People Rich eTips March 2013

Isn’t it amazing that Easter is here already – the year is going fast.  Easter time often presents a great opportunity to bring family together and build and renew relationships with family and friends.

This short eNewsletter of tips and tricks aims to provide short insights into human communications, neuroscience, wellbeing, projects and business in supporting your personal and career education.

In judging a person’s body language, you must consider three aspects (called a "cluster") before you can consider a meaning from it. 

Saying this (as one indiciator), the hands in a steeple position are an indication of confidence and self-assurance. A high steeple is adopted usually when speaking, and a lower steeple is adopted usually when listening.

To have a purpose driven life is to live a life that gives you the satisfaction and inspiration to draw from a reservoir of energy that helps you glide through the complications of daily life with grace and power.

In organisations, purpose matters because it galvanises a group to transcend the myopic needs of individual stakeholders and their related self interests.  Purpose is the glue that holds the focus and helps staff remain self aware while having emotional by-in to the unique brand they represent.  When an organisation is driven by a higher purpose that serves the communities which the organization serves, you achieve loyalty from all stakeholders.

Here are a few distinctions regarding purpose:

• Purpose - refers to the difference you’re trying to make in the world;

• Core Values - are the guiding principles you or your business uses to realize its purpose;

• Mission - is the core strategy that must be undertaken to fulfil that purpose; and

• Vision - is a vivid conception of how the world will look once your purpose has been realised.

So how do you discover your purpose and actualise your life into alignment with a direction that is meaningful to you?

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Both Gary De Rodriguez and Todd Hutchison will be speaking at the Business Knowledge and Software Expo 2013 at the Crown on the 17 Aoril 2013.

• Watch to see Gary De Rodriguez speaking on the “How to Build Leadership and Team Performance”.

• Watch to see Todd Hutchison speaking about his session on “Managing Projects – the Essential Tools for Project Success”

Download the brochure or click here to register.

In the absence of an international standard (ISO)  in project management, the Project Management Institute (PMI) has three international defacto standards that are used across the world:

• Project Management– it is actually historically called ‘A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge’ (PMBOK) and covers the 10 knowledge areas of project management. A project is a single event that has a defined start and end date that produces unique outputs, known as "Deliverables";

• Program Management  - a program is where two or more projects require to be coordinated together. This may be for multiple projects for the same client, or the same site, or the same theme (e.g., Olympics).   A Program Manager (Project Director) is appointed and oversees the Project Managers. Basically they help deal with the people and the politics, so the Project Managers can be left alone to deal with focusing on  the project; and

• Portfolio Management– a portfolio is a structural area of the organisation that represents a particular discipline where all projects of that discipline are managed.  For example, the IT Department usually manage all IT projects, so the Department would be referred to as a portfolio.  Portfolio management relates to the higher level selection and funding of projects and determining their priority for investments.   A portfolio has both programs and projects within it.

You can buy the whole set of Standards from the Project Management Institute website. Being a member of PMI makes it much cheaper.

Linda Le of Gen Y Advantage suggests instead of setting up a LinkedIn account and fading into the background, to start building your online presence by sharing useful and valuable information.  She notes that this positions yourself as a leader in your industry and promotes your personal brand online.

This advice follows the golden rule that People Prefer to do Business with people they Know, Like and Trust.    Build trust and likeability through developing a value-based relationship.

Read her full article on "Grow Your Business and Enhance Your Career through LinkedIn”.

Don’t forget that our friends Mike Handcock and David Rogers are coming to Perth this week with their X Factor Quantum Business School World Tour. 

Speakers like Justin Herald is on the tour!!!  (photo is Mike Handcock, Justin Herald and Todd Hutchison).

The tour starts in Perth on the 6 April 2013.  Register here.

For more information click here.

The Hypothalamus is the part of your brain that tells you when to sleep, when to eat and when to drink.  It acts as your “internal clock” and controls your body’s schedule.  It also acts as a thermostat and controls your internal temperature, for example, if you get too hot, it sends a message to expand the capillaries in your skin that allows your blood to be cooled faster. This cools the whole body as it impacts the flow of blood back to the heart.

The nature link of the 24-hour clock consequently is not only related to how our day and night cycle, it is how the body functions, and how the Hypothalamus sets up to control the different organ functions, such as speeding up or down your digestive functions. The interesting thing is your hunger alerts do not relate to your stomach, it is a call from the brain that it needs nutrients.

What is most fascinating is it also plays a role in our emotions. When a person yells at us, all visual and auditory sensors receive messages, the sounds are transferred from the Thalamus to the Cortex to make sense of the experience. The message then goes to the Hypothalamus that decides how our body will react.  This is why when someone yelling at us makes us angry, the Hypothalamus instructs the blood pressure to rise, sweat and impacts the beating rate of the heart.