Category: Training (Page 24 of 40)
The Dale Carnergie Training, a leader company in performance improvement, in a post on its own blog asserts that the way in which we communicate can elicit positive or negative emotions. If we don’t have the right tact or sensitivity, people might misunderstand the message we are trying to convey. An approach that combines strength and empathy can help us keep bad emotions at bay.
Read full article at: http://bit.ly/1fCJquo
Image source: http://bit.ly/1ebFUuP – Image by Dushan Wegner shtikl (License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted by: Maria Francesca Dell’Apa
The Diplocalendar 2014 realised by S. Baldi and E. Gelbstein is dedicated to “Cybersecurity: Guidelines for diplomats” and is based on the assumption that “Cyberspace is inherently insecure“.
For the month of May the attention is drawn on “Synchronisation”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think – Socrates
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
Image Source: http://writing.wikinut.com/img/30x4fhg877ufacak/Nelson-Mandela
Taking his cue from an article on The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review’s Bill Taylor stages a brilliant takedown of today’s tendency to abuse the word “innovation” and, in general, of the seemingly irresistible need for leaders to apply fashionable buzzwords to all sorts of less-than-fitting situations. Sometimes, as the French like to say, “là où il n’y a pas la chose, il faut le mot”. True innovation does not need to be exposed, just as true leadership needs not be flaunted. By renouncing buzzwords, we just may end up actually thinking more deeply and more persuasively about what we do, rather than resorting to labels that conceal more than they reveal.
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1iGyGml
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Author: Umberto Boeri
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Image Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5810891.Mahatma_Gandhi
Understanding other people’s languages, cultures, etiquettes and taboos is of great value to the diplomat. Kwintessential is a homepage set up by a group of translators providing a series of guides concerning cultural patterns and management styles in different countries. Its purpose is not to develop stereotypes but to deliver an initial framework from where to start the discovery of each culture’s nuances.
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Author: Maria Teresa Del Re
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