Category: Psychology

  • Are Teachers like Personal Trainers?

    Personal trainers: help clients set challenging goals provide tailored exercise regimes while running a group activity model correct technique, behaviour and attitude inspire, encourage, motivate using both gentle and assertive attitudes occasionally reprimand, but predominantly make clients accountable use a variety of exercises, skills, drills and techniques to achieve overall objectives gradually increase the difficulty of…

  • Metaphors for our work

    The brass at HQ have set a bold strategic plan but they haven’t been to the front in a long time, if ever. You’re not sure you have the resources to complete the mission but you’ve been assigned your platoon and are on the way to the landing point. Half your troops shouldn’t have passed…

  • Where your money goes

    The ATO have included a new feature in personal tax returns this year by providing a statement with colourful chart outlining where an individual’s tax is going proportionately into the government’s debt. If you paid $10,000 tax, you can see that $1700 went towards Heath, $800 towards Defence and $3700 of that went to Welfare…