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How Do We Keep People Motivated Following Layoffs?
[Workforce Management | April 01, 2010]
Your primary goal should be to get the workforce focused and united behind the premise that their productivity and innovation are the key drivers of organizational stability. This requires lots of work and targeted discussions with remaining employees.
Q: We just had mass layoffs. What is my greatest challenge in keeping the surviving employees engaged? And how do I effectively do it?
- Gloom and Doom, services, Waltham, Massachusetts
A: The most significant challenges faced by an organization following layoffs are managing a distracted workforce, coping with increased stress caused by expanding workloads, and turnover among top talent, who have options regardless of economic conditions.
Your primary goal should be to get the workforce focused and united behind the premise that their productivity and innovation are the key drivers of organizational stability. Do some quick interviews or a survey of workers to identify their issues and concerns.
Next, focus on improving communications and transparency. If they don't get fast, frequent and accurate information from management, employees will rely on rumors or assume the worst.
Third, solicit their help in prioritizing the work. If you don't identify low-priority things that employees can stop doing, your remaining workers will likely be overburdened.
Next, ask each worker and team to help you make a list of the "barriers to increasing productivity," and then commit your time and resources to eliminating those barriers.
Finally, talk individually to top performers and key employees and work with their managers to minimize any issues that may cause them to consider leaving during this critical time.
[Source: Dr. John Sullivan, San Francisco State University, March 10, 2010]
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Monday, May 21, 2012
CHANGING EDUCATION THROUGH CHANGING THE WAY WE INTERACT.
CHANGING EDUCATION THROUGH CHANGING THE WAY WE INTERACT- A PARADIGM SHIFT
If individuals, families, societies, nations have to move forward and become a global village the paradigm must shift.
If we are to continue with educating the future citizens of tomorrow, the way we have been educated we would make them most unfit and ill-equipped for their tomorrow.
So what do we need to do?
Throw out the age old patterns, systems of education.
Change the way we look at things.
Bring about a transformation through a revolution if necessary.
Let us stop labelling. Let us get out and away from banding labels as a fashion.
Let us go back to our children, sit down with them, ask them meaningful and open questions like,
what they want to know, learn,
how would they like to learn,
what would they like to do by learning it in a particular way,
how does or how would it help them
and what do they want to do by learning a particular topic, subject- matter in a particular way.
Let us know from them what they have visualized as a result or what they seek from their preferred style, way, manner of learning.
Do we have the courage to do so?
For this we must get rid of the old and embrace the new.
First step should be to, Get Rid of the Negativity.
Can we as parents and all responsible stakeholders stop using negatives in our lives?
Can we stop saying, “Don’t run on the road”.
Can we try saying more often, “Walk on the pavement than running on the road”.
Can we stop saying, “Don’t forget to bring your lunch box home, Don’t forget to write what the teacher writes on the board.
Can we start trying to say, “My dear Remember to bring your lunch box back, Remember to write down what the teacher writes on the board”.
Can we begin using more positive strokes and positive reinforcing acts in speech and behaviour.
The result of this if practiced by all consciously would be far reaching and have deep impact on all human beings.
It is said that an average person receives about 4000 negative strokes or words or acts of behaviour, against an average of only 200 positive strokes or words or acts of behaviour on an average day.
Very simple, each one is invited to see and recall for oneself how many positive strokes have they received on any given day.
It is always the negative strokes are higher than the positive strokes.
This in turn gets reinforced in children who are forever receiving negative strokes and more than positive strokes.
These results in fear, mistrust or distrust uncertainty and even possibly tense moments for a child.
This continues and gets reinforced in school through disciplining and penal acts, regardless of how mild they are construed to be.
Imagine this manifesting itself in an adult and what do you have?
Do we have adult children who are positive, open and explorative by nature?
To the contrary and naturally we have adult children, who have behavioural issues, are tense, have speech concerns like stammering, and even on the verge of negative thinking.
So what should be done?
Shall we continue with the old tried and tested or opt out for a change as in a paradigm shift of being consciously interacting in and with positive ways and manners.
It is time we shed the old and embrace the new.
Let each one of us as responsible and caring stakeholders in the future of our children, start by addressing matters positively than negatively.
Let us encourage them to go out and seek on their own.
Yet let us always be there as their moment of support only for short spells, than firmly holding their hand and directing them where we want them to go.
What would be the outcome?
This will result in children who are free from, “Fear, Forthwith, Open, Trusting, Dynamic, Filled with Joy and Positive by themselves and in nature.
This would be the signal start to a better and new world.
This would mean education institutions and educators would be positive, open, dynamic, constantly thinking of doing better than continuing with the old and stale.
Let us awake!
Let us go forth!
Best,
Prasad.
If individuals, families, societies, nations have to move forward and become a global village the paradigm must shift.
If we are to continue with educating the future citizens of tomorrow, the way we have been educated we would make them most unfit and ill-equipped for their tomorrow.
So what do we need to do?
Throw out the age old patterns, systems of education.
Change the way we look at things.
Bring about a transformation through a revolution if necessary.
Let us stop labelling. Let us get out and away from banding labels as a fashion.
Let us go back to our children, sit down with them, ask them meaningful and open questions like,
what they want to know, learn,
how would they like to learn,
what would they like to do by learning it in a particular way,
how does or how would it help them
and what do they want to do by learning a particular topic, subject- matter in a particular way.
Let us know from them what they have visualized as a result or what they seek from their preferred style, way, manner of learning.
Do we have the courage to do so?
For this we must get rid of the old and embrace the new.
First step should be to, Get Rid of the Negativity.
Can we as parents and all responsible stakeholders stop using negatives in our lives?
Can we stop saying, “Don’t run on the road”.
Can we try saying more often, “Walk on the pavement than running on the road”.
Can we stop saying, “Don’t forget to bring your lunch box home, Don’t forget to write what the teacher writes on the board.
Can we start trying to say, “My dear Remember to bring your lunch box back, Remember to write down what the teacher writes on the board”.
Can we begin using more positive strokes and positive reinforcing acts in speech and behaviour.
The result of this if practiced by all consciously would be far reaching and have deep impact on all human beings.
It is said that an average person receives about 4000 negative strokes or words or acts of behaviour, against an average of only 200 positive strokes or words or acts of behaviour on an average day.
Very simple, each one is invited to see and recall for oneself how many positive strokes have they received on any given day.
It is always the negative strokes are higher than the positive strokes.
This in turn gets reinforced in children who are forever receiving negative strokes and more than positive strokes.
These results in fear, mistrust or distrust uncertainty and even possibly tense moments for a child.
This continues and gets reinforced in school through disciplining and penal acts, regardless of how mild they are construed to be.
Imagine this manifesting itself in an adult and what do you have?
Do we have adult children who are positive, open and explorative by nature?
To the contrary and naturally we have adult children, who have behavioural issues, are tense, have speech concerns like stammering, and even on the verge of negative thinking.
So what should be done?
Shall we continue with the old tried and tested or opt out for a change as in a paradigm shift of being consciously interacting in and with positive ways and manners.
It is time we shed the old and embrace the new.
Let each one of us as responsible and caring stakeholders in the future of our children, start by addressing matters positively than negatively.
Let us encourage them to go out and seek on their own.
Yet let us always be there as their moment of support only for short spells, than firmly holding their hand and directing them where we want them to go.
What would be the outcome?
This will result in children who are free from, “Fear, Forthwith, Open, Trusting, Dynamic, Filled with Joy and Positive by themselves and in nature.
This would be the signal start to a better and new world.
This would mean education institutions and educators would be positive, open, dynamic, constantly thinking of doing better than continuing with the old and stale.
Let us awake!
Let us go forth!
Best,
Prasad.
DEATH.
dehino ‘smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati'.
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth, and then to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” (Bhagavad-gita 2.13)
I believe that, Death is the single Largest Life Changing Agent.When you become aware of Impending Death regardless of the cause or grounds that lead to it, comes the realization that One should Avoid Wasting Life.
Living Someone Else’s Choices.
Avoid letting the Clutter and Clamour of Other People’s Opinions, Thoughts, Words from drowning Out Your Own Inner Voice. Have and Keep Up the Courage, even in the Most Last Trying and Emotionally Disturbing Moments to follow Your Heart and Intuition.
Death is not the End.
It is the mere change of one form of energy into Another Form. If one subscribes to theory of Reincarnation it could be accepted that Death is the passing over or Migration of the Soul or Energy in the present form or body into form or Body.So Shed Your Grief, Rejoice in the Passage of the Energy from the present Known Form or Body into that of another Form or Body.Yes Perform your Ritual acts and Ceremonies that you Subscribe to as per your religious calling.However remember Spirituality has hardly any space for Rituals and Ceremonies.Take Joy and Relish the Memories of the Physical Frame that is left behind. Cherish the Good and Happy times spent with the one who has moved on.Remember it is now only a Dead Lifeless Body or Physical Frame that is left behind to be either cremated or buried and thereby ensuring the return of even that physical frame to Nature.Thus Death leaves nothing behind.
Krishna explains in the Bhagawad Gita that “as an embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death” (2.13).
In each lifetime, each one does what he has to do, and if he does it selflessly, in love of me, without regard for gain or loss, he may come finally to rest in my perfection and be free of the cycles of action and death - Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagawad Gita.
Even science says; energy cannot be destroyed, it is just transformed; then how can the most energetic creature of the creation be finished to nothing at the time of death? It is simply not logical; we are born again and again and again. Only the form, shape may differ.
However the rebirths are also dependent on our karmas or actions, deeds and thoughts.
Life is Beautiful,
Pain is Beautiful,
Sorrow is Beautiful,
Death is Beautiful.
Om Sri Sri Sri Krishna ArpanaMasthu.
For some more reading, you may like to visit the following links, http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_death.asp
dehino ‘smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati'.
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth, and then to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” (Bhagavad-gita 2.13)
I believe that, Death is the single Largest Life Changing Agent.When you become aware of Impending Death regardless of the cause or grounds that lead to it, comes the realization that One should Avoid Wasting Life.
Living Someone Else’s Choices.
Avoid letting the Clutter and Clamour of Other People’s Opinions, Thoughts, Words from drowning Out Your Own Inner Voice. Have and Keep Up the Courage, even in the Most Last Trying and Emotionally Disturbing Moments to follow Your Heart and Intuition.
Death is not the End.
It is the mere change of one form of energy into Another Form. If one subscribes to theory of Reincarnation it could be accepted that Death is the passing over or Migration of the Soul or Energy in the present form or body into form or Body.So Shed Your Grief, Rejoice in the Passage of the Energy from the present Known Form or Body into that of another Form or Body.Yes Perform your Ritual acts and Ceremonies that you Subscribe to as per your religious calling.However remember Spirituality has hardly any space for Rituals and Ceremonies.Take Joy and Relish the Memories of the Physical Frame that is left behind. Cherish the Good and Happy times spent with the one who has moved on.Remember it is now only a Dead Lifeless Body or Physical Frame that is left behind to be either cremated or buried and thereby ensuring the return of even that physical frame to Nature.Thus Death leaves nothing behind.
Krishna explains in the Bhagawad Gita that “as an embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death” (2.13).
In each lifetime, each one does what he has to do, and if he does it selflessly, in love of me, without regard for gain or loss, he may come finally to rest in my perfection and be free of the cycles of action and death - Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagawad Gita.
Even science says; energy cannot be destroyed, it is just transformed; then how can the most energetic creature of the creation be finished to nothing at the time of death? It is simply not logical; we are born again and again and again. Only the form, shape may differ.
However the rebirths are also dependent on our karmas or actions, deeds and thoughts.
Life is Beautiful,
Pain is Beautiful,
Sorrow is Beautiful,
Death is Beautiful.
Om Sri Sri Sri Krishna ArpanaMasthu.
For some more reading, you may like to visit the following links, http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_death.asp
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