I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. Brown Jr., H. Jackson
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Being a confident problem solver is really important to your success.
There are four basic steps in problem solving:
- Defining the problem
- Generating alternatives
- Evaluating and selecting alternatives
- implementing solutions
The Problem Solving menu, available at Mindtools.com, will help you to improve your approach to solving the problems that you and your team have to face.
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You might be around people who could be ideal for your life, or who know someone who could be important.
This book, Networking, free downloadable at Bookboon.com, is filled with good advice and tools that will rapidly give you a professional networking mind.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
According to Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of the Riverside School, if learning is embedded in the real-word context, the children go through a journey of “awareness”, where they can see the change, “enable it”, then “control it”, and finally to lead the change.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein
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David M. Dye is President of Trailblaze, Inc and shares twenty years experience teaching, coaching, leading, and managing.
In his article he explains how a leader can be helpful to his team without solving problems for them. He provides 3 important steps:
1) Remove obstacles
2) Get them the resources they need
3) Help them think
The team members will come up with their own solution.
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The theme of Diplocalendar 2013 was inspired by Mark Twain’s quotation that: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them”.
Diplomats, like many other professionals, must read, understand, synthesise and make sense of newspapers, magazines, emails, official reports and so many other things related to their daily work. But there is so much else to read both for pleasure and to deepen our knowledge.
The selected book suggested for the month of March that supports professional development and is relevant to management in diplomacy is Edward De Bono’s Thinking Course
Skmamun, blogger of ‘Time To Us‘, provides us some advices about success.
Here are the top ten keys to success:
1. Optimism. Think positive.
2. Faith. Believe in yourself, God and your country.
3. Planning. Know what’s important each day; set your priorities accordingly.
4. Determination. Have the courage to stand alone when taking the big risks in life.
5. Vision. Think big, dream big, keep success in your mind.
6. Attitude. If you think you can’t, you’re right. Winners have positive attitudes.
7. Goals. Set goals. Plan how to achieve them.
8. Perseverance. Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.
9. Knowledge. Learn to accept your mistakes, but make them only once.
10. Enthusiasm. Choose work you like. Enjoy the challenges.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas Edison
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