Ever been in a situation where you needed a technique or tool but couldn't remember what it was called, couldn't remember how to use it or couldn't remember where to find out more about it?
Here's a great selection of free websites and online resources to help you in your career, in visualising information at work, for general business activities and personal development tasks, and for self-evaluation.
Tools for your career
For a wide range of common business and management tools, check out Mind Tools for some great overview pages:
Each section of the site provides an overview of the tool, its purpose, how to use it, and for many of them you can download free templates to use too.
The tools are grouped by:
- Leadership skills
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Project management
- Practical creativity
- Time management
- Stress management
- Information skills
- Communication skills
- Memory improvement
Visualisation
Representing and communicating data or other information visually is a common task, that can often benefit from the inspiration that a few examples can provide.
See the Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods as a great starting point.
Other free online templates
Business Balls have another wide selection of free templates to download, covering business and personal development topics: http://www.businessballs.com/freeonlineresources.htm
This list is a bit longer and less structured, but is a useful resource.
Self-assessment tools
Finally, a key part of effective personal development is taking a step back and critically reviewing yourself: your current state, your values, your personality, where you want to get to and so on - so that you know how far you need to go to achieve your goals.
Here's a list of example self-assessment resources, many of which are free (it tells you next to each link): http://www.rileyguide.com/assess.html
I've pulled this list together so I can use it as a reference point in the future. If you found it useful, make sure you're looking at this specific post and bookmark it so you can find these resources again when you need them too...
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