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Intek's Upcoming Training Programs

The Super Secretary

Intended for secretaries, P.A’s and office assistants who, apart from taking a refreshing break would acquire time saving techniques and be extremely motivated to return to their work places. It would act as a refresher to all the organizing skills, which were left behind during the daily fire fighting activities.
AlKhobar: Dec 7-9
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Supervisory Management Skills Workshop

Professionals who have a desire to improve upon their managing skills, yet be focused on their own progress. Technical professionals, who wish to acquire interpersonal managing techniques to extract the maximum from their teams. Executives, who need to equip themselves with the "Managing tools" to progress higher.
AlKhobar: Dec 4-6
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Advance Presentation Skills -  Workshop

Participants enhance their professional images and influencing skills during presentations. The workshop focuses on participant's presentation styles and reinforces effective body language and communication techniques to impact audiences.
Dubai: Nov 22-24
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Media Training Workshop

Highly interactive 'image building workshop' for executives to deal with media, journalists, press releases effectively
Dubai: Feb 1-2, 2005
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Dear Friends

We humans are a complex structure and despite centuries of speculations, hypothesis and researches we have been unable to unfold the mysteries enfolding the human entity.

The multifaceted humans still have an inner child living in them - with all its experiences and feelings. Carl Jung called it the "Divine Child" and Emmet Fox called it the "Wonder Child." Some psychotherapists call it the “True Self” and Charles Whitfield called it the “Child Within” .We in todays’ world are constantly stifling this inner child.

The Inner Child is the emotional self. It is where our feelings live. When we experience joy, sadness, anger, fear, or affection our Child Within is coming out. When we are being playful, spontaneous, creative, intuitive and surrendering to the spiritual self, our Genuine Authentic Self, who we know deep within us, our Real Self is being welcomed and encouraged to be present.

We have often commented on a person’s behaviour as childish or juvenile, reinforcing to ourselves, the negative connotations attached to it. What is there in being child-like that scares us in today’s commercial world. Is it the fear of being vulnerable to the world that apprehends us? If we let the inner child in us emerge we will be flaunting the following characteristics:

• Risk taking – the child in us in not afraid to take risks and that propels us towards moving forward

• Living in the moment – we as adults are anxious about the future and being dragged down by our pasts, that we forget to enjoy the present

• Intuitive Decisions – As kids all our decisions and judgements were based on Intuition

• Forgive and Forget – Our interpersonal relationships are over-shadowed by our grudges and resentments. The child in us forgets a conflict a few minutes later.

• Unafraid of Uncertainty – Children can exist in ambiguity without qualms of what may happen

• Transparency of Emotions – the children have no hidden agendas, they display their emotions with honesty. It is the conniving adult in us that camouflages our true feelings

• Unrelenting Wonder and amazement – Every day is a new day with children, they are amazed at all the miracles of God around them, from sunsets to a roadside flower

• Unconditional Love for all

Will all these characteristics be a hindrance to our progress in life if we let them surface? Infact it would help us develop into more secure human beings both personally and professionally. We will be able to create happiness, success and well being as individuals, families and society only when we have aligned ourselves with our inner vision of our true self.

Wishing all our friends the fortitude to converge with their inner child to achieve harmony in their lives.

Look forward to your comments/ suggestions…. to help us improve ourselves

Zaufyshan Haseeb, Intek Solutions and The Intek Family
 

	Idea of the Month: The right to Happiness

The Dalai Lama says "I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness" and "I believe happiness can be achieved through training the mind, including intellect and feeling, heart and mind." Howard Cutler, another author this idea comes from, indicates how strange it is to western thinking that we can develop and sustain our happiness. According to the Dalai Lama: "If there are certain types of events that you do not desire, then the best method of ensuring that that event does not take place is to make sure that the causal conditions that normally give rise to that event do no longer arise."

So, what events cause bad emotions for you, and what can you stop from this to happen?
Start the day by saying "I will utilize this day in a more positive way. I will not waste this very day."
And in the evening, check what you've done and ask yourself: "Did I utilize this day as I planned?"
 

	Case of the Month:Telling vs. Asking

When discussing about coaching with HR managers, I after get the comment: "Yeah, we've been doing coaching for some time now, but it seems that some people never get the message. The more you tell them what to do, the less results you see."

The more coaching training I've been giving the more convinced I got that "telling someone what to do" often isn't the solution. Especially that in fact the person already knows what there is to do, but doesn't do it.

So what is my approach? A first important element is that I start from the belief that the person being coached already has the resources needed. The key is to get the person to use these resources. Given this presupposition, start by using a lot of questions to get the pattern behind what the person is doing. Once I have the pattern, I give feedback to the person about the pattern. An example: ...

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	Cross Cultural Communication: Basic Tips (article)

Here are some simple tips to help you improve your cross cultural communication skills:

Slow Down
Even when English is the common language in a cross cultural situation, this does not mean you should speak at normal speed. Slow down, speak clearly and ensure your pronunciation is intelligible.

Separate Questions
Try not to ask double questions such as, "Do you want to carry on or shall we stop here?" In a cross cultural situation only the first or second question may have been comprehended. Let your listener answer one question at a time.

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	Playing With Your Mind: Is Neuromarketing Research Giving Advertisers the Keys to Your Decision-Making?  (article)

If you feel like advertisers get into your head now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

That's the fear expressed by some critics of research in an area known as neuromarketing, which one executive at the company funding the research said gives "unprecedented insight into the consumer mind," and will allow advertisers to get customers "to behave the way they want them to behave." But according to the lead scientist doing the research, the work will make life better for consumers by letting businesses gain a better understanding of how people decide what products and companies they prefer.

"The goal was always not to change the behavior of the consumer, but to change the behavior of ...

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	Lateral Thinking (article)

In the face of fast-changing trends, fierce competition and the need to work miracles despite tight budgets, better quality and service are not enough. Creativity and innovation are the only engines that will drive lasting success. Lateral Thinking is essential. Instead of linear or vertical thinking, which relies solely on logic, Lateral Thinking is a deliberate, systematic process of using your ability to think in a different way. These proven methods make insight, creativity, and innovation happen. We know creative thinking is a skill that can be learned and we will show you how with these methods.

Lateral thinking is a step-by-step method of creative thinking with prescribed techniques that can be used consciously. According to de Bono, intelligence is a potential and thinking is a skill to use that potential. He adds that thinking is no substitute for information but  ...
 

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	Breaking the Glass Ceiling: What's Holding Her Back? (article)

Women executives are everywhere in the corporate world, and they may actually be more effective managers than men. In fact, women managers consistently are rated higher than their male counterparts on 37 of 47 critical management qualities such as leadership, social skills, problem-solving and decision-making, according to a study

Ironically, though, some of the traits that make women successful middle managers may hinder their ability to reach the top. That's because women concentrate too much on details, speak elliptically and shy from risk-taking, according to the study. The research involved 396 women and 1,600 men and included 360-degree feedback from supervisors and subordinates as well as self-assessment data.

"Women need to be direct and be able to give the big picture," Fortunately, ambitious women executives don't have to ...

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