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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (1)
“I’d never been to a big city before”. http://youtu.be/KrDGTUm2vBc
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WORKERS’ STORIES – I have a fun job. Simply put, I’m a Test Engineer.
“Today it was a GPS device. Designed in Australia to be produced here in America. It has 2 GPS boards and a radio modem for receiving error corrections from another GPS “base”. It’s more simple than...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (2)
A young woman from Northern Japan has decided to quit school and move to Gion, the geisha quarter of Kyoto. There she wants to fulfill her dream of becoming a Geisha, called Geiko in Kyoto....
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WORKERS’ STORIES – My Job Description: Volunteer in South Sudan
“A little over six years ago I showed up site unseen in the middle of a war zone in Central Africa. On Christmas day, I flung wide the rickety gates of my newly rented compound, welcomed home my first...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (3)
“I should have known that I would be lonely” http://youtu.be/pgzenXgeyIM
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (4)
“I will be coming home to Kaneyama next year. I’m looking forward to it. Please mum cook me hamburgers when I’m at home” http://youtu.be/UXaOVomPGP0
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (5)
“I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to make proper conversation” http://youtu.be/ZtYS3-9qJes
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WORKERS’ STORIES – I am not a farmer by trade.
“I only have a few acres and will never make a huge go of this thing, but I do pretty well. Back to the survey again. The question was “do you like your job?”. Wow! This one hit home. I had never...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Training as a Maiko (6)
“Kikuyu, congratulations. From now on you are an official Maiko” http://youtu.be/qd0qZPW23Xo
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WORKERS’ STORIES – New Job
“It was 12/12/12. The entire lunch room full of fifth and third graders were watching the minute hand sweep around from 12:11:30 to 12:12. I pawed at the bank of light switches to turn the lights all...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Stay at home mom.
“I am worthy of my job. Since I was a little girl, I had a plan for my future. It looked like this: graduate high school, go to college, have a career, get married, and become a stay at home mom when...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Bugmaster at Mozilla.
“I tried describing my new job: Many people at my job work together to make free things that go on computers to make it so everyone can see the words and pictures on other computers in the world.”...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – I (Used to) Love Teaching
“I love teaching. Or, I did love teaching. I loved teaching when my job was to teach. Now, I don’t love teaching, because my job is no longer teaching. To make that story short… Despite the lofty...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – I’m a geologist. Here’s my job description, in simple words.
“I study how small pieces of rock get together, move along, and settle down to form beds. Water usually moves smaller pieces further than large ones but lots of small and big pieces together can move...
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Things I Learned While Working as a Waitress in Wichita...
“When I moved to Wichita Falls, I had a hard time finding a job. I was looking for something that would be Monday through Friday 8-5, and after filling out numerous applications I was getting nowhere....
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WORKERS’ STORIES – Working as a Panographer.
“Obviously, my job is boring… in Rotterdam Although, I think that my job as a panographer is the best that I can get, my cat thinks something totally different.”...
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Michael E. Porter’s Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy.
An Interview with Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard University. Porter’s five competitive forces is the basis for much of modern business strategy. Understand the framework and how to put it into...
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Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
Francesca Gino, associate professor at Harvard Business School, explains how quiet bosses with proactive teams can be highly successful. We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain...
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Think Like an Innovator
Jeff Dyer, professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management and coauthor of “The Innovator’s DNA,” outlines the four ways leaders come up with their great ideas.
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Which are the Biggest Mistakes that a Leader Can Make?
Leaders share their ideas on how leadership goes wrong Putting themselves and their interests ahead of that of the organisation and of the employees [unethical] Betraying Trust [destroys relationships]...
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Social Intelligence and Leadership
An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance. Outstanding leaders first listen then...
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From second hand car sales to HR Consulting in one day?
Mitchell&Webb made this funny impression of a recruitment consultant who really, really!, liked one candidate. Funnily – or worryingly! – enough, I saw something similar happening not long ago. In...
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Ask the Employment Specialist: How to be a Successful Mentor
Reblogged from JVS Career Voice: Dear Joanna, I am a long-standing and successful employee at one of the major banks, in a Director role in the Risk Management department. Our organization strongly...
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When to Put Everybody in a Room and Close the Door
Reblogged from My Strategic View: The task of conducting a focus group appears to be as simple as gathering a group of people in a room, closing the doors and getting everyone's thoughts about a new...
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The Secret Weapon of Great Leaders
Melba Duncan, author of the HBR article “The Case for Executive Assistants,” explains why technology can’t replace personal support. The skill-set of a great executive assistant: Ability to manage...
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Leadership: Leading Collaborative Groups
John Abele, cofounder of Boston Scientific and author of the HBR article “Bringing Minds Together,” explains how to effectively manage teams. Some kinds of collaborations don’t even look like...
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Wise Leadership
Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, authors of the HBR article “The Wise Leader,” explain how the best executives strive for the common good. 2012-03-07-the-big-idea-the-wise-leader
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Leaders with Values
Management thought – Leaders share their ideas on values in business. Featuring: Arturo Condo, David Rock, Buie Seawell, Erin Lehman, Christopher Adkins, Maj. Gen. Frederick B. Hodges, Susan Clancy,...
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Hiring Managers -- Let's Improve the Hiring Process
Reblogged from talent chatter: The Corporate Executive Board recently reported that 35% of hiring managers state that their company’s hiring and selection process is ‘less than effective.’ I believe...
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The FRUSTRATING Freeman or WOMAN...
Reblogged from cammise: One of the things I've realized and many have stated time and time again is that in order to lead others, you have to be willing to follow others. Know that to secure a...
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Managing Values Across Cultures
Management thought leaders share their ideas on values in business. Featuring: Christopher Adkins, Mansour Javidan, Matthew Hayward, Buie Seawell, Mary Gentile, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Kari Granger, and...
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The Art of Purposeful Storytelling
Peter Guber, chairman and CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group, explains how to establish an emotional connection with any audience. Storytelling allow managers to connect emotionally with clients...
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Identify Future Leaders
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser, Egon Zehnder International, explains how to spot top talent. How to look for employees who have potential: They are those who: have the ability to grow handle...
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The Role of Tomorrow’s Leaders
Management thought leaders share their ideas on what leadership means in a world that is less hierarchical and more globally interconnected. Featuring: Andrew Pettigrew, Bob Johansen, Barbara...
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The Crucial Skill for Tomorrow’s Leaders
Management thought leaders share their ideas on what future leaders can’t live without. Featuring: Angel Cabrera, Bill George, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Andy Zelleke, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Evan...
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Leadership Brand
An interview with Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood, Cofounders, The RBL Group. Companies build a leadership brand by developing leaders who enable employees to deliver the results expected by customers.
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Friedman’s Theory of Differentiated Leadership Made Simple
Dr. Jonathan Camp discusses the book A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman, who owes many of his ideas of leadership to Murray Bowen (1913-1990), a pioneer of family therapy. Central to Bowen’s family...
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Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Art of Lecturing seminar. David Rakel, MD, talks about the importance of emotional experience in lecturing and connecting to your audience.
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Test your attention levels.
It’s amazing what we miss in front of our eyes. Play the quirky video to test your ability to focus.
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Work-life balance tips: Relaxation techniques
How about spending now and then half of your lunch break doing some relaxation exercises? It calms anxiety and helps your body and mind recover from work’s rush and stress. •Choose a quiet place where...
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Work-life balance tips: Techniques to improve your self-esteem
Day-to-day hassles have a detrimental effect on our physical and emotional wellbeing, but people with good support systems are less negatively affected. In general, self-esteem helps us to deal with...
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Work-life balance tips: Talking ourselves through challenges.
It’s only human to talk to yourself, silently or out loud. We can use this ability to coach ourselves through difficult challenges. Although you probably do this to some extent already, there are three...
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Work-life balance tips: Reduce your negative thoughts
It’s easy to think that you’re completely at the mercy of your feelings, but in fact you’re not. To some extent the way you feel is dictated by the way you think, and bad feelings are often the result...
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Work-life balance tips: Anger management
Everyone feels their anger is justified when they’re actually angry. Equally, we’ve all looked back and realised we may have overreacted. But for some people, anger can become a problem that needs to...
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Work-life balance tips: Thought diaries.
If you’re feeling depressed or anxious, these are some techniques which might help you to identify the behaviour, feelings and thoughts that are to blame. Using mood and thought monitoring is done...
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Work-life balance tips: Managing stress
We all feel stressed at various times in our lives. It’s a normal response to challenging circumstances, and can be caused by happy as well as sad events. A new partner or a holiday can trigger stress...
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Why you should carefully select your employer before coming to the UAE.
As HR professionals we cannot stress enough the importance of selecting the right employees for vacant positions. Skills, attitudes, values, industry exposure, personality traits (or modes, as the...
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Call for contributions: Cross-cultural communication in the workplace
Have you ever been “lost in translation” in your workplace? Did you ever witnessed, or were the protagonist, of a situation in which two or more people employed in the same workplace misunderstood each...
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Highly recommended.
In over 15 years of experience in the training business only 2/3 times I came across which such a gift for facilitation. I attended her workshops with Vivid Life last month in Dubai and I was almost...
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