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miércoles, 10 de febrero de 2016

Mauro Libi Crestani: What to do when your employees are actively "disconnected"?

By Mauro Libi Crestani. All major market surveys make it clear that at present, most  employees are producing less than they are capable of producing, so productivity levels of companies have declined alarmingly. Indeed, Gallup found that 71% of all employees are either "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" companies. Against this complicated scenario, employers must act and implement methods to reverse the numbers and connect the workforce to their responsibilities in organizations.

Research indicates that companies should act when they see their employees do not feel committed to their workplace. HR departments handled a number of tools to reconnect workers subirles commitment, morale and increase their performance. It also has rules to prevent employees from falling into the temptation of the many distractions that abound in the workplace.

Once companies recognize that employees are disabled (usually have dull countenance, drowsy, distracted, with beady eyes) must proceed to communicate with those employees and explain that their inactive attitude represents a high cost for the company, why should change or withdraw.

According Terri Kabachnick in his book I Quit, some of the most common causes of labor decoupling are lack of information, lack of purpose of work and lack of respect. To re-engage their employees or prevent disengagement during its slowdown in business, the business leader must establish efficient communication policies.

Workers must be kept informed, information management and optimal communication has a impact on your mood and motivation.

After studying communication patterns in dozens of organizations, Tamotsu Shibutani concluded: "It is better to keep informed their work tables, to avoid losing them."

If you want an engaged workforce, then you must instill a sense of purpose of employment. It is almost impossible for employees to spend five or 10 years in a job and feel good about themselves. Many believe that their jobs are a colossal waste of time.

Employees need to know more than it involves work. A portion of the address is to ensure that their workers go on every day to the company with the feeling that they are working on something very important.

To build a culture of employees "engaged" we must show the workers that their jobs have a purpose that only they can fulfill.

That's why an effective strategy of attributing productivity is directly related to the employee a responsibility to their superior. If an employee feels  that their work is important or essential he or she will be fully committed to their jobs.

It is advisable to show their respect, treating each employee as an individual. Get to know the strengths and weaknesses and preferences of each person. He calls each person by name and make you feel that your work is appreciated by the company. These small changes will change the attitude of the employees and connect with productivity goals of the company. By Mauro Libi Crestani.


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miércoles, 30 de diciembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani:So what are the keys to getting employees to be happy within your firm?

By Mauro Libi. “Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.” – Mary Kay Ash (businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.” – Lee Iacocca (automobile executive, former President and CEO of Chrysler)
 
Mary Kay Ash and Lee Iacocca are two very successful business people with  a very important message about one of the secrets to their success. It is called positive reinforcement.  

Employees are the backbone to any company. Payroll is usually a companies largest expense. Turnover in a company can be very costly. Having to train again a new employee. Losing an employee that has built up customer loyalty and trust can be very costly to a firm. Even when employees are paid well, I have found that many will leave because they do not feel right in the company. I hear all the time, upset employees saying that “it is about more than just money.”

So what are the keys to getting employees to be happy within your firm?
What would it take to get your employees motivated to excel at their jobs?
Positive reinforcement is the practice of rewarding desirable employee behavior in order to strengthen that behavior. For example, when you praise an employee for doing a good job, you increase the likelihood of him/her doing that job very well again.

Positive reinforcement both shapes behavior and enhances an employee’s self-image. Recognizing and rewarding desirable employee behavior is the essential key to motivating employees to work more productively.

Through skillful use of positive reinforcement, you will increase your employees’ self-esteem and call forth from them greater contributions and increased dedication to the job. 

What types of positive reinforcement works for employees?
If your answer is that it’s more ay, bigger bonuses. If your answer is that money is king.
You would be wrong!

In his book “1001 Ways to Recognize Employees”, Bob Nelson demonstrates that the top two drivers of employee performance are:  “I am able to make a difference at work” and “I have been recognized recently for what I do.” Money ranks a distant fifth place.  
 
Steve jobs said that employees want to feel like their efforts make a difference. If you want your employees to be the best , you have to treat them that way.by Mauro Libi Crestani.

jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: Help your child develop a positive attitude in life

By Mauro Libi Crestani. If you would like you increase your kids chances for success in life one of your best way of achieving such a goal is to help your child develop a positive attitude in life. One of the ways of instilling a positive attitude in a child is with physical activity.
It is a fact.

 “Active teens have more positive attitudes than negative attitudes. This state of mind is called a positive balance of attitudes..”.

Physical activity is a great way to teach your child how to meet people. Physical activity provides opportunities to meet people and develop friendships. If they join a sport team it can teach a child how to work on a team and with others toward a common goal.  

Physical activity teaches them how to have fun as they work toward a goal. They learn how to work hard to achieve their goal and to stick with something as it may take months or years to build skills and yet they also learn to enjoy their hard work if it accomplished something they like. 

It teaches them to say things like…. “When I’m doing well at something, I love to keep at it.” They had high marks in “reward responsiveness” . 

Physical activity reduces stress. It suggests one promising path of a child being active is to manage their anxiety and savor small victories.

Physical activity teaches the child to enjoy a challenge. To look forward to a challenge and not be afraid of it. They are developing anxiety-management skills. Doing so, the researchers write in the Journal of Research in Personality, “might enhance the likelihood of later success.”

George Mallory, a famous mountain climber, was asked why he climbed Mount Everest and he replied, “Because it was there.”.
Metaphorically speaking, we all have mountains to climb, and some of us manage to ascend to a higher plateau than others. What psychological traits help people push their way to their peak? By Mauro Libi Crestani

viernes, 18 de diciembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: Being optimistic doesn’t mean deceiving yourself


By Mauro Libi Crestani. "I went for a long holiday for 27 years," Nelson Mandela once said of his years in prison.

There are disagreements as to whether a positive attitude in business really has positive effects. Look at those political prisoners who went to some of the harshest prisons. See how they survived. They had amazing attitudes despite all.

A warder's first words when Nelson Mandela and his ANC comrades arrived were: "This is the Island. This is where you will die."

They faced a harsh regime in a new cell block constructed for political prisoners.

Despite being sentenced to life imprisonment, Mandela always remained optimistic about his future. He wrote, “I never thought that a life sentence truly meant life and that I would die behind bars.” He continued: “Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed towards the sun and one’s feet moving forward.”

Being optimistic doesn’t mean deceiving yourself. There is very little benefit in wearing rose-tinted glasses and pretending everything is okay when it’s not. But optimism means acknowledging and accepting the situation you are in, and choosing to make the best of it. Choosing hope and action over despair and self-pity.

 Natan Sharansky spent nine years in a soviet prison. How did he survive? Sharansky was driven by the determination never to let anyone determine how he would act. His mode of attack, curiously enough, consists of a truly discomfiting combination of good humor, optimism, and a sassy, wisecracking, with an amazing positive attitude to his situation.  Sharansky’s habit of finding satisfaction, interest, or comic relief in the bare walls of his cell, or in the idiocy of his captors, so often in the course of his memoir does he exclaim “What a delight” and “How wonderful,” that one begins finally to appreciate how a mischievous and canny cheerfulness can be forged into armor steel-clad enough to carry its wearer unscathed through hell’s fires.  It should be no surprise that Sharansky’s prison codename for a hunger strike was “celebrating to the limit.”

With attitudes as positive in these two ex-cons – is it any surprise that they political leaders upon their release?


Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankel also echoes this idea. After several years spent in concentration camps, he wrote, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”By Mauro Libi Crestani.


lunes, 7 de diciembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: ¿ Positive depressión ?

By Mauro Libi Crestani- "I only know that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more." That excerpt from one of her sonnets expresses how much poet Edna St. Vincent Millay  probably knew of depression.

Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, herself a person with bipolar disorder or manic depression, notes in her book ‘Touched with Fire’  that the majority of people suffering from mood disorder "do not possess extraordinary imagination, and most accomplished artists do not suffer from recurring mood swings."

She writes, "To assume, then, that such diseases usually promote artistic talent wrongly reinforces simplistic notions of the 'mad genius.' But, it seems that these diseases can sometimes enhance or otherwise contribute to creativity in some people. Biographical studies of earlier generations of artists and writers also show consistently high rates of suicide, depression and manic-depression."

In simple terms, there may be some poets, some writers and other great genius who are very depressed and can still be creative. President Abraham Lincoln was such a person. He had bouts of manic depression and he was very creative in his speeches, in his thinking. But the fact is that some people can still remain positive despite having depression. They are the exceptions. Abraham Lincoln was such an exception.  Besides, their quality of life very poor. Even the ones who are depressed that can still maintain creativity , they do not know how to enjoy life.

Being successful in your career is of no value if you can not enjoy life. But like I said, most people with depression lose their creativity. Marie osmond sumed it up best, "I'm collapsed in a pile of shoes on my closet floor. I have no memory of what it feels like to be happy. I sit with my knees pulled up to my chest. It's not that I want to be still. I am numb." This is what depression usually does. It takes away your ability to be of any value business wise, family wise and to have a personal life. Doctors think the combination of short-term treatment with medications plus the long-term use of positive thinking  might reduce depressive symptoms.  Mauro LibiCrestani.

“Brain scans have shown that positive thinking stimulates the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which regulates the relationship between mood and thought.. A positive mental attitude may also influence the brain’s reward system, which involves the chemical dopamine, helping to restore a sense of pleasure that’s often lost with depression” ,Dr. Doraiswamy says.
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martes, 10 de noviembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: Harvard most popular course is on positive attitude

Universities are beginning to believe in the power of a positive mindset.  At Harvard University their most popular course is on positive attitude.  Below I would like to summarize a memo to the students at Ferris State University. The memo is titled "Developing a positive mindset: changing your attitude to change your life".

In summary, the University believes that in many instances the failure of a student to complete their course of study has to do with negative attitudes. For students to be successful in school a winning attitude helps. They write in their memo to the students that " attitude is everything".

A student when he has difficulty has the option to give up or to say " I will find a solution". When things are not going well then admit it to yourself and change it. Change is always scary but less scary when you believe and trust yourself.  People who are depressed find it hard to take corrective action and tend to allow a bad situation to linger on.

Wake up with a smile and with energy. You have a lot to accomplish and enjoy today. Life is short, and you are going to make the most of this day, and every day after that.  The nature of the human mind is to offer worries, anxieties and fears. However how often do these actually come true? The mind can easily exaggerate problems making them appear more serious than they actually are. Our thoughts are also very powerful and will determine our perception of the world.  Bad times don't last forever. Say to yourself, "This too will pass."

Even when difficulties are seemingly insurmountable there is no harm in smiling at our difficulties. When we smile it releases a chemical, serotonin, which makes us feel better. Also others will respond better to people who are smiling. Associate with positive people in your classes and on campus. I would suggest you partner up in study groups and even look to either socialize or join resume building activities clubs.  High achievers, as do poor students with poor attitudes, rub off on anyone associating with either group.


Students with positive attitudes have been found to be happier, to enjoy their studies and school more and to have more friends.  


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miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: Top tips on creative thinking as a powerful business tool



Do you remember playing the word association game? What is the first thing that comes to mind in response to 'creativity?' For most people it is probably 'art' or something similar, it is probably never 'business.'


Creativity is not simply the preserve of the artist. It is something built into everyone, even the businessperson! Thinking creatively is a powerful business tool that can help businesses exploit new opportunities and solve problems, all of which can result in improved profitability.

Mike Waddell of Adsidia offers tips on creative thinking as a tool to help you generate new thinking in your business.

Edward de Bono, of 'lateral thinking' and 'Six Thinking Hats' fame, observed that the human mind is a very efficient pattern making and matching system. The problem is that our minds are lazy. This means that we tend to force fit new scenarios to old patterns instead of making new ones. De Bono called this 'cliché thinking.' These clichés include our responses and so we inherently limit our ability to exploit new opportunities.

The question is how can we break through the clichés to benefit our business? This in essence is what creative thinking is about - it is the process of finding new perspectives and developing new thinking.

Change the question!

As cliché thinking limits us, it is important to find new ways of looking at problems within a business. Broadening and rephrasing a problem is an important tool. For instance, a business problem might be expressed as "we cannot cover our costs," which leads to a demoralising cost cutting exercise. If you broaden the problem into: "we are not making enough money to cover our costs," this leads to a restatement such as: "how can we make more money?" A whole set of optimistic questions then emerge to help deal with the situation. Broadening and rephrasing problem statements are powerful cliché breaking actions.

'Object forcing' method helps you to think outside the box

Having a good problem statement starts the process but sometimes it is difficult to generate new thinking. 'Object forcing' is one of a number of tools that helps to initiate and maintain creative thinking.

The idea is to take any object and consider how that object might affect the solution. Fun ideas are encouraged because the exercise is about generating new thinking.

Problem: The company is using too many elastic bands.

Unrelated object: A crab!

What solution could the crab create?

You can look at the characteristics of the unrelated object and see how they may affect the situation, for example, the crab has an armoured shell - so the elastic bands could be kept in a secure container.

'Object forcing' is most effective in a brain-storming mode, but remember not to evaluate or criticise ideas until the session is completed. The ideas can then be reviewed and developed, and associations can be investigated. Remember, this is not simply about the ideas that arise from object forcing; it is about breaking the cliché. You can develop fun new ways of looking at problems that energise your workforce and stimulate creativity.

Try the above techniques for approaching new opportunities within your business. Who knows, your business may become the next Google.

Article published by University of Bedfordshare


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martes, 29 de septiembre de 2015

Mauro Libi Crestani: Bad attitude, no business

Norman Vincent Peale said, " A person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results".  A positive attitude is contagious. As a leader you set the tone. Imagine, if a company has a morning huddle of its top executives with the president of the company. The president has a bad attitude. He comes in criticizing his mangers. He puts them down and tells everyone that the company will probably go under. He threatens their jobs and they do not feel happy about the company or secure. How do you think the managers will then in turn treat their employees? How do you think they will treat their customers?

The good news it that it works the other way also. It's amazing how your attitude, whether positive or negative,  as a manager can set the tone among your workers and customers. Have you ever worked around someone with an unpleasant attitude? Did you like it? If you set the tone for a positive attitude, if you can make your employees feel like they are the best and can accomplish anything, they in turn will make their customers feel like they are the best and can accomplish anything. Would you want to be around such happy people, around a group of winners?

Now this is not always easy. When you have personal issues, financial issues , business concerns, in those times it is. It always easy to have a positive attitude. One of my friends who was a true business leader and ran a very successful company was always upbeat and positive. When I found out later all his family problems, I was surprised. I had no idea. I always thought he had s charmed life. He was the person who I admired and thought had a charmed life.

There is a song from a children's movie with this powerful message. " That's why you gotta never let them see you down, gotta smile while you are hurting, and whistle while you work".


So remember that you do control your attitude. Have a positive outlook and you will lift the spirits of those around you. You will find that not only will you be successful but those around you will thrive under your leadership.

Mauro Libi Crestani: The smile may be the most powerful sales tool ever

When you or your employees meet a client for a potential sale or a potential new customer, impressions really matter. Before you even say a word, the customer is forming opinions about you and your company. Are you prepared to make this sale? Yes, you carefully prepared what you are going to say, you also dressed just right. What may be the most important aspect of the sales meeting is often ignored. This one important aspect, can make or break your sale. This is to remember to smile. The smile may be the most powerful sales tool ever.

A good leader knows that a product is only as good as the employees that make it. If the people in a company are happy and have positive attitudes this reflects on their management. If you go to a company to consider using them and no one at that company seems happy and no one is smiling, this is a company that zaps the energy out of its employees. Would you want to get involved in that company? If the employees are that negative and sad, they probably hate their company and what they do.   As a customer, you see the hell that the employees feel that they are in and it is best for you to get out of there fast.

As a manager or group leader, it is your responsibility to create a positive happy atmosphere. When your employees greet customers, they need to smile and let the customer see how positive your company is and to leave the potential customer feeling great.  That customer should feel the positive joy of your employees and want to be part of your company. The potential client should feel that they are in a happy place, a respectful place and a place that is always willing to help its customers. The client needs to feel that your company will be around a long time. That its employees stay a long time and as a result are experienced. Leaving the customer with that assured feeling that your company was their best choice and making them feel like your employees and management will be helpful will also guarantee you future referrals.

I always tell managers to learn the following rule ... No smile, no interest, no sale.

sábado, 26 de septiembre de 2015

Mauro Libi: How to combat low employee productivity

One of the reasons why low employee productivity occurs according to experts is because of how the employee works and not by the nature of work itself. There are several ways to measure productivity, but most consider a large amount of work completed in a short period of time. 

There are employees who are able to perform tasks in fewer hours than others, which does not make them more productive. You have to understand the amount of work is not always the main indicator of productivity. Increasing the quantity is of little use if the quality suffers. 

There are employees who are trained in their field and are unable to work as fast as the other team members. That problem may be due to other factors that have nothing to do with intelligence, but with poor organization, personal problems, etc.

Those skilled in Time Management  offer advice to overcome these weaknesses: You have to start the day with a list of the unfinished tasks from the previous day. Start with the tasks that need to be executed immediately. You can resolve emergency issues via phone, fax or email. Conclude each task before you start another task. Being productive means that you accomplish so many tasks. Accomplishing a task means that you completed that task assignment. As your day comes to an end file your completed task and make a list of your obligations that must be met the next day.
Put everything on the agenda. Employees and successful entrepreneurs do not have a bad memory but poor  disorganization. Managing an organization requires discipline, perseverance, organization and positive attitude.

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