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Where have your beliefs in your abilities come from? 3 Perspectives on the Sources of Efficacy – Sarah Cordiner
Sarah Cordiner, founder of ‘The Efficacy Effect’ believes there are 5 stages to the creation of an ‘Efficacious Effect’; aka the development of an event, experience, or circumstance that causes desired results, (or undesired ones). THE EFFECTOR – this is something that causes a change in belief in one’s ability to create desired results THE…
Your Sanity is a Matter of Your Perceived Control – How Efficacy Keeps You Sane
The world is a fast moving and fast changing place. We are constantly faced with new challenges and new ways of doing things. When this is combined with the everyday life challenges of being human, we are faced with significant pressure to maintain the capability to implement control over the path our life is taking…
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…
A 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…
Australian 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…
How 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…
Moaners, 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…
What 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…