Coming together is a beginning
Keeping together is progress
Working together is success”
Henry Ford
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When you get a new job, elation and excitement come first and you’re enthusiastic about all the new possibilities before you.
After that, however, the panic begins. You start to get nervous about your new responsibilities, the corporate culture and the people with whom you’ll be working.
While starting a new job can be a stressful experience, this important transition doesn’t have to be full of tension and anxiety.
In this article, Mind Tools covers strategies for making this transition easier, and it offers some tips for building solid relationships with your new colleagues:
1. Give yourself 90 days to become fully effective in a new role;
2. Focus on a few quick wins;
3. Build the new skills you need;
4. Navigate the new culture;
5. Learn who’s who.
Starting a new role can cause a lot of stress. And you’ll make it harder on yourself if you try to do too much too soon. Spend plenty of time getting to know your new culture. Your boss doesn’t expect you to create full value for the company during your first few months, so take it slowly. And try to focus on a few small victories that will help you establish credibility.
Read more on: Starting a new job: getting used to your new role
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Posted by Camilla Sicuro.
Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with”.
François-René de Chateaubriand, Memories from Beyond the Grave.
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Posted by: Antonio Puggioni
Eric Barker from Time Online Magazine has found out how to improve our lives in a simple way, by just sending 5 emails:
• Every morning send a friend, family member or co-worker an email to say thanks for something.
• At the end of the week, send your boss an email and sum up what you’ve accomplished.
• Once a week email a potential mentor.
• Email a good friend and make plans.
• Send an email to someone you know (but don’t know very well) and check in.
More on: How to Make Your Life Better by Sending Five Simple Emails
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Posted by Camilla Sicuro.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
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Sometimes, the key to success lies in organization. Kevin Daum, author of the best seller Video Marketing for Dummies, has agreed to share with the online magazine Inc.com a series of suggestions on how to increase productivity so as to maximize those 24 hours we have each day.
The list includes:
- Prioritization
- Focusing on efficiency
- Integration of different activities
- Time management
- Active learning and, most importantly,
- Lightness
To find out more about the best path to productivity, read whole article at: bit.ly/1cm458c
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Posted by Alice Rubini
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
The manual “Be A Better Writer“, downloadable for free at Bookboon.com, includes tips that will help you improve your writing (and actually get your writing done faster and easier) no matter what type of writing you need to do.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Jancee Dunn, from Time Online Magazine, suggests 7 useful techniques to improve our memory:
1. Play brain games
2. Eat the right foods
3. Quit multitasking
4. Master a new skill
5. Get more sleep
6. Use mnemonic devices
7. Hit the gym
Read more on: Times Online Magazine, 7 Tricks to Improve Your Memory
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