Exploring Insights on Communication and Professional Growth - ICONDA Solutions Blog
Dive into the ICONDA Solutions Blog for valuable articles on improving communication skills, mastering interpersonal dynamics, and achieving professional growth.Possible Postures for Managing Up
Possible Postures for Managing Up Here’s some good news about diverse communication skills,...
Learning Objectives Enable Flexibility in STMicroelectronics Training
It may seem, when searching for training solutions, that the options are either Do It Yourself,...
Why it’s hardest to communicate when it matters most
See also this video. Communication has special challenges when it comes to science and technology....
Do Your Best Thinking!
If you are trying to solve tough problems at the moment, then be careful not to let your mind brood or worry. Brooding is where you get stuck in the past, ruminating, kicking yourself for not buying Zoom shares in January, for example. Worrying is letting fear take a...
Half and half
Anita Roddick* once said: If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room The corona virus seems to have taken the place of the mosquito 😉 So, making a virtue out of different necessities, my colleagues and I delivered...
Bees and FAEs
At the start of a recent training course, each person introduced themselves by citing an animal that could do their job, then explaining why. One of the Field Application Engineers (FAEs) in the audience put forward a bee, saying that they buzzed around busily,...
A Goal Setting Tail
Don't worry, this isn’t the old story about the insecure dyslexic, insomniac atheist who lays awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog. It's about the strange but ultimately effective path that my dog takes when I call him and why this could be a valuable...
The Hurry Monster, RIP
Apparently, I suffer from an affliction which most people manage to avoid. A weird mixture of intellectual laziness and hyperactivity, it once led me to attempt the reduction of German grammar to a handful of equations. Preferably to one equation. Einstein had managed...
A Problem-Solving Experience
Cycling quite fast down a narrow mountain road, I met a lorry coming up it. The result was eight broken ribs on one side, a broken shoulder on the other and a huge problem with getting out of bed. Problem-solving methodologies can be usefully classified as either...
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