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How to Cut Your Losses When It’s Not Working. BIFF - Behaviour, Impact of behaviour, own/others Feelings, Future behaviour. Effective Feedback: BIFF feedback model - Andi Roberts. In my recent research around feedback and feedback mnemonics I came across BIFF.

Effective Feedback: BIFF feedback model - Andi Roberts

Whilst the word biff signifies a small blow or punch, you could say that this is how some people feel after receiving poorly structured feedback, that they have been punched! The BIFF feedback model is similar to that of AID model, but with the useful addition I think, of asking the person receiving the feedback to consider how they feel after receiving it. B – Behaviour: the specific description of what the person receiving the feedback has done. I – Impact: What outcomes this behaviour has had on you, colleagues, customers or performance. F – Future: What you expect in terms of behaviour or performance. F – Feelings: An insight to where the feedback receiver is emotionally after receiving the feedback. Like most feedback models, this can be used to structure positive or praise feedback or performance improvement feedback. As usual with my blog articles, here are some questions for you to consider:

Managing people - the SCARF model. In any organization, there are people that we manage, and people who manage us.

Managing people - the SCARF model

Getting the most out of the people we manage – in a nice way – is the secret of good management. And sometimes, we need a way of managing our managers. Google Image Result for. Vision and goal setting. Click on the concepts for more information. possibility a mindset of possibility allows you to get into creative visualization and clearly articulate your life without self-created limitation. a few things to consider when writing your vision and goals: let your past be in the past. we tend to look at the past in order to create our future, yet a goal set from the past will likely create more of what already exists, and inherently has limitations We tend to create our future based on what's happened in the past.

vision and goal setting

The 'story' that we bring with us comes with limitations so a goal set from the past will likely create more of what already exists. remove perceived constraints. what limitations do you create for yourself that don't actually exist? 'I don't have enough money'. Vision balance audacity is this goal easy to achieve?

Format integrity once your goals are set, consider how you incorporate them into your daily life to achieve them. how do you live with integrity to your vision and goals? Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd. Among the greatest commencement addresses of all time is an extraordinary speech beloved author Neil Gaiman delivered in May of 2012 at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.

Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd

Holacracy, Explained: An Illustrated Guide to Management-Free Organizations. Have you heard about Holacracy? If you’re watching the startup and tech scene, then there’s a pretty good chance you have. Holacracy is a management-free way to run a company. It’s been around for a few years, but it may have come to your attention just recently when its inventor, Brian Robertson, released a book on the concept. Effective advocacy 101: how to bring about change in five steps. You could argue that some of the most important changes in the world, such as the end of the slave trade or votes for women, were achieved through advocacy.

Effective advocacy 101: how to bring about change in five steps

Knowing how to do it well is crucial for people who want to shape our world for the better. When advocacy works well it can be transformative. For example, in 2009 anti-poverty campaigners Results UK took veteran Conservative MP Bill Cash to India to meet slum-dwelling women. He has spoken about how this experience led him to introduce the International Development (Gender Equality) Act as a private member’s bill. The act, which was passed in 2014 with the help of many advocates and campaigners, made a commitment to ensure that gender equality was made a legal obligation in UK aid spending. As an advocate for Results UK and Sense International I have found that successful advocacy requires the following elements: Clear and simple messages. Trello. Slack: Be less busy. Facing Facts: Artists Have to be Entrepreneurs.

In the summer of 2010 I performed in my first ever Fringe Festival.

Facing Facts: Artists Have to be Entrepreneurs

I had known about the Fringe circuit for a long time. I had volunteered at the San Francisco Fringe as a technician ten years earlier where I saw some of the worst theatre in my life. Active listening. Active listening is a communication technique used in counselling, training and conflict resolution, which requires the listener to feed back what they hear to the speaker, by way of re-stating or paraphrasing what they have heard in their own words, to confirm what they have heard and moreover, to confirm the understanding of both parties.

Active listening

[citation needed] Comprehending[edit] Comprehension is "shared meaning between parties in a communication transaction". Arquiva - Recherche Google. S Note. New S Note for More Convenience S Note provides a number of user-friendly features that differentiate it from other note-taking-apps.

S Note

This includes easy file management with the ability to create folders, the ability to create folders, and also copy, more or delete files from within the app. It is also possible to sync notes across your mobile devices and PC through your Samsung or Evernote account. Finally, S Note’s library, favourite, and tag features make finding your notes simple, no matter where they are. * It is only available on the Note 3 and the next generation of the GALAXY Note. Scrivener Writing Software.