Gary Ryan What Really Matters For Employability Development

Part time and volunteer work are essential for developing employability skills. Gary explains each of the ten core employability skills and provides clear examples to help you to put these skills into practice.

Many people make New Year resolutions that simply don’t work. Gary explains three key reasons why they don’t work, and then offers seven steps to effectively plan for personal success.

Many people make New Year resolutions that simply don’t work. Gary explains three key reasons why they don’t work, and then offers seven steps to effectively plan for personal success.

Part time and volunteer work are essential for developing employability skills. Gary explains each of the ten core employability skills and provides clear examples to help you to put these skills into practice.

Part time and volunteer work are essential for developing employability skills. Gary explains each of the ten core employability skills and provides clear examples to help you to put these skills into practice.

Oprah's 24th year program opening celebration in Michigan Avenue

Chicago was the scene of an amazing 21,000 flash mob dance. Gary

relates this event to the power of questions and how they catalyse

innovation.

Gary shares three key lessons from his work with children that adults could do well to understand. The three lessons are:

1) Everyone is a leader

2) The Figure 8 of Leadership

3) Being responsible for your choices

As a trainer of mentors and facilitator of mentor-mentee relationships Gary regularly scans for articles in the field. After discovering and reading an interesting newspaper article about the success of a master-apprentice relationship, Gary wonders whether such relationships can and do exist in modern times.

A dinner table conversation catalysed by Gary's seven year old daughter helped inspire this episode. Personal goals that are related to a higher level purpose helps both the goals to be achieved, as well as enabling people to live their purpose and create the life that they desire. Gary explains this relationship and provides three questions that enable you to identify the purpose to which your personal goals relate.

Gary explains the importance of taking action even when you may think that no-one is being positively influenced by what you are doing. The catalyst for this episode was born in the middle of a marathon in which Gary was participating. While struggling with discomfort, Gary found inspiration from a person who was taking action; nothing more and nothing less.