we looked at becoming a learning machine through reflection and how to reflect. Reflection or reflective practice is a way to learn from our own experiences with the objective to improve the way we think and act. Reflective practice can be...
