Get your brain in motion
Thinking skills are applicable in any branch of life. If used skillfully, they can help you perform better in your job, better in your team and better in your organization.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. “Thinking Skills” is one of these books and provides useful suggestions to improve these skills.
The book can be freely downloaded from the Web at:
Speaking in public can become very hard and, as George Jessel said:
“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public”.
Susan Weinschenk provides some simple advices to make the perfect speech:
1-A speech should not last more than 20 minutes.
2- Use multiple sensory channels like videos to keep the attention of the audience high for the whole time.
3-Use your body and your expressions to support your words.
4-Involve your audience in the action.
5- Share all your emotion throw the words by passion and emphasis.
Read the full article at:
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Tania Singer, expert in social neuroscience at Max Planck Institut, studied brain reactions to empathy and compassion.
People with a lot of empathy want to change that to compassion so they don’t get overwhelmed when confronted with suffering.
Read the full article at:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/12/tania-singer-compassion-burnout
The website “E-Diplomacy Hub”, developed by the agency AFP, provides the full map of twitter interactions between the most influential diplomatic actors, think tanks and NGOs. The homepage features charts and graphics of the most followed heads of government and of State Embassies and Foreign Ministries on Twitter. Moreover, you can easily check the most debated hashtags on twitter dealing with International Affairs.
Visit E-Diplomacy Hub at:
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. “Emotional intelligence” is one of these books and deals with its features and with all the ways to learn handling our emotions.
The book can be freely downloaded from the Web at:
Mindtools.com provides a simple test, made of 15 questions, to discover if you are good in motivating a teamwork and lead it to success. Performance goals, an efficient reward system and good motivational practices have to be combined in the best way to become a good manager.
Take the online test at:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_67.htm
Shawn Murphy from http://switchandshift.com explains what behaviors a manager should avoid, to lead an organization to success.
The leader should be humble, self-confident, long-term thinker and should never aim company’s activities at his own interests.
A study by Zhen Wang and Clifford Nass from Stanford University, analyzes what happens in a brain while a person is multitasking. Multitasking, at first sight, looks very productive and seems the best way to solve several problems at the same time, without ignoring even just one of them.
The study, instead, shows that multitasking decreases brain efficiency and doesn’t help memory and filtering of information. Listening to music, instead isn’t a way of multitasking and can also help the person to be more efficient and concentrated.
Read the full article to “solve your multitasking madness” at:
http://lifehacker.com/5922453/what-multitasking-does-to-our-brains
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