Different Learning Curve

Soft skills are your people or interpersonal skills. Your unique characteristics, traits, and abilities. Examples of soft skills are your ability to communicate, lead others or be a team member, and can adapt to changing situations. Interpersonal skills are harder to quantify than hard skills such as your expertise with spreadsheet or database software. There are many ways you can keep your talents up-to-date. Below are a few of them. Learning something new demonstrates your can-do attitude and problem solving skills.   Scanning the job postings for "preferred" items can be your source of inspiration. You want a job, but you don't have certain requirements. First, you are proactive in learning the skills that the employer wants. Second, you have solved the problem of joblessness. Volunteering is a noble way of building teamwork and service skills.   Most not for profit community service agencies have seen declining donations due to economic conditions...

I believe this post needs no introduction. The title says it all. Just read up! RESILIENCE Source: UNSPLASH Honesty - When you're late to an appointment, it's tempting to pin the blame on gridlock or train delays. Instead, just apologize. You don't have to give details. 'I planned poorly' is a hundred times better than risking your integrity by inanely blaming traffic." Starting an interesting conversation - "Conversation-making is probably the most underrated skill," says Deepak Mehta, who admits that he's a shy person who's always found it difficult. But experience has taught him that if you dare to strike up a discussion with the person next to you, you might very well end up with a new friend, a business connection, or some novel insights on an old topic. Effective Communication - No matter your career field, you can always improve the way you speak and write. "Think about ways to challenge yourself and tweak how you writ...

Setting deadlines is essential to productivity. It can help students finish school projects, follow New Year’s resolutions, or achieve other short- and long-term goals. It also helps to build intrinsic motivation. Deadlines are so effective because they make large projects or goals more manageable. Breaking up projects into a series of smaller tasks makes them easier to complete and prevents you from waiting until the last minute to finish your work. Once you figure out which tasks you need to complete, organize them into steps. Assign deadlines to these steps to ensure everything is completed before the final due date. Next, you can schedule time on your calendar for each step and set time limits to keep yourself on track. Consider these tips while you set deadlines. Schedule each step on your calendar. This will prevent you from procrastinating and missing deadlines. Write down your deadlines. Writing down your goals and how to achieve them helps you analyze your thou...

Have you ever heard of mind mapping? Most people who have difficulty understanding certain concepts or principles use mind mapping. It is a visual tool that is used to structure information and users better analyze, understand, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. It can also be used in note taking; brainstorming; problem solving; planning; studying and memorization; researching, presenting and consolidating information from multiple sources; and gaining insight on complex subjects. So how do you go about mind mapping? Here are some quick steps: 1) Get a blank white paper in landscape orientation. Start drawing or writing the main idea you’re about to develop in the center of the paper. 2) Draw a line from the center image (main idea or topic) to develop related subtopics. 3) From the subtopics, create lower sub-topics Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic. Rem...

Success takes years of perseverance and hard work. It also requires a brain that is empowered and productive. The brain will command your emotions and body towards success. The following are simple ways to empower your brain and unlock your full potential. Learning - Learning new skills and developing them empowers the brain. For example, learning new sports or playing musical instruments helps stimulate the hand-eye motor coordination skills as well as the intraparietal sulcus area of the brain. Visualization can also help strengthen the brain's neural pathways. Socialization - Socialization stimulates the brain and keeps it healthy. Volunteering is one example of socialization. It affects the prefrontal cortex of the brain which is responsible for problem solving, analysis and planning. Regular exercise - Aside from losing weight, exercise can help improve your brain's health. It reduces the fatty deposits that can clog the arteries. The arteries are responsible i...

Wellbeing is a condition that is strongly linked to happiness, peace and prosperity in life. It is characterized by the absence of sickness, as well as something that makes you feel good and judge life positively. A person’s wellbeing is enhanced or influenced by physical, mental, social and emotional factors. These factors are interrelated. For example, certain physical conditions can stir up emotional issues in you. Moreover, some factors can make up for the lack in other areas. For example, a social factor like spiritual belief can help you cope with a physical illness. Many people believe that the key to wellbeing is having a lot of money and an eminent social status. People overwork themselves to acquire as much material possessions as they can because of this belief. And when they fail to deliver, they feel depressed and frustrated about themselves. Wealth can be a means to improve a person’s living conditions. However, it is not the only means by which you can be happy or ...

Do you desire to be the kind of employee every employers wants to hire? If yes, do your best to have portable skills.  If you have portable skills you are invaluable to your employer as you can develop in many other areas and continue to grow. An employer would rather hire one person to do the job of many. By being able to transfer your skills and become useful in different areas of your workplace you will continue to find your job challenging and rewarding. By remaining interested in your job you will find it easier to apply yourself and you will also discover that with additional skills there is more prospects of advancing within the company. Employers reward valuable employees and having portable skills will help you reap the benefits. Through undertaking vocational training you are equipping yourself with a set of skills that will not only lead you down a satisfying career path, but will help you become a valued and needed member of any community. Good commun...

Have you been around with adults who seem to have learned nothing in their entire life? Well, I have seen some of these adults. In fact, I’m friends with some of them. While there can be sensible causes for such a condition, any adult must not use them as ultimate excuses for not aiming to learn. Below is a short list of the things people must know or able to do once they reach adulthood. 1)    Create fire – With natural disasters happening here and there, you’ll never know when you’re going to need your skills in fire making. Talk to a scout master or camping assistant who can teach you so. If you can’t find one, there are always instructional videos online. 2)    Drive a car – Driving is an important skill. You can save a family member who is serious danger if you can drive him to the nearest hospital. In connection to this, you must also know how to boost your car and  change flat tires. 3)    Live frugally – I know peopl...

Leaning a new software is quite an inescapable task specifically when you have just landed on your new job. This is quite frustrating when you are unable to make things work with in the deadline. You are not licensed to excuse yourself from this task just because you are having a hard time. Instead of dwelling in your frustration for a long time, look for ways to improve your current status on it. Muster patience - Impatience results to nothing. Choose to come to work early or leave work later than usual to practice your skills some more. If there's a lot to learn, break them down into smaller sizes which are easier for your brain to process. Study at your own phase. Slow down so as to avoid any form of confusion. Look for other aides - Learning happens in different ways. Check online if there are other materials related to the software which can make your learning experience much easier. Perhaps, a video with complete transcript might be a better option for you. Be hands...

Speaking a language other than your native tongue is more than just creating a positive impression in front of many people. It can give you other benefits which can impact your whole being. First of all, learning to speak a new language will put your brain cells to work. Exercising your brain will keep it from deteriorating early. Most diseases related to the brain appear in a less advanced manner among speakers of two or more languages. The ability to speak other languages also sets you apart from the rest. Not everybody would make the effort and time to learn something new. This alone proves that you are disciplined in improving your current status. Moving forward, certain industries out there are in need for bilingual or multilingual employees. Oftentimes, these employees earn more than other employees in a company. Also, they get the opportunity to travel the rest of the world. Lastly, being bilingual or multilingual expands your network of contacts and connections. F...

Many students would not want to go to the library these days as the internet seems to provide everything all the information they need to know. However, online research must never be used as complete replacement to researching in the library. It must only serve as an aid to the actual legwork that you need to do for a certain project.  The library is a well-spring of professional sources like books, encyclopedias, newspapers and other research papers. Unlike most of the information acquired online, the research data you would get from a library include names of established authors. Therefore, the credibility of such data may not be questioned. More so, you can get a hard copy of archived reading materials which are dated years back. Nothing beats the feeling of holding something that is part of history especially if the material has the signature of an important personality. Round the clock accessibility is what the internet can offer. This is coupled by quick...

Taking a course on entrepreneurship is highly regarded by young individuals who dream of having their own businesses. On the other hand, doing so does not seem to be enough preparation in addressing the unfortunate realities which they would soon face in their chosen industry. This is why most experts recommend the integration of business courses in high school curriculum. They believe high school students introduced in these courses at an earlier time can come up with a concept for a business  that is unique and very profitable. The four business-related subjects which must not be left out in the high school curriculum are computer, economics, management and marketing. Besides ensuring their inclusion, the topics they cover must be improved for the advance learning of the students. Computer classes are key in getting students skilled on data organization - something significant in documenting business transactions. The creative side of computer classes can tap the students' pote...