15 Ways to overcome your STAGE FRIGHT!
1. Be well prepared. Rehearse several times
2. Co-operate with your body - rest, eat and sleep well
beforehand
3. Dress in clothes that make you feel good
4. Take several deep breaths to relax your body
5. Concentrate on the messages you want to get over to your
audience
6. Move around and release your nervous energy.
7. Visualise yourself doing well
8. Remember that your audience want you to do well
9. Think of a similar occasion in the past when you did it
before and did it well. Think about it for a moment.
10.Make no negative confessions "I'm so nervous"
11.Put the situation into perspective
12.If you get nerves during your talk, move around or do
something different to get into a different "state"
13.Pick out some friendly faces and make eye contact with
them
14.If you make a mistake you make a mistake, laugh at it
and the audience with laugh with you. Make a joke out
of it.
15.The more you do it the better you will become.
Practice makes perfect.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
15 Ways to overcome your STAGE FRIGHT!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
5 Keys to Self Development
5 Keys to Self Development
Job assignments are crucial in the role of leadership development. At the Center for Creative Leadership, we've identified these five key challenges that open the door to powerful leadership lessons.
Challenge 1: Unfamiliar responsibilities. When you practice new skills and expand your knowledge base, you learn how to operate effectively when you are early in a learning curve.
Challenge 2: Creating change. When you lead change, you learn to operate in ambiguous situations, think strategically, make tough decisions and persevere in the face of adversity.
Challenge 3: Significant accountabilities. By expanding your role in terms of scope, scale, time pressure and accountability, you learn what it takes to be decisive, to work and learn at a fast pace and to have significant impact.
Challenge 4: Managing across boundaries. Assignments that require you to collaborate across functions and business units or to work with people over whom you have no authority will strengthen your ability to influence others.
Challenge 5: Dealing with diversity. By working with people of another culture, gender or background, you will be better prepared to adapt to different expectations and persuade people of different backgrounds to work together.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
9 ways to make Great Decisions
9 ways to make Great Decisions
Those of you working in HR play a pivotal role in the company. You are decision makers; you are the ones who implement the decisions of the organization. The first thing that you should remember is that you are not just 'working in HR', but that you are part of the cornerstone upon which your company lies.
Because you play such an important, decision-making role, I researched an article just for you on how to make Great Decisions. Here it is:
"Perfect decisions are few and far between because life is messy. A great decision is always possible, however. Great decisions don't all have fairytale endings, but they do achieve the best possible outcome under the circumstances.
The most successful decision-makers don't act on impulse, intuition, or even experience alone; they have a system that they work through step by step. Here is one such system:
1. Define the issue. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Employ the "who, what, when, why, and how" regimen of the journalist, although not necessarily in that order. Why is the decision necessary? What is the objective? How can a great decision change things for the better? Whom will it affect? When does it need to be made?
2. Take a positive approach. Make a conscious effort to see the situation as an opportunity rather than a problem.
3. List your options. The more alternatives you consider, the more likely you will be to not overlook the best solution.
4. Gather information about your options. You will not only make better decisions if you have investigated thoroughly, but you will also have more peace of mind as you carry out your decision.
5. Be objective. If you already have an opinion on the matter, the natural tendency will be to look primarily for evidence to confirm that opinion. That works if you happen to be right, but if you're not… Welcome alternatives and opposing views. Remind yourself that the goal is not to prove yourself right, but to make the right decision.
6. Consider your options. Write down the pros and cons for each option and see how they stack up against each other. Try to determine both best-case and worst-case scenarios for each option. See if there is some way to combine several promising solutions into one potent solution.
7. Be true to yourself. Do any of the alternatives compromise your values? If so, scratch them from the list.
8. Make a decision. When you're convinced that you've found the best alternative, commit to it.
9. Be open to change if circumstances change. Once you make a decision and begin to act on it, a better option may open up. This is sometimes referred to as the "boat-and-rudder effect." It's not until a boat is in motion that the rudder can come into play, but when it does, it makes greater maneuverability possible."
Emotional Balance Is Essential For Healthy Living
Emotional Balance Is Essential For Healthy Living By Darlene Siddons Emotional balance is considered mastered when our mind, body and spirit are in line with each other and we are in a space where we have done our inner work and we feel at peace. We need to pay attention that all situations and life issues are resolved, or at least aired, and pay attention to the feelings that emerge from within us. Many times our emotional balance is ignored and passed off as stress, discomfort, boredom and distraction; and we try and fix it by all sorts of ways that really just don't work. Some of those fix-it methods are eating, eating comfort foods, shopping, sex, gambling, drinking, over working, and the list can go one, and we never get to the core of why we just can't feel better. Emotional balance is as important as any other health aspect and some times even more, as it can accelerate our other health issues, in fact it can actually be the cause of other health issues. It is one of the most important aspects to the whole body balance. When you are out of balance it creates stress and conflict in your relationships; and that is all of your relationships, which include family, employment, road rage, marital, friendships and right down to the shopping clerk. So you can see how emotional balance is as important as physical health, in fact even more so as it effects your physical health. You truly can't improve your physical health with out balancing your emotional. A regular spiritual practice can greatly assist in centering you and maintaining clarity about those aspects of your life, which are truly important. This can be any kind of spiritual practice including yoga, meditation, qi gong, prayer, EFT; it is something good to practice on a daily basis and preferably in the morning and the evening. Feng sui is great for peace and tranquility in the home and work space, as with the proper placement of objects and de-clutter, it creates a calm soothing energy in your space. If you feel your emotional balance is off, improving your diet is one positive step you can take, your mind, body and spirit can work much closer together if your food intake is in balance, that means eliminating items such as caffeine, sugar, processed foods, soda, alcohol, cigarettes and eating whole, organic foods. Work on creating a positive outlook and attitude on life, always look for the good in everything and start being grateful, especially when you feel there isn't anything to be grateful for; you can always find something. When you do this it shifts your energy into balance. You will feel lighter, brighter and much more healthy. |
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Chankya's Quotes
Chanakya's Quotes - Worth reading…
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"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are victimised first."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)
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"Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, what the results might be and
Will I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."
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"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
