Star Wars Goes To Work
On December 9th (Belfast) and 10th (Dublin) I spoke at the Christmas Event of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Irish District Society). It was an exciting and challenging experience, since I’ve never done anything quite like it before. But the feedback from both events was excellent, with participants sending me emails of appreciation and request for more information. Like the...
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This term at QUB, we have three new workshops for the working professional: Assertiveness and Workplace Confidence; Managing Customer Experience and Emotional Intelligence Goes to Work. These workshops are hosted by the School of Education, Short Courses Programmes (CPD). For eveyone else, there is the School of Education’s Open Learning Programme. This term, we’re running the...
Read MoreThe Most Powerful Prefix in the Universe!
Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said, “By the power of Meta!”. Or something like that. ‘Meta’ is such a simple prefix, but it did bestow a sort of power on me once I discovered it. It’s from a Greek word meaning ‘after’ or, better, ‘beyond’. It can also mean ‘about’. So...
Read MoreLes Yeux Sont Le Miroir de L’Dme
I’ve raved before about the exciting work of Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Cambridge University. He’s written what I think is the best book on the subject of how the sexes perceive and interact with the world differently. The thrust of it is that men possess system-directed thinking while women enjoy empathy-directed thinking. There are different sorts of test...
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