Category: Management Skills

How to Recharge Your Motivation Level

All of us have inner power that becomes the reason why we do what we do every day. This inner power can get weak over time just like a battery of a toy. If you want the toy to work again, you should recharge the battery. If you never charge it, the battery will die for good.

This battery in our life is motivation and it should be maintained in order to keep us energized. However, we are often faced against obstacles that hinder the nourishing effort of this battery. As a human, we are relatively weak against obstacles since the obstacles are usually tantalizing us in many ways. The obstacles that prevent us from getting motivated are described below. Continue reading “How to Recharge Your Motivation Level”

How to Solve Your Problem Effectively

We are faced against up the fact that we deal with problems every day. Whether you are at home or office, it is there. With a little different approach, solving problem in both places essentially has similar methods to be done.

Since human has the nature of solving problems, it is sometimes hard to repress the tendency of coming up with an immediate solution. While it is natural to want to solve the problem right away, it is not the right thing to do.

According to problem solving experts, the solution should be obtained when the process ends, not when it starts. The following is some steps in getting the solution to a problem. Continue reading “How to Solve Your Problem Effectively”

Benefits of Using Mind Map Technique

Keeping things organized sounds like an easy thing to do. However, when it comes to a big project which involves many people, tasks, or third party, then it is not simple anymore. There has to be a kind of system that will keep everything in order which is easy to understand by other people. Then somebody must be able to put all the thoughts, ideas, and inputs on the paper for everybody to see. This way the big picture can be obtained by noticing the individual details.

This ability to put the big project into manageable parts without being overwhelmed and leaving any important things is what is called mind map. Only by looking at the general explanation alone, you have probably got the idea that this is an important thing to do. That is true, and furthermore, there are more advantages that can be obtained by mapping your mind. Continue reading “Benefits of Using Mind Map Technique”

Leadership Skills and Motivation Skills

There is an interesting fact that not everyone has the skills of becoming the leader of other people although everyone has leaders inside. A leader has preeminent skills that others suppress due to many reasons such as family culture and upbringing. Among the many important skills that a leader should have are summarized in the discussion below.

ting what you want and understand what others communicate to you to express what they want. Although this fundamental skill may seem simple and easy, understanding the art of communication and transform it into the universal language for everyone to share the understanding takes a good leader to achieve. This important part of leadership skills is not actually as easy as it sounds. Continue reading “Leadership Skills and Motivation Skills”

Teamwork Skills and Team Performance

Although many people have worked or are working in a team, a few – unfortunately – deeply understand what a team work is all about. Being aware that you are a part of a larger body of institution is of course not enough to build this culture. There has to be the sense that there is a common goal or mission that has to be achieved together.

Sadly, the leader’s effort to provide seminars or meetings is considered a failure since building sense of team work is not the same as building an effective team work. There are some points to consider in the effort of team work building.

First, the whole team should have a common objective and understanding of what to expect from the team’s performance. This essentially culminates in the expected outcome of the performance of the team. The leader in this sense plays an important role in team work building in making the objective and the expected performance understood by the whole team members. Continue reading “Teamwork Skills and Team Performance”

Gaining Success by Thinking Positively

Success is often considered identical with the amount of money that somebody earn, however other people define success as something they can be proud of regardless money. While people give various definitions to success, many are in agreement that success has something to do with positivity.

No matter how success is defined, positive attitude always becomes the fundamental principle that has to be applied in many aspects of life. Although having positive thinking and attitude takes some practice, there are some points that can be applied to achieve it.

First, the expression ‘There is always a silver lining in every dark cloud’ can perhaps perfectly represent the first point of positive thinking. It means each or every single thing that happens to us has the positive side depending on how you perceive it. Therefore, it is our perception that has to be directed to the positivity. Continue reading “Gaining Success by Thinking Positively”

How to Have a Positive Mindset

Positive results are yielded from anything that is done in a positive way. How true this statement is both in business and in personal life. Clinging merely on this, achieving success is surely not impossible. Being the foundation of any of your decision, you should have this positive mindset first before you carry on to any other following steps.

While it is probably not an easy thing to do, the term can be started with keeping yourself in having good thoughts and prevent the negative thoughts from taking over your mind. As simple as it may seem, this attitude will grow on you if nurtured continuously. As a person who has to do many tasks simultaneously, you will become a cheerful person knowing that there is always a good thing to come up. However, for those who have a hard time maintaining this, here are a couple of points to ponder. Continue reading “How to Have a Positive Mindset”