Assertiveness is the art, ability and the knack of saying ‘No’ without hurting the rights of others. It is an average of aggressiveness and submissiveness. It is one of the core ingredients of soft skills. Below are a few tips for asserting yourself.
Assertiveness Tips:
• State your feeling properly, positively and firmly without hurting others.
• Always empathize with others by being a good listener. Listening to others properly paves the way for better understanding of their view points resulting into assertive communication.
• Be objective, specific and clear in your approach.
• Be cool and composed and never lose your temper. Know the fact that it takes years to build the relations but it takes seconds to break the same.
• Present positive body language to present your viewpoint.
• You can go for sandwich conversation wherein you start positive initially then add your strong points to put across and finally end the conversation with positive so that other person carries the message properly.
• When you dislike the actions of other person, instead saying ‘you did like that’ you may say that ‘I did not like that’. Although the message is same there is feeling of ‘I’ which defuses the problem subtly.
• Always think of the ways and means to assert yourself.
• Keep repeating your points firmly till the message goes strongly to the other person.
• Never say ‘Yes’ to unfair and unreasonable requests.
• Practice assertion skills during the free time through your internal dialogue.
• Do meditation regularly as it helps your thoughts and emotions under control and helps for assertiveness in the long run.
• Take feedback from your trusted friends about your behavior for bringing out desirable changes.
• Never think of win-lose or lose-win but always think of win-win situation.
The above tips will help you to succeed in all walks of life.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Kalam’s Creative Leadership
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs, Co-founder, Apple Corp, USA.
There are several leadership styles and theories and, of which, the creative leadership is catching where the leaders have to be creative and unconventional with ‘out of the box thinking’ approach, attitude and aptitude. With the rapid growth of technology, the leaders are under test of fire with several challenges ahead. The days of conventional thinking are over. Now, it is the time for leaders to look at the challenges from a totally different perspective. Therefore, there is a need for creative leadership to find out solutions to several problems being faced by the world today.
Abdul Kalam defined “creative leadership is about exercising the vision to change the traditional role from the commander to the coach, manager to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self-respect.”
To put it succinctly, creative leadership is the ability to inspire and influence the individuals to accomplish desired goals and objectively innovatively. It aligns the ideas, information and thoughts creatively and effectively for realizing the organizational excellence and for all-round productivity.
Creative leadership is essential not only at the organizational level but also in all spheres. It is especially required in the educational institutions where students need to develop creative leadership to solve several problems in the society.
Creative leadership helps in thinking out of the box and helps in facing several challenges squarely. It is the ability to find new ways and means to get the things done. It requires enormous energy and ability to lead from the front. It demands the leaders to go by the road less traveled. It demands extraordinary edge and courage on the part of the creative leaders. It focuses on unconventional methods. It stresses on getting the things differently rather than doing different things.
The End
There are several leadership styles and theories and, of which, the creative leadership is catching where the leaders have to be creative and unconventional with ‘out of the box thinking’ approach, attitude and aptitude. With the rapid growth of technology, the leaders are under test of fire with several challenges ahead. The days of conventional thinking are over. Now, it is the time for leaders to look at the challenges from a totally different perspective. Therefore, there is a need for creative leadership to find out solutions to several problems being faced by the world today.
Abdul Kalam defined “creative leadership is about exercising the vision to change the traditional role from the commander to the coach, manager to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self-respect.”
To put it succinctly, creative leadership is the ability to inspire and influence the individuals to accomplish desired goals and objectively innovatively. It aligns the ideas, information and thoughts creatively and effectively for realizing the organizational excellence and for all-round productivity.
Creative leadership is essential not only at the organizational level but also in all spheres. It is especially required in the educational institutions where students need to develop creative leadership to solve several problems in the society.
Creative leadership helps in thinking out of the box and helps in facing several challenges squarely. It is the ability to find new ways and means to get the things done. It requires enormous energy and ability to lead from the front. It demands the leaders to go by the road less traveled. It demands extraordinary edge and courage on the part of the creative leaders. It focuses on unconventional methods. It stresses on getting the things differently rather than doing different things.
The End
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Motivational Tips
Motivation is the ability to move forward without losing one’s energy and enthusiasm despite facing several setbacks in life. Motivation drives the people to move forward towards their goals and objectives. Abraham Lincoln was the person who is synonymous with motivation. Despite facing several setbacks in his life in various capacities, he did not give up. He pursued to the end and became the first Republic President of USA. In this regard, it is necessary to know how to motivate yourself.
Motivational Tips:
• Always surround with positive people with healthy mindset.
• Solitude is the best solution where you generate fresh energies to move forward.
• Set smart, measurable, achievable, reachable and timed (SMART) goals as they fuel you constantly.
• Involve in positive self-talk. But do not exaggerate yourself.
• Keep slogans and posters at home and office to get energized constantly.
• Reward yourself, whenever you achieve something.
• Maintain a diary exclusively meant for motivational quotes. Whenever you feel upset you can refer the same.
• Recall your past achievements whenever you face setbacks or failures.
• Visualize success. Imagine that you are always on the top of the world.
• Lend your hand to unsuccessful people so that it bounces back to you as ‘good begets good’.
• Think big and remove your mental barriers.
• Recollect your role model and recall how he/she overcame challenges in life.
• Find out what motivates you – love, money, success, status, comforts, power, prestige etc., Once it is known, then getting motivated becomes an easier process.
Learn the fact that failure is only a comma not a full stop. A smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner.
The End
Motivational Tips:
• Always surround with positive people with healthy mindset.
• Solitude is the best solution where you generate fresh energies to move forward.
• Set smart, measurable, achievable, reachable and timed (SMART) goals as they fuel you constantly.
• Involve in positive self-talk. But do not exaggerate yourself.
• Keep slogans and posters at home and office to get energized constantly.
• Reward yourself, whenever you achieve something.
• Maintain a diary exclusively meant for motivational quotes. Whenever you feel upset you can refer the same.
• Recall your past achievements whenever you face setbacks or failures.
• Visualize success. Imagine that you are always on the top of the world.
• Lend your hand to unsuccessful people so that it bounces back to you as ‘good begets good’.
• Think big and remove your mental barriers.
• Recollect your role model and recall how he/she overcame challenges in life.
• Find out what motivates you – love, money, success, status, comforts, power, prestige etc., Once it is known, then getting motivated becomes an easier process.
Learn the fact that failure is only a comma not a full stop. A smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner.
The End
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