Management Channel

Team building skills are critical for your effectiveness as a manager or entrepreneur. And even if you are not in a management or leadership role yet, better understanding of team work can make you a more effective employee and give you an extra edge in your corporate office.

 A team building success is when your team can accomplish something much bigger and work more effectively than a group of the same individuals working on their own. You have a strong synergy of individual contributions. But there are two critical factors in building a high performance team.

•  The first factor in team effectiveness is the diversity of skills and personalities. When people use their strengths in full, but can compensate for each other’s weaknesses. When different personality types balance and complement each other.
• The other critical element of team work success is that all the team efforts are directed towards the same clear goals, the team goals. This relies heavily on good communication in the team and the harmony in member relationships.  Read the rest of this entry »

New Year, time to think, time to check out if  our goals were accomplished. But it is important, be prepared for the new year… So, I would like to share some ideas to be ready.

1. Set smaller goals with smaller steps

Gradual small steps motivate people toward larger change.

If you want to lose weight, for example, change small aspects of your eating pattern. Resolve to have a salad tomorrow for lunch, and then do that for a week.

Write down the steps you want to take in a datebook to make it concrete, and reward yourself for making the individual changes, she said.

Let’s say you want to work on being more optimistic this year. Nolen-Hoeksema recommends imagining what you would be like if you were optimistic. Imagine yourself going through a day at work if you were optimistic and confident, then write that down in great detail.

Now, you have specific aspects of that ideal of optimism to work toward. Pick one thing that the optimistic you is doing that you’re not, and start working in that direction, she said.

2. Frame your goals positively

Despite the proven health risks of certain habits, such as smoking, thinking about a habit in the negative will not help you nix it. Studies have shown that it’s hard to get motivated about avoiding cancer, but easier to think about smelling better and saving money as reasons to quit smoking.

So, if you want to quit doing something, think about the positive aspects of not doing it. And make sure you reward yourself for sticking to the plan along the way.

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My best wishes for this Christmas. Remember that it is a moment to leave the conflicts aside and look forward.
I wait, to continue next year contributing new things, so that we all could improve our knowleage and performance.

Kind Regards.
Alberto

When you are facing challenge of self-education, it may be hard to find time to read books or attend to seminars. But don’t give up.

Instead, think of how much time you spend commuting or driving. When you are driving, do you listen to music or the radio? Do you have an ipod you could use during your commute?

If you manage to listen to anything, you could as well, and as easily, listen to personal growth audiobooks, including time management lessons or other inspiring self improvement tapes or CDs. Just keep them on. Not only will you learn, but you will also feel energized after being in a company of those inspiring speakers.

For instance time management advice is not to difficult to comprehend. It typically does not require intense thinking or research to understand. What is much more important is how much those time management principles and techniques become a part of you, how deeply they penetrate into your mind. This is why learning in small bits over an extended period of time, with each of those bits repeated a few times, will beat the effect of any intense time management seminar.

Listening to educational audiobooks in your car seems to be a small change in your habits. Yet, those ten minute pieces will add up fast. Over a few months you will have a dozen of books deeply imprinted in your mind. The words of wisdom from the time management speaker will become a part of your inner voice. If you keep doing this over those months, even without any books or time management seminars, you will be much more ahead in your time management than 90 to 95 percent of people around you.

For optimal learning, it is generally recommended, and my personal experience support that, that you come back to the same audiobook for at least 5 times.

We persuade when we achieve that someone believes, wants or does something that we wish. But it is not necessary to confuse persuasion with obedience, since the persons go so far as to be persuaded when for their own thoughts and feelings they go so far as to accept proposals, suggestions or foreign reasonings. To be persuaded is to want really what other wants.

Also in the companies the emotions are contagious

Since the persuasion combines the suggestion with the rational demonstration it is possible to understand it like a rationalized affective reaction, when we manage in the world of the company and want to persuade in some action course, it is indispensable to identify the affective common elements of the groups, since these elements act like beliefs, expression of will or design of action.

In other words, the persuasion goes to the affections and handling emotions which is subordinated to an essential skill in the today management: the emotional intelligence. Today, the most advanced investigations of the modern cognitive psychology, they confirm the hypothesis of which the emotions are priority in the processes of development and human change.

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