10 Steps to giving feedback
Step 1. Get to the point.
The purpose for this meeting is….
I asked you here to discuss…..
I want to spend some time discussing how you….
Step 2. State why you are having this conversation.
I have a concern about….
A problem has occurred in……
Step 3. Describe what you know.
I saw…..
When I was told, I looked [...]
Smile : A smile is a quintessential element in creating a good rapport with the other person and also creates exuberance in the environment.
Be a good listener: Nothing gives more pleasure to people other than an ear that listens. People like someone who cares and listens. You can not only know that person better but [...]
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men [...]
I was in eighth grade, Mom asked me to get an Eyetex kumkum as she has to attend a function in the evening and outside it’s already showing dusk so I put on my Paragon slippers and horridly left home to get one. I approached the nearby kirana dhukan making my way into the store [...]
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
I dream for a living.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in [...]
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-Prateek
Doing the work that you love
Arvind Passey
When Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one,’ what he meant was the degree of involvement and passion that [...]
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
By -Daniel-©
Though we be apart,
we are but a heartbeat away.
I have come to share a Truth
upon this blessed day.
At the Crossroads of Life did he stand…
…upon the very spot where North met South,
where East became West…
But there was confusion within this young heart
as to the direction he should travel.
Strong was the desire to follow the [...]
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
“Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.”
– Deepak Chopra
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William A. Ward
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.