Get Started with Mind Tools - Career Skills from MindTools
Test Your Skills! Find the tools that will help you most! © iStockphoto/AndrewJohnson Here at Mind Tools, you can learn the essential skills you need to be an exceptional leader, a valued team member, and an outstanding contributor in the workplace. But, with hundreds of skills available, which ones will make the biggest difference for you? Find out with this five-minute quiz! Test Your Skills and Find the Resources That Will Help You Most Instructions For each statement, click the button in the column that best describes you. Your last quiz results are shown. You last completed this quiz on , at . Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 still need to be answered! Now, use your scores in the following five areas to decide where to start building your skills. (Questions 3, 8) Your score is 0 out of 0 When you know how to "lead yourself" and make good choices for your future, you'll be that much further ahead when it comes to the other skills areas that we've already looked at.
Leaders: Get Back To Putting First Things First
Jan 29, 2012 With the evolution of technology we have become grossly more productive. We can read our email while pouring coffee, we can respond on the walk to lunch. Our mobile devices allow us to stay connected to every single thing that is happening every minute of the day. Isn’t it great? It sure is, but would I be stepping out of line if I suggested that all of this productivity is making us wildly unproductive at times. Over the past few years as more and more information has been made available and as the on demand world has led to on demand people we have become increasingly unable to spend adequate time focused on the right things. However, we have become so unbelievably busy that we feel like we are working non stop around the clock. While ultimately an issue of time management, if we want to see greater levels of success in our businesses we have to go back to one of the simple business rules of business (Via Covey and others)… “Put First Things First”
12 Things Killer Employees Do Before Noon
A recent study published in an American Psychological Association journal, Emotion, suggests that early birds are generally happier than night owls. More than 700 respondents, ranging from ages 17 to 79, were surveyed and asked about their emotional state, health, and preferred time of day. Self-professed "morning people" reported feeling happier and healthier than night owls. Researchers hypothesize that one of the reasons could be because society caters to a morning person's schedule. It's certainly true that the working world does. Working "9-to-5" is more than an expression, but a standard shift for many Americans. Do you want to be more like them? 1. [In Pictures: 10 Ways to Boost Work Productivity.] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. [See 7 Work Habits That Are Making You Sick.] 7. 8.
Translation of social ideas into the language of HR and Organizational Development is the big challenge!
As we are having again another Google Hangout session on the HR topic this Wednesday (see this Facebook and/or this Google event) I just wanted to share with you my views on how I see the appreciation of Enterprise 2.0 within the HR sphere. Actually these notes of mine are the English answers I have given to Marco Minghetti of “Il sole 24 ore” in the preparation to the Social Business Forum 2012. But as Italian is not everybody’s first language I am happy to share this with you. Enterprise 2.0 (McAfee); Management 2.0 (Hamel); Social Organization (Bradley/McDonald): which is the best definition for the new model of 2.0 organization in the “social business era”? How important is the idea of “community” in this new model? The key idea of the future organizational model is certainly turning around Gary Hamel’s systemic perceptions of a changing environment for the enterprises and the need to adapt fast and effectively to it. Which kind of leadership does a 2.0 organization need?
Sustainable lifestyles and the future of work
Learnings from "The Employment Dilemma and the Future of Work" Comment on 1996 draft report to the Club of Rome by Orio Giarini and Patrick Liedtke MandateRecognition of concrete possibilities vs. aspirationsNew understanding of wealthNew understanding of workNew understanding of employmentGlobalization as global opportunity?Developing non-monetarized activitiesWork and identityMulti-layer system of workConclusion "Unemployment begins in the minds of men, and it is in the minds of men that sustainable lifestyles must be constructed" (adaptation of a key phrase in the constitution of Unesco) Mandate The report starts with the comment: "the future of work and the employment dilemmas are some of the most pressing issues that the world has to face". The question which will be asked is whether the report has adopted a broad enough framework in "disclosing the weaknesses and shortcomings of present concepts". Recognition of concrete possibilities vs. aspirations New understanding of wealth For whom?
The Map of Meaning [eBook] [PDF]
This book can make a major impact on the lives of many, wherever they work and whatever their faith. It provides a highly practical, easy-to-follow yet thorough treatment of what we mean by ‘meaning’ in our lives, and how we can increase that meaning. In a world where there is ever-growing stress and where the economic and social system based on individualism is being challenged, it is a very timely publication. The authors provide a great welcome balance of theory and practice: Marjolein is Associate Professor of Management Studies at the University of Canterbury NZ and Lani is an independent practitioner in organisational behaviour. The book, which is written with considerable humility, is the result of over 15 years of research and practice. By asking people to describe the things that give meaning to their lives and work, Marjolein was able to draw up the Map, which can then be used by us all as we seek to increase the meaning and balance of our lives. The book is in two parts.
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