Retirement Planning

Posted by on Oct 30, 2009 in assertiveness, education, learning, news and events, personal development | 0 comments

On Saturday 21 November, I am running a workshop at QUB entitled Retirement: One Big Loose End.  I’ve had confirmation this week that there are 14 attendees so far.  What prompted me to run a workshop on retirement?  Well, two things: The average age of my students at my Open Learning (mostly IT) workshops is somewhere between 50-70 Speaking to someone a few months ago about...

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Did Positive Thinking Cause the Recession?

Posted by on Oct 28, 2009 in positive psychology | 0 comments

A few weekends ago I happened across an article called Positive thinking is positively bad for you so always look on the glum slide of life by Virginia Ironside.  In it she gave a positive review for a book entitled Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.  The author is Barbara Ehrenreich, an American journalist, socialist and political...

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Radical Time Management Workshop Returns

Posted by on Oct 26, 2009 in training | 0 comments

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 I’m delivering a 1-day workshop as part of the Queen’s University Continuing Professional Development (CPD)  Short Coruse Programme…for the second time.  It’s name?  Radical Time Management! Here’s the rundown. “Notes and checklists, calendars and appointment books, project timetables and reminder systems – should...

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Confident Conversations Workshop 2.0

Posted by on Oct 23, 2009 in communication | 0 comments

I like designing new workshops and working on new ideas as much as possible.  So far, I’ve only repeated one course within the Queen’s University Open Learning Programme.  That was my 1-day workshop called Body to Body: How To Communicate Without Words.  Read about it here.  Now, I intend to add to this repeated course hall of fame.  On Saturday, 31 May 2008 I delivered a...

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