Monday 27 May 2019

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LECTURE 17: USING THE ZEIGARNIK EFFECT FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND PERSONAL GROWTH

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This lecture introduces the concept of Zeigarnik Effect as the very basis of habit formation, and suggests that this psychological effect can be used both positively and negatively towards harnessing desirable habits, and shedding the undesirable ones.
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LECTURE 16: BREAKING BAD HABITS

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Identifying bad habits as a vicious cycle of compulsive repetitive behavior, this lecture suggests some practical ways of overcoming bad habits by rewiring the brain, and inculcating alternative good habits in their stead.
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LECTURE 15: HABITS: HABIT CYCLE

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This lecture systematically lays down the entire process of habit formation—both good and bad habits—and insists that habit formation is a circuitous cycle that can either trap (in case of bad habits) or enable (in case of good habits) an individual, and that habits are made or broken one step at a time.
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LECTURE 14: HABITS: IDENTIFYING GOOD AND BAD HABITS

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This lecture clearly differentiates between a good and a bad habit, but does so without moral/religious implications, and instead sees habits as an intrinsic aspect of any individual that make or mar her/his life, career, and relationships, and suggests practical ways of identifying good and bad habits.
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LECTURE 13: HABITS: GUIDING PRINCIPLES

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Recognizing habits as the very foundation of one’s character and personality, and subsequently one’s destiny, this lecture gives a detailed introduction of the role, pertinence, and often permanence of habit formation in one’s life.
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Sunday 26 May 2019

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Lecture 12: REGULATING STRESS: MAKING THE BEST OUT OF STRESS

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This lecture acknowledges that stress cannot be done away with, and that instead, one can effectively manage it, and transform “distress” to “eustress,” kick-starting a journey of growth and productivity, and towards that end, this lecture suggests ways to effectively tackle stress, beginning with the intrapersonal level.
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Lecture 11: TYPES OF STRESS: SELF-AWARENESS ABOUT STRESS

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This lecture recognizes stress as one of the most perennial contemporary problems brought on by hectic life-style and overtly demanding schedules, and proposes that stress can be and is an essential trigger towards work and action, and that a complete lack of stress may lead to inertia, and thus concedes that effective management of stress can lead to high productivity and work efficiency.
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Lecture 10: TYPES OF CONFLICTS: BECOMING A CONFLICT RESOLUTION EXPERT

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This lecture recognizes conflict-resolution skills as one of the premier skills in tackling life problems at both personal and societal level because a conflict resolution expert is an individual who is sought after and looked up to by all for his/her effective handling of problems that arise on a daily basis.
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Lecture 9: INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICTS: TWO SOLUTIONS

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Taking the conflict-resolution paradigms laid out in the previous lecture, this lecture suggests the ways in which the given conflict situations can be resolved by keeping a calm and positive attitude that is receptive of various view-points, and thereby objectively arriving at a solution.
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Lecture 8: INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICTS: TWO EXAMPLES

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Identifying four different kinds of conflict, this lecture lays special emphasis on inter-personal conflicts, also simulating two conflict case-scenarios, and urging the candidate to envisage and arrive at smooth solutions based on the conflict resolution paradigms provided in the lecture.
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Lecture 7: CONFLICT RESOLUTION SKILLS: SEEKING WIN-WIN SOLUTION

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This lecture identifies conflict as an integral and unavoidable aspect of human existence, and seeks to suggest effective ways of resolving conflict by fully embracing the challenges posed by it, such that life moves to a higher level of meaning and satisfaction.
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Lecture 6: NEED ACHIEVEMENT AND SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE

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This module stresses upon the need to develop spiritual intelligence as a holistic and sustained approach towards tackling life challenges and achieving pre-set targets, leading to over-all growth and development.
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Lecture 5: AIMING FOR EXCELLENCE: DEVELOPING POTENTIAL AND SELF-ACTUALISATION

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This module aims to challenge the self-limiting and often debilitating notions of fixed mind-set, encouraging development of growth mind-set leading towards excellence that comes with the realization and enhancement of hidden potentials and self-actualization.
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Lecture 4: TYPES OF SOFT SKILLS: SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

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This module stresses upon the need to change and manage the self, before expecting and bringing about a change in other people and environment. It highlights the various aspects of self-management, emphasizing on the need to develop emotional intelligence in all areas of life.
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Lecture 3: HUMAN PERCEPTIONS: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE

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This module highlights the plurality of reality based on heterogeneity of perceptions, emphasizing that our notions of life are based on our perceptions, and that changing the outlook from negative to positive can lead to an enhanced and richer experience of life.
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Lecture 2: PLANNING AND GOAL-SETTING

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This module prepares you to envisage an achievable life-target, encouraging you to make time-bound goals that correspond to your highest aspirations, and helps you to work systematically and forcefully towards those goals.

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Lecture 1: INTRODUCTION: A NEW APPROACH TO LEARNING

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This introductory model breaks stereotyped notions of conventional learning, encouraging you to make learning an experiential process, leading you towards definite, sustained, and positive life changes.
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Friday 30 November 2018

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Improving Personal Productivity

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Personal Productivity

Productivity is about maximizing outputs, increasing profits, or both. Personal productivity is ultimately about achieving goals.


 Why is it Important ?
If you are not productive - you are doing things over and over again, you lose your time (which you couldn't regain) and you probably losing money.

Causes of Less Productivity
  • Lack of big picture view
  • Poor supervision
  • Poor communication
  • Inconsistency
  • Inadequate technologies
 Improving Personal Productiveness
  • Tell everyone what you're doing.
  • Decide how long you will work.
  • Withhold the fun for a while
  • Recharge early.
 Tips (Helpful Tips)
  1. Make Mental Timetable
  2. Create A Daily To-Do List
  3. Don't Multi-Task
  4. Turn off Social Media
Tools
  • Incorporate Automation Tools
  • Use Chrome Extensions
  • Organize with calendar App
  • Smartphone to scan documents
Quote :-

 "Get Specified About Your Goals & Keep Them Visible"

 Highly Successful People

 Habit 1 : Ruthlessly cut away the unimportant
(and Focus on the important)

 Habit 2 : Allocate brakes strategically
(Rest when you are tired)

 Habit 3 : Remove productivity pit-stops
(Things that limit your productivity)

 Habit 4 : Tap into your inspiration
(Channel your inner muse)

 Habit 5 : Create barriers to entry
(Don't make yourself too accessible)

 Habit 6 : Optimize time pockets
(Make the best of every minute)

 Habit 7 : Set timelines
(So things get done)

 Habit 8 : Automate everything possible
(Outsource, Delegate, Automate)
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Monday 19 November 2018

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Work-life Balance

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Work-life balance is the term used to describe the balance that an individual needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life.

 4 Causes of Imbalance
  1. Societal expectations
  2. Extreme ambition
  3. Desperate for perfection
  4. Denied depression

 Balance


What is it Not
  • Work-Life Balance does not mean an equal balance.
  • Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time.
  • There is no perfect, one-size fits all

 Importance of Work-Life Balance
  • To maintain your mental health
  • It increase productivity
  • More rounded individual 
  • You only get one life

 Achieving Work-Life Balance
  • Learn how to let go of things
  • Prioritize your time
  • Establish boundaries at work, and stick to them 
  • Br selfish about your "me" time
  • Ask for help

 Quote

 Few Tips

 Unplug
Limit "Time Wasters"
Meditate
Change Life schedule
Exercise
Conclusion

Work-life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy environments, which will enable individuals to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen loyalty and productivity.

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Thursday 11 October 2018

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Soft Skill - Social Learning

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Social Learning

 People learn from one another, via observation imitation, and modeling.

 Social Learning Theory
  • Behavior
  • Environmental Factors
  • Personal Factors
Behavioral Model

 The behavioural model of abnormality says that psychological problems are learned behaviours. Behaviours are learned in a process called conditioning, whereby a persons associates one thing with another.

 Behaviorist Model

 Behaviorist Model (only study observable/external behavior)
  • Stimulus in the environment
  • Black Box can't be studied
  • Response behavior
 
Cognitive Model

 A cognitive model is an approximation animal cognitive processes (predominantly human) for the purposes of comprehension and prediction.

 Cognitive Model

 Cognitive Model (can scientifically study internal behavior)
  • Input in the environment
  • Mediational Process mental event
  • Output behavior
Experiential Learning

 Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle
  • Do it
  • What happened?
  • Why/how it happen
  • What next?
Student Learning

 6 Steps to continuous Improvement of Student Learning
  1. Identify Goals
  2. Identify Objectives
  3. Specify Approaches
  4. Specify Measures
  5. Share Results
  6. Make Changes

" People are social being and want interaction and social learning is the primary from of learning, just as word of mouth advertising, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest from of advertising."
                                                                     ~ Stephen Covey ~

 Conclusion 

 We learn social behaviour such as aggression through the process of observation learning - through watching the behaviour of another person.

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Sunday 7 October 2018

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Soft Skills - Setting SMART Goals

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What is SMART Goal Setting?

Organizations use various tools to make their goals achievable. Using SMART goals is one of them. This technique helps you to attain and track your goals. You can verify at every point if what you are doing will get the desired results.

 What does SMART goal setting stand for?

S -  What do your want to do?
M - How will you know when you've reached it?
A - Is it in your power accomplish it ?
R - Can you realistically achieve it?
T - When exactly do you want to accomplish it?

 S - Specific (What? , Where?, How?, When?)
M - Measurable (Break it down into measurable units)
A - Achievable (Is your goal attainable?)
R - Realistic (How much is it relevant to you?)
T - Timely (Make a Blueprint. Time is Money!)

 Tips for SMART Goal Setting
  •  Think About the Big Picture 
We always make resolutions. Though, we hardly keep them. We tend to drift apart and forget about them. Breaking them into measurable and realistic segments helps you understand how realistic they are. Whenever you lose the wish to go forward think about the bigger picture. It will help you stay focused.
  • Get Down to the Bottom
Once you have seen the bigger picture, you need break the goal into simpler actions. This help you understand how measurable and attainable your goal is. Planning smaller steps makes you build a momentum in the right direction.


  • Use a Systemized Formula
We need to write everything down. It will help you to get from one point to another, smoothly. You will start getting the desired results, if you have a proper and structured formula.

  • Track your Progress
When we get into the game, we become so engrossed that we forget to check-in the progress. We must make sure that we are always keeping a track of our progress. We should always be best prepared for our next step and celebrate our successes on the way. This will keep us motivated.

  • Set an End Date
Open ended goals get you mo where. If there is not an end date, there will be no pressure to achieve it. You need to have a set timeline and break into attainable time limits. No end date often leads to slower progress.
Conclusion
  • Setting SMART goals is taking one step closer to your dreams.
  • Breaking them into smaller actions and making them attainable is necessary, if you wish them to make visible.
  • Do not lose track. Maintain a progress sheet.
  • Keep yourself motivated by looking at the bigger picture.
  • Celebrate your milestones and work on your limitations.
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Friday 5 October 2018

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Soft Skill - Business Body Language

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Business Body Language


Body Language is a language without spoken words, it is called non verbal communication.

 Communication is two type

1. Verbal Communication - Which is Spoken with words.
2. Non verbal Communication - Which is Spoken without words.

 What is Business Body Language?

 → The conscious and unconscious movements and postures by which attitudes and feelings are communicated.

 Few Body Languages Types









How to Read Body Language ?

  • Reading Emotional Cues
  • Look for signs of anger and/or threat
  • Look of expressions of embarrassment
  • Look for signals of anxiety
  • Notice any manifestations of pride
 Best Body Gestures
  1. Smile and be Confident
  2. Direct Eye Contact
  3.  Be interested and listen
  4. Sit up Straight
  5. Facial Expressions
  6. Relax your body
Benefits of Good Body Gesture
  • Connect with people better
  • Double your business
  • Prevents Conflict
  • Improve your Presence
  • Open up your  world
  • Being happier


" People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention".

 Body Language Success
  • Art of the Handshake
  • Power of Casual Touch
  • Understanding Spatial Distance
  • Importance of Posture
  • Peace
Conclusion

 Communication between cultures can be difficult and confusing because of complexities in language; however, with the use of body language, messages become clearer and easily translated because most body language is universal

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Soft Skills - Self Esteem

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Self Esteem

Self-esteem reflects an individual's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

 What is Self Esteem?

 → How much you appreciate and like yourself. Self-esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it tends to be stable and enduring.

 Lack of Self  Esteem
  • I can't Do it
  • Nobody Loves Me
  • I'm not Worthy
  • I'm Not Good Enough
  • Must be Perfect
  • I must not Make A Mistake

 Symptoms of Low Self Esteem
  1. Social withdrawal
  2. Eating disorders
  3. Inability to accept compliments
  4. Self neglect
  5. Reluctance to take on challenges
Increasing Self Esteem
  • Be mindful  (The Mindful Moment)
  • Change the story
  • Don't compare-and-despair
  • Focus on inner rock star
  • Exercise
  • Forgiveness
Benefits of Self Esteem
  • You are yourself
  • You accept Disagreements
  • Challenge yourself
  • Do not fear Uncertainty
  • You are Resilient
  • You don't need approval
  • More happier
  • More committed
Quote

 "Your life CHANGE if your self-esteem IMPROVED".
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Wednesday 3 October 2018

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Self - Confidence

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 The concept of self-confidence is commonly used as self-assurance in one's personal judgment, ability, power, etc.


Self-confidence :-

           "SELF-CONFIDENCE is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.

 Reasons People are Not Confident

  • Trying to be somebody that you are not.
  • Criticism affects you
  • You don't have the skill
  • Affected by painful past experiences
  • Don't have supportive people around
6 - Confidence Training
  1. Visualize yourself as you want to be.
  2. Affirm yourself ( I am improving each day)
  3. Do one thing that scares you every day.
  4. Question your inner critic.
  5. Set yourself up to win.
  6. Help someone else.
Benefits of Self Confidence
  • Being your best under stress
  • Influencing others
  • Having leadership presence
  • More positive attitude
  • Feeling valued
  • Being Beautiful
  • Being happier
  • Having greater freedom

" You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice"

Why people with confidence succeed?
  • Knows strengths and weaknesses
  •  Live in the now
  • Stops measuring success
  • Works on happiness
  • Set goals
"You can either be your own worst enemy, or your own biggest cheerleader. What's it goanna be?"


Conclusion 

 Self-confidence is only an umbrella term for a lot of things. Emotional constraint, humour, empathy, resilience, string relationships, all go into creating the personality that exudes self-confidence.
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Tuesday 2 October 2018

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Soft Skills - assertiveness

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 Assertiveness


Assertive means being able to stand up for your own or other people's rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive, or passively accepting wrong.

 What is Assertiveness?


→ Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a learn-able skill and mode of communication.

 Reasons People are not Assertiveness
  • Low Self Esteem
  • Big Responsibilities
  • Stress
  • Past Experience
  • Personality Traits
6 Assertive Training
  • Value Yourself and Your Rights
  • Voice Your Needs & Wants Confidently
  • Don't Control Other People's Behaviour
  • Express Yourself in a Positive Way
  • Be Open to Criticism
  • Learn to say "No"
The Scale
      
  • Passive 
  • Assertive
  • Aggressive
 Benefits of Assertiveness
  •  High self-confidence
  • Recognizing feelings
  • Earning respect
  • Improved communication
  • Creating win-win situations
  • Better decision making skills
  • Honest relationships
  • Job satisfaction

The Assertiveness Triangle


Why people with Assertiveness succeed?
  • Communication with everyone
  • Good judgement
  • Honest Feedback
  • Excellent Relationships
  • Walk your Talk
Conclusion
   using the components of the concept of assertiveness, many conflicts in a nursing situation can be effectively prevented.
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