Learning Dangerously: Success Is Closer Than You Think

While you will never learn all you could learn, you are always able to learn what serves you best. If you want to respond to daily challenges in work and life with purpose-led conviction, confidence and control, then it's time to start Learning Dangerously. In 48 practical articles, performance expert Craig Stephens demonstrates how Learning Dangerously can overcome the common challenges faced by leaders, managers, professionals and people across four domains: learning, influence, performance and success. You'll discover: – The Benefits of Becoming a Lifestyle Learner – The 7 Truths About Great Habits – How Your Beliefs Can Limit Your Learning – How To Improve Your Connection With Others – Why Busyness Should Not Be Your Business – Why Accepting Your Limitations Is Good For You – Success Only Matters When It Is Measured – And more Learning Dangerously will allow you to identify the critical actions that will best serve you, so you can realise the potential you have to share with the world. Success is closer than you think.

Craig Stephens is an energetic performance expert who has transformed the personal and working lives of managers and professionals for over 20 years. His corporate experience includes senior roles in banking and finance, quality assurance, project leadership, executive management and chartered accounting. Craig’s fascination is performance. He is committed to challenging people, teams and businesses to understand, measure and improve their performance outcomes across a number of performance domains, including: leadership influence, innovation and efficiency, career enhancement, communication impact, personal development and performance leverage. ‘Value through Presence’ is Craig’s philosophy for enhanced performance. 'Value' is about aligning the purpose and effort of performance - without 'value' people risk being distracted by the past and future and fail to realise their success now. 'Presence' is focusing on the immediate performance - without 'presence', people risk being spectators to their work, business or life. Using a results-focused approach and a pragmatic understanding of business and personal performance, Craig designs and delivers outstanding personal and professional development experiences. In particular, Craig’s methods are considerate of the practical challenges of adult-learning and address capacity, capability and mindset to transform the performance of people, teams and businesses. Craig is a qualified Organisational Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also a Chartered Accountant; holds a Diploma of Project Management; and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.