Get your brain in motion
Email is an essential part of modern communication. Amy-Mae Elliott have collected eight essential tips for contemporary email etiquette.
For instance, set up a separate email signature for use on mobile devices, and use a more considerate out-of-office message.
Read the full article at: http://goo.gl/MIDfZ
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.
Diplomatic activities involves many jobs in one. This illustration by Diplofoundation summarizes the four different kind of working situation that any diplomat can face during the career. Each one of them requires different skills and it is a job on its own. Appropriate training and experience is needed to perform adequately and take the right decisions.
Everything should be made as simple as possible and not simpler, Albert Einstein
Michael W. Fordyce (leading researcher in happiness) in his work “Psychology of Happiness,” has elaborated the following 14 points to follow to find happiness:
1) Be more active and keep busy
2) Spend more time socializing
3) Be productive at meaningful work
4) Get better organized and plan things out
5) Stop worrying
6) Lower your expectations and aspirations
7) Develop positive, optimistic thinking
8) Get present oriented
9) Work on a healthy personality
10) Develop an ongoing, social personality
11) Be yourself
12) Eliminate negative feelings and problems
13) Close relationships, #1 source of happiness
14) Place happiness as first priority
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Thinking skills are applicable in any branch of life. If used skillfully, they can help you perform better in your job, better in your team and better in your organization.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. “Thinking Skills” is one of these books and provides useful suggestions to improve these skills.
The book can be freely downloaded from the Web at:
The word NO is a great time saver. Say NO to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time. Brian Tracey.
Source image: The New Yorker
Tania Singer, expert in social neuroscience at Max Planck Institut, studied brain reactions to empathy and compassion.
People with a lot of empathy want to change that to compassion so they don’t get overwhelmed when confronted with suffering.
Read the full article at:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/12/tania-singer-compassion-burnout
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