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I hope that your week is going well! As usual, I have compiled a list of my favourite articles from across the internet. But first, I have exciting news to share:
Upcoming Public Course: Working Successfully in Southeast Asia
Akteos Asia, leader in intercultural training, is hosting a public course on 26 April. The course, 'Working Successfully in Southeast Asia', will help you to leverage intercultural skills and strategies to increase your business impact in the region and with your Southeast Asian counterparts.
It's a fantastic program that's highly relevant for Managers and other business professionals who are working or doing business in Southeast Asia. If you’d like to find out more (or register) click here.
Top Reads From Last Week
This week, it's all about avoiding burnout, Facebook for job seekers, staying on top of your LinkedIn profile, presenting powerfully, and improving your health with good posture. Let me know if you have any other great articles from the past week in the comments below!
- How To Update Your LinkedIn Profile At Every Stage Of Your Career - You know you’re supposed to keep your LinkedIn profile updated, but beyond tweaking your summary and adding new achievements and keywords, what’s there to change?
- Burnout Sabotages Performance -- Here's How To Handle It - Here’s how you reduce workplace burnout, stress, fatigue and everything that comes along with it.
- Will Facebook Make Looking For A Job Easier -- Or Just More Social? - You probably know social media is a handy tool for job seekers, with 14.4 million people using it to enhance their search. But will the launch of Facebook’s jobs board transform the process?
- Five Work Habits That Can Ruin Your Posture And How To Fix Them - Just about everyone has been told to “stand up straight” at some point in their lives—and it turns out that mom was right. Posture is a key element to good health. It is right up there with eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising.
- How Invisible Inequality Hurts the Poor - Will pure luck (beyond effort and personal circumstances) become more salient for professional success and quality of life in the context of a winner-take-all society fuelled by technology and new ways of doing business.
- 3 Ways to Tell if You'Re Connecting With Your Audience (And What to do if You're Not) - If facial expressions aren’t a good barometer of how well your talk is going, what is? These are a few subtler, more reliable signs to look for—and what to do if you realize something isn’t clicking.
- 7 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before Taking On A Big Project - The idea of being an overnight sensation is nice, but most big ideas need lots of time to develop. Here’s how to tell if your idea is worth months or years of your life.
Bonus: Know your worth, and then ask for it
“Your boss probably isn't paying you what you're worth — instead, they're paying you what they think you're worth. Take the time to learn how to shape their thinking. Pricing consultant Casey Brown shares helpful stories and learnings that can help you better communicate your value and get paid for your excellence.”
About Timeo-Performance
We were founded with a vision to improve the world of work for everyone
We are in the Skills Business!
Through recruitment, training and consulting, Timeo-Performance provides solutions for increased performance of companies, teams, and individuals. As our clients are in the center of global business and often serve the APAC region, our solutions need to be sustainable in a multicultural and remote context.
Our joint venture with Akteos, the European leader in intercultural training, and partnership with digital learning solutions provider CrossKnowledge have therefore been organic and logical additions to our service. Timeo-Performance has been helping companies in APAC increase business performance since 2008 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
We love what we do, feel the Timeo-Performance experience!
As busy professionals, our schedules are often filled to the brim with meetings and tasks to complete. We can get so caught up with work that we might even forget our all-important lunch and power through dinner as well. Alas, we can only do so much given the 24 hours we have in a day. While time management is vital, being productive is another matter in its entirety.Enter time batching.
