Risk and Resilience When I think of a resilient person‚ what comes to mind is someone who can face the obstacles in their life head-on. These people can keep their cool when disaster strikes. Resilient people are able to utilize their skills and strengths to cope and recover from problems and challenges. There are various degrees of setbacks in our lives‚ some bigger or smaller than others. How we learn to cope and deal with these setbacks not only will attribute our outcome‚ but also our psychological
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separated and sent to different POW camps that were overly abusive and put Louie through a lot of mental and physical pain. In the novel‚ Unbroken‚ Laura Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his two most important traits‚ optimism‚ and resilience. During Louie’s life‚ he had never failed to be resilient. Through the time that he had been struggling to survive at POW camps‚ with everything that the
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Well Being Benefits of the Industrial Revolution The well being of every human is what is said to be the first priority of every politician‚ nonetheless‚ it the first thing that we look at when we try to help ourselves in our everyday lives. During the Industrial Revolution‚ we saw dramatic changes in the way we created everyday products. These products were made faster‚ cheaper‚ and reduced the need of skilled workers‚ or all workers in some views. The Standard of living and child labor were
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qualities-demands and is money an effective motivator at work to make each of them to become an “outstanding” employee. Managers of a company can apply a lot of effort to make the working place of their company look attractive for professional and skillful employees. It is not enough just to pay the salary now. Money nowadays is not a factor that can make the employee work at his full capacity or even continue working at home. It is as simple as that. A person works in a company only because of money
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performance‚ my effectiveness and develop greater resilience. In 2013‚ the VA Corporate Executive Development Board competitively selected me‚ to attend the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) through VA’s VALU program. I applied for this program because I wanted to expand my knowledge and improve my performance. I believed participating in this program would assist me in developing specific competencies such as external awareness‚ resilience‚ strategic thinking‚ problem solving‚ and political
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Promoting Communication 1. Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting In the early years sector we are working with children and adults and the relationships we have with these people are very important. The skills of good relationships and good communication go hand in hand and to be a good practitioner you need to be an effective communicator. People communicate for six different reasons at work and they are: 1. Building relationships 2. Maintaining Relationships
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Is Money an Effective Motivator at Work? Motivation could be defined as ‘’that which gives impetus to our behavior by arousing‚ sustaining and directing it toward the attainment of set goals’’(Wortman and Loftus 353).In terms of productivity‚ it is ‘’concerned with helping people to focus their efforts in effectively discharging their duties in the workplace’’(Gellerman 3).But due to inherent complexities in human behavior and values‚ there is no simple nor single motivator or reward
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Theme and Setting A clean well lighted place by Ernest Hemingway has a few themes that stand out clearly but the one theme that stands out to me is despair. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ despair means to lose all hope or confidence. In the story‚ the older waiter and the old deaf man somehow share a common bond of despair. Both men are of age and like to be out‚ late at night‚ alone. Asides from the story alone‚ the theme of the story can be brought out by the setting. The setting contributes
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Resilience capacity provides the basis for restoration after a severe jolt and can offer an opportunity for an organization to undergo a positive transformation as a result of overcoming an exceptionally challenging experience. Similarly‚ strategic agility enables a firm to initiate and apply flexible and dynamic competitive moves in order to respond positively to changes imposed by others and to initiate shifts in strategy to create new marketplace realities (McCann‚ 2004). The purpose of this
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Resilience is the ability to deal with ups and downs of life and overcoming adversity and recovering from trauma successfully. It is based on early attachments and positive relationship with family and friends. Children and young people who have high levels of self-esteem and selfconfidence are better able to cope with life as they get older. Researchers have described resilience in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The intrinsic factors are seen as three main building blocks that is necessary
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