Vol 9, Issue No. 1
January 2010

Articles

Intek Lifeskills Coaching
Leadership
TQM
Sales

Cross Cultural Awareness
Bits and Pieces

Resources

Book of the Month
Motivational Quotes
Intek's Q&A Forum
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Book of the Month




Monthly Quote
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche



Motivational Quotes




Corporate Humor



 

Stress Management

 

1.  Create order out of chaos.  Organize your home and workspace so that you always know exactly where things are. Put things away where they belong and you won’t have to go through the stress of losing things.

2.  Writing your thoughts and feelings down (in a journal, or a paper to be thrown away) can help you clarify things and can give you a renewed perspective.

January Birthdays

Wishing all our Participants a very
Happy Birthday
"Do we know your Birthday?"


 

Spiritual Corner

 

Health Tips

 

 

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Dear Friends
 

Wishing you all a very promising 2010 ahead.

Before we step into 2010, the time has come for us to assess 2009. How would you classify it? Was it a success or a disappointment?

Please read the 2 paragraphs below after categorizing 2009 into a success or a disappointment. Before you get disheartened let me clarify that our disappointments teach us as much or more as do our successes. Good luck with your SWOT analysis.

2009 – A Success

Questions to ask yourself….

  Did the success happen just as a coincidence or were there factors contributing towards its achievements?

  What innovations did I bring about during 2009?

  What personal disciplines contribute towards making 2009 a success?

  What were the risks I took which turned out to be beneficial for me?

  How did I optimize the human resources around me to achieve my objectives?

  Which people did I help unconditionally – as a social / spiritual gift which attributed towards giving me a sense of benevolence?

  Which time management principle did I follow, which helped me spend more time with my family?

2009 – A Disappointment !!!!
 
Questions to ask yourself….

  Why do I classify it as a failure? What is my perception?

  Did I spend the whole year exactly as the years before? (perhaps that is in itself a defeating  practice?

  Did I maintain the balance between my personal & professional life? Or was I swamped either by crisis at work or  personal problems at home?

  Did I update my skills in any way?  Number of trainings attended? Number of books read?

  Any personal discipline followed? If not, then what resolutions had I set for myself and for how long did I maintain them?

  How many goals did I achieve ?

  Which are the goals I could not achieve & why?

  What is the graph of my self-esteem? Can I look at myself in the mirror?

  Did I work towards my positivity and spirituality to strengthen my Aura?

Reflecting on these questions, will also unfold your future action plan for 2010.

Wishing all our readers the discipline to take some important decisions right at the beginning of the year. Discipline yourself to do what you know you need to do to be the very best in your field.
 

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

 

Zaufyshan Haseeb and The Intek Family

When your boss puts you in charge of organizing the company Christmas party, what do you do first? Do you develop a time line and start assigning tasks or do you think about who would prefer to do what and try to schedule around their needs? When the planning starts to fall behind schedule, what is your first reaction? Do you chase everyone to get back on track, or do you ease off a bit recognizing that everyone is busy just doing his/her job, let alone the extra tasks you've assigned?

Your answers to these types of questions can reveal a great deal about your personal leadership style.
Some leaders are very task-oriented; they simply want to get things done. Others are very people-oriented; they want people to be happy. And others are a combination of the two. If you prefer to lead by setting and enforcing tight schedules, you tend to be more production-oriented (or task-oriented). If you make people your priority and try to accommodate employee needs, then you're more...

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2. Quality is what the customer says it is
It is not what a developer, manager or marketeer says it is. If you want to find out about your quality, ask your customer. No one can compress in a market research statistic or defect rate the extent of buyer frustration...

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We've all heard that you can't motivate others. Motivation by definition comes from within and our job as sales managers is to create an environment where your sales force will motivate themselves, right?

First, all people are motivated. They may be motivated to work hard or to stay in bed. They may be motivated to help customers or just get commissions. Our job is to identify and reward those motivations that produce behaviors we want to see repeated.

Second, techniques can be learned to teach our sales force to set the proper motivating climate so that the client can buy. Then the client will do the rest on his own. We also know that more than the proper climate is necessary to make a sale. We need to draw out the client's needs, amplify those needs in some cases, and then show the client all the benefits he will receive in satisfying those...
 

1. We are all faced with great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
    

2. Obviously, people must know their fields. But the greatest success and financial reward will go to people who have more: the ability to express their ideas, to assume leadership, to arouse enthusiasm and co-operation - in short, the ability to bring out the best in others.
    

3. Wisdom can only be planted, nurtured and harvested. It cannot be manufactured.
    

4. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and will always solve...

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January Events

New Year

January 1

Training Calendar
2010

Training Workshops in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Singapore

LifeSkills
by Haseeb Hasan

A glimpse of Intek's
Previous Workshops

EMS BlackBerry Customer Relationship Managemet Workshop II
 

Intek's Upcoming workshops

The Training Edge

Sharpen your training skills as a “Master Trainer”

- Four more ways you will benefit
- Powerful training skills
- Assessment and performance measurement
- Management challenges for trainers
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Sales Force Management Workshop

This interactive, exercise based workshop aims at equipping Sales Managers with effective Goal Getting and motivational techniques.
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The Super Secretary workshop

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.
For more details...