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Dear Friends
The Oracle at Delphi's temple bore the famous inscription, "Know
thyself." It is said
 that the secret of life can be found in this
phrase.
Still, a fully-global self-awakening remains essential to the evolution
of our species. It merits our most sincere attention and must begin with
the individual. – Me !!!
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Critical self-analysis is the surest prescription for a healthy state of
mind. It cultivates the wisdom and confidence and a vision for the
future. We cannot change the world until we first change ourselves.
Where do I begin the journey of self-discovery.
If we look back over the past years, our life has been slowly shaped by
various factors, the most important being the influence of the people
around us. To understand fully, my psyche today, I need to make a list
of all the people who have touched my life at various stages !!!!
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Parents: how they behaved
towards me & how they behaved towards each other. It will have a
direct impact on the way I behave towards my spouse and my kids. And
history will keep on repeating itself until I make a conscious
effort to change my attitude today to impact my future generations.
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Siblings: They determine my
behaviour towards my team members and subordinates. . My helpful
attitude towards my colleagues will redeem the past guilts that I
may have.
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Teachers: My confidence, my self
esteem & my behaviour towards authority is shaped during my school
years. My hatred for homework will have an impact on my planning &
organizational skills & bringing office work home & an abhorrence
towards it. If I think like an entrepreneur I never need to be
afraid of extra work/homework as it becomes a passion rather than a
burden.
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Peers: The tussle between moral
values and acceptance by peers is determined at this stage. My need
for popularity inclines me more towards “people skills” as against
“task skills” later in my life. The regaining of
discipline & self-control at any point in life will make me stronger
and overcome any baggage that I may have carried from my salad days.
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Dates: My self-esteem &
confidence is re-moulded based on my success or failures of my
dating days. It also sets a precedence for a stable companionship
later in life. Our failures teach us to become better in
relationships, provided we are ready to let go of the past.
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Managers: The tougher they are,
the more the learning. Eventually we become exactly like our
managers and our juniors hate us.
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Spouses: Our spouses teach us
Emotional intelligence. We learn to love or hate criticism. We learn
to value or hate criticism. If we change our perception and accept
the fact that they can be the best judges of our character.
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Children: The children remind us
of our responsibilities, we stop taking risks as there is too much
at stake. They also act as mirrors and evoke feelings of guilt.
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Mentors: If we are lucky to have
a mentor, they guide us towards our goals, our self-actualisation &
our spiritual epitome. We have to carry the responsibility further
by becoming someone else's mentor.
We also meet strangers who influence our thinking patterns. If we are
receptive enough we can learn
 equally from the cab driver, janitor, café
waiter.
Can I stop this constant influx of human influence on my personality or
should I just succumb to its pressure as it is a phenomenon out of my
control. Perhaps that is why mankind was formed – to help each other,
support each other and improve each other.
Wishing all our friends the self awareness to identify the influences in
their lives, so that they can pick and choose the appropriate learning
experiences from each and disregard other to grow to the next level of
life
As always look forward to your
suggestions / feedback
which helps the Intek team to continually improve this Ezine.
Zaufyshan
Haseeb
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Idea of the month
Flexibility is the key
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 "Every Individual is an exception to the rule. --
Hence one can never give a description of a type, no matter how
complete, that would apply to more than one individual despite the fact
that in some ways it aptly characterises thousands of others. Conformity
is one side of a person, uniqueness is the other"
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Case
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Negotiations - Reaching a Win-Win
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 Several books discussing
negotiation skills all point in the same direction:
it's empathy that is making the difference!
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Now what is empathy?
Let's start by saying what it is NOT.
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It is not trying to match
the other person during communication and/or giving the impression that you
agree with him
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It is not trying to use
your own thinking process: "what would I do if I were in his
place?" (people are not "logic" they all use their own thinking, influenced
by their own emotions) ...
What it is:
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Presentation Skills
Mastering Q and A
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 The question-and-answer exchanges that occur during or after
presentations rarely add much to the overall effort. But how you deal
with questions can be a decisive factor in how your audience evaluates
you and your message.
As everyone began filing out of the conference room, Allison switched
off the projector, dragged her presentation icon into the recycle bin,
and began collecting her notes. Geoff lingered in his chair for a bit,
and then when everyone had gone, he stood and said, simply, "Grand
slam!"
Allison smiled brightly and sat down. "Yeah," she said. "it was!"
"And the best part," Geoff continued, "was how you handled Marketing's
questions about the slip."
As Geoff's comments illustrate, how you handle questions — especially
hostile questions — can be more important than the presentation. Here
are some tips for handling Q&A. ....
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Human Resource Management
Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire
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 A condensed Employee Life Cycle
Today I saw a chart of a 12-step Employee Life Cycle. Maybe Human
Resources professionals need that much detail, but functional managers
don't. Here is a four-step, condensed employee life cycle plan that
tells you everything you need to know.
Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire
An employee life cycle is the steps the employees go through from
the time they enter a company until they leave. Often Human Resources
professionals focus their attention on the steps in this process in
hopes of making an impact on the company's bottom line. That is a good
thing for them to do. Their goal is to reduce the company's cost per
employee hired.
Unfortunately, they aren't the ones who really....
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Decision Making
An Insight to Decision Making
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 Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in
the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use
it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own
understanding! Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your
life.
Declaration of Independence in American Revolution contains the beauty
and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and
forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of
men and will continue to do. These words are more explosive and
revolutionary than anything written ever those are a continual
inspiration to the entire oppressed individuals around the world.
The total effect of the culture and industry is one of
anti-enlightenment that is the progressive technical domination of
nature, becomes mass deception and is turned into a means for fettering
consciousness. It impedes the development of autonomous, independent
individuals who ...
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Creative Problem Solving (CPS)
The practical application of NLP skills to (CPS)
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 Think about the problems you have at work. As you imagine them you will
realise that they come in all shapes and sizes. Some are simple, some
are more complex. If you need to get 100 photocopies done by 4pm you
just get on with it. If the photocopier has jammed, you undo the
mechanism and start pulling out caught paper. If it’s the tenth time
it’s happened that day and it keeps doing it and you still have a
deadline then solutions get harder to find. When problems reoccur or
don’t stay fixed it’s time to try Creative Problem Solving. And it’s
very useful when you need new product ideas or want to redesign process
or service. In fact whenever, Procedure starts to become ineffective and
Options are what are needed. As They say “if you always do what you’ve
always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got“ an inappropriate
solution. And, once you have compared NLP and Creative Problem Solving
as we will do below, you will find remarkable usefulness in the former
for the latter.
Let’s start by looking at the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process to
see how NLP helps. .....
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