Serve The Notice Period Like A Champion.....

One of my blog follower ask me about how one can serve notice period ?  He was looking bit de-motivated about his current role & organization . He was doing bad mouthing about the practices following  by  his current organization. He had already palnned a Holiday trip while on notice period . He was asking me about did he does right thing ? So I have given him some tips that Serve Your Notice Period Like Champions , while on notice period, show your grace to the current employer and they must have a feeling that they are going to lose a great asset.

Following are the key attributes which one should depict while serving notice period in a convincing manner.

Be Thankful & Stay Motivated

During your notice period stay motivated & enthusiastic with your current tasks, role, and responsibilities rather start showing lack of interest or no interest in current job or assignments. Give the gift of notice period with immense energy, dedication and motivation to your organization where you have been groomed & served as a platform for other employer offer you got on the basis of experience what you have attained from current employer. So be thankful to your current employer & stay motivated.

Be Positive About Your Current Employer

Mostly people start bad-mouthing or defaming their current employer as they go on to the notice period. The organization which has been the nourishing their families and dependents abruptly becomes the worst company to work on. We should not let negativity prevail among the rest; rather we should portray the positive image of current employer.

Serve The Whole Notice Period

Don’t try to avoid or request to waive off the notice period from your side. Neither commit the date of joining with your next employer without getting the permission from your current employer but in case of urgency you can offer your after working to your next employer or current employer. We should show responsible attitude with our current employer rather rush to the new employer without proper handing & taking over.

Dress for your next Job

During notice special care should be given to your professional attire or dressing, there is one very famous phrase that “Dress for your next job”; Proper Corporate dressing shows your maturity & passion for your job. Looking professional is in your best interests and it will boost yourself image & self confidence as well. When you have left, people must remember you for your excellent dressing.

Wind up The Projects

Don’t linger on your projects which have been assigned to you. Wind up all the projects as soon as possible as this will not only give the true professional feeling to your colleagues but also sense of achievement will emerge as well.

Delegate The Task

Delegate your task among the staff with full concentration & don’t try to hide anything. It is not a good practice to limit the things with yourself and that after your exit people are searching for the things what you have been doing. It is recommended that things are clearly written down for future reference and clarity as well.

Put Extra Efforts

During your notice period put extra efforts & time. Complete your notice period with full grace & authority rather just counting the days.

Have Some Time With Family Before Joining The New Company

Before joining the next employer, spend two or three days at least with your family, so that when you go to the new assignment at a new place , you should be feeling fresh and have sharpened your saw . While you will be at home, the lust for the new assignment will become greater & ultimately it will boost your performance when you finally land at the new job.

Never Negotiate After Furnishing A Resignation

Mostly people started negotiations, after tendering their resignation. This is not only a miss commitment with your next employer but also it will hurt your reputation in your current organization as well. It may leave the impact that you are selfish and greedy person. And the worst is that you indirectly hurt your current employer’s image as well as a chance for others in your organization that may have applied or are looking forward to apply to the same organization.

By : Syed Shahzad Ali 

HR Expert In Pakistan

Become Inimitable- Perform Beyond The Expectations & Cover The Extra Mile

If we look around our environment everybody is looking  to avoid mistakes rather to bring perfection in his work  because since our childhood from Primary Standard to  Secondary that thing have been to be told  to us. we always strive hard for getting higher marks in tests  or get 100 % but we never strive for knowledge  or think out of box or indifferent. If somebody does not comply that then he has to face annoyance of his teacher or Boss , so mark your self  D for them  and A++ for  youself . Our schools are the factories where obedient & educated workers would have been produced and trained not Leader and change agents.Following are the extreme examples ;

•  workers who always waiting for instruction just like their previous experiences that can’t read the next chapter of the book until unless will not ask to do so. 

•  In the name of discipline they taught us always show up on time & look your watch that how many hours left behind

• Follow that instructions carefully don’t take any creative initiative .

• Should comply what to be told rather make any argument against what to be told.

• If you will perform well then you will be awarded next standard and here in corporate environment you will get raise in pay or rarely sometimes next promotion.

• Always waiting for recess , holidays & picnics , Now waiting for public holiday, political strikes & off days.   

We should not be a replaceable part of machine rather become a machine itself. Until & unless we will remain a part of machine then we will be replacing. We have to outperform and cover an extra mile because there is always been a very thin difference in becoming good to great because one extra degree make the difference . And one extra degree effort in business & life separates the good from the great.

•  In golf, for last 25 years margin of victory in all major tournaments has been less than 3 strokes.

• The margin for victory between Gold Medal & No Medal in 400m race of men has been .71 seconds only.

• For last ten years in formula one race the difference of $ 6millions  is merely 1.25 seconds , winner got $ 12million & second prize $  6million.       

It is our life and we  are responsible for  our Own  results  & consequences. We should perform Responsibilities rather Jobs and always strive forward for covering that extra mile which will take us on top & make us inimitable. We should be act as artist who always more than vigilant about his performance in every role, who does not care about  the stage , place or role but he would there to give his best performance.

I went  to restaurant last Saturday I saw a waiter having a big smile on his face , having blasting energy  & positive body language ,he was not only managing his orders but also providing the great customer services to other customers. He was enjoying his role &  performing more than his role , every customer were looking for him that he would take their order. On the contrary there were some other waiter with no energy & enthusiasm in them and they were trying to hide their faces in their caps .So  we should enjoy our role or job  and should  perform beyond the expectations & demand of role to restore that place in the organization or business where your existence become inimitable. 

By : Syed Shahzad Ali 

HR Expert in Pakistan

 

Supremacy Of Words - The Use Transformational Vocabulary

What happens if a hockey player scores a  goal & Coach didn’t praise him on the ground by saying “Shabash Bachay” or “Great Goal“ or “Superb” but later on he would do it  in the locker room ? For sure it would not have that much impact as it would have been, if done on the ground  at time he scored a goal . What if he express his feeling with low energy & fragile vocabulary on the ground? So timing & selection of words derive our actions. Sometimes we do not give much importance to our vocabulary much and it is our words which change our action in enthusiasm or passion.

We have to transform our vocabulary in order to be motivated our selves like we have to commit ourselves that we will not use word PROBLEM anymore in our entire life instead of challenge or confront because when we use word PROBLEM then our brain creates a Metaphor of “pitiable or perplexed person asking for help” and when we use word CHALLENGE, the metaphor of fighter  would be created by our brain. Our actions & behaviors have been derived by the metaphors created by our brains, so we have got to change our daily use of vocabulary and relate the positive metaphor with it.

Would you like to see any film again and again which you have rated flop earlier? For sure “Big NO”, in the same way we should replace our all metaphors & vocabulary which will turn around our disempowerment into empowerment. “I am getting tensed” can be changed to “I am concerned or little bit peeved”. Anxiety can be treated as a state where we are getting ready to energize to prove ourselves. We should take anxiety – restless feelings, of Interviews, Exams or Office Presentations as opportunity to prove ourselves. In anxiety we would be restless internally because we would be getting energizing inside out.

There are so many impressive words which we can use in our daily routine, if we’re[a1]  having a great time (at a party or working on your business) and you just say, “It’s okay, Fine” you’ll be robbing yourself of some of the juice that you could be getting.  Instead say, “This is fantastic.”  perfect… extraordinary… phenomenal… energized… brilliant… ecstatic…  incredible…awesome…fabulous……..Top of the world because when we say “ its fine or Okay “ then our brain create a metaphor of “deprived person” but when we use lively words as I mentioned above then it shows your over all personality that how much contented you are ? You can send enormous messages to other person through your right transformational vocabulary.

You can use modifiers too for irritation , tension , deprived, dejected moments etc:

• a little bit peeved                    
• somewhat concerned              
• kind of unfortunate
• that’s rather inconvenient

 & for joyful & ecstatic moments

• absolutely wonderful
• totally awesome
• Top of the world
• Perfectly Stunning
• deeply satisfying
• exquisitely delicious

And yes finally do note that when you are sending written messages these matters a lot more because the person with whom you are communicating with is visualizing you metaphorically. And when communicating on one to one basis your gestures must compliment the words you say otherwise this may not create the impression you wanted to make.

By : Syed Shahzad Ali 

HR Expert in Pakistan

Triumph Over The Bad Habits

My one of best friend use to be a chained smoker but I always enticed him hard to leave it . Ever time  he told me that "whenever he thinks about leaving the smoking , he feels so much pain associated with it ". So I started working on it as I did with myself , but now Alhamdulliah , I am not a smoker anymore. Yes he is absolutely correct ,it is a matter of pain & pleasure which is associated with over all habits, as long as you will be associated pleasure with your any bad habit , you can’t exonerate it . Habits take a single moment to change but it is up to you whether you are committed with to let off it or not . When you want to start a habit, don’t tell yourself you are doing it for life, tell yourself (your conscious brain) that you are going to try it for 21 days , because habit is a unconscious frequent repetition of behavior. For example if you want to start the habit of Exercise tell your conscious self that you are trying it for 21 days only . Now, when you have completed this for 21 days your conscious mind has the choice of stopping it or carrying on, or so it thinks. Now it’s up to you what sort of order will you give to your brain to do, now your commitment with that habit will emerge and you will be very near to acquire a new habit for another 90 days then it will become a permanent part of your personality or behavior as a Habit after 365 days . There are following stages one has to go through to emerge new habit/ pattern and letting off the old one.

What do u want And why ?

If you want to quit smoking you have to affirm your unconscious that you want to quit smoking& why you want to quit relate some pain with it, you have to correlate the solid reasoning with that otherwise after sometime you will resume your quit habit again . You have to repeat these affirmation whenever you have a free time specially at the bed time or in the morning while brushing or bathing.

Get the leverage yourself

Once you have affirmed your unconscious that what so you want with solid reasoning now get the leverage of yourself & show your control over you . Make a public commitment for quitting smoking , tell everyone you know specially to those who are very hooked up with smoking . Enjoy your leverage by denying the offer to have a Cigarettes.

Interrupt the pattern

Don’t like a bee , who hitting the window pane again and again for escaping, do different things if one thing is not working like don’t go there for a week or couple of weeks where smokers will have been gathered or quit the company of smokers. Just interrupt your past pattern it is just like that you made a lot of scratches on DVD & it not able to play again likewise interrupt your unconscious in that manner , it should not have single thought about the smoking. Associate a great pain with smoking or your any habit which you would like to quit.

Figure out some Alternatives

Associate pleasure with some other alternative which provide you the more pleasure that smoking . it is not meaning that you started chew Tobacco. You have interrupted your pattern so this sort of thought will not be emerged in your mind but do some constructive alternatives , It can be a jogging , mediation , cooking , reading etc.

Repetition of alternatives

Repetition is the mother of Skill , so repeat you new pattern/ alternative and then it will become your habit, then practice it and have pride on your self that you have an extreme control over your behavior.

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By : Syed Shahzad Ali 

HR Expert in Pakistan

An Ultimate Success By Developing A Strong Self-Image

  A simple definition of a person's self-image is their answer to this question - "What do you believe people think about you?".There are chronic tips to get an ultimate success by developing a strong self image .

No More Excuses :

Stop furnish excuses for failures , blame others & Bad Luck etc. Well there is no failure or success but results are there . For unsatisfactory results we get experiences & from satisfactory / expected results we get  Achievements. We usually figure out reasons from unsatisfactory results for the outer world in the shape of lame excuses but it really  hurts our self image badly. There are result no failure or success , this is we who interpret results as Success or  Failure.

Pride in Yourself:

Self pride is the sense of your worth & value as a person in your own eyes. It is about how much do you like  yourself? Because until & Unless you will not have pride in yourself then nobody will have proud on you . Value yourself as much high much you can . You should have a pride at your family , on your school , College  university , Organization because if you will not value your institution or organization then nobody else will value it , develop an extreme  pride for yourself  .

Take care of your Appearance :

Especial care should be given to you appearance & wardrobe . You should  adopt your appearance as you would like to be as a Successful Person i.e. visualize your attire what you will put on once you will achieve your goal and become successful  , there is saying that you should wear clothes at your current job which is requirement of your next job – dressed yourself for next job or role .

Keep Yourself in Good Shape:

You must do some physical exercises to keep yourself in a good shape & remain physically fit , because if you will be doing physical exercises then  your brain will be getting more oxygen & blood circulation . You will not only enjoy your  dressing  but also you will feel good about yourself & feel more confident , which will ultimately emerge a positive self image which is a key for success.

Select what you  allow to go into your brain:  

You have a most precious asset with you “The Brain” ; use it in  proper manner & positive manner for that you have to set filter over the things i.e. only positive things should be allowed to go into your brain. What happen, when you throw garbage in a empty box ,eventually  it will become a trash box  and only rubbish & nonsense things would be coming out of it. Same is the case with Brain if negative & cynical things would be placing into brain , it will depict on yourself image and it is an impossible thing to get an ultimate success with negative self-image.  

Believe in yourself – you Can:

You can do anything but not everything , you must have a definitive confidence on yourself that you can do anything. If you will be hesitated or if you will not believe in yourself  then believe me you can’t accomplished your desire task as you want . Have you ever observed the Horse who jumps over the Obstacles very easily . How does he Jump ? actually he builds  a telepathic relationship with rider’s  brain & heart,  due to the self believe of rider ,he catches the signal of can do attitude, if rider will hesitate & doubtful  , horse will never going to  jump over the obstacle ,. It is necessary to have a firm believe in yourself & can do attitude to get an ultimate success.

No fear to Mistake :

The person who does nothing  , he does not make mistakes and eventually does not get success. We should not have any sort of fear about mistake and errors , we just keep on working towards our goal of success. Research shows when its been asked to successful entrepreneurs that “what is a Key to success? Nearly all replied in a same manner , they just keep forward & taking steps towards their destiny , most of the time they made lot of faults and mistakes but the credence of right step supersede the all effects of such mistakes . Just keep moving ahead , mistake is nothing its a experience and another way of doing the right thing


Positive Statements:

It is very vital for emerging a positive & strong self image that you must be making positive statements and using it in your daily life . There are some definite tips hat say to yourself “ you can do” , “ Do it now” , “ I am master of this thing” , I have all the potential to get success” before starting any task . “I am the most confident & successful person on the universe” paste it on your car’s dash board , on your motor bike speed meter , in your wash room where you usually brush your teeth & wash your face. Daily in the morning & in night when you go to bed for sleep , just repeat those words which is your weakness i.e. “I am good at English” or “I can face the audience very easily” etc. It will boost your confidence & you can overcome your weaknesses.



Check your Environment:

There is very famous saying that “ the person is been knowing by his friends’ company” , if you want to build your positive self image then you must join the company of those people who would be full of enthusiasm , Positivity , energy , Zeal. Check your environment before joining any company and avoid negative & pessimistic environment .



Do Some Charity Work:

It is very necessary for emerging a positive self image, self respect & self esteem that you must do some sort of charity work . Help others to accomplished their tasks . It will emerge the sense of achievement which will reflect on yourself image .


Compile a Success Record:

Maintain a file or scrap book to compile success record it may include you school report cards , certification of achievement , your first offer letter , appointment letter , confirmation letter, Snaps , anything which you value most include it . Go though it periodically & get the sense of success & achievement , share it with your family members , friends & colleagues etc.