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5 tips to boost Creativity

20/11/2019 /

Creativity is an inborn talent of all human beings and it can also be developed. When youace challenges which you ot able to solve in a conventional way, it’s time to get creative. he World Economic Forum says creativity is one of the top 10 skills required for the future workplace. It’s is a useful tool to explore new and innovative ways of doing things, but there’s an added benefit to your mental health, since we being creative, your brain releases dopamine, which is a natural antidepressant.

Keeping your creative juices flowing can help you embracing and feel more in control. Expressing your innate creativity will help keep you motivated about the future.

This article provides 5 useful tips to boost your creativity:

1. Use your imagination: Creating space where you can disconnect and shut out external stimulation and impulses can help you to dream up all sorts of ideas.

2. Identify your creative time: Keeping a log and working out what time you are at your best for coming up with new ideas is very helpful in knowing when you will produce your most creative work.

3. Commit to continual learning: Adopt a lifelong learning mentality and cultivate a growth mindset. Open your mind and seek out new ways to test yourself.

4. Avoid energy drains: Energy is fundamental to creativity. When you are in a creative mode, it’s important to avoid anything that drains your energy.

5. Plan to do things differently: Seeing new things can help to spark new ideas. Messing up your routine and consciously seeking out ways to do things differently by exploring new environments, taking different routes and challenging your daily habits will help fuel your creativity.

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13/11/2019 /

According to Chris Anderson, there’s no single formula for a great TED talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common: they build an idea inside the minds of the audience.

In this TED talk Chris Anderson, TED curator, describes this concept and provides four tips to be effective in it.

Six tips to write effective email

06/11/2019 /

Emails are the most common way of today professional communication. The average office worker receives around 80 emails each day.

To write effective emails, first ask yourself if you should be using email at all. Sometimes, it might be better to pick up the phone. Make your emails concise and to the point. Only send them to the people who really need to see them, and be clear about what you would like the recipient to do next.

In this article you will find 6 operative and essential tips in order to write effective emails:

  1. Don’t overcommunicate: before you begin writing an email, ask yourself: “Is this really necessary?”;
  2. Make good use of the subject line: it should grab the reader attention and summarize the email content;
  3. Keep message clear and brief: keep your sentences short and to the point. The body of the email should be direct and informative, and it should contain all pertinent information;
  4. Be polite:  the messages you send are a reflection of your own professionalism so be always polite;
  5. Check the tone: Think about how your email “feels” emotionally. If your intentions or emotions could be misunderstood, find a less ambiguous way to phrase your words;
  6. Proofreading: before you sending, take a moment to review your email for spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes.

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02/11/2019 /

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

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Beware the wolf

01/11/2019 /

The Diplo calendar 2019 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.

All the quotes are about animals and their behaviours, their instincts and the complexity of their social dynamics.

Here is the selected quotation for the month of November

He who makes himself a ewe the wolf eats

Proverb

5 common mistakes made by leaders

30/10/2019 /

In an article published on Web Design, Steve Cartwright points out the five common mistakes made by leaders:

  1. Focusing on tasks rather than reaching the ultimate goal. You can’t lead others if you don’t know what you’re striving for, so be sure you’re clear and focused on the vision rather than the small tasks of the job.
  2. Checking up on employees rather than engaging them. Make it a point to get to know your team members: it’s important to get your vision across, and you can’t do that if you merely check in once in a while.
  3. Don’t stick to your own leadership style. You can learn from other leaders in history and in your business, but don’t mimic them when it comes to your leadership style: find your own way and stick to it!
  4. Resist change. Many leaders tend to do what they’ve always done in terms of leading. If you want your business or team to prosper and grow, take some time to expose yourself to new ideas.
  5. Hire people too fast to fill a slot. True leaders take their time when hiring and make sure they can complete the work and grow along with the company or team.

Five Common mistakes made by leaders

15 Best Books to improve your leadership

23/10/2019 /

In an article  published on Lifehack, Joe Vennare identifies some 15 best books especially would-be leaders need to read to define leadership and how to apply it, to communicate and motivate teamwork, and to keep going on.

According to John Coleman, ‘broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders’. Reading has shown to lead many benefits in leadership development.  It improves communication, emotional intelligence and organizational effectiveness and reduces stress.

Nowadays business people seems to be reading less. Sometimes because they are not sufficiently convinced of the importance of reading. In other cases because they don’t know what they should read or  they think they don’t have the time.

 

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