Diplo Learning Corner

Get your brain in motion

Month: November 2018

The 4 A’s for stress relief

28/11/2018 /

Happy events, such as a wedding, as well as unhappy events, such as overwork, can cause stress. When your stress level exceeds your ability to cope, you need to restore the balance by reducing the stressors or increasing your ability to cope or both.

In this article are described the following four A’s to cope or reduce stress:

1 Avoid

You can simply avoid a lot of stress. Plan ahead, rearrange your surroundings and reap the benefits of a lighter load. In particular, try to avoid people who bother you, learn to say no and clearly define your priorities

However, some problems can’t be avoided. For those situations, here are the other A’s.

2 Alter Take inventory and attempt to change the situation for the better.  In particular you can respectfully ask others to change their behavior, communicate your feelings openly, manage your time in a more efficient way and state limits in advance.

3 Accept

Sometimes you may have no choice but to accept things the way they are. For those times try to talk with someone, forgive (it takes energy to be angry), practice positive self-talk and learn from your mistakes.

4 Adapt

Sometimes adapting can be the most helpful and only available solution. In particular in those situations stop gloomy thoughts and adopt a mantra, try to reframe the issue and recall all of the things that bring you joy in life.

In general, you should adjust your standards and stop striving for perfection and always try to look at the big picture.

Stress

Image: Flickr – Jesper Sehested (CC BY 2.0)

Managing Workplace Diversities

21/11/2018 /

Workplace diversities like gender, age, social class, physical disability are always a crucial and diffuclt element for managers and human resources officers.

“Managing Workplace Diversity – a contemporary context” is a practical freebook that covers key issues in workplace diversity including contemporary concepts like the migrant worker, transgender issues, AIDS, etc. as a means of broadening our knowledge in this dynamic field of management.

Diversity.jpg

Image: Flickr – George A. Spiva Center for the Arts (CC BY 2.0)

 

5 Tips Become a More Empathetic Person

14/11/2018 /

Empathy is the ability to see the world through the eyes of another. Highly empathetic persons sense the emotions of those around them, and have the ability to tap into those same emotions within themselves.

Empathy is something we tend to reserve for our personal lives, however, empathy should also be practiced in our professional relationships.

Indeed, business relationships form because of a fundamental trust between you and your network. When you express empathy, you are delivering an experience to people that they’re not just listened to; they’re heard. And because they’re heard, they’re understood. This gives your network a sense of connection and safety directly associated with you, ultimately laying the foundation for them to trust you with their business.

Empathy is a skill, and skills can be learned. In this article are presented 5 tips to develop empathy:

1. (Actively) Listen More Than You Speak

Empathetic persons listen first and only speak after they’ve carefully heard.

2. Express Your Perspective

Put yourself in their shoes, experience the moment as if it were happening to you, and let your emotions guide you.

3. Be Vulnerable

Asking for help shows vulnerability, and vulnerability often leads to that greater sense of connection and relation.

4. Don’t Make Assumptions

When you make an assumption, the understanding you draw is rarely a good match to the problem this person is facing. As a result, the connection you try to make feels forced and unnatural. So don’t rush empathy, and don’t try and empathize before you truly understand the situation.

5. Use Your Imagination

The ability to imagine what someone else is feeling—even if we haven’t experienced it ourselves—is critical to empathy. And one way to develop this skill is to develop your imagination.

Empathy

Image: Flickr – Kaiwan Teanngam (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 

Emotional First Aid

07/11/2018 /

We’ll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch in this TED Talk. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, – with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.

By taking action when we’re lonely, by changing our responses to failure, by protecting our self-esteem, by battling negative thinking, we won’t just heal our psychological wounds, we will build emotional resilience, we will thrive.

A hundred years ago, people began practicing personal hygiene, and life expectancy rates rose by over 50 percent in just a matter of decades. According to the author, our quality of life could rise just as dramatically if we all began practicing emotional hygiene.

First Aid Kit

Image: Flickr – niche (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Archives

Archives

© 2024 Diplo Learning Corner

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑