I am delighted to announce that Brian McIvor & Associates have been shortlisted for the IITD National Training Awards 2020, in the Excellence in Digital Learning Category. This award will recognise an outstanding and innovative initiative which includes any type of learning that is facilitated by technology or by instructional practice that makes effective use …
https://vimeo.com/342703214 Workers all over the world are suffering because they are running out of time. Longer working hours means that families and communities are suffering. You can do something about this by donating your spare time to us on brianmcivor.com . Alternatively you could come and talk to us about your own career and life …
The photo shows the attendees at a memorial service for Dick Bolles held in St. James Church Picadilly, London recently. The attendees were alumni of Dick Bolles What Color is Your Parachute workshops and friends. 21 years ago I joined Dick Bolles staff in Bend, Oregon, USA as part of his workshop staff. Over the …
Now that the economy is recovering you might want to assess your working conditions and how rewarding your current role is for you. During the recession it was time when employers said: “just be glad you have a job”. That was followed by the heinous Zero Hours Contract: “You are ours and nobody else’s – …
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Below is a video giving you more information about what you can expect from a consultation with Brian McIvor.
I asked a client to share his experience of career coaching with me – exactly as he experienced it. This is what he wrote, exactly as he wrote it: Brian McIvor does nothing. It’s the first, and possibly most important, thing he’ll do for you. Amongst the myriad things Mr McIvor won’t do for …
Most people are. The concert pianist Arthur Rubenstein said that there were two types on nerves: the first kind, where you really didn’t know the score and just went out there and winged it, and the second type where you really knew the score but were nervous anyway. He said he much preferred the second …
Many of my clients tell me that, although they are very active at networking, nothing is happening. When I investigate further I find that their networking consists of showing people their generic CVs and asking: “are there any jobs out there?”. Networking is far more complex and diverse than that; it needs to have structure …
Twenty years ago – almost to the day- I made a decision to take voluntary redundancy from a training job in life assurance to take the plunge into self-employment. Time does travel fast and I find that I have now worked for myself longer than I have worked for any of my previous employers. One …
Maybe the corner has been turned and there is evidence of the first green shoots; the IMF have departed (for now), the markets want to invest in us again and the ratings agencies have fished us out of the junk basket. Is it now time to review your own career plans? There will be no …