Month: May 2020

All human beings have desired or imagined, at some point in their life, a different condition to the one they are in. For this reason, many tend to make their dream map on dates at the closing and the beginning of the year, on birthdays, marriages and other beginnings and ends of important life cycles.

However, there are those who ask me about the real effect of dream maps. The reason: after having struggled for a long time to have something that they believed would make them very happy, they do not feel that much desired happiness when they get it.

How can this situation be explained?

It turns out that, on many occasions, these dreams have focused more on buying things, having objects, climbing positions and achieving status (situations that happen outside), instead of what allows living an integral and total experience of satisfaction and personal fulfillment.

For that reason, I invite you to build a dream map that is born from within, that has to do with what really makes you happy that allows you to feel fulfilled.

Before starting, remember two important keys when building a dream map:

Key # 1: The preliminary questions are essential.

For the dream map to have a powerful effect, the type of questions you are going to ask yourself before building it are very important. Remember that the dream map should be that route that contributes to the development and expression of your potential in such an inspiring way that you have no other alternative than to lead your steps towards that realization.

Key # 2: Don’t underestimate the power of images.

Become aware of the powerful effect that the dream map generates in the brain through the images you use to build it. In them you will be able to capture, from the right hemisphere of the brain, realities or situations that you have already raised in your left hemisphere. Each time you manage to visualize something, you activate your limbic system, the one that emits the necessary emotions to mobilize your body to action.

Alright then!

What do you need?

• Time: this dream map requires five minutes a day for five days (preparation phase) and another two days to create. (building phase).
• Blank sheets of paper.
• Pencils, markers, colors.
• magazines,
• images, photos, drawings

Preparation phase

Start by visualizing yourself in the future.

By future I mean the period of time of your preference, three, five or ten years. For five consecutive days you must answer the following questions. Always do it in different sheets so that you can’t see what you answered to each question the day before.

• How would you like to be remembered by the people who interact with you? Correspondingly in the family, work and social environment.
• In that future that you envision, what are the things that you like to do the most? Remember that this enjoyment is related to the feeling you leave on others, which you answered in the first question.
• How is your life at that time? Visualize it as rich and full as you can and in all possible contexts.

When you get to the fifth day, take each question and review the answers you gave.

Make a sheet that summarizes the five-day responses to the three questions posed.

Collect inspiring images that symbolize your dreams for the next year, manifested in the answers to the three questions.

Find them on the internet, cut them out of magazines or newspapers, or simply draw them.

BUILDING PHASE

On the sixth day build your map!

Unleash your creative genius and let your artist express itself as it knows how to best. Choose the format. It can be on a physical or virtual board, the important thing is that you can see the dream map very often.

On the seventh day and like a good creator, enjoy your work, observe it, make adjustments and place it in a place where you can observe it at least once a day.

I hope you really enjoy making your dream map and, above all, releasing your best and most heartfelt answers.

Activate your potential!

Omaira Giraldo Soto
Clinical Psychologist
Business Coach

Development of skills for Telework

Although many people spoke of teleworking as their job dream, nowadays and facing the current reality, it is already a necessity. With it has come the opportunity to raise awareness about what this implies and in this process it is important to welcome in our home, the tasks that have allowed us to express our talents. Now is also the opportunity to raise awareness about different and perhaps new talents that adapting to this new reality implies. Receive these business coaching techniques to manage work stress at home.

It is also important to recognize that teleworking requires different skills or perhaps adapting certain skills to the reality of the change that teleworking requires.

Many of the situations or manifestations of work stress at home that we have seen during these times are due to the lack of skills necessary for teleworking.

Let’s look at some important skills for teleworking and some alternatives for developing skills for teleworking.

• Self-regulation: This skill includes the most subtle things, such as recognizing emotional states and consciously doing what is necessary to move from your different moods, to achieve serenity and emotional calm, and with it mental calm. However, self-regulation also refers to the ability to regulate the pace of work, managing time to have the variety of activities necessary to take care of the balance of your life. Aspects such as time for exercise, time for your family and social activities, work, spiritual connection, studying and professional development.
• How can we practice self-regulation?:First of all, I recommend you have a permanent meditation and self-reflection practice, and while in a state of serene emotion, plan your week and your day to day, seek to include in your PLANNING the different activities that allow you comprehensive development. Now comes a second, very important skill that has to do with discipline to accomplish what you set out to do.
• Self-discipline: this is one of the most important skills for teleworking, because it implies setting goals within the timeframes that you set for your activities, it implies being constant in complying with the times that you establish and avoiding procrastination, since the amount of stimuli that surround us at home can become permanent distractors and the constant invitation to procrastination.
• How can we practice self-discipline?: I suggest the creation of recurring routines, in the beginning it is important not to overdo activities for your agenda and as you are accomplishing the fulfillment of your agenda, you can increase achievable goals within the fulfillment times. Another important aspect that helps with self-discipline is to organize a stimulating workspace for your work time and find a way to isolate the distractors that most tend to interfere with your work.
• Self-motivation: This is also one of the most important skills for teleworking, since you do not have the company of leading professionals or perhaps the stimulation of conversations or work environments that are usually the settings that have motivated us to do what we do and that inspires us to generate new ideas for our work.
• How to raise self-motivation?: It is very important to recognize what are the things that raise our energy and creativity. For some people music is important, so at home you can have moments to listen to the music that you like, or if it helps you with work, have a musical background that helps you maintain a high vibration. If your stimuli are related to a good reading that inspires new ideas or a good conversation with relevant people in your work, take time for those stimulating readings or take the initiative to call and talk to those people who stimulate your new ideas.
• Relational skills and communication: A very strong trend in teleworking is being locked up in work activities and forgetting that, although you are at home, you are still part of a work team, in addition to the fact that communication channels change in most of the cases, however, this does not mean that the communication no longer exists. So it is important to make sure when you interact that what you are communicating is being received as you want or need it to be interpreted.
• How to elevate your relational skills?: The first recommendation that I want to make is that you do not take for granted that what you communicate in an email or by chat has already been interpreted as you are saying it and do not expect that if you make a request or give an instruction by any of these means, the things will happen just as you expect. The other person may not read your email on time, or may not have space in their agenda to attend to your request according to your expectation of time, then it is important to validate with your interlocutor both interpretation and ability to commit to you in the requests made. Another risk in virtual communications is that we easily forget that on the other side there is a human being with his own emotional charges and many times our conversations are limited only to the work issue without taking into account the person, so take time also for some personal conversations, to build trust and understand the reality of your work team, this facilitates knowing what to expect from the other person, understanding some differences that can naturally occur, and building the connectivity necessary for the work to flow much better, even optimizing the team’s time, since many rework is avoided. You can learn more about this topic by reading our article “Remote Team Leadership.”

It is important to build trust with your leader or boss, to express to him if at any time you do not have the resources to deliver a quality service; or also build trust with colleagues and friends to find strategies that foster better results, this allows us to realize that we are not alone.

We invite you then, to make this time an opportunity to develop new skills for teleworking. We now have a learning challenge to develop our abilities, without neglecting the activities that we like to do outside of our work area.

MEDITATE, read a book, play games, watch movies, do the garden, get together with friends, and share with the family through video calls; these among many others activities will lower stress levels. Complement it with a healthy diet, the type of diet that you know is good for you and raises your energy. This is also a time to take care of ourselves by learning and seeking advice when we need it. Having a restful sleep will also be of great help and essential to give a solution to those situations that may be altering our natural flow.

Omaira Giraldo Soto
Clinical Psychologist
Business Coach

• Automotivación: Esta habilidad es una de las más importantes para tele trabajar, ya que no tienes la compañía de profesionales referentes o quizá el estímulo de conversaciones o los entornos laborales que usualmente son los entornos que nos han estimulado a hacer lo que hacemos y que nos estimulan a generar nuevas ideas para nuestra labor.
• ¿Cómo elevar la automotivación?: Es muy importante reconocer cuáles son las cosas que nos elevan la energía y la creatividad, para algunas personas la música es importante, así que en casa puedes tener momentos para escuchar la música que te gusta o si te estimula en el trabajo algún fondo musical que te ayude a mantener una alta vibración, si tus estímulos están relacionados con una buena lectura que te inspire nuevas ideas o una buena conversación con personas referentes en tu trabajo, toma tiempo para esas lecturas estimulantes o toma la iniciativa de llamar y conversar con esas personas que estimulan tus nuevas ideas.
• Habilidades relacionales y comunicación: Una tendencia muy fuerte en el teletrabajo es el encierro en las actividades laborales y el olvidarse que, aunque estas en casa, sigues haciendo parte de un equipo de trabajo, adicional a que los canales de comunicación cambian en la mayoría de los casos, sin embargo, esto no quiere decir que la comunicación ya no existe. Así que es importante asegurarte que estar interactuando y que lo que estas comunicando está siendo recibido como tú quieres o necesitas ser interpretado.
• ¿Cómo elevar tus habilidades relacionales? La primera recomendación que deseo hacerles es que no den por sentado que lo que comunicas en un correo o por chat, ya quedó interpretado como tú lo estás diciendo y tampoco esperes que si haces una solicitud o das una instrucción por alguno de estos medios, las cosas van a suceder tal como tú lo esperas, la otra persona puede no leer tu correo a tiempo, o puede no tener espacio dentro de su agenda para atender tu solicitud según tu expectativa de tiempo, entonces es importante validar con tu interlocutor tanto interpretación como capacidad de comprometerse contigo en las solicitudes realizadas.Otro riesgo en las comunicaciones virtuales es que olvidamos fácilmente que al otro lado hay un ser humano con sus propias cargas emocionales y muchas veces nuestras conversaciones se limitan solo al tema laboral sin tener en cuenta la persona, así que toma tiempo también para algunas conversaciones personales, para construir confianza y comprender la realidad de tu equipo de trabajo, esto te facilita saber qué esperar de la otra persona, entender algunas diferencias que naturalmente se pueden presentar y construir la conectividad necesaria para que el trabajo fluya mucho mejor incluso la optimización del tiempo del equipo, ya que se evitan muchos reprocesos. Puedes profundizar en este tema leyendo nuestro artículo “Liderazgo de equipos remotos”.

Es importante construir confianza con tu líder o jefe, para expresarle si en algún momento no cuentas con los recursos para entregar un servicio con calidad; o construir también confianza con compañeros y amigos para buscar estrategias que permitan dar mejores resultados, esto permite darse cuenta que no estamos solos.

Te invitamos entonces, para que este tiempo sea la oportunidad de desarrollar nuevas habilidades para el teletrabajo, tenemos ahora un reto de aprendizaje para desarrollar nuestras capacidades, sin dejar de lado las actividades que nos gusta hacer fuera de nuestra área laboral.

MEDITAR, Leer un libro, Jugar, ver películas, hacer el jardín, reunirnos con los amigos, compartir con la familia a través de video-llamadas, entre muchas otras. Estas actividades harán que bajen los niveles de estrés, complementa esto con una alimentación saludable, ese tipo de alimentación que sabes te hace bien y eleva tu energía, este también es tiempo para cuidar de nosotros mismos aprendiendo y asesorándonos cuando lo requerimos. Tener un sueño reparador será de gran ayuda y fundamental para darle solución a esas situaciones que pueden estar alterando nuestro fluir natural.

Entrénate ahora para desarrollar estas habilidades que te permitirán llevar una gestión adecuada del teletrabajo y te ayudarán a manejar el estrés laboral en casa. Contacta con nosotros para más información de nuestros entrenamientos.