Get your brain in motion
The subject of the Diplocalendar 2012 for the month of October is Success.
Success is not final, Failure is not fatal.
It’s the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)
More inspiring subjects on Diplocalendar 2012 that explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.
In his Ted Talk, Dan Pink examines the science of motivation. Most managers don’t know what has been ascertained by social scientists: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think.
Dan Pink has published the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioural science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a new path to high performance.
The subject of the Diplocalendar 2012 for the month of September is Multitasking.
The opposite of delegation, multitasking is an attempt to divide your mind and attention into several activities that you attempt to do all at once. Few people learn to do this successfully; in general it’s a recipe for failure.
More inspiring subjects on Diplocalendar 2012 that explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.
Effective delegation is an essential managerial skill and probably one of the most difficult to implement effectively.
The site Mindtools has elaborated a test to measure “How Well Do You Delegate?” and discover Ways to Achieve More. Take this short quiz to explore how well you currently delegate. Your answers will show you if you need to improve. If you do, we’ll direct you to some great resources that will help you.
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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
Manage or simply participate to a meeting, can sometimes be hard. Colleagues and co-workers can become real “Meeting Killers”. The Wall Street Journal has published an humorous editorial by Sue Shellenbarger, which provides advices and solutions to handle this situations.
Read the full article at: http://on.wsj.com/JaBDcT
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.
Mrmediatraining.com provides a list of the seven main causes that could make a speech uninteresting and boring:
1. Your Introduction Failed to Interest Me
2. One Thought Ran Into The Next
3. You Loaded The Speech With Technical Detail
4. Your Delivery Was Sleep-Inducing
5. You Didn’t Tell Me What You Wanted
6. You Read From Your PowerPoint
7. You Didn’t Manage the Question and Answer Period
Read the full post at: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/index.php/2011/10/27/seven-reasons-i-hated-your-speech/
Tony Schwartz is the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything. On his Blog he has recently published a post on Stress.
His starting line goes like this: “How often do you intentionally push yourself to discomfort?”
A very effective example he provides, explains his position on stress management: “This is easiest to see at the physical level. In the absence of regular cardiovascular exercise — a form of stress — the heart’s ability to efficiently pump blood drops an average of 1 percent a year between the ages of 30 and 70, and faster after that. Likewise, in the absence of strength training — literally pushing weight against resistance — we lose an average of 1 percent of lean muscle mass every year after age 30.” … “The principle is simple, but not entirely intuitive. The harder you push yourself, the more you signal your body to grow. It’s called supercompensation, and the growth actually occurs during recovery. The limiting factor is mostly your tolerance for discomfort.”
In fact research on dementia also says about the brain “use it or lose it”, which is directly related to the famous Latin quotation “mens sana in corpore sano”. However it should also be considered that persistent stress and over-exertion can push you to burnout.
The full text of Tony Schwartz’s post is available at http://www.theenergyproject.com/blog/stress-not-your-enemy
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Effective Time Management is a challenge for everybody. Most people keep running all day long, complaining about time constraint. But have they ever analyses the way they emply their Time.
Bookboon has a vast collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. One of the best books is dedicated to “Successful Time Management” and can be freely downloaded from the Web.
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