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Month: January 2013 (Page 1 of 2)

Teambuilding

31/01/2013 /

J. Adair , a British academic who is a leadership theorist, describes a team as “a group in which individuals share a common aim and in which the jobs and skills of each member fit in with those of the others”.

So, how do you build a high performance team?

‘Teambuilding’ written by Eric Garner, downloadable for free at Bookboon.com, provides  some advices to transform a group of people into a winning team.

Acknowledging , appreciating, accepting , are the 3 A’s features of great teams and stand in contrast to the 3 C’s  of poor teams : Criticising, Complaining, Condemning.

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Be the best of whatever you are

29/01/2013 /

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a shrub in the valley—but be
The best little shrub at the side of the hill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
We can’t all be captains,
We’ve got to be crew.
There’s something for all of us here;
There is big work to do, and there’s lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can’t be the sun, be a star;
It isn’t the size that you win or you fail—
Be the best of whatever you are.

Anonymous

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Persuasion, trust and personal credibility

24/01/2013 /
Persuasion is at the heart of the diplomatic process and in turn depends on credibility and inter-personal communication qualities of the envoy to function in effectively.
The essay “Persuasion, trust and personal credibility” by Kishan Rana, former Indian ambassador, explores the linkage between persuasion and trust, given that the one is impossible to practice without the other.

Read more at: http://goo.gl/5XRGA

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10 Ways to Make Yourself Smarter

22/01/2013 /

Whether you are trying to survive an intensive schedule or just want to seem smarter in front of your friends, you can do a lot of things to both look and be smarter.

In his article “Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter” published on lifehacker.com, Whitson Gordon, senior editor of lifehacker blog, provides ten simple tricks for boosting your real (and perceived) brain power:

  1. Read faster and better
  2. Speak up
  3. Don’t fall prey to BS
  4. Focus on what you know
  5. Get some exercise
  6. Talk to yourself
  7. Learn a second language
  8. Do things the hard way
  9. Know what won’t make you smarter
  10. Just believe you can be smarter

You can read more at: http://goo.gl/6TFL0

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Who Moved My Cheese?

17/01/2013 /

Who Moved My Cheese? is the best-selling business book of all time.

It reveals profound truths about change that give people and organizations a quick and easy way to succeed in changing times.

Here there are some quotes you can find in this book:

“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese”.

“See what you’re doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better”.

” The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists”

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Spencer Johnson, the first Medical Director of Communications for Medtronic, is one of the world’s most influential thinkers.
His eleven international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese?® An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change, and The One Minute Manager®, co-authored with Ken Blanchard, the world’s most popular management method for more than two decades.

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