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What Leaders Notice First: Turn Your Expertise Into Team Impact

Introduction When you join a new company, it is natural to focus on proving that you are capable. You want your manager and senior leaders to recognize your experience, skills, and ability to handle responsibility. You may spend your first few weeks demonstrating what you know and trying to establish yourself as a valuable addition to the team. But there is something many new hires overlook. Leadership is not only interested in what you know. They also notice how you use your knowledge to make the people and business around you stronger. Your expertise becomes much more valuable when it creates a breakthrough for someone else.  Your Knowledge Should Create More Value  Imagine joining a team with experience in a process that others are still learning. You could keep that knowledge within your own work and simply use it to complete your responsibilities. Or you could share what you know in a way that helps someone else work faster, avoid a mistake, or understand a difficult prob...

8 Ways To Create Flow According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Introduction Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a famous happiness researcher. He chose to become that due to the adversities that he faced growing up being a prisoner during World War II. During this time, he saw the pain and suffering of a large number of people around him. After going through all these difficulties, he wanted to know more about happiness and contentment. Csikszentmihalyi interviewed various people, who described that their optimal states of performance occurred when their work simply without much effort flowed out of them. Due to this, he developed the term “flow state”, in the flow psychology of optimal experience. 8 Ways To Create Flow According To Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1) Must have clear goals and immediate feedback: The first way of creating flow in flow psychology of optimal experience is to have clear goals. You need to have a clear finish line if you want to go into flow. Also, you should give yourself immediate feedback on the effectiveness of your actions. If you...

Scarcity Mindset vs Abundance Mindset

Introduction Mind is the most powerful tool and your Mindset is the most important component of your success in life. In a study by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, the mindset of young students was examined in which she found that children with a growth mindset who believed that intelligence can be developed were able to overcome academic challenges better than those with a fixed mindset that the intelligence of a person is predetermined. Stephen Covey mentioned about Scarcity Mindset and Abundance Mindset in his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Scarcity mentality refers to people amongst whom, one person takes a big piece and leaves less for everyone else whereas, in abundance mindset, they believe that there is plenty out there for everybody. Steps to shift from Scarcity Mindset to an Abundance Mindset? 1.) Focus on what you have Ideas like you aren’t doing good job or you don’t have transferable skills, are all based on scarcity in which you focus more ...