Editors’ Note

Ten ways to build Trust

How can we build trust in the workforce?

Handling the daily crisis at our work places is tough enough without us having to worry about the hindrances in the career progression. As all human beings we would like to put the blame on something tangible for not achieving success than to disturb the deep waters of our sub-conscious to seek the areas which we need to improve.

The bookshelves are overflowing with books that send messages subliminally to our minds that others around us are there to get us. These perceptions fill up our active thoughts so much that we start believing them as reality. The guerilla tactics, the art of war for managers, The corporate enemy, the hustlers 10 commandments etc. etc. etc. We get the feeling that the whole world around us is there to watch us fall, or even try to pull the rug from under us. Yet we wonder why the word “Politics” is the ‘most thought of yet never uttered’ at work…

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I. 13 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Deal with Difficult People

Emotional intelligence is very important to become successful. Emotional intelligence offers you the stability to go the long haul. Through this process you meet difficult and toxic people who defy logic and challenge your vitality. Difficult people offer you stress and negativity and could deny you the platform to attain each milestone. Here are some ways in which many emotionally intelligent people deal with difficult people.

1. They establish boundaries

You cannot please everyone neither can you fulfill or meet all their expectations. Emotionally intelligent people do not sell themselves short in this regard. They rise above the chaos and maintain some distance with difficult people.

2. They focus on solutions

Rather than focus on problems caused by difficult people they focus on actions that will better circumstances. There is no point in rambling and going toe to toe with a difficult person’s negativity, instead they find how to…

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II. Don’t Multi-task When You Can Use Chunking

We spend too much of our day trying to cram more into it. We adopted the computer term multi-tasking and tried to apply it to our own daily activities as another step in our quest to get more done. The problem is that multi-tasking doesn’t work but chunking can.

Multi-tasking Doesn’t Work

As you brush your teeth in the morning, you think about the agenda for big meeting later in the day. It doesn’t take much of your brain’s processing power anymore to brush your teeth, so your agenda planning isn’t suffering too much from having to share. But what about two tasks that require more of your brain’s capacity? You might be talking on the phone while you’re preparing breakfast. You may get both tasks done correctly, but you would have gotten both of them done better, and in less total time, if you had done them one after the other instead of at the same time.

Chunking Works Better

“Chunking” describes how human memory utilization works. It is important to remember this concept as we look at doing several tasks “simultaneously”. We are in fact switching between them rather than doing them…

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Editor’s Choice

I. Intek Solutions’ Workshop Picture of Month

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II. Psyche’s Realm
Find a way to balance your personal & professional life!

The Incredible Human Psyche

Deep within the realm of your subconscious is the centrifuge, or cerebral core of all Human possibilities. Therein, lies the key to…

The intriguing Human psyche – more complex than the metamorphosing cocoon, and more phenomenal than the human brain could ever imagine.

Deep within the realm of your subconscious is the centrifuge, or cerebral core of all Human possibilities. Therein, lies the key to the supernatural, heightened spirituality and the unique potential of overcoming obstacles, large and small.

Human psyche is one of life’s most bizarre and unparalleled traits within the physical being. It enables our extrasensory perception, encourages drive and motivation, feeds our emotional balance and at times, permits us to undertake feats that our conscious being would never allow.

It controls impulses in our brains that activate our dreams, instills our fears and is the driving force of our physical stamina. The deity within…

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III. Book of the Month

A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

By: Coleman Barks

Description:

Rumi’s spiritual vision is sensual, celebratory, and pensive. He identifies with nature and animals. He loves mysteries and is impatient with those who think they have answers. He praises the commonplace and spits upon fear.

He is the poet par excellence on the importance of yearning in the spiritual life. He loves Allah and finds signs of his presence everywhere. Love and grace abound in his poems, providing us with ample food for our souls.

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks’s elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi’s greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.

Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.

ISBN-10: 006084597X

ISBN-10: 978-0060845971

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Editor-in-Chief: Zaufyshan Haseeb

Zaufyshan was educated in the area of Human Development & Behavioral Psychology, she achieved her distinction in MSc in 1986. A behavioural psychologist with extensive senior management experience in both the public and private health sectors, helps her to combines her practical knowledge of psychology and management to develop and present programs which meet the changing needs of business.

She had the opportunity of experiencing education in a diverse culture in Singapore, where she studied innovative method of “Imparting Education Without Stress” at all levels of education. She was also involved with psychological counseling for teenagers as well as the faculties of reputable institutions. This helps her develop her inter-personal skills as well as work on her empathetical abilities. She feel pride in changing perspectives of the new generation.