Posts by Sarah Cordiner
Are you an Efficacy Effector? What the butterfly effect can teach us about making and breaking efficacy
Many of us have heard of the butterfly effect, coined by Edward Lorenz in 1961 which describes how a small change in one place, can result in a much bigger change later on; so if a butterfly flapped its wings in one place, with the right weather conditions it could create a hurricane in another…
Read MoreA frightening level of power is beheld by Educators – The Power of Efficacy
The Efficacy Effect, a concept developed by Sarah Cordiner, illustrates how our belief in our ability to control life events influences our results. This belief shapes our experiences and life path, regardless of our actual abilities. Our beliefs and behaviors are shaped by many factors: our evaluation of past successes and failures, observing others’ successes…
Read MoreAustralian Oil & Gas Industry at risk of collapse – Solving the workforce skills crisis
Maximising Workforce Productivity in the Oil and Gas Industry Sarah Cordiner An inadequately skilled workforce in Australia has been identified as “a major impediment to the growth of Australia’s resource sector,” according to APPEA in their report, “Platform for Prosperity.” In Western Australia alone, there are $130 billion worth of resource and infrastructure projects under…
Read MoreHow To Be The Best Educator – Or The Worst
The Efficacy Effect (Sarah Cordiner) is a concept that illustrates how and to what extent people can influence results through their belief in their ability to control various life events. Our everyday experiences – indeed, our entire life path – can be influenced by our perceived ability or inability to succeed in any given activity, despite what our actual ability…
Read MoreMoaners, Groaners and Heel-Draggers: 3 ways to engage training and development participants who resist change
Training and developing people is supposed to facilitate change and provide a positive experience, a successful outcome and better lives for the participants. Yet change is a phenomenon that always seems to generate fear, resistance, and heel-dragging. It is vital that change-makers, leaders and educators of all kinds know how to apply the top 3…
Read MoreThe question that makes people hate you
I was recently having dinner with a friend when the diners beside us struck up a conversation. After the usual small talk, ‘that’ question was asked. The one that people find impossible to leave alone, the one that people cannot possibly get into real conversation without asking, the one that makes us all wary…
Read MoreWhat the hell is ‘efficacy’?? It’s hell if you don’t have it!
Efficacy: Give this to your learner’s, clients and employee and you’ll be remembered (in the right way) forever….. The Efficacy Effect is all about creating desired results; and importantly, it’s about maximising upon every opportunity to increase our learners, clients and employees’ beliefs and awareness of their capabilities to create desired results. We all had…
Read MoreVillain, victim or hero? The life-script you’re playing out will determine your happy ever after, or not…
What character are you playing in your life script? Answer the 3 simple questions in this blog to find out…. Whether you believe me or not, you’re playing out your life like a character in a play, a movie or a story book, right now. You’ve been playing it out your whole life, and will…
Read MoreGuest Post by SamWise: Educators, Mentors and Coaches, listen up! Expert reveals highly powerful butterfly-like effect for creating your desired results.
Samuel and Sarah This simple formula is going to create an effect on your life. A massive one. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST It has the gravity and finesse for choreographing the stars around the spiral arms of a galaxy. Mark my words, with a highlighter, a sticky note or even circle the…
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