Amer's Blog

No doubt that communication plays a major role on how we formulate our relations and bonds with our peers in the workplace. And to be able to well-establish your relations, you need to be aware of some mistakes that can hinder you from fitting well in your organization. Following are some points to put in consideration in order to avoid being a completely buffoon. Don’t be over funny! Okay, we got that, you’re super fucking funny and you know all the quirky things. But keeping that trait of making fun of every single statement or situation -specially those ones that may be inappropriate jokes for some- makes people uncomfortable. It’s also an indicator that you’re not a good team player. As many executives believe being able to sense the mood of others and effectively adjust your language, tone and content is one of the top skills required to advance. Save your tears for the cinema! We’re all human, we can experience those hard times that we got very stressed and n...

Introduction Last week I've been studying the exciting course for ‘ Problem solving and decision making ’ provided by University of California, Irvine on the amazing Coursera platform. This course aims to provide you with a quick but intensive overview of practical managerial approaches to identify and tackle problems, also to come up with a solution through a proper decision making process. Here’s some of the best points I learned in this course. The process of being decisive Well, you may wondering “Is there such a process that really called a decision making process?” isn’t it something intuitive? We do that by nature by nature! When we try to pick up the best piece of cloth to wear, when we choose one product over the others, etc..! Do we really need a process for that? Actually, things don’t seem to be always the same way, specially when you’re dealing with more complicated problems that relates to complicated entities (people, organizations, money). In such proble...