BOSS GOES UNDERCOVER IN HIS FIRM TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FIRM

I could not help feel emotional after watching this video. I believe it will be worth it if every leader or manager could just go undercover to determine truly how his/her people feel towards the organization and his/her leadership.

"most of the management are clueless" employee to CEO

In this video below Mitchelle Modell, the CEO of Modell's Sporting Goods goes undercover to have a first hand experience of what goes on in his company and he was shocked by what he discovered. Moreover, I was really impressed by what it means be truly dedicated employees no matter whatever the challenge is.
You know what? Do not ever let the situations control you, take responsibility of whatever the situation is.
Watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jadl9usH3s&feature=youtu.be

8 WAYS TO BE A BETTER PARTNER

From Psychcentral.com comes this article from Nathan Feiles, LCSW  titled  "8 Ways to Be a Better Partner in 2016". I prefer to remove the year in it because these are beautiful eight (8) ways that you can start even now in order to be a better partner. They are:

1. Constantly Communicate. This is the most important in ANY relationship and do communicate positively more often.
2. Do one thing everyday that will make your partner smile. It goes down in knowing what actually turns him or her on but the usual areas include: office phone calls to say "I love you", writing outdated love letters and sending to his/her office, surprise gifts and chores, etc.
3. Do a household chore and do it together (as a team)
4. Take your partner out for a date at least once a month.

Hope Makes Us Stronger Than What We Suffer

Behaviors of Genuine People

In life, we do all seek out for genuine people to do business with, build close relationships with and surround ourselves with. Genuine in terms of being honest, truthful, trustworthy, reliable or any other definition of genuine of yours. Well for me, a genuine copy of Windows 10 will be one directly from Microsoft itself.
Steve Tobak, a contributor to Entrepreneur.com stated behaviors of genuine people. They include:

1. They are not attention seekers. They do not need the attention of others to boost their ego
2. They are not concerned of being liked. Whether people like them or not, it does not give them sleepless nights.

7 Habits That Will Strengthen Your Parent-Child Bond

From  Katherine Lee a School-Age Children Expert on about.com comes this article that gives different ways in which a parent-child bond can be strenghtened. Enhancing the parent-child relationship brings in more trust, openness and confidence especially the child has for the parent. The habits include:

1. Eating together

FOUR PHRASES EVERY SPOUSE NEED TO HEAR

From parentsociety, a good site that deals with family and marriage issues comes these four things that every spouse needs to hear from each other in other to keep the marriage flame burning. They include:

1. “I’m sorry.”
2. “You were right.”
3. “I’m so proud of you.”
4. “I love you.”

Read the full article on: http://www.parentsociety.com/lifestyle/love-and-sex/how-to-make-your-marriage-work-4-things-every-spouse-needs-to-hear/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_315617   

Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful People!

MOTIVATED TO FAIL

Can you be motivated to fail? See this from Shimonkepha:

You have failed once; you have not failed the 2^nd time

You have failed the 2^nd time but not the 3^rd time

You have not failed the 1001^st time, that’s when I will include your name in my Guinness book of records as the greatest failure beating Thomas Edison’s light bulb record

You still have not failed the 1002^nd time.

You do not have to make the same mistakes twice (well, you might!).

 You can, yes you can succeed and I do and will always believe in you!

 

 

 

This article first appeared on: http://www.shimonkepha.blogspot.com.ng/2015/09/motivated-to-fail.html

FIVE (5) QUESTIONS TO USE IN EFFECTIVELY MANAGING FAILURES

Is there a failure? That is not the end of everything. The best path for failures is to effectively manage them. Shimonkepha Onwuneme stated five questions you can ask so as to manage the failures. They include:

• What symptoms are present? A first step for adequate troubleshooting

•  What actually happened?

• Why did it happen?

• How was it solved? this is asked after the solution has been found.

• How do we prevent further occurrence?

Read the full article at:
        http://www.shimonkepha.blogspot.com/2015/08/five-5-questions-to-use-in-effectively.html#more

  

Why Great Ideas/Changes Meet Resistance and How to Overcome

You are in a team ( possibly the leader) or a manager and you have a great idea you would like to implement. That idea is a great one and can bring about increase in profit, better working conditions and improved processes. It is always more of a shock when the team members or subordinates or even managers get to oppose such idea. Though there are quite a number of reasons why but Shimonkepha Onwuneme gave the main reason as missing out certain ingredients in communicating the idea.
The ingredients include:
1. Leaving out communicating how the idea will be useful to them personally. Just as Dale Carnegie stated in How to Win Friends and Influence People, many people do only think of how they can benefit personally and when you communicate the idea that way, they will easily embrace it. See an example as stated by Shimonkepha Onwuneme in the article.
2. Dividing the team in order to conquer them. As a leader, know the major players in your team: the people who are well respected in the team (they might even be the least ranked), the people who speak out most and the ones that do always challenge every idea. Meet them personally and try to convince them before pushing the idea out and life will be made easier.

Read the full article in:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-great-ideaschanges-meet-resistance-how-overcome-onwuneme?trk=mp-author-card

How to start a business with no experience!

Richard Branson argues the fact that you must not have an experience in an area before starting up a business in it. Having experience is good but not having should not be a barrier. 

The major thing you need in every opportunity is to create something different or unique, fill a gap or loophole. Do not build a business just because others are building it or the sector is currently the most lucrative one. 

An example is the Virgin Airlines in which he had no much idea but started it to solve the problems of high cost of flights and poor quality of service. A great quote from him is this: "We succeeded because we didn’t just create another “me too” airline"

You too can do it! 

Read the full article on :http://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/richard-branson-how-to-start-a-business-with-no-experience

Thou shalt not fear failure (3)

Since we are afraid that we might fail,
we fail to try,
we fail to see the possibilities inherent and we fail to take the risk,
thus losing the beautiful prize at the end.

True Nobility

Six Myths About Stress

From Psychcentral.com comes these six myths about stress. We, all, possibly do hold on these myths but one fact is that stress form an integral part of our everyday lives. The myths include:

Myth 1: Stress is the same for everybody.

Not the same things cause stress to all of us

Myth 2: Stress is always bad for you.

Stress is not bad when it is manageable but when out of hand it becomes a problem

Myth 3: Stress is everywhere, so you can’t do anything about it.

Effective planning and prioritizinng will surely debunk this myth

Myth 4: The most popular techniques for reducing stress are the best ones.

Everyone has a technique or two that works for him or her.

Myth 5: No symptoms, no stress.

"Many of us experience symptoms of stress in a very physical way, even though stress is a psychological effect. Feeling anxious, shortness of breath, or simply feeling run down all the time can all be physical signs of stress. Feeling overwhelmed, disorganized and having difficulty concentrating are common mental signs of stress."..psychcentral.com

Myth 6: Only major symptoms of stress require attention.

Overlooking minor symptoms can finally lead to the stress getting out of hand. The earlier the better.

Read more about this on:

 http://psychcentral.com/lib/six-myths-about-stress//

Practical Ways to Handle Stress

We do encounter stress everyday. Stress is not bad except when it becomes uncontrollable, just like fire. Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. an Associate Editor with psychcentral.com states ten (10) practical ways to keep stress under control. They include:

 1. Figure out where the stress is coming from.Well, if you do not know where the stress is coming from, it will be difficult to handle. Those sources are called stressors.

2. Consider what you can control—and work on that.
"While you can’t control what your boss does, what your in-laws say or the sour state of the economy, you can control how you react, how you accomplish work, how you spend your time and what you spend your money on"...Margarita Tartakovsky. Those things you can control, you can easily handle the stress from them.

3. Do what you love.
You can  easily handle stress from what you do love. Also, what you love doing bring happiness to you.

4. Manage your time well.
"One of the biggest stressors for many people is lack of time" ...Margarita Tartakovsky

5. Create a toolbox of techniques.
Use different techniques to control stress not only one.  

Read the full article through this link:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/07/11/10-practical-ways-to-handle-stress/