Wednesday, October 23, 2013

DOSH's Briefing on Safety and Health

# Department of Occupational Safety and Health Johor's briefing during Safety and Health Week 2013 at Telok Sengat Palm Oil Mill (18 - 25 October 2013).

GOOD PARENTING

  • Involvement in the children education
  • Provide resources
  • Encourage children to do their best
  • Use pressure positively
  • Support school rules and goals
  • Consult the teachers
  • Accept your responsibility
  • Work with your children
  • Visit places of interest
  • Save record of good articles
  • Notice changes in your children
  • Respect your children
  • Questions the activities of your children
  • Provide good role models and quality education
  • Spent time with your children
  • Listen to your children interest
  • Generous with praises, enthusiasm and sympathy

Source - Borneo Times

BEST EMPLOYERS

  • Consistently inspire great performance from their workers
  • Go out of their way to ensure their employees feel valued
  • Grow their employees' talent
  • Have organised themselves to support their employees to do their best
  • Have employees that rarely think about leaving their organisations

Source - Appointment / NST

Symptoms of Stroke

Symptoms of stroke are ;
# Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg (especially on one side of the body)
# Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding speech
# Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
# Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
# Sudden severe headache with no known cause

Source - MedlinePlus

Monday, October 21, 2013

Assertive Behaviour

  • Allow others to complete what they are saying before speaking
  • Stand up for the position that matches our feelings or the evidence
  • Make our own decisions on what we think is right
  • Can spontaneously enter into conversation using a moderate tone and volume of voice
  • Try to understand the feelings of others before describing our own
  • Try to avoid harm or inconvenience to ourselves and others by talking through problems before they occur or finding rational means for coping with them when they do
  • Face problems and decisions squarely
  • Consider ourselves strong and capable but generally equal to most other people
  • Face responsibility with respect to our situation, needs and rights

Source - Interpersonal Skills / Astrid French / Pelanduk Publications

Learning from the FROG and SCORPION

The story goes like this : A frog is looking to cross a river on a rainy day. As he is about to swim across, a scorpion comes up to him and asks, "Frog, can you give me a lift across the river ?. I can't swim and I need your help."


The frog replies, "You must be crazy. You are a scorpion !. You might sting me and I will die." The scorpion retorts, "Don't be foolish !. If I sting you and you die, I will drown." Upon hearing this, the frog agrees to help him.


Halfway across the river, the scorpion stings and paralyzes the frog. As the frog begins to sink, he asks the scorpion why he broke his promise. The scorpion replies, "Frog, I know it's foolish of me to sting you, but I have a problem. You see, I'm a scorpion and I'm born to sting. I can't change.

# ONE OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTIES in management is dealing with resistance to change.


Source - Quest for Excellence / KC See / Quest Group

How Your Emotions Are Harming You ?

Source - Facebook

Thursday, October 17, 2013

ADAPTING TO CHANGE PROACTIVELY

  1. Analyse external forces of change and assess the implications
  2. Assess strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT)
  3. Determine specific area of change needed from the company
  4. Develop change action plans with specific change initiatives to lead change
  5. Monitor progress and continue improvement process until results are achieved
"The rationale and benefits of change should be communicated to all level of staff"


Source - Appointments / NST

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Friday, October 4, 2013

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

TONY AIRASIA - WHY SINGAPORE IS BETTER THAN US ?

They better than us because ;
  • They focus and disciplined
  • They market aggressively
  • They hire the best people. It's a meritocracy
  • Their government is very pro-business
  • They innovate

Source - CEO Blog Tony Fernandez

4 THINGS THAT YOU CANNOT RECOVER ..... !

  1. the STONE ..... after the throw!
  2. the WORD ..... after it's said!
  3. the OCCASSION ..... after the loss!
  4. the TIME ..... after it's gone!