THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: The Surprising Secret to Selling You

THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: The Surprising Secret to Selling You: There is no shortage of advice out there on how to make a good impression – an impression good enough to land you a new job...
Heidi Grant Halvorson's latest write up posted on the HBR blog, really makes you think when you hire the next candidate or put yourself up as a candidate, ready for an interview.

THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: How to Keep Happiness From Fading

THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: How to Keep Happiness From Fading: No matter how miserable you are feeling at the moment, if you look back, there have surely been events in your life that ha...
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How to Be Assertive (Without Losing Yourself)

Conventional wisdom says that assertive people get ahead. They tell people what they think, request the resources they need, ask for raises, and don't take no for an answer. So what are non-assertive people supposed to do if their company's culture rewards these actions? If you're shy or reserved, don't fret. You can ask for what you need and get what you want, while still being yourself.

To read more of this stuff check out the link below....

http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2012/08/how-to-be-assertive-without-lo.html

What makes leaders

Recently a three day workshop was organized in the state office on "what makes a leader." The basic proposition on which the entire discussion hinged was "are leaders born or made." "What distinguishes great leaders from merely good ones." In conducting this three day hands on workshop which involved a number of evaluative exercises, focusing on increasing one's level of self-awareness and understanding one's emotions, I focused on the "Covey time management matrix," "the 360 degree evaluation based on the seven emotional intelligence indicators" and the "Jungian personality types." 

It was a very interesting experience for me in trying out the 360 degree evaluation on the EI indicators (emotional intelligence)  and I do sincerely feel that I tried my best to make my team members peel apart the hardened layers of social conditioning in trying to understand their own emotional make-up and thereby how they act and react to different events and circumstances in their day to day life - understanding one's emotions, strengths and weakness, needs and drives and their effect on others. It was a lot easier for the team members than under normal circumstances as they have worked together for a sufficiently long period of time. The workshop also focused on the physiology of the brain - especially mirror neurons, spindle cells and oscillators and how they determine one's actions and reactions. Great leaders are those whose behavior powerfully leverages the system of brain inter-connectedness. The main point I wanted to drive in was that "emotional leadership isn't just putting on a game face every day. It means understanding your impact on others - then adjusting your style accordingly."

The "Jungian dichotomy" was used in evaluating one's personality type while the "Covey Matrix" revealed how effectively we spend our time in the course of a day - especially by realizing in which quadrant we are - true emergencies, personal pro-activity and power, fire fighting and waste.

Resource Group Meeting

Resource group meeting were held in all the three zones recently. Selected teachers who have demonstrated effective use of technology in teaching learning, were invited to attend these workshops. These workshops cater to the special needs of the star performers as far as technology integration in teaching learning is concerned. These workshops were preceded by extensive discussions at the school level in which both the teachers and the monitoring experts participated, leading to the identification of hard spots, which formed the basis for designing innovative teaching aids as part of these workshops. The central zone workshops, held in Kendrapada and Cuttack respectively combined a hardware training as part of these workshops. This training basically focused on identifying minor hardware problems and rectifying them at the school level - thereby preventing delays as far as repair and maintenance is concerned. There was a focus on the preventive part also such as virus scans, defragmenting, registry cleaning etc.