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Roland Gesthuizen

More Views on What It Takes to Truly Engage Employees - 0 views

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    "Employee engagement is far different from employee satisfaction and measures much more of real value to an organization, such as how well the employee understands the goals of the organization and how committed he or she is to giving discretionary effort to achieve those goals."
Roland Gesthuizen

How Turning My To-Dos into a Story Boosted My Memory and Solved My Procrastination Problem - 0 views

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    What would happen if you turned your to-do list into a story as a rehearsal for the next day? Personally, it's helped me not just Get Things Done, but also boosted my memory so that I've been able to ditch complicated to-do lists and schedules for good.
Roland Gesthuizen

What Happens to Social Media After a Twitter Revolution? - 0 views

  • The results underline how the population shifted its focus from looking back and reflecting on the revolution, to looking forward and focusing on new state institutions and the elections
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    "Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region. But regardless of what happened during those Twitter-fueled revolutions, what's happened afterward?"
Roland Gesthuizen

Delivering Constructive Feedback Doesn't Have to Be Painful | Your Voice of Encouragement - 1 views

  • 1.  Describe the behavior – What specifically is the person doing or not doing? 2.  Share your reaction – how you feel about it 3.  Explain the impact of their actions 4.  State what you’d like this person to do in the future – what you want 
  • Give the person a chance to respond and commit to making the change. If there are issues to discuss, you've increased the chances of both parties being honest and open. This approach strengthens your relationship with that individual and you can feel good about the way you handled the situation.
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    "When you give feedback the right way, you focus on the behavior, not the person. There's a simple 4-step process that works well. It helps you stay calm and use language that makes it more likely the person will listen to your message."
Roland Gesthuizen

Color Survey Results | xkcd - 0 views

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    Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.  Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.  If you never got around to taking it, it's too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.
Roland Gesthuizen

A love letter to Siri: how a boy with autism became best friends with Apple's personal assistant - 0 views

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    "Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple's "intelligent personal assistant" on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus had spent the hour parsing the difference between isolated and scattered thunderstorms - an hour in which, thank God, I didn't have to discuss them."
Roland Gesthuizen

Synaptic Plasticity - BrainFacts.org - 0 views

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    "Two University of Texas, Houston, graduate students created a claymation video to illustrate how synapses (connections between nerve cells in the brain) grow stronger over time. The video also features video games and earned Julia Hill and Natalia Rozas both third place and the People's Choice Award in the 2011 Brain Awareness Video Contest. "
Roland Gesthuizen

How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • So, for most of us, eight hours of sleep is excellent and six hours is no good
  • cognitive deficits: “You don’t see it the first day. But you do in five to seven days. Unless you’re doing work that doesn’t require much thought, you are trading time awake at the expense of performance.”
  • the sleep-deprived among us are lousy judges of our own sleep needs. We are not nearly as sharp as we think we are.
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    In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead author, Hans Van Dongen, assigned dozens of subjects to three different groups for their 2003 study: some slept four hours, others six hours and others, for the lucky control group, eight hours - for two weeks in the lab.
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