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Dear
Readers,
Bad time always pass away, not great leaders. Great
leaders continue to exercise greatness in whatever
they do. High Motivation and Positive Energy is
required when you are in a bad situation. Leaders
becoming silent during crisis will enable the damage
to the taller limit in all possible ways. We are
happy that most of our clients are active and sustaining
the progress. That is a good news.
We are hoping for a faster progress in the near
future. Hope and Focus are the best helpers during
tough situation. June Letter can gift you some insights
about effective management during tough times. We
have also added “Readers Voice and Zoozo Birth”
details, Hope you enjoy it. Group Development is
something new that we evolved for the present situation.
If you are in need, you can reach us for availing
the service.
Wish you a great fortune in July 09. Let all your
expectations come true. Good Luck.
Regards,
Prabakar
Editor, Learning Letter
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Editor's
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- How to Be a Good
Boss in a Bad Economy
- TRANSPARENT GROUP
BUILDING
- Indian Railway
Is Travelling Fast
- Did
you Know
- Quote
that moves
- Copy Audio CDs
Using Windows Media Player 10
- U2
Tips
- "Zoozoos in Vodafone
TV Ads Aren't Animated"
- What's
New
- Readers
Voice
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How
to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy
Most
of the bosses are operating in difficult and sometimes
unfamiliar territory. Equipped with skills and approaches
honed over long years of business growth, they now
find their roles defined by an unexpected question:
How should people be managed when fear is in the air,
confidence is slipping, and it looks as if the road
ahead will remain rough for many miles? This isn't
the job most executives and managers signed on for,
and not everyone will rise to the occasion. This article
is to help those who want to do so-first by clarifying
why it's so hard to be a good boss, and then by sharing
the essence of what the best bosses do during tough
times.
Your Own Making
It's never easy to be a great boss, even in good
economic times. It's challenging in part because of
an unfortunate dynamic that naturally arises in relationships
of unequal power. Research confirms what many of us
have long suspected: People who gain authority over
others tend to become more self-centered and less
mindful of what others need, do, and say. That would
be bad enough, but the problem is compounded because
a boss's self-absorbed words and deeds are scrutinized
so closely by his or her followers. Combined, these
tendencies make for a toxic tandem...
Even in the best of times, bosses fall prey to this
toxic tandem. Your own stress presses you to shut
down emotionally, to focus attention on what your
superiors are up to, to turn inward and wrestle with
your fears. The heightened threat causes your followers
to watch your moves even more closely, How can well-intentioned
bosses avoid the toxic tandem? By mindfully taking
attention from themselves in order to give it to their
people's challenges and worries. Bosses who do so
will find that in stressful times people have an acute-and
often unmet-need for four remedies: predictability,
understanding, control, and compassion.
How can well-intentioned bosses avoid the toxic tandem?
By mindfully taking attention from themselves in order
to give it to their people's challenges and worries.
Bosses who do so will find that in stressful times
people have an acute-and often unmet-need for four
remedies: predictability, understanding, control,
and compassion.
Making
the Best of a Bad Situation
Providing
Predictability
The
importance of predictability in people's lives is
hard to overstate, and has been demonstrated in numerous
studies. The same holds true for organizational shocks
like layoffs. If you give people as much information
as you can about what will happen and when it will
happen, they will prepare to the extent they can and
suffer less. Just as important, they can learn to
relax in the absence of such a warning.
Increasing Understanding
If predictability is about what will happen and
when, understanding is about why and how. The chief
advice here is to accompany any major change with
an explanation of what makes it necessary and what
effect it will have-in as much detail as possible.
This advice, too, is rooted in psychological research:
Human beings consistently react negatively to unexplained
events. The effect is so strong that it is better
to give an explanation they dislike than no explanation
at all, provided the explanation is credible.
Beware
the Cone of Silence
Good
bosses also know that more than a single communication
is needed to bring a large group to a real understanding
when operations are going haywire, it's especially
hard to get new ideas to take root or to teach new
behaviours of any complexity. Your job as boss is
to design messages that will get through to people
who are distracted, upset, and apt to think negatively
given any ambiguity. When it comes to internal communications,
your mantra should be "Simple, concrete, and repetitive."
Affording Control
People don't embark on careers to feel powerless.
The whole point of work is to achieve outcomes and
have impact. That's why people are so deeply frustrated
when events seem to render them helpless. As a boss
in a bad economy, you may not be able to give people
much control over what happens, but it's important
that they have as much say as possible in how and
when it happens.
Showing Compassion
Compassion can and does take many forms. At its
heart it is as simple as adopting the other person's
point of view, understanding his anxiety, and making
a sincere effort to soothe it. Compassion is most
important when it helps people retain their dignity.
When layoffs and closings are unavoidable, tending
to the emotional needs of people who are let go is
essential both for them and for those who survive
the cuts. One of the worst things a boss can do after
a layoff is to bad-mouth or in any other way demean
those who have departed. Even if you believe that
you've cut out the deadwood, saying so will anger
and demoralize your remaining employees and may drive
the best of them to jump ship.
The Sign of a Great Boss
Bosses who increase predictability, understanding,
control, and compassion for their people will allow
employees to accomplish the most in a time of anxiety-and
will earn their deep loyalty. A manager who provides
all four will be perceived as "having people's backs."
That's a good phrase to keep in mind when you know
your people are feeling vulnerable, because it will
inform all your actions, big and small.
How to be a GREAT BOSS:
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Make some hackneyed joke
that each of us could have stepped in and completed
after a short while, showing genuine warmth.
- Explicitly
reward loyalty, Give Recognition and single people
out in company presentations and build up those
who showed real commitment.
- Make
oneself visible. Build Your own brand and style.
Update and enhance your core expertise.
Article
by Robert I. Sutton
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TRANSPARENT
GROUP BUILDING
Getting
right people for the right job is essential for
an employer. There is no dearth of opportunities
for a talented person. There are many organizations
which are looking for such employees. If a person
is not satisfied by the job he's doing, he may switch
over to some other more suitable job. In today's
environment it becomes very important for organizations
to retain talented resources. Even now, talented
resources are in need in all the verticals across
the industries in India.
Every
employee spends his most part of the day or even
most part of his/ her life in the organization,
directing his thinking, emotions and behaviours
on accomplishing the task assigned to him. Most
often the employee finds himself / herself working
in a group, frequently interacting with the same
members of the group almost every day. How every
individual getting into to the group and manage
the differences among the group members is a big
challenge today.
Quite
often the employee does not disclose his real emotions
and motives or even does not confront /challenge
constructively his colloquy simply because he /she
may be afraid. When the employees works for a long
duration in an organization one tends to accumulate
the unhealthy emotions that results out of the trivial
misunderstanding to major conflicts. It will not
only affect the one's own performance, it also affects
the whole team morale in the organization.
The
Group Therapy / Group Counselling can play a significant
role in which the therapist offers an empathetic
and nonjudgmental environment where the employee
can feel safe in revealing feelings or actions that
have led to stress or tension in his or her professional
and personal life.
Group
therapy offers multiple relationships to assist
an individual in growth and problem solving. In
group therapy sessions, members are encouraged to
discuss the issues openly and honestly. The therapist
works to create an atmosphere of trust and acceptance
that encourages members to support one another.
The
group members can learn from the experiences of
others in an open, trusted and confidential environment.
It also creates a healthy atmosphere for self disclosure
or revelation which could be an eye opening for
each team member. The employee is also challenged
of his/her dysfunctional perception or unhealthy
behaviour. Group members can also provide emotional
support and a safe forum to practice new behaviors.
The understanding or the perception of each other
is enhanced leading to higher level of energy and
synergy in the group, making the working atmosphere
and the relationship with each other so enriching
and exciting.
There
are numerous types of therapy that can be used to
help a client overcome problems. In all cases, the
goal of therapy is to provide a nonjudgmental environment
that allows the client and therapy provider to work
together towards a mutually agreed upon set of goals.
This can create a transparent environment in the
organisation.
FYMC
can customize Group Therapy/ Counselling program
for the group. We will first study the group requirement
and plan the program forward as per the needs. Above
all, we value the creative and growth potential
of every team member. We believe that change is
possible no matter how entrenched one may be in
a given situation.
FYMC
offers group therapy based on the following modules
for our clients
How
do the group therapy work?
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The
size of the group will be 5 -12 members only.
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The
number of sessions in group therapy depends upon
the group's makeup, goals, and setting.
Please
feel free to contact us for availing Group Development
Service.
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Railway Is Travelling Fast
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have a Good News from Indian Railways. You can receive
your railway ticket confirmation details through
an SMS. Just SMS your PNR number to the following
mobile number 9773300000 without adding any prefix
0 or +91. You will receive your ticket's current
status along with the all other Journey related
details. You need not stand in queue or listen to
railway dial tone songs anymore.
More than 4000 crores revenue is generated by IR
through Online booking. More than 32 percentages
of people buy tickets through net banking. 34 percentages
of people using credit cards. Online ticket bookings
have saved people from waiting in queues.
"The
Case of the Bonsai Manager" By R. Gopalakrishnan.
New Book arrived recently to all the book stores.
This is a worth reading book arrived recently
to the book stores. Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan has
described the beautiful lessons that managers
can learn from Nature. Overall book make one to
think beyond boundary to manage effectively in
the organisation. It's a worth reading.
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it is conducted by UNO.
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Hiccups
happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that
controls our breathing, becomes irritated
and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably.
With each contraction, air is pulled into
the lungs very quickly, passes through the
voice box, and then the epiglottis closes
behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal
chords, causing the "hic" sound. The irritation
can be caused by rapid eating, emotional
stress and even some diseases. The best
cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms
the diaphragm by increasing the amount of
carbon dioxide in your bloodstream.
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The
length from your wrist to your elbow is
the same as the length of your foot.
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Men
lose about 40 hairs a day. Women lose about
70 hairs a day. So all you need not panic
or feel inferior due to your hair loss!!!
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Hair
fall is one of the major Stressor for mid-aged
and elder people.
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Quote
that Moves
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Windows
Media Player 10, at the time of this writing, is Microsoft's
latest release of media management software. It is available
free of charge for Windows customers. The most popular
feature is its ability to copy an audio CD and convert
the copied audio files to be played on a digital audio
device. The steps below will show you how to accomplish
this:
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Insert the audio CD into your computer's CD drive.
Note: If your CD player is set to auto-start, a
window titled "Audio CD" pops up. Just select "Take
No Action" and click OK.
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Go
to Start>> All Programs>> Windows Media Player
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Click Windows Media Player to start the program.
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Click the "Now Playing" tab, then click the "Rip"
tab. A list of tracks for the loaded CD will now
appear.
-
Shown at the top of the tracks is the information
bar. On the information bar lists; Title, Length,
Artist along with other information pertaining to
your CD. If you would like to have more or even
less information about your CD listed in the Information
bar, you can right click the information bar. You
will now see many other options available. Placing
a checkmark next to the item applies it to the information
bar and unchecking it will remove it from the information
bar. You can toggle the selection on and off by
simply clicking on the item. If you have an Internet
connection, click "Find Album Info" to have the
information automatically filled in for the selected
items.
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Right click the top of the Windows media Player
window and from the resulting menu, select Tools>>
Options.
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Select the "Rip Music" tab.
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Find the the "Rip Music to this location" option.
This is where the files are to be stored on your
hard drive. If you would like to change the location,
just click "Change", then navigate to your preferred
location. You can select the details that you would
like to include in the file names by clicking on
the "File name..." button.
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Under
Rip settings, select the Format you wish to save
your music to. The choices are:
>> Windows Media Audio
>> Windows Media Audio (variable bit rate)
>> Windows Media Audio (lossless)
>> mp3
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The three Windows Media Audio choices can result
in better sounding audio files, but they are not
as widely supported on digital audio players as
is the mp3. Once you've selected your format, you
will need to adjust the audio quality using the
"Audio quality" slide bar. Moving the slider to
the right will increase the bit rate (kbps=kilobits
per second) which in turn creates better sound quality.
Keep in mind that increasing the bit rate also increases
the audio file size and will shrink the storage
capacity of your CD.
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Once you have your settings selected, click Apply,
then click OK to close the Options window. This
will return you to the Windows Media Player window.
-
In the Windows Media Player screen, you will see
checkmarks next to each of the tracks. The checked
selections will be copied to your hard drive, if
you do not want to copy a certain selection, just
click inside the checkbox to uncheck it.
-
Now you're ready to copy your selections to your
hard drive. Click "Rip Music". Then tick the entry
stating that you would like to keep your current
format settings. Then click OK. A progress bar will
appear next to each song title as it is copied onto
your hard drive. You can still uncheck a selection
at this time, or click "Stop Rip" at any time.
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When
all of the songs have been ripped, you're done!
It is now safe to go ahead and eject your CD and
put it away. Good job! Enjoy!!
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Changing
all computers, printers, fax machines, and copiers
to "Energy Star" certified for energy efficiency,
with "power-down" modes and other energy saving
features will cut down on Energy Consumption
to a great deal.
Set all printers to be configured for double-sided
printing, cutting paper use per print job by
50 percent.
Use cheap inks from reputable brands. (Canon,
HP) But do not use pirated ink fills where some
sellers just inject ink into the cartridge.
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"Zoozoos
in Vodafone TV Ads Aren't Animated"
Welcome
to Zoo zoo land - the land of cute white funny creatures
that feature in the Vodafone Zoozoo ad commercials.
Every once in a while, along come TV characters which
have a lasting impression on the minds and hearts
of the people. Zoozoos are one such creation by the
talented team at O & M(Ogilvy & Mather India)for the
visionary brand of cellular communication Vodafone
to convey different value added services offered by
the mobile phone company including phone Backup, cricket
alerts, etc
On first look, these "zoozoos" in Vodafone TV ads
for IPL may resemble animated cartoon characters with
an alien look or simply a stupid egg-head character
with disproportional white bodies and black dots for
eyes and mouth.
But the interesting part is that Zoo zoos are not
animated characters but are actually slim women actors
from local Mumbai theatres, dressed in white costumes
and stuffed with foam to portray the characters.
This was something which was created purely out of
textbook and is totally an Indian idea. The characters
are such that they lead simple lives, speak insane
and incomprehensible language and move in a certain
way with human emotions.
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sharing effective interpersonal relationships at work
as well in the family.
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