The document discusses the importance of unlearning false beliefs and assumptions in order to experience personal growth. It argues that by letting go of perceptions that cause negative reactions, one can transform their life. Specific examples are provided of unlearning behaviors like getting upset over small things and taking criticism personally. Unlearning positions and the ego allows one to be more authentic and less defensive, improving productivity and achieving goals. Overall, the ability to unlearn is framed as key to eliminating discomfort, focusing energy positively, and experiencing greater joy.
One of the key tenets of agility is that we are always learning. But how does that fit in if we're always working too? How do we bake in continuous learning without breaking the bank?
Too often learning is treated as a nice to have or even a luxury.
And when we do get to attend training, it usually happens in isolation, making it difficult to apply. The words 'I've learnt that you're doing it wrong' seldom go down well with our teams!
This session looks at a practice based approach to incorporating expert-led knowledge and team expertise in continuous learning into your normal routine.
Help Young Talent Develop a Professional MindsetDaniel Goleman
There is a chasm between what business leaders expect from recent graduates, and what these new hires offer. In a Hay Group study of 450 business leaders and 450 recent graduates based in India, the US, and China… a massive 76% of business leaders reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
In most cases, these hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have proven their ability to accomplish the work. They’re committed and passionate about rising through the ranks. So what are these new professionals missing?
They’re lacking soft skills.
Multipliers is a national bestseller that explores the differences between good and bad team leaders, identified as Multipliers (the good) and Diminishers (the bad).
Successful leaders invest in the growth of their employees and elevate them to reach their full potential. With this endgame, everybody wins.
When it comes to launching a great career, even the most successful stars, TV personalities, and journalists had to
start somewhere.
Here's what some of the world's most creative professionals learned from their mentors along the way.
Visit https://mentor.linkedin.com for more amazing stories of mentorship.
One of the key tenets of agility is that we are always learning. But how does that fit in if we're always working too? How do we bake in continuous learning without breaking the bank?
Too often learning is treated as a nice to have or even a luxury.
And when we do get to attend training, it usually happens in isolation, making it difficult to apply. The words 'I've learnt that you're doing it wrong' seldom go down well with our teams!
This session looks at a practice based approach to incorporating expert-led knowledge and team expertise in continuous learning into your normal routine.
Help Young Talent Develop a Professional MindsetDaniel Goleman
There is a chasm between what business leaders expect from recent graduates, and what these new hires offer. In a Hay Group study of 450 business leaders and 450 recent graduates based in India, the US, and China… a massive 76% of business leaders reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
In most cases, these hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have proven their ability to accomplish the work. They’re committed and passionate about rising through the ranks. So what are these new professionals missing?
They’re lacking soft skills.
Multipliers is a national bestseller that explores the differences between good and bad team leaders, identified as Multipliers (the good) and Diminishers (the bad).
Successful leaders invest in the growth of their employees and elevate them to reach their full potential. With this endgame, everybody wins.
When it comes to launching a great career, even the most successful stars, TV personalities, and journalists had to
start somewhere.
Here's what some of the world's most creative professionals learned from their mentors along the way.
Visit https://mentor.linkedin.com for more amazing stories of mentorship.
An overview of Dr. Carol Dweck's "Growth Mindset" concept, as popularized by her Mindset book and TED talk. As a manager, I used this presentation to help my team members embrace change at work by understanding they can learn new skills and use setbacks and feedback to ultimately be successful in a changing work environment.
(Asia Tech Podcast) 25 Inspiring Quotes for Startup FoundersGraham Brown
Asia Tech Podcast http://www.ATP.show
Asia Tech Research http://www.AsiaTechResearch.com
From Mark Zuckerberg to Peter Drucker. Who inspires you? Don't forget to check out my free webinar series (link in the file)
Agile Quote provides you with inspirational quotes on Agile software development delivered to you daily.
Quotes are from on-the-ground practitioners and speakers of the Agile community and contain links to resource and how-to-find more information.
Some quotes are not directly connected to agile software development, but somehow related ;-)
To celebrate 1000th quote milestone, we gathered top 20 most popular quotes to share here.
How to Be Happy at Work - 10 Simple Tips That WorkD B
Do you want to learn how to be happy at work? Here are 10 simple things that you can do that are proven to work.
By Officevibe, the Simplest Employee Engagement tool
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Building the Agile Enterprise: A New Model for HRJosh Bersin
Josh Bersin's IMPACT 2012 Keynote Speech ... "The Agile Enterprise" - how HR must rapidly evolve through changes in strategy, learning, leadership, and technology to adapt to today's agile management model. Detailed notes available from Bersin & Associates.
Do You Struggle With Employee Recognition?Elodie A.
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
Read Our Guide to Learn More:
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Motivate yourself, because you know yourself more than anyone else in this world, you know your weaknesses and strenghts. This presentation is an easy guide and a bundle of ideas with which you can take yourself towards a target. It also includes the actions you can take to keep away from the virus of negative thoughts and people. A good amount of inspirational pictures from various websites are also included which picture your imagination to the bright side of the life and relieves your mind that still life is not over and still there is a chance to move on.
Meet the challenges, and defeat them.
Opportunities will never approach you, you have to discover them and utilise them 100%.
Accelerate in the best way you can towards your goal and one day you will see that success was always yours it was always your weakness to not to recognise it.
Wish you the BEST OF LUCK.
Above is a talk I made for the Integrated Marketing Conference in Cape Town, entitled Learn, Unlearn, Relearn.
The talk takes you through a brief history of advertising showing what has changed, what is new, and what has fundamentally remained the same.
It then shares some tips and advice on how to help make sure your work remains relevant in today’s ever evolving world.
I gave the talk with Chris Gotz and Luca Gallarelli, both from Ogilvy Cape Town.
Based on my book Write Like You Talk Only Better, I talked to students about unlearning academic style writing, learning to shorten and avoid spinach in their teeth and relearn the magic of storytelling.
An overview of Dr. Carol Dweck's "Growth Mindset" concept, as popularized by her Mindset book and TED talk. As a manager, I used this presentation to help my team members embrace change at work by understanding they can learn new skills and use setbacks and feedback to ultimately be successful in a changing work environment.
(Asia Tech Podcast) 25 Inspiring Quotes for Startup FoundersGraham Brown
Asia Tech Podcast http://www.ATP.show
Asia Tech Research http://www.AsiaTechResearch.com
From Mark Zuckerberg to Peter Drucker. Who inspires you? Don't forget to check out my free webinar series (link in the file)
Agile Quote provides you with inspirational quotes on Agile software development delivered to you daily.
Quotes are from on-the-ground practitioners and speakers of the Agile community and contain links to resource and how-to-find more information.
Some quotes are not directly connected to agile software development, but somehow related ;-)
To celebrate 1000th quote milestone, we gathered top 20 most popular quotes to share here.
How to Be Happy at Work - 10 Simple Tips That WorkD B
Do you want to learn how to be happy at work? Here are 10 simple things that you can do that are proven to work.
By Officevibe, the Simplest Employee Engagement tool
Read the full article on Officevibe:
www.officevibe.com/blog/happy-at-work-infographic
Download our free resources about engagement and happiness:
https://www.officevibe.com/resources
Follow us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/officevibe
Share your thoughts on Twitter !
https://twitter.com/Officevibe
Building the Agile Enterprise: A New Model for HRJosh Bersin
Josh Bersin's IMPACT 2012 Keynote Speech ... "The Agile Enterprise" - how HR must rapidly evolve through changes in strategy, learning, leadership, and technology to adapt to today's agile management model. Detailed notes available from Bersin & Associates.
Do You Struggle With Employee Recognition?Elodie A.
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
Read Our Guide to Learn More:
https://www.officevibe.com/employee-engagement-solution/employee-recognition?utm_source=slideshare&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=employee-recognition&utm_content=recognition-hubpage
Motivate yourself, because you know yourself more than anyone else in this world, you know your weaknesses and strenghts. This presentation is an easy guide and a bundle of ideas with which you can take yourself towards a target. It also includes the actions you can take to keep away from the virus of negative thoughts and people. A good amount of inspirational pictures from various websites are also included which picture your imagination to the bright side of the life and relieves your mind that still life is not over and still there is a chance to move on.
Meet the challenges, and defeat them.
Opportunities will never approach you, you have to discover them and utilise them 100%.
Accelerate in the best way you can towards your goal and one day you will see that success was always yours it was always your weakness to not to recognise it.
Wish you the BEST OF LUCK.
Above is a talk I made for the Integrated Marketing Conference in Cape Town, entitled Learn, Unlearn, Relearn.
The talk takes you through a brief history of advertising showing what has changed, what is new, and what has fundamentally remained the same.
It then shares some tips and advice on how to help make sure your work remains relevant in today’s ever evolving world.
I gave the talk with Chris Gotz and Luca Gallarelli, both from Ogilvy Cape Town.
Based on my book Write Like You Talk Only Better, I talked to students about unlearning academic style writing, learning to shorten and avoid spinach in their teeth and relearn the magic of storytelling.
This class will present hypothesis-driven development, the cutting-edge paradigm for evolving validated products. We’ll dive into how to frame hypotheses, design experiments, and use A/B testing to gather data to prove or disprove our ideas.
Our final class will cover what is expected of a product manager, including the skills, responsibilities and key activities product managers must perform.
This class presents the idea of using economic frameworks for portfolio and project management. We’ll begin with an overview of the three horizons model, and discuss the economic models that are suitable in each horizon. We’ll then discuss and experiment with economic tools that can be applied in each horizon, including the Value of Information, Monte Carlo and Cost of Delay.
In our first class, we’ll discuss the various characteristics and types of products, paying particular attention to the product lifecycle. We’ll introduce the idea of a business model, and discuss the various risks that products might face in different parts of the product lifecycle. We’ll review a brief history of project and product management, and discuss the differences between the two.
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Please be sure to ask questions and comment on your Anna and Monique responses, and respond to their questions and comments regarding your own response
Anna Cox
What are your basic assumptions about human nature?
My basic assumption about human nature is that even though none of us are perfect, we all strive for our own idea of perfection. By working too much towards how we think we should be it can cause stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues and often these are the root cause of them. Humans are beautifully imperfect and while, yes, oftentimes we all have behaviors to be altered, we need to embrace ourselves with love and kindness. It is easy to give someone else our love, patience and kindness, but if we turn that inward we can be the best version of ourselves, perfect or not.
Which approach to therapy is closest to your beliefs about human nature?
The therapy that is closest to my beliefs about human nature is existential therapy. "Existential therapy focuses on exploring themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and aloneness as these relate to a person’s current struggle." (Corey, 2013). Existential therapy looks at the bigger picture of humanity and encourages celebration and appreciation of our successes rather than focusing on downfalls.
In what ways do you believe that your basic assumptions might determine the procedures that you would use when working with clients?
My basic assumptions will help me to focus on the good in my clients and not the negative that they themselves may focus on. It will give me a better understanding of why people feel their own shortcomings and how to show them that there is good and valuable qualities in everyone.
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When you look into the mirror, you are checking how you appear, and how you feel and whether it matches. Human nature is the sum of our whole species looking in the mirror. Human nature includes 3 core characteristics shared by all individuals; feelings, behaviors, and psychology. Our experiences with humans are different. Some view humans as good or bad or capable of great kindness. These views can be clouded by what our culture tells us and by people's influences in our lives. In western cultures, our discussions usually begin with classical Greece; Aristotle and Plato (Claudia, 2021).
My basic assumptions about human nature is that we can survive from our past and that humans are generally kind creatures and extremely resilient. I believe that humans construct their reality. They do not have to be destined to a certain life based solely on their past circumstances. We have the ability to overcome mountains of challenges with proper thinking and behaviors. We are responsible creatures for our choices and can therefore change and become something. I am proof of these assumptions. My teenage years were so bad that I lost my identity and lacked the proper social developments that most teens have. According to Corey, (2013.
There are, to be sure, a plethora of legitimate and valid responses to this question. But the most important thing to remember is that we all have a habit of putting ourselves at the centre of everything and experiencing every incident, discussion, scenario, etc.
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Anyone who wants to learn how to harness the power of the mind to get anything in life
Are you getting everything you want out of life?
Most of us can’t honestly answer that we are.
Most of us have dreams that have so far gone unfulfilled, or goals that we haven’t quite yet managed to accomplish
Many of us might feel that we’re somewhat in a rut, or we might have days were our moods just aren’t good.
Maybe your physique isn’t what it should be
Maybe you’re tired all the time.
What Does This Come Down To?
The mistaken reaction is to blame outside factors.
And most of us are guilty of blaming our circumstances, our genetics, or perhaps the training program we chose.
Maybe we blame the personal trainer!
But this isn’t how change happens.
Change happens by taking responsibility for your life and for realizing that everything starts with you.
The most successful and happy people in the world are the ones with an internal focus of control. That means that they understand they have the power to change their fortunes and they actually go about doing so – rather than pointing to other things.
Your Mindset is Where Everything Starts
Your mindset is where everything starts
It’s how you set goals. It’s what gives you the strength to go after them.
It’s what makes you confident and daring. It’s what makes you creative and focused.
Your mindset is what helps you to appreciate what you already have.
To see the positive instead of the negative.
Your mind is an incredibly powerful machine and once you can tap into that power, then the sky is the limit.
But where do you begin?
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Many of us don’t handle interpersonal relationships well, particularly at work. Instead of feeling good about ourselves, our reactions and responses to others often make us feel tongue-tied and inadequate, on the one hand, and angry and critical on the other. Here are some of the ways to deal with everyday situations and come out feeling good.
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To succeed in the terms you have set for yourself, you need to look out for, and operate in, an environment that is strong and very demanding from you in terms of work.
In life and in career, most people seek to improve, get traction and stay in the game. No one wishes to slip and fall and yet all, at some point or another do.
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Those who are constantly avoiding work will never amount to anything and will never go ahead in life. Their life will be marked by frustration and pain.
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Do not plunge into something as important as a new job before investing enough time in researching and learning more about the work required, the people you will work with, and the environment.
You need to decide for yourself which method works best for you. An alternate to this exists as well; you can choose to let things remain the way they are.
It is important for every individual to realize that nobody else is going to be as concerned for your career as you yourself. Because of this reason, it becomes much more important to protect your ability to earn your living.
This comprehensive program covers essential aspects of performance marketing, growth strategies, and tactics, such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, and more
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Want to move your career forward? Looking to build your leadership skills while helping others learn, grow, and improve their skills? Seeking someone who can guide you in achieving these goals?
You can accomplish this through a mentoring partnership. Learn more about the PMISSC Mentoring Program, where you’ll discover the incredible benefits of becoming a mentor or mentee. This program is designed to foster professional growth, enhance skills, and build a strong network within the project management community. Whether you're looking to share your expertise or seeking guidance to advance your career, the PMI Mentoring Program offers valuable opportunities for personal and professional development.
Watch this to learn:
* Overview of the PMISSC Mentoring Program: Mission, vision, and objectives.
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About Hector Del Castillo
Hector is VP of Professional Development at the PMI Silver Spring Chapter, and CEO of Bold PM. He's a mid-market growth product executive and changemaker. He works with mid-market product-driven software executives to solve their biggest growth problems. He scales product growth, optimizes ops and builds loyal customers. He has reduced customer churn 33%, and boosted sales 47% for clients. He makes a significant impact by building and launching world-changing AI-powered products. If you're looking for an engaging and inspiring speaker to spark creativity and innovation within your organization, set up an appointment to discuss your specific needs and identify a suitable topic to inspire your audience at your next corporate conference, symposium, executive summit, or planning retreat.
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2. Further, As Humans We Are All Designed for Growth and For Movement. As long as each of us is growing and progressing, we experience a sense of satisfaction and a sense of meaning or purpose in our lives. Once we stop growing, we start feeling a sense of stagnation and our lives become much less satisfying to us. In nature, when something stops moving it is typically getting ready to die. In order to experience success in our lives, we must focus on personal growth, as an incredibly important activity , and a process that bears many rewards. The sort of growth I have in mind, however, is different from what many people may instinctively think upon hearing the word ‘growth’. When most of us think about growing, we think about perhaps reading more books to help us improve, meeting new people and taking up new hobbies. There are, of course, many forms of growth, most of which involve learning. We have a sense that if we are learning more we are growing.
3. However… I believe one of the most important forms of growth we can undertake is unlearning . All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so desire. Mostly unlearning means letting go of false beliefs and assumptions that we have formerly used to govern our existence. Letting go is unlearning. For example, you may believe that someone else is responsible for your own unhappiness; therefore, you believe this other person must change. Oftentimes when we are unhappy, we become obsessed with changing another individual, who we believe is responsible for our condition.
4. At Some Point, Through Learning, We May Discover That… We are suffering due to our beliefs or our perceptions about the other person. For example, if you see someone at the mall you may have an image of him or her that relates to someone you imagine does not like you. If you choose to hold this image you will experience insecurity. Similarly, you may choose to let go of this image and unlearn it. When you unlearn a feeling of insecurity or anger, each time you see that person you will no longer have that negative reaction. That person has actually not changed–only your perception of him or her has.
5. As You Grow By Unlearning, You Flower Into Joy. When you are joyful you are a much happier person. Imagine how much more productive your life would be if you could unlearn many of the beliefs and behaviors that have caused you so much stress. You and your life would be utterly and completely transformed. This would result in an incredible sea change in the way you approach and live your life. In fact, if you can make a concerted effort to unlearn, your life will probably undergo a dramatic and welcome change.
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7. My Newfound Ability and Choice to Unlearn Various Behaviors… And beliefs has made a notable difference in my quality of life. Largely, I have been able to eliminate the “charge” and sense of discomfort I feel with various people, places and things. Instead of putting my energy into feeling uncomfortable, I can now put my energy into feeling good and into more productive pursuits. Your life is going to change when you learn how to channel energy that was formerly being consumed with unproductive anger and tension, into something productive. Nowhere will this change be as effective as when you apply it to your job search and career.
8. In Our Job Searches and Careers… Most of us are continually feeling one tension after another. We have all sorts of defensive behaviors that we have learned. In many cases we spend more time protecting an image of ourselves than we do simply being . In so doing we waste a ton of energy on being defensive and staking various positions; this can harm us and keep us from achieving our goals. Several years ago I had an employee in rural Utah who was 19 years old; she started working for us at minimum wage. Because our company was so busy, within a few weeks of our hiring this person, she was given an increasing level of responsibility. And within a few months, she was earning over $8,000 a month working for one of our student loan companies. I did not know this girl’s age at the time; all I knew was that she was a model of hard work, productivity and dedication. Interestingly enough, from what I recall, this employee did not even have a high school diploma.
9. A Friend of Mine Happens To Be An Internationally Famous… Consultant and best-selling author, who spends a good portion of his time consulting with companies about how to hire. He once came to visit me and spent time with me in our Pasadena offices. After meeting over 100 of our employees, and observing several of them over a course of a few days, he knew very little about what this particular young woman did. One evening, a couple of weeks later, I was speaking with him on the phone and he said something to me I will never forget: “ The best person in your company is that 19 year old girl. She is absolutely incredible,” he told me.
10. “ What Are You Talking About?” I asked. I could not believe this. At the time, I had graduates of the best law schools and colleges in the United States working for the company. Moreover, this girl could barely put together a proper sentence. Also, work ethic aside, her temperament was quite out of control. A week or so earlier, she had gotten kicked out of a restaurant where we were all having dinner–for getting drunk and lighting up a cigarette in the middle of the restaurant. Smoking is a big “no no” in restaurants in California. To my astonishment this girl also fought with the people in the restaurant after she was kicked out. I did not interfere with the young woman’s behavior, and have admittedly never run such a “tight ship” as to reprimand her for the incident, but I must admit the event was notable.
11. “ She Does Not Care What People Think… She is like steel. Everyone out there is posturing and this holds them back. This girl says and does what she feels. She will be unstoppable in sales. I would hire her in a second from you. She has the exact same temperament I look for and spend months trying to find for the companies I consult for. She is the rarest but absolute best sort of person to get working for you.” I did not think much about it at the time; however, in pondering this girl’s remarkable success later in life, I am confident that this apparent tenacity was the secret to her incredible success. Basically, she felt no fear in situations where most others surely would. Fearing something is a response or behavior that many of us should analyze more deeply in ourselves and in some cases unlearn because it can keep us from moving forward towards our goals
12. Most People Are “Positioners.” In Any Given Conversation You Are Having… You will likely take a “position” and the person with whom you are conversing will also take a position. Unlearning “positioning” is something that can make a drastic difference in your career and life, as this position is usually related to how you feel about yourself and how you expect others to feel about you as well. It is as if you have an identity that you are striving to defend in some way. Once you take a position, all you care about is defending it to prove that you are right. This belief comes from the Ego Self, which can be characterized as follows: Statements or beliefs such as “I’m right, you’re wrong” Dominating others Making others feel guilty Covering up facts Never admitting the truth Giving constant justification to others for your opinions When the ego becomes too forceful, learning ceases. It becomes more important to be right than to learn.
13. How Do You Become Free of the Ego? The best way is to pay attention to those around you. When people start relating to a label or classification, and you find them falling into the categories mentioned above, they are primarily using the ego to make decisions. We like relating to our closest friends because they typically love and support us as we are. In contrast, the ego is a perception and not necessarily who someone really is . The ego is a sense of existence, and a game played by the mind. The mind wants a sense of certainty and security, and it seeks this security through the perception it creates.
14. However… The ego makes us self-centered, which often leads to a failure of intelligence. Instead of doing things for the correct reasons, you may do something just to prove that you are right, and you will do this even if you know the decision you are making may mean a loss to you (for example, financial loss). All for simply trying to prove that you are right. What does the ego need for itself? The ego is constantly becoming. By trying to become free of the ego, you can never lose it. However, when you become aware of the ego it can no longer make use of you. In trying to become free of the ego you end up strengthening it. Awareness of the ego gives you the choice to dominate or not dominate using the ego. You may choose to become positional in a conversation or not.
15. All Learning Is Unlearning. Today I am focusing on unlearning the various assumptions that cause suffering. Often we think we are being truthful, but being truthful is not necessarily authentic. Being authentic helps us move forward and embrace who we are. The greatest threat to our happiness and lives is failing to properly integrate our own inadequacies. Instead of dealing with our own inadequacies, we try and overthrow others. This may seem like an easier solution, but in reality it is not. Being authentic means being able to confront our own shortcomings. When we embrace our shortcomings, something beautiful happens. Embracing the real issue gives us freedom.
16. Learning and unlearning can bring you true joy, as long as you pay attention to the “here”. Learning is the ability to laugh at yourself.