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The Diplocalendar 2014 realised by S. Baldi and E. Gelbstein is dedicated to “Cybersecurity: Guidelines for diplomats” and is based on the assumption that “Cyberspace is inherently insecure“.
For this month the attention is drawn on “Sharing”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
Soft skills are becoming crucial for career success as the world gets increasingly competitive. Beyond technical skills, the softer, interpersonal and relationship-building skills are the ones that help people excel at work.
The problem is such skills are often taken for granted and there is far less training provided for them than for traditional hard skills. That’s why it is so important to focus on soft skills training and development.
Check out if you have a soft skills gap on: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_34.htm
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How much time do we need to learn a foreign language?
According to Joshua Foer, an American journalist who learnt Lingala – a Bantu language spoken in the North West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-, you just need 22 hours spread over a period of 10 weeks.
He used Memrise, a web app that teaches foreign languages through a game based on the repetition of words and their audio pronunciation. The trick is to assign to each word a “memo”, that can be an image, a sound, a rhyme, a video or just a note on the etymology of the word.
The idea behind Memrise is making the study of a foreign language a fun practice by using the internet as a social gaming and by exploiting the potential of our memory.
Read full article http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time –
Bo Bennett
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Have you ever asked yourself if you are truly happy or not? This infographic, originally published by Networx, can help you out in making up your mind.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. Albert Einstein
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
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