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New Financial Year? Define or Redefine your goals

Emotional Intelligence, Goals, Mindfulness / My Holland

Help Your Employees Set And Define Better Goals It oftentimes happens that with the start of a calendar new year or a fiscal year among business companies, employers set up their employees to develop and achieve goals. Left to their own devices, these guys could pretty well be writing down traditional new year’s resolutions as in reducing weight or, they may simply go through the motion of listing down objectives as nonchalantly as doing the grocery list. Of course, it’s got to be a little more serious than that. Reason enough why employers should play a role in their staff’s goal setting. Here are several ways you (as a business owner or entrepreneur with employees) can help your guys set better goals: Reiterate the company’s mission. It’s funny. In a survey of three thousand US workers, only about four in ten know what their organization stands for and what makes their brand different from the rest. You have got to help employees better understand the over-all mission . Redefining this and sharing the company-wide goals will get your guys working towards goals that will run parallel to your company’s. Make the employee goal-setting a two-way affair. You can’t let this be the employee’s sole responsibility. You, as a manager have got to jump in and make it a collaborative process. Why? Because it’ll help to get those objectives more aligned with your company’s mission. Ensure you help make those goals as specific as possible as to include the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s and why’s of it. And, use concrete numbers so you can quantify and measure the results in realistic terms. Set your employees up for success. Work out goals that are within reach or, you may want to break down long-term goals and set up timelines for what has to be done and when. This will make short-term, smaller goals more achievable which should provide the motivation to push on. Map out an achievement plan. Don’t stop at simply setting and defining goals with your employees. A goal achievement plan is essential as well. This is where you need to have control points as you get to know what needs to be accomplished for the quarter and how all concerned should actively work to address any issues that may have risen. This should also help to keep your guys on track. So you’ve been the conscientious manager who assisted the team members in the setting of goals. Now take a step back and review what you’ve collaboratively put down. Honestly, ask yourself the question … “Are these the goals that will inspire passion among my team members? Will these drive them to go the extra mile?” If you’re getting affirmative answers, give yourself a pat on the back and treat yourself to the biggest ice cream cone at Dairy Queen. If not, I don’t have to tell you… it’s back to the drawing boards till you’ve got something that’ll fly!

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Suffering from a busy brain?

Nhận Thức, Mindfulness / My Holland

Know What BBS Is And Keep It At Bay When you notice you’ve been snapping at everybody in the office for every little thing … when you can’t keep track of the details of an important project , or when you’re having problems getting a good night’s sleep. No, that’s not because of your recent lovers’ quarrel with your partner. Place that in the back burner for another day. She/he loves you so much she/he won’t dump you. For now, pull back a bit. Spend some time to take stock of how you’ve been doing at the workplace the last three or four months. You could be suffering from BBS. What Is BBS? You know the colloquial meaning of BS. No, it’s not a big BS. BBS stands for BUSY BRAIN SYNDROME. It’s an emerging, modern scourge in the business world. It’s a serious condition where your brains, having been constantly working gets tired, over-worked and over-loaded with pressure. And it leads to a tremendous plunge in productivity and performance. It can be a tricky condition because you hardly notice its development. It grows gradually over a period of weeks or months and most often, it’s become fully developed before realizing it has hit you. Here are several BBS symptoms: A heightened level of irritability and easy distraction. Shortened attention span Deterioration of accuracy and missing out on the details of an undertaking Insomnia Increased risk-taking to almost bring situations to a “win or lose” game. Poor decision making Inability to keep up with pressures of everyday work. What makes this whole condition even worse is that it tends to make you feel terrible though you can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong or “why this feeling?” What Causes BBS? In simple terms, it’s the kind of lifestyle we choose to live that causes BBS. We, somehow have this crazy idea that success comes only from tons of hard work and effort. Of course, it’s true… kind of. I will talk about this in another blog. But when you take these into extremes, when you push these to the max, something’s got to give. We are after all, humans, not robots. When we push ourselves too hard over long periods of time, we place ourselves on the verge of mental distress, exhaustion and tremendous burnout. So, How Do You Take Control Again? BBS happens because of a poor unhealthy lifestyle, bad work practices and behavior that are not sustainable for the long haul. The essential step to getting back control is to recognize these poor choices and then decide to change them. And change them, you must. Create a frame work (write it down, if you must) that allows you to put in several small changes to how you go about your job and how you’re living your life. Follow these changes and improve on them gradually, bringing in the big changes. Most often a personal program like this will make a big difference. And so, starting today, set in motion new ways of thinking and doing things, building on your increased level of brain awareness. Pretty soon, you’ll discover your old self to the great relief and delight of your partner and colleagues at work.

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Create Positive Emotions At The Workplace. It Raises Productivity

Emotional Intelligence, Khả năng lãnh đạo, Mindfulness, Tâm Lý Tích Cực, Productivity, Workplace Culture / My Holland

A lot of men say that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the pessimist, sees women as naughty and bad. An optimist HOPES women are naughty and bad! Seriously though, you know the big difference between these two points of view: Optimism being one that can have a great impact not only on your career or profession but also on your health and life, in general. What Research Studies Say In fact, research studies have shown that optimism helps to keep depression away, improve your social ties, boost job performance and raise the chances of success in any undertaking. And when you come face to face with setbacks, optimism can make you more resilient. Pessimism, on the other hand undermines work, friendships and health. It increases your stress when you dwell on the negative too much. It actually is the recipe for depression and failure. Given these, wouldn’t you rather work with the optimist who can lighten up the day and who you can count on for support? Of course you would!, unless you’re “The Voice of Doom” who loves to hang around people who do nothing but complain, point blame at co-workers and see the whole world as nearing its end. High Performance Emanates from Optimistic Employees If you look closely at your people in the workplace, you may notice (as studies in actual work setting reflect) that your high performing teams tend to have a 6-to-1 ratio of positive to negative viewpoints. The low performing groups have an under 1-to-1 ratio. This gap generally makes a tremendous difference in your business, organizational set-up and the people who comprise them. Your best performers typically produce the top scores on profits, customer service ratings and other value measurements. Have no doubt about it. Positive emotions play a key role in a company’s daily operations. It broadens. Negative emotions hold you back. What You Can Do So, on your one-on-ones with the negative guys help them out. Persuade them to distract themselves. Help them find healthy distractions like music, exercises, meditation, etc. Short of getting them to take up bullfighting lessons, get them to learn new things.These will help put their focus somewhere else. Get them to reappraise problems and see them in a different perspective. Is it half-full or half-empty? Is it really that complex or do they just see it as such? Teach them to regard a thought as simply that: a thought. No need for them to make any judgments. The only real thing is experience. With the foregoing, you should be able to lend a hand in raising the optimism levels in your company and shoo away all forms of negativism. This is key to productivity that leads to business success.

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New Financial Year? Define or Redefine your goals

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Create Positive Emotions At The Workplace. It Raises Productivity

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