Last week I had dinner with a friend who was concerned about the impact of AI on the work he does. As a marketing professional, he fills a lot of roles for how to communicate to and motivate audiences. He’d recently heard an interview with an AI expert who predicted that 90% of US jobs could be replaced by AI as early as 2027-2028. I’ll … Continue reading Sharing In the Age of AI
In today’s professional world, skills and competencies have become the cornerstone of success. The landscape is more dynamic and competitive than ever, requiring us not only to excel at what we do but also to adapt quickly to new demands. Let’s explore how developing and honing these skills can lead to improved job performance, career progression, adaptability, problem-solving abilities, and better collaboration within teams. Job … Continue reading The Role of Skills and Competencies in Today’s Professional Landscape
A couple of weeks ago, an email popped into my inbox with tips on having productive conversations about climate change. In an increasingly divided world, where the need to be right puts relationships with others at risk, the email was an excellent reminder of the importance of seeking to understand different points of view in all areas of life. The email, from The Carbon Almanac, … Continue reading Tips for Productive Conversations
Exposure to violent social media, whether through work or private life, can have significant impacts on mental health. This type of content includes images or videos from terror incidents, war, and disturbing material found on pornographic sites. Here’s an exploration of the risks, impacts, and strategies to mitigate the negative effects on mental health. Risks and Impact on Mental Health Strategies for Mitigating Impact Before … Continue reading Managing the Impact of Violent Media on Mental Health
Alone we go faster, together we go further – African proverb To understand why collective intelligence is so powerful, I would like to invite you to think about bees. I find bees fascinating insects. They are hard-working insects. All day long, bees look for and carry nectar from flowers to their beehive to produce very useful products for us as well, like honey and royal … Continue reading Why Collective Intelligence is Powerful
Mind Mapping is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It was invented by Tony Buzan. I heard about it a long time ago from a friend of mine who is a writer. He uses it to make up the plot for his books. He could also get a license for free from Tony as he … Continue reading What Is Mind Mapping?
Changes in working places happen more and more often nowadays. I have experienced myself so many dynamic/unstable working places that I decided to explore a bit this topic. The reasons may be different: new challenges imposed by the market or by the customers, new technologies or new policies. You can experience both personal and organisational changes. Personal changes may be transitions or career moves; organisational … Continue reading Change Management in Working Places
This story is attributed to the famous philosopher Socrate but the source is not that sure. It is also known as the Triple Filter Test. This anecdote teaches us not to pay attention to rumours and untrue, hurtful, and useless messages. It can be referred to regular gossip. However, it can also be applied to the information we find on social media. I think what … Continue reading The Three Sieves Test
“How’s at work?” it is a question that is often asked to us by our loved ones and when we answer, we probably think about the difficulties we face or the discomfort/distress we feel towards our work. If this is your case, don’t worry because you are not alone. The work environment has changed a lot in recent years and has become a source of … Continue reading How to Find Your Inner Motivation at Work
What is active listening? Do you like music? How do you listen to your favourite music? When I was a teenager, I used to learn by heart the lyrics of my favourite songs. Still today I try to do it. I can easily learn the lyrics if I listen carefully to the song and if I listen to the same song several times. The same … Continue reading Active Listening
Hi everyone, I want to talk about some acts of kindness today. Recently, I have been observing some small things that make people happy and this made me think that being kind may not be hard after all. The acts of kindness that I want to talk about today all involve reminding them that you remember them. Say, you have a friend that you hung … Continue reading Just be kind; It is not difficult
Hi everyone, Let’s talk about how talking is essential in life today. I am Turkish. I am culturally inclined to talk. We talk all the time. You can put two Turkish people who don’t know each other in the same room and they will find a lot of things to talk about. I can talk to a stranger for several hours like that. So, I … Continue reading The Benefits of Talking
Most of us know how to speak, but do most of us know how to express what we want to express? Along my journey I witnessed people talking for hours but saying almost nothing and it made me wonder what the whole purpose of that is and how it’s affecting our communication skills. Talking for the sake of… talking It seems that we sometimes talk … Continue reading Specific Communication: A Mandatory Skill?
This is such a deep topic and I’ve found some more interesting ideas about communication which I want to share with you. Besides those 4 steps that I mentioned here, Jacques Salome and Sylvie Galland talk about different levels on which we’re expressing ourselves and in their book If Only I’d Listen to Myself they mention five of them: The level of facts; … Continue reading About Communication… Again – Reblog
Hi there! It has been a few weeks since I wrote here. I had to take a break because we were in the last month of the semester. So, it was as busy as it can get. In the meantime, though, I was able to contemplate on a few things. So, I will write about some of them in my upcoming posts. This first one … Continue reading Communication
How often do you think about how helpful reading really is? I’m sure you feel good when you read something that resonates with you, but do you ever wonder why? Don’t be surprised, but I have a list for you. If you think you don’t have enough time to read, maybe this list will help you find some time to do it. Depending on your … Continue reading 7 Reasons Why Daily Reading is Helpful
Have you ever given an advice and the person that received it did nothing with it? How did you felt when that happened? Even though people need advices, they’re not always prepared to receive it because they’re not prepared to act upon it. Maybe they can’t or maybe they don’t want to do it, but until they do need that piece of advice, … Continue reading Not everybody takes advices!
The more specific I try to be in my speech, the more ambiguity I can notice in how my phrases initially try to come out. It’s interesting how something as common as language can create so many different thoughts and ideas, which can modify our behavior. Because of this, I’m reblogging my post about communication, which keeps helping me in my journey of becoming … Continue reading About Communication – Reblog
If you think about a particular emotion, how many words can you use to express it? How many words do you know to express a different side of an emotion? There are more than you might think. I recently stumbled across a list of feelings with the associated words, and the list is BIG! For example, according to this list, happiness can be … Continue reading The Language of Emotions
Provided by Betul Erbasi from betulerbasi.com Hey, it is me, Betul (betulerbasi.com)! I am here again to talk about something about languages. This time, let’s talk about language change! Let’s start this time with a guessing game this time. Guess which word the following pronunciation forms stand for (this is called phonetic transcription and we use brackets for it). If you get 8 out of … Continue reading A Language Constant: Change
