John Kenworthy

Persistence and tenacity are the keys to your own success

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Achieving your own success needs your own commitment. There are no short cuts. If you want to complete the journey, there will be many times that your commitment is tested. Along your journey you will experience fai... Read >

The Great Delusions of success

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy "The road less traveled" by M. Scott Peck begins: "Life is difficult". Most people, especially during this economic downturn will concur. Most people also moan continuously about their woes and tribulations. It's as if... Read >

Profiting from tough times

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy The majority of start up businesses fail within the first year! Many of these should have succeeded. They had a good product or service, an decent marketing plan and committed people. Yet they failed because the busine... Read >

The long and winding road to success

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Pop into any bookstore and in the business section you'll find at least fifty current books promising 'instant success' or the '4 steps to achieving your dreams' or the 'easy guide to getting everything in life you eve... Read >

Competency and Competency - Part 2, Linking to performance

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Some writers have identified competencies that are considered to be generic and overarching across all occupations. Reynolds and Snell (1988) identify 'meta-qualities' - creativity, mental agility and balanced learning... Read >

Your learning agility impacts your potential!

Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Most people would accept that the ability to learn, and the ease of that learning, makes a difference in life. But, is someone who is more able to learn, more easily and in many different situations, better equipped to... Read >

What is a goal?

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage What do we mean by a 'goal'? It seems that these things are important, yet, so few people have them and some have been woefully misled by the term. Everyone at some point in their life has heard that it is impo... Read >

Competence and competency - Part 1, Distinction

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage The concept of competence remains one of the most diffuse terms in the organisational and occupational literature (Nordhaug and Gronhaug, 1994). Exactly what does an author mean when using any of the terms of compe... Read >

Breaking the habit

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage At this time of year, many people are planning on over-indulgence, eating too much, drinking perhaps a little more than is wise. And we hear the refrain, "I'll make my resolution to change in the new year". But, ha... Read >

Attitude 2 and 3 - There is no failure only feedback, People are not their behaviours

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Continuing this series of articles about five attitudes that will change your leadership style, business, and life, here, we will consider: Now, we shall consider: 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. Peo... Read >

Attitidue 4 and 5, Respect and Communication

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage In this third article in this series, we consider the 4th and 5th attitudes that can change your life. Attitude 4 - Respect the other person's map of the world. Attitude 5 - The meaning of communication is the resp... Read >

Five Attitudes for leaders - 1. People can change anything

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Here are five attitudes that will change your leadership style, business, and life: 1. People can change anything 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. People are NOT their behaviours 4. Respect the ... Read >

A person of influence

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Every single thing you do and say has a degree of influence on you and on others. You are part of their external environment. You even exert a small degree of gravitational force on others, indeed, you exert gravit... Read >

Why use golf to develop leadership?

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage There's a surprising similarity between playing the game of golf and leadership. Once the analogies are made clear to you, you'll wonder perhaps why you didn't see it before. By the time you've finished reading thi... Read >

How do you influence yourself?

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage When we ask this question in our workshops, we are usually met with blank stares at first. I call them 'blank stares' because to be looked at as if you are completely off your trolley isn't something I choose to re... Read >