Psychology Simplified On Bringing The Best Or Worst Out In People

Would you accept that it is just as easy to do either! Which you achieve is pretty well entirely down to you! You can control your approach to get the Best or the Worst out of people. Now will come the shouts from readers that this is rubbish because some people are always intent in bringing out the worst in others! True, but aren't they still proving the point? Aren't they proving it is easy to do. Just because they decide not to try to bring the best out in people, why should you give up on it!

Take complaining, (which we all have to do from time to time)! This offers a great chance to vindicate our behaviour. Suppose you have an issue with an energy supplier. You ring their call centre angry about the problem. Be honest, is the person taking the call likely to be the first or last person to have been briefed on the cause of your problem. Is he or she likely to be all set to give you the information you need? Answer: No. Is he or she paid to try to help you? Yes!

Now the crucial question - again be honest and fair - do you think he or she vowed privately while on the way to work at the call centre that day, "I am going to screw up as many peoples problems as I can today?" Realistic answer: "No!"

Believe it not, even the people working in these front line complaint roles want to do a good job. They want to achieve a result for you. They can be just as frustrated that they themselves have yet to be given an explanation.

So does blasting and bad-mouthing them help or hinder them when resolving your complaint? Of course, tell them you are very angry and desperately inconvenienced - assuming it is true - but don't be angry with them and watch what happens!

Isn't the reaction: 'Oh Dear! Tell me more about it and and let me see if I can sort it out'.
Now you have a small team working on your problem.

If instead you blast them down the phone, surely all you get is a self-protective, defensive, classic job manual response for difficult callers.

Doctors, hospitals, police, airlines, telephone companies, holiday companies and many more, all employ people like you. Like you they too are busy, trying to simplify things. They have children with chicken pox or mumps, a parent ill, financial worries, or may not be feeling too great themselves.

Really! Is any of this, you ask, an issue for you and your complaint? You may say, after all the bother you have had, that there is absolutely no justification for accommodating any of this. Yelling at them is the only way, given the scale of the trouble..

So what would I say to that? OK! You choose! Adopt an approach asking for help and apologising for your aggravated state and watch how the helper's own sense of justice kicks in. But multiply the problem by verbally assaulting the person in the call centre and who gains?.

This same simple psychology can be used with employees too. All managers work related surely have problems, disappointments and annoying issues. They too can deal with those in the part of the business that caused. There they can bring the worst out of the staff involved. It is so easy but solves nothing either.

Even more true is that some people who have caused us grief can be innocently unaware of the problem they have caused us. When told in civil manner they can be more horrified than we are as the sufferer. Yet when blasted out they can in ignorance deny it and exacerbate the whole affair.

What's the simple ploy then? With the Psychology Simplified, just adopt a frame of mind to bring the best out in people. You won't ever achieve 100% success but you will be astonished how it simplifies your life. More to the point still - watch your blood pressure drop!

Gerry Neale is a mentor, an artist and a writer of many articles on Psychology published on Ezine and copied elsewhere. He is the author of a recently published cognitive novel called "Squaring Circles" ISBN 9780956868824. The book is a paperback available on line and soon to be available in UK book shops. More details are available at http://www.squaringcircles.co.uk/ or via the publishers at http://www.pearlpress.co.uk/

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Finding A Specialty Within The Engineering Field

Although the job market is stagnant, there is one field that seems to be booming - engineering. Not only do engineers get the benefit of being in a stable career, they also make very good salaries. If you want to pursue engineering as a career, you might want to research the various specialties within this broad field. This will help you to choose a degree program that falls in line with your career goals.

Engineering is one of those fields that is on the forefront of the "green" movement. Does taking a role in saving the planet appeal to you? If so, look no further than environmental engineering. This field helps in creating remedies to environmental pollution. An engineering degree with an environmental emphasis will probably include courses on water treatment and sustainable design.

Those interested in computers may want to instead go into the field of computer software engineering. This could be considered more of an information technology field, but actually there are many engineering degrees that focus on this subject. As you might have guessed, professionals in this career develop software that we run on our computers - either for fun or for work.

If it is hardware that excites you, on the other hand, electronic engineering may be more suited to your interests. People who have completed a four-year engineering program that specializes in electronics may find work as an electronics engineering technician or technologist. These professionals test electronic components such as microprocessors.

Another emphasis area in engineering is nanotechnology, which is the study of science and technology at the molecular level. People who earn engineering degrees and pursue careers in this specialty are on the forefront of scientific innovation. Every year, technology gets smaller and smaller, in terms of gadgets - nanotechnology engineers are partially responsible for this.

Are you interested in both engineering and the health sciences? Biomedical engineering is an program that brings together these two fields. Students pursuing a degree in this field can expect to take courses that discuss the physical sciences, such as molecular biology, and engineering, such as computer aided design.

Last, but certainly not least, is the field of civil engineering. When people think of engineering and what engineers do, their first thoughts probably fall on civil engineering. These are the professionals who design our structures, like buildings and bridges. The education they receive in degree programs across the country help them to create safe structures that we use every day. The next time that you are on the top floor of a sky-scraper, be thankful that civil engineers probably had a hand in its construction.

Most engineers with four-year degrees make more than $30 an hour. Even technicians do pretty well at more than $20 an hour. This is true of all the specializations listed above; however, earning a graduate degree will provide the best salary. As you can see, a degree in engineering spans a wide range of disciplines, which means a large variety of specialties from which to choose. Because of the many degrees out there, it is very important that you really research all the different programs that are available before you settle on the perfect one for you.

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Artificial Sperm? Could This Be The End Of Male Infertility?

Couples struggling with infertility issues can spend thousands of dollars seeking a scientific answer, which often increases the stress of the situation, making a successful pregnancy even harder to achieve.
Friends of mine spent about a year and a half trying to conceive through in vitro fertilisation. The process took their savings and imposed restrictions on their diets and daily lives, as they carefully anticipated the "fertile days" each month. The hormonal roller coaster ride her system had to endure became a major factor in abandoning the process. It put a terrible strain on their relationship. It was even difficult for family and friends, such as myself, who always wanted to be supportive, but dreaded seeing the body language between them.
Infertility can be related to both sexes. In 60% of cases infertility is female related, but 40% of the time, it's caused by male complications. It was also determined that in 25% of these couples, both partners have fertility issues.
But now, Japanese scientists believe they have made a huge breakthrough on how to treat infertility in men. For the first time, sperm has been grown from scratch in a laboratory. It took about ten weeks to grow the sperm from mice stem cells.
The artificial sperm was then implanted into the testes of an infertile male mouse, which was then later extracted and used to fertilize mouse eggs in a laboratory dish. A mouse foster mother was then artificially inseminated with two sets of embryos, which apparently produced healthy mice. These mice then went on to reproduce under normal conditions.
This breakthrough in stem cell research could have all kinds of positive repercussions in the advancement of regenerative medicine. Stem cells are the body's master code, they are the source of all cells and tissues. They grow into all different types of cells and multiply. The scientists who study them are hopeful they will be pivotal in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
The most encouraging part, is that this new discovery made by the Japanese scientists, can be studied immediately to determine if it can shed light on, or even correct male infertility issues. Especially in cases where men can't produce sperm at all.
Will artificial sperm be used to solve human infertility? It's a possibility that is still years, perhaps decades away from being applied to humans. And, it is sure to start another wave of controversy regarding legal and ethical dilemmas.
K M Fox is a writer and product reviewer. She can be reached at kmfox206@gmail.com
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