Archive for 'Professional development'
YOUR Time
Question, what is the resource that you cannot acquire more of?
Do you think it is money? Do you think it is a specific type of skilled labor or a certain type of raw material? NO! Although you or your company might be feeling financially challenged you can find ways to earn money, you can find [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2010 under Job Performance, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional development.
Tags: bucket list, margaret meloni, precious resource, Time, time as a resource, time is YOUR precious resource, value of time
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It is Not Just the Language
Three travelers were on a tour when they became separated from the rest of the group. They found themselves alone in a strange area of a strange land. They each spoke a tiny bit of English but did not speak the language of the area and other then their little bit of English they did [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Leadership, Professional development.
Tags: communicate the same message, multicultural workplace, speaking the same language, workplace communications
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Compassion is not a Weakness
Some people believe that compassion and especially compassion in the workplace is a form of weakness. Perhaps they think that survival of the fittest in the corporate jungle leaves no room for something like concern for other people and their feelings. March ahead, take no prisoners!
Yet report after report shows us that those who have [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2010 under Inspirational, Personal Development, Professional development.
Tags: margaret meloni
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It Starts with YOUR Attention
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 under Leadership, Personal Development, Professional development.
Tags: be present, compassion, empathy, pay attention, paying attention, your full attention
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Surfing the Net For YOU
Have you ever heard or read the term narcissurfing? Narcissurfing is a word which came into use over the past few years and is used to described someone who ‘Googles’ themselves to see where they appear and what is being said about them. What really makes it narcissurfing is doing this every day or even [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Personal Development, Professional Brand, Professional development.
Tags: benefits, employer, Googling yourself, interview, margaret meloni, narcissist, narcissurfing, narcisurfer, research
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