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1. The past 20 years have seen thousands of research and development on the brain and its development. We have more knowledge about about what happens in this wonderful organ in the last two decades than all the human knowledge put together before that.  Much of the debates among researchers since 1920's centres around the definition of intelligence itself. Some school of thoughts emphasised on thinking ability (abstractions) while others on learning (ability to respond to questions). The more modern recent thoughts however agreed on the its ability to adapt. Psychologists agree that it is the ability to adapt to the environment that differentiate those who are successful from the rest. The contexts could be at home or at school, workplace etc. Knowing your areas of strength and weaknesses can mean a whole lot in advancing your career at work or academic excellence if you are a student. Howard Gardner proposed that we have multiple intelligences instead of having just one typ...

Next to the fear death, the other biggest fear is public speaking ! Imagine that. In other words, people would rather die than stand in public a and speak voluntarily. The funny fact is that no one has ever been reported to die during a public speaking engagement. It is wonder that while speaking is such a natural thing to do for humans, public speaking on the other hand produces a 'life threatening' result in most people. However, for some people, it also seems to come naturally like they are born for the skill. In my work as a training consultant, I have also seen many confident looking individuals who say they have the proverbial elephants in the stomach when they speak in public. In this article I will share some of the tips on how to create the confidence to stand and speak in public. Preparation is the utmost key to developing confidence. Half of the battle is won when we prepare our material and rehearse what and how we are going to present our ideas. People who do...

Recrutiment and selection is indeed a crucial process in any organization. Who you bring into the organization pretty much determines the performance of the organization and ultimately its success. As such it should not be left to chance but rather it has to be a carefully and systematically effort so that the interview process really selects the best candidate who is capacle to further the objectives of the organization in performing his function. This is especially true in an age where there so many candidates to choose from, and every one claiming they are the best candidate. This is compounded by the fact that there are so much information either on line or in print giving guides to candidates on how to give great and impressive answers during interviews. As a result you might get a great interviewee but a bad employee.Here are 7 tips that will enable you to have the best chance at getting the best candidates. Ask good questions about past performance. Past performance predic...