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

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  Nicos Paschali 3:40 am on August 23, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Tales time… We have a choice! 

  A fox who lived in the deep forest of long ago had lost its front legs. No one knew how: perhaps escaping from a trap. A man who lived on the edge of the forest , seeing the fox from time to time, wondered how in the world it managed to get its food. One day when the fox was not far from him he had to hide himself quickly because a tiger was approaching.

  The tiger had fresh game in its claws. Lying down on the ground, it ate its fill, leaving the rest for the fox.

  Again the next day the great Provider of this world sent provisions to the fox by this same tiger. The man began to think.

  “If this fox is taken care of in this mysterious way, its food sent by some unseen Higher Power, why don’t I just rest in a corner and have my daily meal provided for me?”

  Because he had a lot of faith, he let the days pass, waiting for food. Nothing happened. He just went on losing weight and strength until he was nearly a skeleton. 

  Close to losing consciousness, he heard a Voice which said: “O you, who have mis-taken the way, see now the Truth! You should have followed the example of that tiger instead of imitating the disabled fox.” 

   

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  Nicos Paschali 1:36 pm on August 21, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  How do we grow? 

  We continue to grow by our effort to understand different viewpoints and insights, and this often involves letting go of our own preconceptions about life! #NPx.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 8:27 am on August 20, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Can you buy your employees’ engagement? 

  Finally, leaders are now convinced one of their last remaining competitive advantages lies with their people. Businesses have begun to signal to workers that their needs will now be honored on a scale only previously reserved for customers and shareholders.

  Raising employee engagement has become one of the highest priorities for organizations all around the globe.

  While leaders have come to appreciate the importance of having a fully engaged workforce, they also have a very limited understanding of what practices truly drive and sustain it.

  Leaders finally realize the importance of a fully engaged workforce. Now they should learn what practices drive and sustain happy employees.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 2:38 pm on August 19, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Conversations? Turning into arguments? 

  A conversation with one person can solve a problem, or help heal a wound. A conversation with several people can generate commitment, bond a team,  generate new options, or build a vision. Conversations can shift working patterns, build friendships, create focus and energy, cement resolve.

  Why, then, is the relationship between people as they talk one of the biggest  challenges organizations face? Why do people have a hard time communicating  with each other? Why are we so terrible at listening? Why do conversations too  often turn into arguments or trivia? Why are we so critical of what our colleagues say? Why are we afraid that the sky will fall in if we don’t hasten to correct someone else’s opinion? How can so many people be arrogant enough to  assume they are absolutely sure and having complete knowledge? 

   
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  Nicos Paschali 2:29 pm on August 19, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Failure of dialogue. 

  Once a society loses capacity for dialogue all that is left is a cacophony of voices battling it out to see who wins and who loses. There is no capacity to go deeper, to find a deeper meaning that transcends individual views and self interest. Deeper problems, loss of mutual respect and caring inprison us in our isolated thinking! Maybe it’s time to seek talking with one another and thinking together as part of a larger community! Time to develop that focused conversation!

   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:00 am on August 19, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Effective Influencing. 

  The great majority of people tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than results. They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. And they are conscious above all of the authority they ‘should have’. As a result they render themselves ineffectual”.
  – Peter Drucker

   
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  Nicos Paschali 4:29 pm on August 16, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  No culture is a vacuum! 

  When you want to encourage creativity, you have to contend with anti-creative attitudes and helpful assumptions picked up from other places and learned from other experiences. Too many efforts to increase innovation ignore the way that people think and feel in their day-to-day work.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 4:24 pm on August 16, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Do you think about the wants and needs of all stakeholders? 

  Now – and increasingly in the future – the best way for organizations to survive and prosper in the long term will be to think about the wants and needs of all of their important stakeholders and endeavour to deliver value to each of them. Companies must try to understand better what their stakeholders’ needs are and then deal with those needs ahead of time rather than learn about them later.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 7:16 am on August 15, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Be Well… 

  The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don’t  fit anywhere into that.

  Don’t devote any mental space to them!

   
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  Nicos Paschali 6:50 am on August 15, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Leveraging technology and choose yourself for success… 

  Did you know that you no longer have to   wait for the gods   of   corporate   World,   or universities,   or   media,   or investors,   to   come   down   from   the   clouds   and   choose   you   for   success.   In   every   single   industry,  the   middleman   is   being   taken   out   of   the   picture,   causing   more   disruption   in   employment   but   also   greater   efficiencies   and   more   opportunities   for   unique   ideas   to   generate   real   wealth.   You   can   develop   those   ideas,   execute   on   them,   and   choose   yourself   for   success.