Erik: How do you define sound advice?
James: It has to be as objective as possible,
it has to be based upon experience, it has
to have some tangible examples of where it
has applied and worked well for people in
the past.
Erik: Can you give me an example?
James: A good example would be working with
an individual over a period of time, understanding
on day 1 what it is they articulate their
desires or needs to be, working through with
them what's available, how they might work
towards achieving that, apply it in practice.
Maybe it results in a job change, maybe it
doesn't.
More often than not, it doesn't.
Revisiting it 6 months, 12 months, 18 months
down the line, and seeing it change, and seeing
it develop as a result of information that
the individuals that we work with equip themselves
with, and build a context if you will beyond
what it is that they know on a day in day
out basis.
