A GREAT LESSON OF LIFE FROM ONE OF THE SMALLEST CREATURES : THE ANT
One
morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather cross
my back terrace. Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its path and
after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour.
At
one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide.
After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked
across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its
way.
I
was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God's smallest creatures.
It served to reinforce the miracle of creation. Here was a minute insect,
lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason, explore, discover and
overcome. But this ant, like the two-legged co-residents of this planet, also
shares human failings.
After
some time the ant finally reached its destination - a flower bed at the end of
the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And
it was here that the ant finally met its match. How could that large feather
possibly fit down small hole?
Of
course it couldn't. So the ant, after all this trouble and exercising great
ingenuity, overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather
and went home.
The
ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey and in
the end the feather was nothing more than a burden.
Isn't
OUR LIFE like that?
We
worry about our family; we worry about money or the lack of it, we worry about
work, about where we live, about all sorts of things. These are all burdens -
the things we pick up along life's path and lug them around the obstacles and
over the crevasses that life will bring, only to find that at the destination
they are useless and we can't take them with US......
Finding
the leader in you - a self assessment. These questions contain two
options.Indicate the answer
that best describes YOU.If you hesitate on a question, choose the first answer
that comes to mind. There are no right or wrong answers.
1)Which
adjective describes you best:
enthusiastic
focused and efficient
2)You
are known as:
the one who gets quick results
the one who knows how to delegate
responsibility
3)The
priority for the head of department should be:
responding
realistically to the employees’hopes and aspirations
making
demands and producing while adhering to the rules
4)If
you had to choose a new profession, it would be in:
Research and Development
Operations
and Production Management
5)When
analysing an issue, you are more sensitive to:
the
content and significant details
the
form and overall logic
6)Which
verb describes you best:
act
think
7)If
you were going to work in the media you would choose to be:
a sports commentator or reporter
a political journalist
8)To
you, managing a department is:
managing
and solving problems
motivating
and representing
9)To
achieve better output, you prefer to:
mobilize everyone’s efforts
redefine objectives and improve how results
are monitored
10)A
good leader needs to know how to communicate:
the
enterprise’s values
a
sense of the outcome
11)You are more:
managerial
creative
12)You are more interested in:
getting qualified people to carry out a
project
advising
others and giving them the benefit of your know-how
13)What is the best compliment?
he (she) is innovative in thinking
he
(she) has a very practical approach
14)When faced with a situation that seems to
present a conflict, you will act:
with
the greatest prudence, even wariness
spontaneously,
so as to settle the matter as quickly as possible
15)You would say that you are rather:
a jovial person
discreet and trustworthy
Professional Telephone Etiquettes !!!
Often
a client's first contact with a business is by phone. The following guidelines
will help to make the first impression a good one. Most of this etiquette can
be used in personal conversations as well as at the office. Professionalism is
polite, thoughtful, efficient, educated and valuable at all times.
Answering calls for others
A)
Identify
yourself and the company or person for whom you are answering and say,
"How may I help you?
B)
Offer
assistance in the absence of others--say,
"She is not in
today, perhaps I can be of assistance".
C)
Do
not make commitments for others like - "He will call you as soon as he
returns".
-say, "I'll give him
your message when he returns,"
D)
Take
accurate, legible messages with time, date, reason for call, urgency, company
represented, if any, the best time to reach them and all other pertinent
information.
1)
I have eaten too much chocolate last weekend.
I ate too much chocolate last weekend.(Yesterday is finished
time, so we must use a past tense in the sentence.)
2)Julia, Ben and I are going to England on October.
Julia, Ben and I are going to England in October.
('in'
a period of time: in October, in spring, in 1998)
3) Chris did see the film yesterday.
Chris saw the film yesterday.(For a finished action in the past
we use the
past simple) Note - it is possible to use 'did see' in this example but this is
only used for stress, normally after someone has said the opposite, for
example:
Bob: "You didn't watch the film yesterday, Mary." Mary: "I did
watch the film!")
4) Had you a nice holiday?
Did you have a nice holiday?
(Past
simple questions use the structure:did + subject + infinitive)
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