Absorb Information Effectively – Improve Familiarity!

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Have you ever won­der after read­ing a mate­r­ial, lis­ten­ing to a pre­sen­ta­tion or attended a meet­ing and dis­cov­ered that at the end of it, you could hardly remem­ber any­thing relat­ing to what you had been doing, see­ing or hear­ing?  When you need to fur­nish a report for the mate­r­ial you had read or write the min­utes of the meet­ing you’ve attended, you were not able to bring out rel­e­vant points and get down writ­ing it.  Sounds famil­iar? Read the rest of this entry »

Activate Anti-Conflict Awareness!

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Being actively con­scious of what your mind is think­ing is a key part of resolv­ing con­flicts.  It is essen­tial to be aware of your emo­tional state (most likely not), your log­i­cally rea­son­ing and able to derive out­come of what­ever respond you are giv­ing.  Such as bring­ing up about past mis­takes will only make the sit­u­a­tion worst.  Fol­low­ing our post of being a 100% con­flict resolv­ing man­ager, we have tips on how to con­trol and increase the aware­ness of your mind that will greatly assist you in resolv­ing con­flicts! Read the rest of this entry »

5 Preventive Measures Against Backstabbing!

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Back­stab­bing occurs every­where in all work­place.  You maybe unknow­ingly back stab by peo­ple that you do not know, you know, or even closed col­leagues.  You do not really know who are your friend and foe.  Friends can be foes as well if you are not care­ful too! There­fore, it is essen­tial to learn key sur­vival skills against these under­ly­ing dan­gers lurk­ing in the work­place.  We want to pro­tect our­selves against them.  You never know who are the two-headed snake and sly foxes that are schem­ing to cause dis­rup­tion to your career.  Here, we have five pre­ven­tive mea­sures against back­stab­bing before it really hap­pens. Read the rest of this entry »

Perfecting Your Confidence with Situation Awareness!

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Now you are aware about the Me and You fac­tors to improve con­fi­dence.  But there are still tremors in your feet.  You still lack of con­fi­dence when fac­ing a par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion.  You feel the world is tum­bling down when you need to present the work progress in front of the man­age­ment.  You feel shaky when you need to engage mul­ti­ple par­ties to push an ini­tia­tive.  A VIP is vis­it­ing the work­place next week, and you feel that you could just take urgent leave from work… What’s going on?  Didn’t we say the Me and You fac­tor and we should be able to man­age any sit­u­a­tion suf­fi­ciently? Read the rest of this entry »

I Don’t Feel Confident Facing My Boss… Why?

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You feel that you are not con­fi­dent fac­ing your boss at work.  Why is that so?  Why are you uneasy when fac­ing them?  You feel infe­rior in front of him – but why?  You are afraid to make mis­takes — but what mis­takes exactly?  The strange thing is you do not ques­tion your­self about it.  Instead, you choose to hide from him in the office.  Some­thing like those noc­tur­nal ani­mals you watch on Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel shy­ing away from the day­light. Read the rest of this entry »

Loosing Confidence at Work?

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At some point in time in your work­place, you feel that con­fi­dence is gone.  You seemed to be loos­ing direc­tion in your work.  You feel unmo­ti­vated.  “What’s going on?  I don’t get it!” you may ask.  You have no clue of it and con­tinue to drop deeper into a spi­ral of despair… BUT HEY! Before you dropped even deeper, do you know con­fi­dence can be regained if you re-assess your­self?  Per­sonal aware­ness is the key in regain­ing your con­fi­dence back! Read the rest of this entry »

Sharpen Your Personal Awareness!

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Hav­ing known all the per­sonal aware­ness quad­rants and com­bi­na­tion is insuf­fi­cient to achieve max­i­mum per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.  How­ever, each of the com­bi­na­tion may fall into their own traps if we do not pay atten­tion of it.  You might not even notice that you are in the trap! You need to do more! You need to sharpen all your per­sonal aware­ness, espe­cially the pos­i­tive ones, reduce the neg­a­tive ones and improve our per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity! Read the rest of this entry »

Avoid the Negative Personal Awareness!

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The pos­i­tive per­sonal aware­ness leads us to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity by direct­ing pos­i­tive energy to how we think.  Empow­er­ing our minds that every­thing is “do-able” and “man­age­able”.  On the other hand, the neg­a­tive per­sonal aware­ness encloses us in a neg­a­tive whirlpool of thoughts.  Lim­it­ing the poten­tial within us or even mis­lead­ing us to the wrong objec­tives, fur­ther away from achiev­ing per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity. Read the rest of this entry »

Are You at the Positive Side of Personal Awareness?

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Know­ing your­self is impor­tant.  Hav­ing known that per­sonal aware­ness, being the Me fac­tor con­tributes to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity, now let’s take a deeper a look at why per­sonal aware­ness is a key fac­tor to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.  We begin with the pos­i­tive per­sonal aware­ness com­bi­na­tion from what we men­tioned in Boost­ing Your Per­sonal Aware­ness by Know­ing Your­self.    Recall the four per­sonal aware­ness quad­rants? “I know what I can do”, “I know what I can­not do”, “I do not know what I can do” and “I do not know what I can­not do”? Read the rest of this entry »

Boost Personal Productivity by Knowing Yourself Well!

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How do we improve per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity at work?  Recall that per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity is an equa­tion of Me, You and Sit­u­a­tion?  We want to work on the Me fac­tor.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity starts from the individual’s aware­ness or as we term it Per­sonal Aware­ness.  Per­sonal Aware­ness is based on how our men­tal model works.  Your men­tal model setups men­tal bound­aries, pre­dict the out­come or process of work.   Our per­sonal aware­ness (sur­round­ing the Me) can be char­ac­ter­ized into four quad­rants. Read the rest of this entry »