Nicos Paschali, International Author, Designer & Facilitator of Learning Workshops. Mental Discipline Coach.

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  Nicos Paschali 5:38 am on November 17, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  How good are you in delegating? 

  Misunderstandings are a major cause of ineffective or failed delegations, misunderstandings about what you really want done, about time frames and about time frames and about authority, support, and monitoring issues.

  We cannot emphasise enough that the performer must understand the assignment thoroughly in order to perform adequately. And it’s your responsibility, as a leader, supervisor, manager to make sure this occurs.

  Do you need help with delegating skills, let us know and we can put together an experiential learning workshop for your people, for your specific needs.

   

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  Nicos Paschali 3:42 pm on November 12, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Lack of self-confidence? 

  1. Are you frozen in your comfort zone, terrified to make the wrong decisions?
  2. Do you feel hopeless and helpless with no idea how to rescue your dreams?
  3. Do you struggle to believe in yourself and let other people’s opinions, needs and wants run your life?

  Did you know that self-confidence is the single most important thing that separates successful people from those who are not successful (or who don’t feel successful). Find out how you can increase your self-confidence!

   
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  Nicos Paschali 11:10 pm on November 11, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Fixed and Growth Mindset? 

  There are two mindsets: “fixed” and “growth.” People with fixed mindsets believe traits, personalities, talents, and relationships are fixed – permanently set in stone. A fixed mindset believes we’re born a certain way, and we can’t do much to change that position.

  People with growth mindsets believe everything is work in progress. Traits, personalities, talents, and relationships can always grow with hard work. A growth mindset believes we’re born a certain way, but we have the power to develop exponentially.

  Which one are YOU?

   
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  Nicos Paschali 12:48 am on November 10, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  How do you feel about in “getting your ideas across”? 

  Did you know that 97% of people struggle with stress, anxiety, and fear when it comes to presenting their case and getting their ideas across?

   
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  Nicos Paschali 5:17 pm on November 9, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Pleasure and Joy. 

  It’s good to remember that patience, connection, pleasantness, modesty and tenderness do blend with everyday love, work and play.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 4:09 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Quick insight! 

  “When you’re in a challenging conversation, do you listen to learn or listen to defend?”

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:59 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Stimulate more of the senses at the same time. 

   

  We absorb information about an event through our senses, translate it into electrical signals (some for sight, others from sound, etc.), disperse those signals to separate parts of the brain, then reconstruct what happened, eventually perceiving the event as a whole.

  The brain seems to rely partly on past experience in deciding how to combine these signals, so two people can perceive the same event very differently.

  Our senses evolved to work together—vision influencing hearing, for example—which means that we learn best if we stimulate several senses at once.

  Smells have an unusual power to bring back memories, maybe because smell signals bypass the thalamus and head straight to their destinations, which include that supervisor of emotions known as the amygdala.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:57 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Stressed brains do not learn the same way as non-stressed brains. 

   

  Your body’s defense system—the release of adrenaline and cortisol—is built for an immediate response to a serious but passing danger, such as a saber-toothed tiger. Chronic stress, such as hostility at home, dangerously deregulates a system built only to deal with short-term responses.

  Under chronic stress, adrenaline creates scars in your blood vessels that can cause a heart attack or stroke, and cortisol damages the cells of the hippocampus, crippling your ability to learn and remember.

  Individually, the worst kind of stress is the feeling that you have no control over the problem—you are helpless.

  Emotional stress has huge impacts across society, on children’s ability to learn in school and on employees’ productivity at work.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:55 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Sleep well, think well. 

  The brain is in a constant state of tension between cells and chemicals that try to put you to sleep and cells and chemicals that try to keep you awake.

  The neurons of your brain show vigorous rhythmical activity when you’re asleep—perhaps replaying what you learned that day.

  People vary in how much sleep they need and when they prefer to get it, but the biological drive for an afternoon nap is universal.

  Loss of sleep hurts attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:53 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Every brain is wired differently. 

  What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.The various regions of the brain develop at different rates in different people.

  No two people’s brains store the same information in the same way in the same place.

  We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don’t show up on IQ tests.