Maintaining a good academic performance takes a lot of work to do. You have to juggle different requirements the quizzes, exams, projects, etc. There are also extra-curricular activities and out-of-school activities plus your personal life and social life. So how will you maintain that excellent academic performance? It is said that it takes a lot of skills to have a better academic performance. These are note-taking skills, listening skills, studying skills and time manage…
Self Management to Stop Stress
How we interact with others and ourselves, controls our stress. A simple problem or disagreement with another person grows in our mind. What once was a minor problem, is now a major one due to poor communication and self. It isn’t meant to be like this. There are ways to control your stress and your feelings. You can completely managel your stress regardless of other people. Learn these ways to manage your stress.
The Ultimate Classroom Management Challenge: Teaching In The Hormone Zone
Teachers, it’s the ultimate challenge in classroom management, isn’t it? If you find it challenging to teach and counsel students suffering from “hormone poisoning,” here are some great interventions to help your teens use their heads instead of their hormones. All of these delightfully different methods are taken from Youth Change’s Solution Center; there are hundreds more there if you need them:
On-the-Job Kissy-Face
When kids debate your site’s standards regulating ro…
15 Strategies For Managing Attention Problems
The following strategies are offered for enhancing attention and managing attention problems. This listing is by no means exhaustive, but rather is meant as a place to begin. The best resources for strategies are the creative, inventive minds of enlightened assessment professionals, teachers and parents, in partnership with the students they serve. Together they can create multiple alternative strategies.
1. Take the Mystery Away
The first and perhaps most important man…
Book Review: Now, Discover Your Strengths
Is your current job less than fulfilling? If so, you are by no means alone. It turns out, about 80% of us are mismatched or underutilized to the jobs that we undertake everyday. The book Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton provide an inspiring ticket to escape the world of the mundane.
How to Teach Anger Management to Your Child
Most of us recognize the continuing escalation of violence around us, due to intolerance, and many of us blame it on somebody else. Parents teach their children, all the time, and when one of us displays road rage, while our child is in the car, we teach a brand new skill set.
The CEO is 10,000 feet above the fire
The CEO or owner of a small business is the one person responsible for moving the enterprise forward and insuring the future. They need a long range view or they end up just “putting out fires” instead of managing.
Operational Risk Management Awareness
This article explains Operational Risk Management and how it is useful.
Finders Keepers
Finding and keeping the right team is one of the toughest and most important tasks you take on as a business owner or entrepreneur. Yet it doesnt always get all the attention it warrants. Business owners focus on the work. In contrast, when investors (Venture Capital groups or Angels) look at a business they are likely to focus more on the team than the business. Why? As Jim Collins substantiated with his Fortune 500 research for his bestseller From Good to Great, its the t…
Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
Most leaders are sabotaging their careers because they are giving presentations and speeches rather than leadership talks. In terms of being a results-generator, the leadership talk far surpasses the presentation or speech. Here are three questions you must ask and answer before you can give a leadership talk. If you answer “no” to any one of the questions, you can’t give one.