Everyone does mistakes on account of various reasons but the way of dealing with the fallout of the mistake is important. During my work experience, I met people of different background and natures, some have nature to get very defensive after doing mistakes and some simply don’t care of doing it.
Different researchers and management coaches have suggested simple ways to follow, if you have realized your mistake, to deal with the fallout?
Here are few steps to follow:
1. To tell your boss/friend/spouse/whoever does, about mistake as soon as possible. A proactive attitude helps to deal with the fallout.
2. Communicate clearly that you know what you did, and that you understand the repercussions of your error. People want to feel that you understand why they’re annoyed on you. Admitting your fault really helps to give way for contribution of others in fixing error.
3. Be not defensive on yourself. If they see that you’re really sorry, they may even try to console you. That will help strengthen your relationship.
4. Assure that it won’t happen again. This is how; they’ll know you’ve put some thought into it.
5. Accept the consequences. Whatever it is, accept it without objection. If you really think your punishment was too harsh, address it later when cooler heads will prevail.
6. Go the extra mile. Don’t only correct your mistake, go one better. If you were late for a meeting, start being the first one there. If your work was shoddy, make sure it’s flawless and done ahead of schedule in the future.
Everyone make the mistakes as long as you don’t make it a regular habit. If you don’t manage the mistakes maturely then it further complicates the things. People will forgive you, especially when you handle it well.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wanna to Manage a High Performance by keeping good Physical Health?
This is very first time, I am posting an article on HEALTH with an objective to improve our association with it by following very simple steps everyday. It will help to enhance our performance in other parts of life as well.
If you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Most people would agree with this statement. And that opens the door to feed a health improving thoughts in our mind.
A new study published in the British Medical Journal of 20,000 British folks shows that you can cut your risk of having a stroke in half by doing the following four things: being active for 30 minutes a day, eating five daily servings of fruit and vegetables, and avoiding cigarettes and excess alcohol. Luckily, I do more or less all and what about you? I read an article on health written by Dr. Deborah Kotz on Yahoo Health, Where he explains few habits to adopt for longer and better living. I almost follow sixty to seventy percent of these habits and now has committed myself to implements all of them.
1. Don't retire. "Evidence shows that in societies where people stop working abruptly, the incidence of obesity and chronic disease skyrockets after retirement," says Luigi Ferrucci, director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. So guys keep up working and make yourself busy in healthy activities.
2. Floss every day. That may help keep your arteries healthy. A 2008 New York University study showed that daily flossing reduced the amount of gum-disease-causing bacteria in the mouth. This bacteria is thought to enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation in the arteries, a major risk factor for heart disease. Other research has shown that those who have high amounts of bacteria in their mouth are more likely to have thickening in their arteries, another sign of heart disease. People should floss twice a day to get the biggest life expectancy benefits.
3. Move around. "Exercise is the only real fountain of youth that exists," says Jay Olshansky, a professor of medicine and aging researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "It's like the oil and lube job for your car and benefits of exercise to improve your mood, mental acuity, balance, muscle mass, and bones by simply walking around the neighborhood or local mall for about 30 minutes a day.
4. Eat a fiber-rich cereal for breakfast. Getting a serving of whole-grains, especially in the morning, appears to help older folks maintain stable blood sugar levels throughout the day.
5. Get at least six hours of shut-eye. "Sleep is one of the most important functions that our body uses to regulate and heal cells," says Ferrucci. "We've calculated that the minimum amount of sleep that older people need to get those healing REM phases is about six hours."
6. Consume whole foods, not supplements. Avoid nutrient-lacking white foods (breads, flour, sugar) and go for all those colorful fruits and vegetables and dark whole-grain breads and cereals with their host of hidden nutrients.
7. Be less neurotic. Infuses your worries with a healthy dose of humor, but the rest of us neurotics may want to find a new way to deal with stress: Yoga, exercise, meditation, tai chi, or just deep breathing for a few moments are all good. Ruminating, eating chips in front of the TV,
8. Stay connected. Having regular social contacts with friends and loved ones is key to avoiding depression.
Now get your self committed with health part of your life so you can enjoy true fulfilment in your lifespan. Goodluck!
If you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Most people would agree with this statement. And that opens the door to feed a health improving thoughts in our mind.
A new study published in the British Medical Journal of 20,000 British folks shows that you can cut your risk of having a stroke in half by doing the following four things: being active for 30 minutes a day, eating five daily servings of fruit and vegetables, and avoiding cigarettes and excess alcohol. Luckily, I do more or less all and what about you? I read an article on health written by Dr. Deborah Kotz on Yahoo Health, Where he explains few habits to adopt for longer and better living. I almost follow sixty to seventy percent of these habits and now has committed myself to implements all of them.
1. Don't retire. "Evidence shows that in societies where people stop working abruptly, the incidence of obesity and chronic disease skyrockets after retirement," says Luigi Ferrucci, director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. So guys keep up working and make yourself busy in healthy activities.
2. Floss every day. That may help keep your arteries healthy. A 2008 New York University study showed that daily flossing reduced the amount of gum-disease-causing bacteria in the mouth. This bacteria is thought to enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation in the arteries, a major risk factor for heart disease. Other research has shown that those who have high amounts of bacteria in their mouth are more likely to have thickening in their arteries, another sign of heart disease. People should floss twice a day to get the biggest life expectancy benefits.
3. Move around. "Exercise is the only real fountain of youth that exists," says Jay Olshansky, a professor of medicine and aging researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "It's like the oil and lube job for your car and benefits of exercise to improve your mood, mental acuity, balance, muscle mass, and bones by simply walking around the neighborhood or local mall for about 30 minutes a day.
4. Eat a fiber-rich cereal for breakfast. Getting a serving of whole-grains, especially in the morning, appears to help older folks maintain stable blood sugar levels throughout the day.
5. Get at least six hours of shut-eye. "Sleep is one of the most important functions that our body uses to regulate and heal cells," says Ferrucci. "We've calculated that the minimum amount of sleep that older people need to get those healing REM phases is about six hours."
6. Consume whole foods, not supplements. Avoid nutrient-lacking white foods (breads, flour, sugar) and go for all those colorful fruits and vegetables and dark whole-grain breads and cereals with their host of hidden nutrients.
7. Be less neurotic. Infuses your worries with a healthy dose of humor, but the rest of us neurotics may want to find a new way to deal with stress: Yoga, exercise, meditation, tai chi, or just deep breathing for a few moments are all good. Ruminating, eating chips in front of the TV,
8. Stay connected. Having regular social contacts with friends and loved ones is key to avoiding depression.
Now get your self committed with health part of your life so you can enjoy true fulfilment in your lifespan. Goodluck!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Perceiving Benefits of Certifications:
Due to increasing challenges in the industries, both the Companies and Professionals have started recognizing the importance and value in the certifications.
Different researchers has reckoned the importance and concluded the following benefits of the Certifications. I hope these would be motivating enough to encourage you for certification.
Benefits of Certifications for Professionals
Global Credentials: Certifications are globally accepted means of establishing as well as assessing the essential set of credentials required for a job.
Increased Skills and Knowledge: Certification holders feel that acquiring a technical certification has made them more confident in their jobs and the work they perform. It improves their problem-solving skills on the job and increased their overall job productivity.
Better Career Opportunities: Getting certified can help enhance career prospects.
Greater Remuneration and Promotions: These are the means for greater remuneration, more challenging job profiles leading to promotions.
Job Security: They provide increased job security.
Respect: Are the means of gaining respect amongst peers and colleagues.
Competence: They are hard evidence to determine the level of competence to perform the tasks assigned or any other tasks to be assigned in future.
Benefits of Certifications for Companies/Organizations:
International Benchmark: They provide the management with an internationally accepted benchmark against which both current and prospective employees can be assessed.
New Market Opportunities: Certifications help organization explore new markets thus broadening their horizons for better market opportunities.
Industry Skill Assessment: Certifications are becoming industry standards skill assessment.
Talent Measurement Tool: They are objective measurements of skills and hence easy to use when it comes to comparing and contrasting the talent pool.
Critical Distinguishing Factor: In some cases it becomes the critical distinguishing factor when candidates have similar skill sets and experience.
Improved Processes: Implementing and practicing industry good and best practices always improves the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization eventually increasing ROI.
Selling Point: Advantage and preference is given for winning contracts and business.
So I will advise don’t wait and think about it. As I have mentioned in my previous posting as one way of going extra mile in your work.
Different researchers has reckoned the importance and concluded the following benefits of the Certifications. I hope these would be motivating enough to encourage you for certification.
Benefits of Certifications for Professionals
Global Credentials: Certifications are globally accepted means of establishing as well as assessing the essential set of credentials required for a job.
Increased Skills and Knowledge: Certification holders feel that acquiring a technical certification has made them more confident in their jobs and the work they perform. It improves their problem-solving skills on the job and increased their overall job productivity.
Better Career Opportunities: Getting certified can help enhance career prospects.
Greater Remuneration and Promotions: These are the means for greater remuneration, more challenging job profiles leading to promotions.
Job Security: They provide increased job security.
Respect: Are the means of gaining respect amongst peers and colleagues.
Competence: They are hard evidence to determine the level of competence to perform the tasks assigned or any other tasks to be assigned in future.
Benefits of Certifications for Companies/Organizations:
International Benchmark: They provide the management with an internationally accepted benchmark against which both current and prospective employees can be assessed.
New Market Opportunities: Certifications help organization explore new markets thus broadening their horizons for better market opportunities.
Industry Skill Assessment: Certifications are becoming industry standards skill assessment.
Talent Measurement Tool: They are objective measurements of skills and hence easy to use when it comes to comparing and contrasting the talent pool.
Critical Distinguishing Factor: In some cases it becomes the critical distinguishing factor when candidates have similar skill sets and experience.
Improved Processes: Implementing and practicing industry good and best practices always improves the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization eventually increasing ROI.
Selling Point: Advantage and preference is given for winning contracts and business.
So I will advise don’t wait and think about it. As I have mentioned in my previous posting as one way of going extra mile in your work.
Monday, April 20, 2009
How can you face unexpected Career Opportunities at the eve of Financial Melt?
This is for my friends working in different parts of the world especially UAE, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Pakistan and Africa. Sorry in advance if I am missing someone to mention. We are well aware of the fact, the financial melt has affected almost the economies of entire world especially USA from where it was introduced to the rest.
Most of us are facing such giant financial melt very first time during their career, where, we witness thousands of lays-off of employee’s worldwide, low or no increment in the salaries and very limited options of switching elsewhere.
Therefore, unexpected chance and changes are bound to happen. Before it starts worrying you, gear up yourself for these changes by continuing to upgrade your skills and use it to your advantage.
“Chance favors the prepared mind” as put it by Pasteur
From an article by Sandra Hagevik, and three career theorists (Mitchell, Krumboltz, and Levin) make in an article titled "Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities.", five attitudes are essential to recognizing, creating, and using chance as an opportunity:
1. Curiosity, which will prompt you to explore new learning opportunities;
2. Persistence, which means you exert extra effort despite setbacks;
3. Flexibility, which enables you to change attitudes and circumstances;
4. Optimism, which will allow you to view new opportunities as possible and attainable; and
5. The willingness to take risks, which will enable you to act in the face of uncertainty.
Therefore, get recognize the value in the change and adapt them by initiating actions to convert them into opportunities for growth. Wishing you a very goodluck and God bless you in your personal and professional lives during this tough time.
Most of us are facing such giant financial melt very first time during their career, where, we witness thousands of lays-off of employee’s worldwide, low or no increment in the salaries and very limited options of switching elsewhere.
Therefore, unexpected chance and changes are bound to happen. Before it starts worrying you, gear up yourself for these changes by continuing to upgrade your skills and use it to your advantage.
“Chance favors the prepared mind” as put it by Pasteur
From an article by Sandra Hagevik, and three career theorists (Mitchell, Krumboltz, and Levin) make in an article titled "Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities.", five attitudes are essential to recognizing, creating, and using chance as an opportunity:
1. Curiosity, which will prompt you to explore new learning opportunities;
2. Persistence, which means you exert extra effort despite setbacks;
3. Flexibility, which enables you to change attitudes and circumstances;
4. Optimism, which will allow you to view new opportunities as possible and attainable; and
5. The willingness to take risks, which will enable you to act in the face of uncertainty.
Therefore, get recognize the value in the change and adapt them by initiating actions to convert them into opportunities for growth. Wishing you a very goodluck and God bless you in your personal and professional lives during this tough time.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
How can you go extra mile in your work?
To give always best in your field, you need to develop a mechanism of good practices and require re-engineering of your life in the following habits.
1. Get knowledge through reading. The best habit is to start focusing selectively on books, articles, and essays that pertain to your industry. You don’t need much time to spend and it requires may be just few minutes to an hour a day. It is knowledge that gives you a solid foundation to excel.
2. Investing in you. When you find a meaningful training program, courses or certifications pertains to your field, get a habit to invest some time and money in it.
3. Going to seminars and attending conferences. This is how you get the opportunity to listen renowned speakers in your industry. You may also find friends from the same industry.
5. Have a mentor. They help you with their knowledge and experience during awkward situations. Closely observe the experts as they know something extra which you don’t. It will help you learn the secrets of their success.
6. Study inspirational books. They will help you motivate for the better and will recharge you with a positive energy. Trust me it really helps.
7. Develop social and professional network. It will help you to find someone to solve your problem and it also helps to open up new avenues.
8. Be giving to your colleagues. Contribute to their knowledge building and well beings. Be humble and honest under all circumstances. When people feel that they do well with you, it builds a relation of trust and confidence on you and they come back with more opportunities.
9. God be as your partner. Encourage yourself to make God be as your partner and everything will come together. I will write some time later in detail exclusively in this area.
10. Monitoring. Keep on monitoring your performance and evaluate if your colleagues have started realizing your rise.
I wish goodluck all the readers and remember the key to success is start from today and remain persistent.
1. Get knowledge through reading. The best habit is to start focusing selectively on books, articles, and essays that pertain to your industry. You don’t need much time to spend and it requires may be just few minutes to an hour a day. It is knowledge that gives you a solid foundation to excel.
2. Investing in you. When you find a meaningful training program, courses or certifications pertains to your field, get a habit to invest some time and money in it.
3. Going to seminars and attending conferences. This is how you get the opportunity to listen renowned speakers in your industry. You may also find friends from the same industry.
5. Have a mentor. They help you with their knowledge and experience during awkward situations. Closely observe the experts as they know something extra which you don’t. It will help you learn the secrets of their success.
6. Study inspirational books. They will help you motivate for the better and will recharge you with a positive energy. Trust me it really helps.
7. Develop social and professional network. It will help you to find someone to solve your problem and it also helps to open up new avenues.
8. Be giving to your colleagues. Contribute to their knowledge building and well beings. Be humble and honest under all circumstances. When people feel that they do well with you, it builds a relation of trust and confidence on you and they come back with more opportunities.
9. God be as your partner. Encourage yourself to make God be as your partner and everything will come together. I will write some time later in detail exclusively in this area.
10. Monitoring. Keep on monitoring your performance and evaluate if your colleagues have started realizing your rise.
I wish goodluck all the readers and remember the key to success is start from today and remain persistent.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Manage to Rise
PHILOSIPHY of Mange to Rise:
The most interesting thing about life is the possibility of coming dream true. This is awesome to imagine that something you have wanted your whole life, something that was once a distant vision is now real.
Dreaming and picturing the whole scene in the air that you knew in your hearts, lies not too far away. It takes you believe in yourself, pure intentions, determination, passion, persistence and patience.
MISSION of Mange to Rise:
To help human fellow to improve the physical, mental, spiritual and social dimensions of their life with an objective to get their dreams true.
HOW TO GET IT?
Our life is into relationships with professional, personal and religious domains. The optimal balance of these disciplines invites sustained success into our life. The optimal balance is the point beyond which gain in one can result loose into other discipline for example gain of wealth at the expense of health is state of imbalance among those disciplines.
Developing and following the mechanism of creating balance in life shall help improve our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social dimensions. This will put our life on a track of success. It doest not happen overnight. Success takes time with your own experiences of achievements and mistakes. The key to success is, if you stick with the track, you will succeed.
The most interesting thing about life is the possibility of coming dream true. This is awesome to imagine that something you have wanted your whole life, something that was once a distant vision is now real.
Dreaming and picturing the whole scene in the air that you knew in your hearts, lies not too far away. It takes you believe in yourself, pure intentions, determination, passion, persistence and patience.
MISSION of Mange to Rise:
To help human fellow to improve the physical, mental, spiritual and social dimensions of their life with an objective to get their dreams true.
HOW TO GET IT?
Our life is into relationships with professional, personal and religious domains. The optimal balance of these disciplines invites sustained success into our life. The optimal balance is the point beyond which gain in one can result loose into other discipline for example gain of wealth at the expense of health is state of imbalance among those disciplines.
Developing and following the mechanism of creating balance in life shall help improve our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social dimensions. This will put our life on a track of success. It doest not happen overnight. Success takes time with your own experiences of achievements and mistakes. The key to success is, if you stick with the track, you will succeed.
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