Listen to Chris and Renu talking about Renu’s project, empowering women in India.
Renu was born in UK and practiced as a UK Lawyer for 10 years. She qualified with an MSc in Ayurveda in 2006 from London and has been an Ayurveda Practitioner and Teacher since then. Renu offers Ayurveda wellness consultations and classes online.
Renu is a writer, blogger and podcaster covering both Ayurveda, Yoga, Wellness and other areas of social interest.
She is the founder and visionary of a sustainability and womens empowerment initiative ‘Stree’ in Rishikesh at the foothills of the Himalayas. Stree has a store in Rishikesh which holds ethically made products from garments to bags to home use products
To receive Ayurveda Consultations and Classes or to purchase Stree products please vist www.streewellness.com
Effective Presentation Skills Tips episode 1 is part of a series of podcasts aimed at helping people to be more effective when presenting in front of an audience.
Sue and Chris talk about some of the pitfalls in presentations, including managing stress, information overload and why people deliver presentations.
Presenting information clearly and effectively is one of the key soft skills, if not the most important soft skill for life, and especially in business.
Getting your message or opinion across is essential, and, today, presentation skills are required in almost every field of professional life.
If you are a manager, a technician, an engineer, a student, business owner or whatever, you may very well be asked to make a presentation at some point.
This can be something that not all of us relish.
This series of podcasts are meant to help you avoid some of the common mistakes that some presenters make, so that you can get your message across effectively and engage with your audience..
Everything that Sue and Chris talk about is about common sense skills that can be applied by anyone in a presentation, there are no miracle answers, just pragmatic tips that actually work.
After all, there is no point being the best student, manager, technician or engineer in your organisation if you cannot effectively communicate what you know and convince others.
Preparation is the most important part of a successful presentation and is a part that is often neglected by speakers.
This is the crucial foundation and there are no short-cuts to excellence.
If you suffer from glossophobia, then this series of podcasts may help you a lot.
Glossophobia is the fear of public speaking.
The word glossophobia comes from the Greek γλῶσσα glōssa, meaning tongue, and φόβος phobos, fear or dread.
Effective Presentation Skills Tips episode 2 is the second part of a series of podcasts aimed at helping people to be more effective when presenting in front of an audience.
Sue and Chris talk about some of the pitfalls in presentations, including managing stress, redundancy, communication problems and telling an audience what they already know.
Presenting information clearly and effectively is one of the key soft skills, if not the most important soft skill for life, and especially in business.
Getting your message or opinion across is essential, and, today, presentation skills are required in almost every field of professional life.
If you are a manager, a technician, an engineer, a student, business owner or whatever, you may very well be asked to make a presentation at some point.
This can be something that not all of us relish.
This series of podcasts are meant to help you avoid some of the common mistakes that some presenters make, so that you can get your message across effectively and engage with your audience..
Everything that Sue and Chris talk about is about common sense skills that can be applied by anyone in a presentation, there are no miracle answers, just pragmatic tips that actually work.
After all, there is no point being the best student, manager, technician or engineer in your organisation if you cannot communicate what you do and what you want others to do.
Historically, the term electronic mail was used generically for any electronic document transmission. For example, several writers in the early 1970s used the term to refer to fax document transmission.
As a result, it is difficult to find the first citation for the use of the term with the more specific meaning it has today.
Electronic mail has been most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993, but variations of the spelling have been used:
Computer-based mail and messaging became possible with the advent of time-sharing computers in the early 1960s, and informal methods of using shared files to pass messages were soon expanded into the first mail systems.
Most developers of early mainframes and minicomputers developed similar, but generally incompatible, mail applications. Over time, a complex web of gateways and routing systems linked many of them.
Many US universities were part of the ARPANET, created in the late 1960s.
In 1971 the first ARPANET network email was sent, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the ‘@’ symbol designating the user’s system address.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol was introduced in 1981.
The problem with email is that we all use it, but sometimes we do not use it as effectively as we could or should.
In this podcast we respond to questions written by our listeners as we talk about some ways to improve your email writing and usage.
If you have things that you would like us to address in a podcast, please either wend them in the comments, the contact form or the request for on the front page.
Excessive workplace stress causes a staggering 120,000 deaths and results in nearly €200 billion in health care costs each year.
This represents 5% to 8% of national health care spending, derived primarily from high demands at work (€50 billion) and work-family conflict (€25 billion).
These are some of the harmful health effects from excessive stress:
Reduced ability to cope with future stress and increased anxiety and chronic depression;
The onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
Reduced immune system functioning;
Increased inflammation and depression.
High on-the-job demands and insufficient resources contribute to stress.
In addition, an effort-rewards imbalance with perceptions of high effort and low compensation or recognition can also contribute to workplace stress.
Goals perceived as exceedingly difficult or unclear, rather than achievable challenges, are also factors in excessive stress, anger, and anxiety.
Try this survey to find out if you are at risk or are working in a stressful environment at work.
Is my workplace a stressful place?
Micro managers, annoying co-workers and unrealistic objectives - just three things known that make people stressed at work. It doesn't matter whether you're based in an office or a warehouse, being unable to cope with the pressures at work can make your life unbearable. Not only does it take its toll on you emotionally, it can leave you at higher risk of a range of physical illnesses. Stress in the workplace can lead to :
• Anxiety and chronic tension • Agitation and fits of panic • Aggression and short temper • Mood swings and disorientation • Negative self-talk • Sleeping difficulties and constant fatigue • Lack of energy • Eating more (or less), drinking more (or less) • Pessimism and despondency • Lack of motivation • Gradual withdrawal from society and friends
Take this test to evaluate if your workplace is causing you stress*.
* This Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this or any other Website)
The workplace is a very demanding, quick-paced and increasingly uncertain place in which we operate on a day-to-day basis, but does it always have to be a stressful place?.
Pressure to meet deadlines, deliverables and working with difficult people, among other factors, puts modern employees under unreasonable amounts of stress.
In fact, being constantly stressed out is so universal that many people have accepted it as unpleasant, but a way of life – it has become the norm.
While a certain amount of stress is acceptable and can actually be beneficial for you—keeping you alert and focused, helping you cope well with challenges—beyond a certain acceptable limit, stress is nothing but bad for you, if it is not channelled and managed.
Not only does it affect your mental stability but also your health, relationships, productivity at work, and overall quality of life.
People are different, so we all react differently to the same set of circumstances; something that one person may find stressful, another may regard as only mildly challenging or even normal.
How you tolerate and respond to stress depends not only on the particularities of your situation but also on what type of person you are; your natural inclinations, beliefs and behaviors.
In this podcast we look at some of the ways that workplace stress impacts people and we look at :
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