Emotional intelligence, Learning
I received a phone call recently from an A-level student panicking that she only had two weeks before her first exam. She felt ill-prepared and anxious about the time she’d wasted. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining why she was in a pickle – What she had done, what [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Another name for discovering a part of the house that urgently needs cleaning just when you had planned to knuckle down to revising for your Project Management exams, is procrastination! It comes under the heading of avoidance activities. We’ve all been there! We were just going to sit down to [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
How does an untidy, disorganised environment make you feel? Is it conducive to concentration and clarity? No, of course it isn’t. If you are working your socks off, revising hard to achieve something important, such as passing your ITIL exams, isn’t it a shame to undermine that effort in any [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Ever found yourself falling asleep during long study sessions? Human beings have evolved with short attention spans! That won’t come as a great surprise to many people! But I wonder how many people allow for this when revising? It’s very unlikely that you can maximise your efficiency when studying for [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
A while ago I had a telephone call from someone enquiring about MindMaps. He had heard that MindMaps were useful for creating study notes and he rang me to find out if I knew somebody who would make his MindMaps for him. In other words, he wanted somebody to go [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
One day I had an anxious person on the ‘phone telling me their ITIL exam was next Tuesday and they hadn’t even taken their course manual out of its cellophane wrapping yet. Was there anything I could do to help them? He and I both knew that there was a [...]
Emotional intelligence, Studying Techniques
Failed yet another exam?If you are a Financial Adviser, Lawyer or Accountant disappointed by another exam failure, don't book another resit without reading this first. You might be very surprised by the number of ‘phone calls I get from, for example, Financial Advisers who tell me they’ve taken and failed the [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
A while back, I delivered a Genius Material study skills presentation in a particular company, that had several employees taking CISCO Accreditation exams. I delivered the presentation twice, in the morning to one group and in the afternoon to a second group. There was one member of the audience in [...]
Emotional intelligence, Memory
Your brain automatically tends to let go of older information in favour of more recent information. On top of that your brain filters out information based on what it believes to be important in the moment, in other words what’s important to your survival. So even though you are receiving [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
Balancing a busy professional life with a home and family life is quite enough for a person to handle, but add in the pressure of RO4 exams and you’ve got the distinct possibility of overwhelm and stress. One thing I often advise when people come to me complaining of stress, [...]
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