02Jun2012
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HRM. Personal development
An individual always needs change; the desire ‘to change something’ comes to many of us on a rather frequent basis. After a period of self-observation, I concluded that my yearning for change springs from the fact that either I don’t know what I want to do at a particular moment, or, should I be in a position to answer this question, I move consciously in that very direction which I have chosen for myself. This longing for change is one of the reasons why extremely capable employees leave their jobs. As a rule, the cause for their departure sounds like this: “I’m bored, something needs to change”....
Corporate culture. Communication
Communication
What we say and how we say it is a reflection of our thoughts and feelings. Often this is our reaction to what is happening to us expressed in the form of spoken or written words. Sometimes words fly out of our mouths unchecked and inflict unpleasant wounds on those with whom we are speaking.
I have always been interested in the issue of how to speak concisely and to the point and communicate just the right amount of emotion for a specific situation.
Through self-observation and an enormous number of bumps and bruises incurred in my ever-continuing quest, I have managed...
Error Correction
If something goes wrong...
Everyone knows that mistakes occur during the execution phase of practically any project due to incorrect task descriptions, failure to understand the goal or desired outcomes, lack of attention to details etc.
It is all very well if errors are caught and corrected before project completion. However, in some cases, the product that clients receive is quite different than expected. They become angry, rightly so, and still want to receive the promised result.
How to remedy a situation by turning it in a positive direction?
Rule number one:...
Understanding of Goal
There are lots of varying definitions and perceptions about what is a Goal. I wanted to share my understanding not so much about the perception of the word itself, but of my feeling for it. Experience has demonstrated that this feeling has shaped my life a great deal.
A goal is a conscious definition of the subject or state that I’m striving to achieve. For me, the most useful example to draw is as the horizon (the border between earth and sky), to which you’re going along the road. It’s there constantly in the field of vision, distinct objects peel off it and constantly approach...
My Motivation
Things that give me strength and energy to work
- Process
- Impressions
- Goal
- Feedback
When I take up a new assignment, I have no idea what the outcome will be like – it is almost always a challenge. Some people can spend years upon years managing the same projects – something that would get me bored senseless. Nothing does more to kill my capacity for work than invariable routine operations. They are on the other extreme of what's interesting. When you have an interest in a job, the process never fails to give you pleasure and you find yourself living the process. While...
Corporate culture. Training
Training as part of work
I accept working in an office as an intrinsic part of life. The more time it takes during the course of a day, month, year, then the more use should be drawn from this process. In the other case this is an empty waste of time.
In my first post dedicated to corporate culture I mention the necessity for comfortable personal space to become oneself. Today I want to write about training, i.e. to go further and expand my principle and understanding of the working process as it is for me and others who set themselves the aim of a conscious approach to one’s activities...
Mistakes in Management
If you want something done the way it was thought up – participate in all its stages.
Today I would like to refer to widespread mistakes in managing projects. I don’t want to focus my attention on precise methodologies, rules and procedures that have been elaborated in hundreds of books. These is all instrumentation, but the key factor in management is not the instrument, but in the person who is holding it in their hands. So, for example, you can learn to say the right thing or smile nicely in conversation, train yourself psychologically, have a to-do list, study how to do something...
