How strong and current are your skills?

How about your knowledge, competencies (behaviors), attitudes and abilities?

Have you taken a skills or knowledge assessment lately?

What was your score on your last performance assessment by your manager?

Have you taken a 360 assessment lately?

What areas were identified for your development?


Why job seekers fare poorly in interviews

Job interviews and other assessments along the way to securing a job attempt to establish if the candidate has

(a) Requisite knowledge of the subject matter

(b) Whether that knowledge is at the level of (i) Book Knowledge, (ii) Proficient Level, or (iii) Mastery.

Think of learning to tango (dance). You can watch a video on the dance, and pretend you know it, that would be having book knowledge. At the proficient level you will make a good dance partner. Imagine now you could fuse tango with the samba, and create a whole new dance. That is called mastery, where you can synthesize and create new concepts.

Such creativity applies to all manner of learning. Some people have it, and go on to get rich rewards from this trait to take any subject to a new level.

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How to solve the job interview challenge

Make learning and the desire to be the best a daily habit.

Commit to the goal of being the best by setting aside 3 to 4 hours each day to invest in your future.

Do A Daily Attitude Adjustment

You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but without the proper attitude, that is for naught. So we have prepared a short video clip on how to give yourself a daily attitude adjustment.

Top ten questions asked in an interview

Read this short document on how to prepare for an interview. A longer version of this document is sent to those who register for our FREE newsletter.


Skills Development Aids

Here are some typical areas where job seekers tend to come up short.

Time Management - watch this short video on Best Practices of Goal and Time Management

Leadership skills - Everyone has to perform as a leader whether at home or in the office. Sharpen your leadership qualities - listen more, synthesize ideas, speak thoughtfully, control your anger, respect others, and create opportunities for others to also flourish and lead. These traits will serve you well in job interviews. Read this short book to learn contemporary ways of looking at leadership.

Change Management, a term used to describe both the process and the ability to manage change, is one of the most sought after competencies in managers, top performers and executives. There are hundreds of books, thousands of training programs, and millions of webpages devoted to the subject. While there is no substitute for real life experience, our self directed course is the quickest way to master the key concepts, so you can incorporate change concepts into creating success for yourself. The first mark of a successful person is his/her openness to change. Think about it - if you cannot be a change leader for yourself, then how can possibly hope to lead in this changing world? Mastery in this skill will boost your earning power plus help you on a personal level to cope with unexpected changes in your life. Click here to view the free mini-course

Act with Honesty and Integrity: A person’s actions are considered to be honest and have integrity (or equivalently “are ethical”) if they increase the creativity of at least one person, including the person acting, without limiting or diminishing the creativity of any person, including the person acting. While many organizations claim Honesty and Integrity as a core value or core competency, very few actually discuss the subject in any detail. Hence, from our experience employees have to simply guess at what constitutes ethical conduct. Small wonder that many CEOs get caught up in conflict of interest situations, because they never bothered to gain a solid grounding in ethics. Please click this link to access our free short course on this topic.

Mindmaps - are pictorial summaries of important topics in personal and professional high performance. Mindmaps summarize well over 1,000 words in a picture. They provide insight. Create your own mindmaps to summarize a new book that you may have read.

We suggest you download the images and view them in Microsoft Picture Viewer at 100% magnification to pick out the details. Right click on any of the images, and then “Save Image As…” Here are a few common mindmaps.

For more on how to commit to self-development goals, please see our video Lesson #8.

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