The document discusses the power of pausing in communication and interactions. It suggests that pausing before responding or answering allows one to listen more carefully and think before speaking. Pausing can improve outcomes in various settings like work, planning, negotiations, sales, and personal matters. The document recommends trying to pause by asking and answering yourself with pauses, and then evaluating the impact of pausing on others. There are also many studies that show how pausing can be useful in situations like education, consulting, negotiations and more.

1. Power Pause
Hassan El-Meligy
h.meligy@ieee.org

2. Power Pause
 General Notes
Ability to pause – stop then start then pause
Are we all able to pause
Easy said than done
Is it theoretically done or could be practiced
What if you have anxiety or OCD or AAD and you think
you can pause
But; you don’t pause or listen
No words is better than uselessness words
Salience is sometimes the solution

3. What to do
 So how to pause
 It would have been very easy if you could ask someone to do this and
he would, pause or stop talking.
 You have to try alone. Pause first from thinking
 Ask yourself and answer yourself with a pause
 Evaluate yourself then try with others and see the impact of the
change on them
 And on your general outcome in life
 If you don’t see or feel any change, then you were not able to pause
 Pause before you answer for 3 second, maybe 10 it is up to you and
the situation
 Befriend yourself and listen carefully to others most of the time
without replying

4. Materials & Studies
 There are lots of materials and studies in reference to the
power or pausing.
 Very useful at work, at planning, in negotiations, in sales and
certainly in personal matters and communication.
 Keep a enough space between your nerves and the
interaction to an action. Place a pause in between these
two.
 Likewise you will find lots of issues that would need a pause
 You could even plan a pause in your planning
 In education and teaching, in consulting and negotiations,
mediation and moderation.. Pausing is part of the power and
balanced power

5. Hassan El-Meligy
 My focus is mainly on strategic planning and implementing of
private sector all disciplines.
 Increasing performance and productivity esp. financial
performance and shareholders values, stock value.
 Related focuses are governance, quality, business process
management and auditing.
 Performance management and tools including HR performance,
job market and labor market information
 ICT is used as part of the business options as an enabler or a
strategy aligned with the private sector strategy with
consideration to the available national and international
technologies that helps business to prosper