Welcome to HowCanI — the Ability Makers — Personal Development
Posted in Blog on Jun 29th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Have you ever gone through a period where the universe seems to conspire against you? Well, I have been through the wringer recently. Firstly we had technical problems with the site that defied the designer’s best efforts. Then we [...]
I recently wrote that we had filmed some howcani questions to release to demonstrate the howcani approach and to provide some valuable information. I just received an e-mail from the producer. The film is fine, the sound is not. Unfortunately it means we will have to reshoot them.
Just a small delay, about two weeks as [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 6th, 2008
I try to approach each day with a sense of anticipation. Some days are easier than others. It is Sunday evening here in Sydney and I am beavering away on my computer. I’ve just done a rewrite and edit on a chapter of my novel, I will do a poem for my other site, ollielind.com [...]
Posted in Blog on Apr 3rd, 2008
I recently did a workshop in Brisbane on being super productive. It’s a funny thing, but when you teach you often learn more than the attendees. It sounds a little unfair, but it goes with the territory. Back to the story.
One of the people said he sometimes got to the office after a weekend and [...]
Posted in Blog on Mar 16th, 2008
I spend a great deal of my life assisting other’s to progress in their lives. It is the most satisfying and uplifting thing I know how to do. That’s not to say life is a simple journey from success to success.
Anybody who says he has never failed either has never attempted to do anything, or [...]
Posted in Blog on Mar 10th, 2008
I was in Melbourne Thursday and Friday to conduct some on site training with a sales team and their two sales managers. One of the consultants was having trouble reproducing the results he had achieved in the last quarter.
He was certainly trying hard, he was always on the telephone or on the road. He was [...]
Posted in Blog on Mar 5th, 2008
I have mentioned a couple of times that I try to have at least one meaningful conversation with someone every day. The other day I was priviledged to have just such a conversation.
His name is Aleks and he is a Sales Manager. I have trained and mentored him for a while now and we have [...]
Posted in Blog on Feb 22nd, 2008
I spent this week conducting a boot camp. No, not a military training school. I had young trainees who were starting a career in sales. I had five days to turn them from novices to sales consultants with a level of competence that would enable them to suceed rather quickly.
They arrived here in Sydney, bright [...]
Posted in Blog on Feb 17th, 2008
Have you ever had that perfect day? A day when it all flowed, people were all good natured, everything you touched just turned to gold? I had one of those days on Saturday.
Weekends are normally very busy and this weekend was no different. Early Saturday morning I have a martial arts class which is both a [...]