Culture is usually defined as being ‘characterized by refined taste, manners, and good education’. An indispensable addition to this definition in today’s ever growing world of international melting pots, would be the ability to use the stated ‘refined taste, manners, and good education’ in appreciating and coping with other culturally diverse tastes, manners and schools […]
What is Emotional Intelligence? The ability to understand, express, predict and influence the emotional behavior of yourself and others is Emotional Intelligence. “Emotions” & “Intelligence”, these two words pose the same question in my mind as what came first, the egg or the chicken. Humans being more intelligent have emotions more complex than animals. There […]
A well created ‘project plan’ is crucial to successfully managing and controlling a WLP project. Building a project from a project charter requires collecting more information, analyzing and refining to arrive at a further well-defined scope for the project (project scope statement). Breaking it down… We itemize the work involved in delivering the scope (deliverables) […]
One of the questions constantly asked by both organizations and individuals concerns what project management framework to adopt. This question is triggered by various factors that range from choosing a career path in project management, to up-skilling oneself to successfully manage high profile and value projects. Plus, the market place in the Middle East, especially […]
Seeing kids in malls acting all restless is the norm rather than the exception these days. With high intakes of sugar and high addiction to iPads, it becomes rather tiresome to scold children after breaking into a tantrum in the middle of the crowds. Do you know when I feel like getting into a tantrum […]
“The art and science of questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Thomas Berger As Learning and Development professionals, we certainly know that the usefulness of the knowledge we acquire, and that the effectiveness of the actions we take depends on the quality of questions we ask. Asking questions is an important skill we […]
One of the key metrics of how well your organization is doing is “employee turnover”. Many organizations are happy to maintain an industry average as an excuse whereas on the flip side some companies go way and beyond to ensure that this number stays down and proactively look at how to reduce this number. I […]
Time Management is a term often associated with being more productive and efficient, achieving more during the day and avoiding wasting time on non-productive activities. Let’s talk about managing time from a larger perspective; from the perspective of our whole lives or what’s left of it. Each one of us is born with an unknown […]
After several years of experience in the Middle East and North Africa in the field of human resources with national and international companies, I have concluded that the golden rule in the business is: If you do not put the right employee in the right places in order to use their talents and abilities, you […]
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being – Thornton Wilder Theater has been an important part of our culture for several centuries now, adapting its form, purpose and […]
