STRESS KILLS. REDUCING & MANAGING STRESS.

The workplace environment is becoming more stressful and it will definitely continue to build-up due to modern reality.

Identifying the causes and symptoms of stress, to monitoring your response to pressure, and implementing coping strategies, are obviously a welcome idea.

Stress by many has been called " the invisible killer disease". It is a disease that is gradually becoming more like daily routine to almost everybody, your organization, and any of the person in it, so you cannot ignore it.

Stress will probably affect all of us at some time in our lives. Reducing stress in your life so that it continues to push you towards your personal goals without destroying your health.

What is stress? Stress is defined as any activity that disturbs a person's healthy mental and physical well being. It occurs when the body is required to work beyond its normal capabilities. The results of stress are harmful.

Stress is caused by a failure to balance conflicting demands.

What to do when you notice stress...

* Spot stress warning signals and act. When you cannot balance conflicting demands, know that stress is knocking.

* Take time out to relax when you notice conflicting demands.

* Avoid the habit of taking work home.

FIVE PART REMINDER OF THE KEY ELEMENTS OF GOOD PRESENTATION.

Whenever you are called upon to make any presentation, either to a large audience or small audience, below are five part reminders

1. Outline your purpose (what is the purpose of the presentation).

 

2. Analyse your audience( who are those coming to hear my presentation. Make sure that you present it in a manner that they will understand.

3. Identify the need. What is the need of the presentation.

4. Collate your information

5. Prepare your communication/ presentation.

Simple.... Simple..... Simple.

THE 3 LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION

The study of social communication reveals that communication happens on three levels

 

1. Visual --------55%(body language)

2. Vocal ----------38%(tone of voice)

3. Verbal ---------7%(words)

By far, visual communication is the most powerful of the three types. Anyone who thinks that once they have got their body language right, the words don't really matter runs the risk of producing a very poor presentation.

9 RULES OF PROFESSIONAL SELLING.

Everybody is selling something whether we realized it or not. Selling is key to everything that we do. Though, there are people that are been paid to sell, those people are referred to as professional sales people.

Today, many people confused selling with marketing. Marketers are not necessarily sales people. Marketers primarily concern themselves with research, while sales people sells.

Below are 9 quick rules of professional selling.

1. Before you start to sell your products or services, make sure you are happy from within and appear very presentable.

2. Sell yourself. Make the person you want to sell to be interested in you before you begin your sales presentation and find the common ground. Don't rush into selling. It is very important.

3. Sell to people. Selling is only directed at people. Every prospective buyer has different requirements and aspirations. Try to be fast in understanding prospects and sell to them based on your understanding.

4. Ask questions. The most important attribute of a professional person is the ability to ask question. Learn to ask your prospects questions. Don't just assume.

5. Learn to listen. Sadly, very few salespeople really listen. Most times, they are only interested in talking.

6. Sell the benefits more. Customers or prospects are more interested in purchasing the benefits. It is the benefits that they want not the features.

THE 1ST IN NIGERIA:

For the first time in Nigeria an online organization called theworstplacetowork. Will be identifying

Nigeria’s worst companies to work for. While company management can improve employee satisfaction, most of the companies that will be on our list are companies that make work miserable for their workers.
In order to identify Nigeria’s worst companies to work for, theworstplacetowork will on regular bases examine employee’s reviews at jobs and career, community, sites and social network. Based on the reviews, theworstplacetowork. Will score companies on a scale of one to five with an average score of 3.2 for the over 250,000 companies measured in the country, identifying the 10 companies that received scores of 2.5 or lower.
Click here to see the worst companies to work for
Not surprisingly, employees most often complained about low wages and poor benefits. Many noted that they were paid even less than the already-low industry average for their job. Benefits, if the company provided any, were either difficult to afford or inadequate.
While some employees at all levels were unhappy, complaints at these companies were disproportionately from sales representatives, customer service agents and technicians. These were generally lower-paid, front-line workers dealing directly with customers.
Issues with middle management will be looked into especially were its universal among the employees of these companies, but the types of complaints will varied. Depending on the company, employees who felt they were micromanaged, treated unfairly or like children, or asked to meet extreme demands.