International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), financial literacy is a set of awareness, knowledge, skills, attitude, and behavior needed to make suitable financial decisions and attain individual financial well-being. Financial illiteracy is therefore an obstacle faced by both developing and developed nations.

Education 208

Education Finance Government Development 208

International Coach Academy

JULY 6, 2023

The origin of viewing an obstacle in life from a positive perspective, as an opportunity, can be traced back to the ancient concept of stoicism, which was developed by the Greek philosopher Epictetus in the first century AD. We can use the obstacle as an opportunity to identify areas of improvement, develop new skills, and build resilience.

Development 208

Development Performance Accounting Solution 208

The Creative Mind

JULY 7, 2022

.” Actor Edward Norton (in Entertainment Weekly ew.com), commenting on the documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” (2006) – about a manic-depressive singer. The language we use to ourselves and others about having and pursuing creative talents can have a big impact on our attitudes and motivation. For […].

Entertainment 50

Entertainment Creativity Motivation Development 50

International Coach Academy

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A growth mindset is a belief that skills, intellect, and talents can be developed through practice and perseverance. Another point of view that I found relevant in developing my power tool is found in the book “Learned Optimism, How to Change Your Mind and Your Life,” by Martin E. New York, 1990, 1998, 2006 Seligman, Ph.D.

Accomplishment 208

Accomplishment Solution IT Development 208

International Coach Academy

JANUARY 22, 2024

This plasticity is intrinsic to the development and function of the brain and is essential for the development of memory and learning. The first is that though it can take a long time to develop a true habit, the key is overall consistency – missing one opportunity to perform the behavior did not affect the overall formation process.

Motivation 208

Motivation Architecture Development Networking 208

International Coach Academy

JULY 27, 2022

Human needs are ontological facts of life and requirements that are always found when the behavior of human beings is analyzed, irrespective of culture, race, language, creed, color, sex, or age (Ekins & Max-Neef, 2006; Mallmann, 1973). Other theories are attempting to improve on these deficiencies. Max-Neef (ibid.)

Development 208

Development Management Management Communication 208

International Coach Academy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Coaching supports the three core stages of leadership development: readiness, willingness, and ability to lead. Goal setting is a pivotal decision as it can regulate the direction of action, the knowledge the person searches for the facts they choose to act on, and the intensity of action and perseverance (Latham and Locke 2006) 9.

Executive Coach 208

Executive Coach Executive Coaching Solution Mentor 208

Vantage Circle

MARCH 10, 2021

The engagement is measured and derived through feedbacks from the employee with pulse surveys , 1-1 meetings; boost the employee motivation through peer to peer recognition and rewarding the best performers with awards, badges or monetary rewards. Bambu is another employee advocacy platform developed by Sprout social. Link: [link].

Communication 52

Communication Solution Performance Media 52

Vantage Circle

JUNE 5, 2021

To motivate employees, transactional leaders use a system of rewards and penalties. Extrinsic motivation. They believe in Extrinsic motivation and contingent rewards. Employee motivation. Motivate only through rewards. No scope of further development. It is the same for Transactional Leaders. Inflexible.

Leadership 59

Leadership Performance Motivation Creativity 59

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 21, 2009

One way to handle it is to develop a good sentence or two that you can tell relatives when they ask how you're doing. Your 4th point about December and January being strong hiring months is absolutely correct and should serve as renewed motivation when a job seeker begins to lose steam. Why didn't you get the job?"

Networking 108

Networking Career Government Management 108

Penelope Trunk

APRIL 26, 2010

So I'll be waiting to be motivated. I developed a habit of attending all your webinars since the first one that I attended, you sure are such a great mentor Penelope! One thing Seth does really well is to convey ideas succinctly and with enthusiasm. We can make great things happen, with leadership and hard work.

Education 98

Education IT Career Mentor 98

Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

Employers need to focus on their abilities to develop talented employees as well, not just on getting the operational work done. " This could still be equivalent to the earlier ones, especially when you develop the theme that happiness = friends and family (also = safety & loyalty?). " - Dead on! " no shit.

Career 111

Career IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Because if you force yourself to change your behavior for three weeks, your brain will start to develop more dopamine in response to the behavior that you are trying to change to, according to Monika Fleshner , a neuroimmuno-physiologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Thanks for the reminder and motivation. Great post.

IT 111

IT Accomplishment Career Management 111

Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

It's been a great experience learning from a community of successful and motivated women who want to change the world by helping women attain wealth and power through entrepreneurship. I think it's about good communication and finding, developing, and exploiting that connection that resonates between you and your audience.

Career 111

Career Networking Mentor IT 111

Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

The wood in that house has a patina that took many years to develop; if you paint it, you will eventually come to your senses and want it to be wood again,and then, the amount of work required to put it right will be incredible. It is quite difficult to motivate me on a Sunday but you have me thinking hard and reading like crazy.

Mining 111

Mining IT Communication Consulting 111

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It's really dangerous to think there are vastly different motivators in the non-profit world. You'll notice that in the for-profit world, in the new workplace, money is not a key motivator. You'll notice that in the for-profit world, in the new workplace, money is not a key motivator. " Ditto the for-profit.

Insurance 111

Insurance Government Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Posted by Lora on December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am | permalink | Reply I had to drop a note with these links because you can't write about introverts without referencing this really popular Atlantic article from 2003, and its follow-up from 2006: [link] [link] Posted by Kathy on November 30, 2009 at 11:01 am | permalink | Reply Oh.

Career 111

Career IT Communication Management 111

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As a guess, I would venture that they developed from the fact that family farms ARE fundamentally different than many other businesses, as they combine the functions of business, home, stewardship, community, and heritage. We are barely 30 and are desperate and motivated to be where we want and to have what we want.

IT 111

IT Management Management Career 111

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

One thing emerges very clearly is that successful performers “had practiced intensively, had studied with devoted teachers, and had been supported enthusiastically by their families throughout their developing years.” This brings to mind an article in a Men's Health I read regarding Intrinsic Motivation. that would be a treat.

Mentor 111

Mentor IT Career Motivation 111

Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

HR groups are about avoiding litigation and risk management, not recruiting or personnel development. thanks for all your inspiration and motivation. Posted by Audrey on June 1, 2010 at 9:47 am | permalink | Reply Use of corporate credit card for personal items = embezzling (as an earlier commenter noted).

Recruitment 103

Recruitment Career IT Management 103

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

There are no bad bosses The easiest instructions for how to start a blog Comments (66) Leave a Comment Good question/ test to check how relevant the original motivation(s) is(are)! Our best literature was written by people with nothing to lose and a voracious internal motivation to communicate their take on the world with written words.

IT 104

IT Career Motivation Career Goals 104

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

This is pretty well documented in child development research (reward a child for a good painting and they'll probably lose interest in painting). It's true that a lot of stuff that works with typically developing children is useless for kids with Asperger's. " Pokemon = math. Then they are geniuses.

IT 107

IT Management Management Electronics 107

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Posted by jesse on November 30, 2009 at 2:23 pm | permalink | Reply I would be more interested in finding out what motivates someone to ask specific question in the first place, one can ask questions to make other people feel miserable, arouses curiosity even chaos. Life is meaningless. Have fun or die.

Career 93

Career Networking Mentor Management 93

Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

Those things can be reinforced in school but the bulk of it is developed at home in my opinion. I think it's important to not make people feel bad or stupid when they ask questions – intimidation doesn't motivate learning. The trick is to develop a toolkit of questions large enough to accommodate all listening habits.

Career 111

Career IT Hospitality Creativity 111

International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It limits what you can do and has a spillover effect of developing resentment toward tasks and people in your life. Several studies show that self-compassion supports motivation and personal growth by decreasing the psychological stress that contributes to procrastination. The damage done by procrastination often compounds over time.

Motivation 361

Motivation Strategy IT Solution 361

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

And each of your break-ups has been motivated by fear of this growth and change, rather than by nastiness or gossip. We play hide and seek with our own motives. Awareness of every single motive, of all the biological/physiological mechanisms and sensory signals bombarding us would paralyze our capacity to act decisively.

IT 85

IT Career Motivation Management 85

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Posted by Eduard @ People Skills Decoded on March 16, 2010 at 9:06 am | permalink | Reply Ever since I took a webinar with Leo Babauta, who is a nice man, BTW, I have been reading a bunch of personal development/productivity blogs. They may even give you the motivation needed to finally get that A project done. " D A M N.

Accomplishment 111

Accomplishment IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To contrast what some the other comments, I too believe that being self-employed is MUCH better than having a job because that's my personality to be self-motivated and I saw large flaws in some of the traditional job systems. It keeps me in practice of developing, and more importantly evaluating, new ideas. Posted by Mark W.

IT 111

IT Career Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

It's surprising what a subtle impact asking broader/deeper questions can have in developing personal and business relationships. Posted by Kay Lorraine on December 16, 2009 at 3:09 am | permalink | Reply Just read a great book on this topic: [link]. Posted by Jeremy OKrafka on December 15, 2009 at 11:37 am | permalink | Reply Great post.

Career 107

Career IT Education Management 107

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Anyway, in sum, I think you're precious and important too, and I hope you have less days like the one you wrote about, and I also hope you never develop anorexia. Then get a GPS. It isn't easier to handle. Love your blog! Posted by Rachel on December 1, 2009 at 10:13 pm | permalink | Reply Very well said!

IT 111

IT Mining Food Government 111

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I needed the motivation! I was interested in starting a fitness blog, a technical software blog, a personal development blog and a general personal blog 2 years ago. I try to tell people, everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Choose how you spend the time wisely! You can't get it back. Thanks for another great post.

Career 111

Career IT Utilities Education 111

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Don't hide what really motivates you; secretive people are not likable. Why are they so motivated to control him and his decisions? It is good to recognize this is an area of growth and development. So I am back with the farmer, but we have new rules about what I can write. Well, I think we do. We were going to.

IT 110

IT Management Management Food 110

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

It is the motivating factor to get up by not having the morning routine. But remember, your sons don't care about getting out the door on-time so you'll have to motivate them some other way. A great site and motivator is [link] Read her free site and some of her "baby steps" concepts to get on the right track.

Management 111

Management Management IT Food 111

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I asked Goldman if he thought I could develop these skills, and he says that our underlying needs are set by age five or six, and our usual behaviors are set by age 22. I've had to work at it and develop selling skills, but what I found is that it takes more than one type of person to succeed in sales. They eat what they kill.”

Recruitment 110

Recruitment IT Career Consulting 110

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

She has conducted the Stanford Study of Writing , which includes about 15,000 writing samples from students from 2001 – 2006. If anything, the internet helps people find and develop their style by exposing them to far more different authors than has ever been possible. Plus, I got instant feedback.

Communication 112

Communication Media IT Entertainment 112

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The further we get from the intact multi-generational family model, the further our kids suffer, as our public school graduates now rank dead last in the developed world in terms of knowledge, and, at the same time, are told that, by the age of 21, they are to be out of the home and on their own. What is wrong with that picture.

IT 87

IT Food Management Management 87

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s one book: 360 Degree Leader: Developing your influence from anywhere in the organization. If you inspire someone to do a good job you've internally motivated them and they'll likely exceed your expectations. Changes in authority necessarily lead to changes in leadership. There’s a lot written about it.

Leadership 110

Leadership IT Management Management 110