Life Skills

A question was asked in seminar *Why employees don't discuss about their problems and frustrations to their management ?* The best answer came from a really frustrated employee, *"You cannot discuss your Malaria problems with the Mosquito!"* 🤣🤣 Keep Smiling😊😊😊😊 Source: whatsaap message

It’s important to remember to let go of our stresses and worries. No matter what happens during the day, as early in the evening as you can , put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the night and into the next day with you. An interesting short story worth reading. Click to read story from source:

I woke up today , having dream at 4 AM . I was in the biggest Mall looking to buy a pair of socks and a neck tie . As I walked in, I noticed a sweater with a price tag of RS 9000 .Next to the sweater, a pair of Jeans for Rs.10000 .The socks were Rs.8000 ! And Tie for estonishing 16,000 /- I went for a salesperson and found one in the watch Dept He was showing a man a Rs. 225/- Rolex watch . I looked in the glass case and there was a 4 carat diamond ring also on sales for Rs.95/- Shocked I asked the salesperson "How could a Rolex watch sell for Rs.225/- ? ,and a cheap pair of socks sell for Rs. 8000/-"? He said "Someone slid into the store last night and changed the price tag on everything ". I woke up startled & confused and thinking since then ... Maybe our life is like this dream. Maybe someone slid into our lives and the changed the price on everything Maybe  they marked up the value of  competition, position, titles,  fame , promotion,  show-off , m...

- Difficult conversations, if respectful and honest, help us create much deeper relationships than if we tiptoe around each other. - A difficult conversation is not a contest with a winner and a loser. Even if you think you’ve won, your relationship with the “loser” will forever be mistrustful and unpleasant. - To have a productive conversation, especially when it is about a past issue, you must be able to let go of judgments. - When we stop communicating, we fill that gap with our own interpretations, insecurities and fear. Click to read an interesting full article from Fish philosophy blog:

Snippets: - Worldwide, it is estimated that 10 – 20% of adolescents experience mental health conditions. - Globally, depression is the ninth leading cause of illness and disability among all adolescents. - Childhood behavioural disorders can also affect adolescents’ education. - Promoting psychological well-being and protecting adolescents from adverse experiences and risk factors which may impact their potential to thrive are not only critical for their well-being during adolescence, but also for their physical and mental health in adulthood. - Adolescence should adopt healthy sleep patterns; taking regular exercise; developing coping, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills; and learning to manage emotions.  - Adults should create a supportive environments in the family, school, and in the wider community. Click to read detailed article from WHO Site:

Snippets: - Do you know what 'Sleep hygiene’  is? It is the term used to describe the environmental and behavioural factors that may affect our ability to fall asleep and gain a good quality of sleep.  - We should know about the effects of not sleeping, too little sleep and/or low quality sleep. - Our quality of sleep can heavily influence how we behave and perform, how we feel and even how we look. - Tiredness and lack of sleep can be dangerous for lots of other reasons. Like it can effect your driving, office work and personal life too. - The referenced article discusses about what it all takes for a good sleep. It discusses stuff like maintaining a healthy sleep environment, meal time, routine and so on. Click the below link to read full article from source: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/importance-of-sleep.html

-  Lindred Greer , an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business says, a creative and successful team should have members that have different ways of thinking, different backgrounds and styles of work, and different expertise,". Further she comments, "Bring optimists and pessimists together; pair risk-takers with risk-avoiders. In other words, design a team around complementary but distinct attitudes and strengths." - The leader's and followers' vision and mission should be aligned. For this, every team should take part in an orientation in which goals are stated explicitly, benchmarks are established, and responsibilities of each team member are made clear. - For smooth functioning of the team, it's important for a leader to be well informed about happenings in the team. Left alone, small issues become bigger ones, and can disrupt team dynamics.  Click to read full article from source: 'Life skills' b...

- An innovation is a new thing or a new method of doing something. Innovation is the introduction of new ideas, methods, or things. - Innovation is not just the generation of new ideas but being able to put them into useful practice on a daily basis. - The skills and techniques of innovative thinking are not just vital in work, but useful in everyday life as well, helping us to grow and develop. For successfully working on an innovative idea you need to have knowledge of 3 supportive areas, in addition to why-what-how of your field. a. Power (Authority) Management. b. People Management. c. Change management. The article in the below link gives a very crisp and well explained picture of innovation. Click to read detailed study from the source: 'Life Skills' blog is an initiative of CLF to spread the knowledge of daily life skills.