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Vol 8, Issue No. 7
July 2009

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Stress Management
 

1. Become more flexible. Some things are worth not doing perfectly and some issues are well to compromise upon.
2. Eliminate destructive self-talk; "I’m too old to...," "I’m too fat to...," etc.
3. Allow yourself time-everyday-for privacy, quiet, and introspection.



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Dear Friends
 

The summer is in full swing, and our thoughts turn to vacation. Some of us are the ones who cherish their vacation time and spend considerable time planning it. Most of us have difficulty with our vacation; we are the workaholics of the organization. Our jobs tend to dominate our lives, and as a consequence we find it hard to take time off and enjoy some well deserved vacation. We are so used to operating at a high stress level at our jobs (OSL – Optimum Stress Level) that we refuse to let down our hair and bring the escalating stress temperature down to a decreased level and enjoy the time out.

While we greatly appreciate your dedication to your job, it is important for you to remember that there is life outside the City. If the truth be known, employers do not give vacation time simply to be nice. Vacations actually are a productivity enhancer. Vacations refresh the body, rejuvenate the mind, and restore the soul. A change of pace is essential to help you relax and balance the multiple demands in your life. Vacations let you recharge your batteries so you can put your best energies into your job as an employee.

A vacation with a cell phone, blackBerry and a laptop computer is not a real vacation. For a vacation to have its full restorative effect, it’s best not to check in with the office at all. There are two reasons for this. You need an uninterrupted break, and everyone in your work area needs an uninterrupted break from you.

Vacation time is an excellent way to gauge, if your successor is ready to take over your responsibilities. The absence of a manager gives an insight into the operations of his department / organization, whether it is system dependant or person dependent. The height of insecurity during these dire times makes a person frightful of taking time off, incase he is not missed and may get replaced. It is a tough decision to finally face your fears, but it will give you an estimate of your true worth; and if it does not match your expectations, then its time you considered other options.

Wishing all our friends a relaxing time off, from the usual routines of life – a repose to re-think the priorities in life and a chance to merge with nature. It is always a pleasure to receive your comments/ suggestions.

 

Always look forward to your suggestions / feedback which helps the Intek team to continually improve this Ezine.

 

Zaufyshan Haseeb and The Intek Family

 


 

Managerial Skills

First Time Managers Tips - How to Ask For Help

Welcome to management. One hopes you received a nice boost in pay, even in this dreadful economy, since your responsibilities have been ratcheted up several degrees if you've been promoted.  If you're like most people you've started out wildly enthusiastic about the new role, given your increased status and pay. Brace yourself...you won't be alone if after the initial euphoria you become humbled and/or frustrated. In fact, there are those management gurus who say that passage through this difficult stage is inevitable in your forward movement over the learning curve for any new job activities.

 

Tip #1: Be patient with yourself and don't confuse these temporary challenges with signs of failure.

If you're lucky, your boss is one of those models of management that has anticipated your learning curve, arranged for your training and will be meeting with you weekly to provide direction and support. This is, by the way, the boss...

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Communication Skills

Learning About Conversational Cons

There are lots of ways to look at conversations and discussions. One way is to categorize conversations as being either "good faith" conversations, or "bad faith" conversations. What we want to do is be party to the former, and try to avoid the latter, since bad faith conversations are the ones that cause bad feelings, frustration and anger, and don't tend to be useful in solving problems.

A good faith conversation occurs when both people act in ways that move the conversation to solving the problem being discussed, with a sincere desire to address THAT problem, and not other things. For example, in a conversation about taking out the garbage, a couple might work to decide who's responsibility it is, and how to make sure it gets done. Good faith conversations involve good listening, asking questions, and a legitimate desire to work together...

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Leadership

Leadership - The Link Between Planning & Doing

   

If you have read the preceding articles in this section on strategic planning, YOU will have a sense that strategic planning involves more than getting together for one day a yearto develop a strategic planning document. Strategic planning is both a logical, rational process, and a process that involves people. It takes more than developing a plan for that plan to be implemented. In this article, we consider that the critical link between planning and doing is leadership. 

Traditional Planning Methods 

The traditional way for government organizations to plan is for a group of people, usually executives/management, but sometimes including employees, to get together for some period of time each year. Generally, inadequate time is allocated to the exercise, but if it is completed, it results in a document that contains a mission statement, broad organizational goals, and other elements as is deemed appropriate. Then, the plan is usually hidden away somewhere, never to be seen...
 

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Cross Cultural Awareness

Global Non-Verbal Signals - Australia & Bangladesh

New Zealand 

  • The original inhabitants of the area known as Polynesia were the Maori, whose culture still is present in the nation of New Zealand today. The traditional greeting among members of the Maori tribe is to rub noses.

  • The majority of the New Zealand population is British, thus British customs and gestures prevail.

  • To chew gum and use toothpicks in public is considered quite rude in New Zealand.

  • Make sure to ask permission before you take a person's photograph in New Zealand, especially the Maori.

Pakistan

  • It is customary to be greeted with coffee or tea in Pakistan. Accept the offer, or you may offend your host.

  • Women are often separated socially from men.

  • Staring is quite common in the Pakistani culture, so don't be offended if you feel someone is staring at you.

  • An obscene gesture in Pakistan is the closed fist.

 

Bits & Pieces

 

  1. The purpose of education is to teach a person to reason. Education itself provides only knowledge. That’s important, but it’s not the key to everything. Knowledge must be applied. The manner in which we apply wisdom and knowledge is called reason. Without the ability to reason, all other things become valueless. We have never sufficiently emphasised the real value of being able to reason and think as compared with the ability to study and remember what we read. The ability to reason and think explains why some men and women without much formal education manage to achieve places of importance and leadership in the world.
     

  2. Problems - seemingly insoluble, irritating, and aggravating problems - are the birthplace of new ideas. Duncan Hines was a printing salesman who had a hard time finding decent places to eat while he was travelling his territory. Realising others had the same problem, he started sending out Christmas cards to his friends who were on the road, recommending good places to eat. The demand for them became so great that recommending good food for travellers became his career. In the years before he died, his lodging and restaurant guides sold million....

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