| Saturday, October 20, 2007 |
| Stage Fright |
The very thought of speaking in public make some people nervous. This is not necesarily a bad thing. When nervousness gets out of control with adrenalin pumping madly in the body it can paralyse the speaker, when controlled, on the other hand it can lift the speakers performance.
Nervouseness can manifest itself in several ways. You may feel tense in your neck and shoulder, your mouth may feel dry or start to produce saliva. Your teeths may wobble, your chest may feel tight, your heart may beat faster and you may have difficulty in drawing breathe.
needless to say that all these effects wil not allow you to give the best outcome of your speech.
Here are then some useful tips on how you can deal with stage freight:
- Visualize a positive outcome from your speech.
- Think what may go wrong with you while delivering the talk and plan to work on that accordingly
- Think like your audience and come up with questions they can ask you. Accordingly plan for those questions and how to answer.
- Be focussed on the topic that you have to speak on, remember the main goal of the topic should not be deviated form while giving examples and referance stories.
- Never let the crowd's attention make you feel over concious. This may bring down your confidence tremendously. The best way to avoid this is to practice in front of a mirror before you actually deliver your speech.
- Maintain a decent eye contact through out the speech.
- Ask questions, throw scenarios to your audience, this may release your pressure to deliver the speech.
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| Friday, January 5, 2007 |
| TIME MANAGEMENT |
Time Management Skills
Work smarter. Improve time utilization.
This section discusses personal time management skills. These are essential skills for effective people.
People who use these techniques routinely are the highest achievers in all walks of life, from business to sport to public service. If you use these skills well, then you will be able to function effectively, even under intense pressure.
At the heart of time management is an important shift in focus:
Concentrate on results, not on being busy
Many people spend their days in a frenzy of activity, but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things.
The 80:20 Rule
This is neatly summed up in the Pareto Principle, or the '80:20 Rule'. This argues that typically 80% of unfocussed effort generates only 20% of results. The remaining 80% of results are achieved with only 20% of the effort. While the ratio is not always 80:20, this broad pattern of a small proportion of activity generating non-scalar returns recurs so frequently as to be the norm in many areas.
By applying the time management tips and skills in this section you can optimize your effort to ensure that you concentrate as much of your time and energy as possible on the high payoff tasks. This ensures that you achieve the greatest benefit possible with the limited amount of time available to you
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| posted by SHADY @ 10:20 AM |
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| Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
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Do you know the seven habits of highly effective people?????
Do Not Worry!!! Its explained in detail below !!!!!!
The Seven Habits help us move through these three stages of personal development. The first three take you from dependence to independence. The next three usher you along to interdependence, and the seventh is needed to reinforce the others.
1. Be Proactive: Effective people plan for the future: They do not simply react to what is happening. To avoid being controlled by your environment, you need to develop the skills that help you monitor what is happening around you, and then use your powers of choice and reason to make good decisions.
2. Begin With The End in Mind: Effective people know where they want to go. They visualize the future, set goals and do long-term planning. By developing a clear road map for where you want to go, you will be less distracted along the way and your overall productivity and chances of success increase. Mission statements (for yourself or your business) are a good way of demonstrating this habit.
3. Put First Things First: Effective people know how to manage their time. They have a plan and they stick to doing the things that will help them achieve their goals. This is about prioritizing activities and being able to identify the tasks that are truly important. Delegation is a large part of this habit – you won’t likely be able to do everything yourself, so enlisting the agreed-upon support of others is critical
4. Think Win-Win: When effective people want to get something done they enlist the cooperation of others. They realize that confrontation and win-lose situations are not satisfactory to anyone. This habit is the beginning of the Interdependence stage of personal growth. By working with people rather than against them, you will find the best way to achieve your goals.5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be UnderstoodEffective people also know that the foundation of communication is listening. Through listening to someone you can develop an empathic understanding of his or her position.
Once you have that perspective, you can combine it with your own viewpoints to create a clear and accurate picture of what is really going on. This habit is developed through Active Listening, which involves reflecting, paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Synergize: Effective people know that people working together can achieve more than any one person’s best effort. This is synergy and it requires cooperation, effective communication and an attitude that everyone’s contribution is valuable. When you know how create synergy, you will be able to work with teams of people very effectively and achieve even greater things. You will fully understand that other people are keys to the success of your endeavors.7. "Sharpen the Saw"Effective people know that their skills, enthusiasm, motivation, and so on, become dull over time. So they work on keeping themselves “sharp.” They work on their spiritual, mental, physical, social and emotional selves in order to maintain and improve their productive capacity. And one of the keys to maintaining your “edge” is to preserve a good work-life balance. This habit feeds all of the other habits – if you allow yourself to stagnate or become complacent the other habits will suffer as well.
7. "Sharpen the Saw" : Effective people know that their skills, enthusiasm, motivation, and so on, become dull over time. So they work on keeping themselves “sharp.” They work on their spiritual, mental, physical, social and emotional selves in order to maintain and improve their productive capacity. And one of the keys to maintaining your “edge” is to preserve a good work-life balance. This habit feeds all of the other habits – if you allow yourself to stagnate or become complacent the other habits will suffer as well. |
| posted by SHADY @ 4:05 AM |
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| Friday, December 15, 2006 |
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Management Gyaan --- Right or wrong attitude??
There was a man who made living selling balloons at a fair. He had all colors of
balloons, including red, yellow, blue, and green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air and when the children saw it go up, they all wanted to buy one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up again. He continued this process all day. One day, he felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and saw a little boy who asked, "If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?" Moved by the boy's concern, the man replied with empathy, "Son, it is not the color of the balloon; it is what is inside that makes it go up."
The same thing applies to our lives. It is what is inside that counts. The thing inside of us that makes us go up is our attitude. Have you ever wondered why some individuals, organizations, or countries are more successful than others?
It is not a secret. These people simply think and act more effectively. They have learned how to do so by investing in the most valuable asset--people. I believe that the success of an individual, organization or country, depends on the quality of their people. I have spoken to executives in major corporations all over the world and asked one question: "If you had a magic wand and there was one thing you would want changed, that would give you a cutting edge in the marketplace resulting in increased productivity and profits, what would that be?" The answer was unanimous. They all said that if people had better attitudes, they'd be better team players, and it'd cut down waste, improve loyalty and, in general, make their company a great place to work. William James of Harvard University said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
Experience has shown that human resources is the most valuable asset of any business. It is more valuable than capital or equipment. Unfortunately, it is also the most wasted. |
| posted by SHADY @ 11:51 PM |
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| Friday, December 8, 2006 |
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Did you Know????????????
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so - apart from Bones).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. {Yuck!}
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
{Huh? I don't want to think about it...}
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
And the most interesting one..... Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. hahaha....hahaha....hahaha
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| posted by SHADY @ 6:33 AM |
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| Sunday, December 3, 2006 |
| Amazing facts for today |
FACTS TO MAKE EVERY Indian PROUD
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report , it is Mittal, the steel tycoon.
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar
We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (15% of population) . YET, 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians. Some of the following facts may be known to you.
These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with
"WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA ",
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| posted by SHADY @ 5:20 AM |
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| Saturday, December 2, 2006 |
| AMAZING FACTS |
Hello Freinds!!
I take this opportunity to all the blog visitors to introduce myself as Shirin Siraj. I am a commerce graduate from Mumbai University currently working in a BPO.
Never in my life was i interested in knowing everything about something, nor was i interested in knowing something about everything, but i was always interested in knowing many things about many things. Thats what encouraged me to write a blog on amazing facts as that is what gives me a lot of pleasure.
I hope i will be sharing a lot of knowledge with the wonderful blog visitiors and hope to learn from your valuable comments as they are most welcome.
HAPPY BLOGGING!! |
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