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How to Make the Right Team

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In cooking, each ingredient brings a unique taste or flavor to the dish. If you want your meal to be extra tasty, you add more sugar, spice or anything nice. This means, too, that you cannot put pepper in your beef stew and expect it to be sweet. You need to know how each ingredient will change or affect how your dish will taste. This is true as well, to members of a team. Knowing what unique contribution each member can bring is important to building an effective team. There are several easy team building activities that you can facilitate in your team building sessions. These activities should focus on getting to know the members of the team such as what their preferences are. You also need to ensure that the activities will allow members to maximize on their unique skills or talents. The first activity can be a simple activity of asking the participants to answer questions like, what is your greatest achievement, what do you want to achieve in the next five years, what do y...

Anxiety

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How To Deal With Depression at University

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Because it has come up to this time of year when people are going off to university or have already started, I thought I would pass on some tips on how to deal with depression at university. As someone going into their final year of university and suffers from severe depression, I know that it’s no easy feat and have learnt a lot through my experience of having a mental illness whilst living away from home and studying. Important Stuff: Look into the services that your university offers for those with mental health illnesses. They probably offer mentoring, counselling and therapy, as well as mental health assessments. Also register at your university’s doctors surgery to get medication prescriptions and they will also guide you when it comes to getting help as they can recommend any local mental health services outside of university. They can also provide doctors notes to use as deadline extension evidence. If you have the choice when looking into accommodation,  consi...

How To Plan Your Study Time

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This is a planning method that I’ve come up with by combining different study methods I’ve come across until now. I plan for each test, exam or assignment in detail . (At least) a week before the test/exam, I spend a day to complete my study plan - then I (try to) follow the plan religiously until the test day.  Basically, there are 4 steps in my planning process: 1. Outline the big “chunks”. i.e. the main topics to be covered for the test. These are often headings of chapters or modules. I call these “tasks”. 2. Break down& list the subtasks. A topic/task must be broken down into smaller, manageable pieces that are very specific. More specific goals can lead to greater productivity. I refer to these smaller steps as “subtasks”. Ask WHAT and HOW. WHAT are you going to study and HOW are you going to study it? So for example, “Study chapter 1.1″ would answer what you are going to study but not HOW. Break it down into smaller steps. Goals like “Summarise ch 1.1″, “G...

How to Revise for any maths exam!

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