The Opportunity is Now

I have a number of clients who wanted my advice on how to make it through this recession. As a trainer naturally my thoughts turn to education and the up-skilling of an organisation’s workforce and management.

I take the simply view that given there are fewer clients and those that there are out there are being more selective the answer lies in each worker being the best. Now I’m sure you are thinking that that doesn’t make sense as you can only have one person being the ‘best’ in any group. But that’s when compared to others. Each person can be the best that they are capable of being.

The challenge for us all , and we are all in this, is to realise that what we did last week, last month or last year isn’t good enough now. We need to be better, more professional, more diligent and generally sharper and cleverer than we were a year ago. If we do that then we will be rewarded in double measure.

First not only will we survive these difficult times but secondly, and this is where the opportunity lies, when the recession ends those who have consistently worked to their best will have learnt fabulous habits that will enable them to go on and be spectacularly successful in the easier times. Think about your profession and what you do on a daily basis. Do you daily strive to be the best? Now is the time to learn new, powerful work habits.

The time is now to be the most dynamic, most reliable and most positive that you can be. Not only will your current employer recognise that, which gives you security in the short term, but your reputation will grow. You will be more likely to be headhunted, promoted or simply become more attractive as a candidate when you chose to step out into the job market. And in the meantime you will survive these trying times.

So believe it and set yourself up for future success; the opportunity is now!

Best regards

Stephen Hart

Trainer, Coach, Public Speaker

With thanks to Michael Sherman who raised a question on Linkedin that sparked this blog.

Edenchanges on Twitter

Edenchanges is delighted to announce that it will be posting regular messages on the microblogging site Twitter.

This has recently become a well respected site and having received some very favourable feedback on test postings Edenchanges is committing to regular postings – or tweets as they are called – at this twitter homepage.

As Edenchanges covers a range of career and personal development topics specific days have been allocated for particular posts from Edenchanges. The schedule can be found here.

You will find full details of the decision and details of what the heck twitter actually is on the Edenchanges on Twitter page here. Or go directly to twitter.com itself – but it isn’t great at explaining itself so I’d recommend you try the Edenchanges page first!

For those of you who are a little reluctant to try another new blogging site then you will find the most recent tweets from Edenchanges at the bottom of the main Edenchanges page on the right.

This is the first in a range of new and exciting services coming from Edenchanges – watch this space!

Best regards

Stephen Hart

Trainer, Coach, Public Speaker