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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.

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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.

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6 High Performance Habits

17/10/2018 /

Many of us wish to reach success. What the definition of that is varies from person to person, but #1 New York Times Best Selling author Brandon Burchard has put together the 6 High Performance Habits that people that are considered successful generally share:

  • Seek clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Raise necessity
  • Increase productivity
  • Develop influence
  • Demonstrate courage

High Performance therefore seems to be the result of simply performing specific actions day in and day out: you have no more excuses! The book also includes a professional assessment to measure one’s own progress in reaching his or her goals.

 

 

Learning the Growth Mindset

03/10/2018 /

Ever heard of mindset? This word is becoming more and more common in the modern world because experts in many fields such as sports, parenting, business, school and relationships are becoming aware of the importance of mindset in facing life’s challenges. In her insightful book “Mindset: The new psychology of Success”, Carol Dweck talks about the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset through real-life examples and then gives us the tools to apply a growth mindset in all aspects of our lives. Basically, people with a fixed mindset believe that you either have it or you don’t: natural talent is the only possible way to succeed. On the other hand, people with a growth mindset believe that their talents can be developed (through hard work, successful strategies and input from others).
Many studies have shown that having a fixed mindset can help us to reach our goals and to do so with greater ease and enjoyment: we can actually appreciate the process of learning, regardless of the outcome.

Be sure to check out Dr. Dweck’s book, it is sure to give you a new perspective on how to go about life and how to interact with others, whether they be your children or you colleagues.

https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means

 

 

The Bus Metaphor

26/09/2018 /

The right people in the right seats on the bus: this is the metaphor from the first Jim Collins best-seller ‘Good to Great’. In that book – published in 2001 – the author identifies what leaders need to do, in order to see their teams and organizations excel. And he uses the power of an image to communicate the following concept.

According to Collins, leaders who are able to transform their organizations begin not by setting a direction, but by getting the right people on the bus – and the wrong people off the bus.

Actually great leaders understand the following three simple truths:

1. If you begin with “who,” rather than “what”, you can more easily adapt to a changing world.

2. If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away, because they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.

3. If you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company.

Assembling the team is the first crucial point. Then a leader has to develop a vision (the direction of the bus), to remove obstacles to high performance (that is, maybe people are not exactly in the right seats and need to be assigned to the right role) and to help people with diverse talents and interests building trust in each other.

It is an hard work, but leaders need it to accomplish objectives with the right people.

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18 Tips To Become a Young Leader

18/09/2018 /

Hung Vo, Director of Policy of the International Youth Council, has posted on his Blog on The Huffington Post some tips for anyone aspiring to become a young leader or just a more effective one.

1. Be confident, but be careful to not confuse confidence with arrogance.
2. Leadership is about vision.
3. Inspire others to take action by showing your own action, commitment and good work for a better world. Make it easy for people to step in and join forces if they want to help.
4. Be ambitious and do not be afraid to take risks.
5. Never let someone tell you that you cannot do something.
6. Be organized.
7. Be able to articulate your thoughts and speech thoroughly and efficiently (a.k.a. communication skills).
8. Be able to establish your goals and commit to your plan.
9. Make sure your project, campaign or endeavor solves a problem and you that have clearly defined what the problem is and how you are going to solve it.
10. Know the strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your team.
11. Be fair.
12. Be clever.
13. Be optimistic.
14. Remember that you are young.
15. Connect! Strive to make a vast and diverse network of friends and colleagues.
16. Know when to give “the talk,” and do give it when it is necessary.
17. Have a right-hand man (or woman).
18. Know when to listen to others, and when to listen only to yourself.

Read the full article: The Huffington Post

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Soft skills to succeed in the workplace

05/09/2018 /

How many soft skills you can think of? The Blog Aboutcareers has made a comprehensive list which shows how vast and articulated this domain is.

In this context, Soft skills are defined as the personal attributes you need to succeed in the workplace. Regardless of the job, you need at least some soft skills to be successful.

Here is a list of 10 chosen at random just to give and idea:

  1. Able to Listen
  2. Delegation
  3. Facilitating
  4. Good at Storytelling
  5. Motivating
  6. Problem-solver
  7. Respectful
  8. Sense of Humor
  9. Time Management
  10. Writing Skills

Check the full list

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3 Tips for getting back to work

29/08/2018 /

The vision of returning to the office after vacation and the reality usually have very little in common. In this article you will find some tips to avoid the post-vacation crush:

  1. Actively plan for your return.

When planning time away from work, most people focus on getting organized for departure. Avoid undoing all that restoration by treating your return as something that needs to be managed in advance as well.

While many of us try to maximize vacation time by coming home Sunday night experts suggest considering an earlier-than-last-minute return.

2. Factor in some triage.

Don’t just walk back into the office after a vacation without a plan of attack, unless you want to be steamrolled. Experts suggest you protect the time you’ve set aside to get caught up the way you would a meeting or a presentation.

3. Your out-of-office response is your first line of defense: wield it to your advantage.

Your out-of -office autoreply needs to be straightforward, helpful, and honest, but not that honest.

 

Learn to plan ahead, rely on your coworkers, and understand that sometimes, it’s inevitable that you’ll miss out on that last-minute request, and you’ll be that much more productive when you return.

 

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