Communication English I

SWOT ANALYSIS: SWOT stands for: Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat . A SWOT analysis guides you to identify your organization’s strengths and weaknesses (S-W), as well as broader opportunities and threats (O-T). A SWOT analysis can offer helpful perspectives at any stage of an effort. You might use it to:  Explore possibilities for new efforts or solutions to problems.  Make decisions about the best path for your initiative. Identifying your opportunities for success in context of threats to success can clarify directions and choices.  Determine where change is possible. If you are at a juncture or turning point, an inventory of your strengths and weaknesses can reveal priorities as well as possibilities.  Adjust and refine plans mid-course. A new opportunity might open wider avenues, while a new threat could close a path that once existed.  SWOT also offers a simple way of communicating about your initiative or program and an excellent way to organize information you'...

FAILURE: Failure can be defined as the state or condition of not achieving a desirable or intended objective; it can be considered the opposite of success. Failure is just a state of mind. You are a failure only if you think that you failed. Your attitude towards a certain situation determines whether or not you have failed. The fact is that everyone fails in something or the other at some point in their lives. It is easy to think negatively when it seems that everything that you do is not good enough. Look at the following failures and come to a conclusion yourself: 1. Only 400 Cokes were sold in its first year of production. 2. Albert Einstein’s Ph.D dissertation was rejected. 3. Henry Ford had two bankruptcies before his famous success. 4. Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the electric bulb failed no less than 10000 times before succeeding. But he said “I have not failed. I have just found 10000 ways that won’t work."  Disappointments, Rejections, Unsuccessful attempts were n...

CONCEPT OF SUCCESS: DEFINITION: What makes a person successful? How do we recognize success? To some people, success might mean wealth. To others, it is recognition, good health, good family, happiness, satisfaction, and peace of mind. What this really tells us is that success is subjective. It can mean different things to different people. The best definition for success is “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal” Let's look at these definitions carefully.  "Progressive" means that success is a journey, not a destination. We never arrive. After we reach one goal, we go on to the next and the next and the next.  "Realization" means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external.  "Worthy" refers to our value system. Which way are we heading? Positive or negative? Worthiness determines the quality of the journey. That is what gives meaning and fulfilmen...

  THEORIES OF PERSONALITY: Many psychologists have developed theories about personality—how to describe it, how it emerges, what influences it, how it changes, and what constitutes a healthy or an abnormal personality. Here you will learn about the three most important personality theories: psychoanalytic theory, behaviourism and humanism. The first of the modern personality theories was developed by Sigmund Freud and is known as psychoanalytic theory. The psychiatric practice of this theory is called psychoanalysis. Freud’s ideas were plentiful, profound, and often controversial. His theory about personality has had tremendous influence on societies around the world through many different disciplines. Not only psychology has been influenced and informed by the ideas of Freud, but also literature, art, philosophy, cultural studies, film theory, and many other academic subjects. Freud’s theory represents one of the major intellectual ideas of the modern world. Right or wrong, these ...

  THE CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY- DEFINITION: “Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time” “It is the sum of biologically based and learnt behaviour which forms the person's unique responses to environmental stimuli” DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY: The Big Five personality traits, also known as the five factor model (FFM), is a model based on common language descriptors of personality (lexical hypothesis). These descriptors are grouped together using a statistical technique called factor analysis (i.e. this model is not based on scientific experiments). This widely examined theory suggests five broad dimensions used by some psychologists to describe the human personality and psyche. The five factors have been defined as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, often listed under the acronyms “OCEAN”. Dimension of Personality  ...