Five Skills For HR Professionals

 By Govindan Ramu

There has been this craze on "Strategic HR" for years. Every HR conference seems to revolve around it or has at least a couple of sessions on this topic. Suddenly, even entry-level HR people were talking of strategic HR. However, I believe it is not the strategic aspects that these personnel and most HR people need. They need guidance on the skills for the real world - the operational day-to-day world. Yes, maybe we need to think strategy but that comes once we have mastered the operational level issues. For a good take-off, we need a good runway.

When HR personnel ask me what skills they should master. I tell them the following:


1. Transaction skills: Yes, HR is going to involve a lot of transactions - responding to employees on queries, preparing reports, organizing events, coordinating interviews, and so on. One needs to manage these transactions well. This requires skills for good planning, multi-tasking, prioritizing, and knowledge of tools, such as Microsoft office etc.

2. Responsiveness: HR personnel have to deal with a lot of internal customers. And, just as in any other relationship-building activity, the key is responsiveness. This involves getting back to people promptly, giving an honest opinion (politely), picking up the phone and talking when required (not always relying on emails and chats), and closing the loop.

3. Assertiveness: The expectations from HR personnel are always high as they are caught between the needs of employees and constraints of a business organization. It is difficult to satisfy everybody all the time. Maybe that should not even be considered a goal. The goal should be helping employees to manage their expectations and making organizations improve their people processes, within the constraints of business. However, more often HR personnel become frustrated because of over-sensitiveness to employee needs, indifference or helplessness.

Talent Discovery

By Ejike Onwuakpoke 

There is no man who is born of a woman without at least a talent. From almost every part of life, Talent has proven to be the greatest asset you can ever have only if you discover it and use it greatly.
We can say that talent is a natural skill or ability at something. It is very unique especially in terms of rendering it as a service to your fellow Humans and they pay for the service you render.
Your talent takes you to places, even the places you have never thought of going to it brings you before kings and queens. It gives the favour that money cannot buy. It brings you the opportunity at your doorstep. it commands respect for you especially in that field of talent.

YOU CAN'T GO FAR IN DESTINY WITHOUT TALENT

"Lionel Messi" The 2009 world footballer of the year is known for his great talent in football.
"Bill Gate" Who has brought great innovation in our computers and ICT world generally.
"Tiger Woods" The twice world Golf champion.
"Micheal Jordan" Is a retired basket baller who has left a mark in d history of basketball.
"Don Moen" Is a gospel musician known worldwide with his worship songs and praise.
And so many others who have made great histories in their career and field especially in enhancing our living, making it easier and faster.
These people we celebrate today had so many challenges, may be even worst than yours. There are other people who do this same thing they do but yet you can't compare them in any aspect.
In life, Your hardwork saves you, but your talent exalts you.

Re-Defining Attraction - How to Remain Attractive in Your Relationship and Keep Your Relationship

By Obinna Mekah

Your personality can be influenced by how people relate, interact and behave towards you. This is more true when it comes to the matters of the heart, and the opposite sex. You can actually determine how people are attracted to you, but it requires some kind of mind programing that has been known [not by many though], to literally magnet or attract people of the opposite sex, especially based on how you feel about your self and what kind of picture you have inside of your mind about you.
It will be of great help here if we quickly run through seven tips that will help you to get that dream date and practically be in charge of your love life without having to delegate things that touch you emotionally to chance. Let's quickly have a good look at these.
Become calm,confidence and very optimistic about life.
Consciously build your personality charisma.
Determine the type of relationship or affection you desire and continually flood your mind with positive thoughts.
Overcome fear of failing in your next relationship and go ahead to bring to live, that inner feeling of true love you desire for your self.
Do not be manipulative, and have your body language state clearly that you would not want to be manipulated.
Do not follow any laid down rules when it comes to issues of your love life, rather program your mind to help you detect when your next suitor is real.

Motivation the Cure For Procrastination

By Victor Usifo

This fifteen letter long word has amongst many factors been the worst cause of mediocrity, indolence and lack of aspiration attributed to a lot of people in our planet.
This long word hinders many people from achieving anything worthwhile in this life. As a result of this setback, they are unable to archive meaningful objectives mainly because they refuse to take action.
They make it a habit to put things they ought to do immediately off, as long as they could hoping to tackle the job or assignment at a more favourable time in the future which of course, we all know never really comes.
So days turns into weeks, and weeks into months,and months into years but the person remains in the grip of this habit. This process continues until this habit forms in stone and becomes difficult to break.
The word gains a stranglehold on the neck of its captive, as it totally saps their will to act on anything meaningful. It then renders them incapable of initiating and completing any project no matter how easy the task my be.