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HR Club Summer school opening – 2009.07.06, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Olivian BREDA — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:33:49 +0000

On 2009.07.06 I took part at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at HR Club‘s Summer school opening. Here come my impressions.
The opening started witha presentation by Anca PODOLEANU, representing HR Club (click to download).

The speakers in the picture below, are, in this order:
1. Anca PODOLEANU (Choice Consulting Ltd );
2. Oliver OLSON (CEU Business School);
3. Camelia SLIVNEANU (Coca Cola HBC );
4. Florin MIULESCU (FPSE Bucharest);
5. Sabina BICA (Chipita Romania);
6. Ioana MOHOLEA (Perspective Group);
7. Liliana BOLAN (B&B Expert Com);
8. Cristina MIHAI (freelancer);

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What I liked about the event?
1. I met new people;
2. I got to see again some old colleagues from a previous edition of the summer school;
3. Seeing some past speakers was also nice;
4. The audience was involved, right about everybody got the chance to say a few words.

All in all, a nice event to take part to.

Why should you take part to the Business Edu Expo event these days?

Olivian BREDA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:31:51 +0000

You might know that at Sala Palatului in Bucharest there is an event on the annual training exhibition – Business Edu Expo 2009.
Why should you participate?
1. Unlike previous years, this year there is a small number of participants; Why is this great? You can talk with every speaker at the conference easily; You can talk for 5 seconds or 10 minutes; There’s no line behind you, no one awaits your message, you just have to be there and you can speak with everybody;
2. The workshops are great; At the end of this blog post there are some pictures taken last evening by me at Drum Cafe workshop;
3. Lots of interesting people (if you’re into training) to speak with; I had lovely experiences in there;
4. Everything’s free – the entry, participating at the workshops, talking, networking; I’m going to go there in the next days too.

What I love in this life? Twelve things for a me that I like

Olivian BREDA — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:54:58 +0000

I’ll write in this blog post about the things I love most in my life. Simple things, complicated things. But the things that matter most to me (in less-than-random order, which is to say from most important to the least, but still, important).
So, these are the most important things for me in this life:
1. Love itself – I can’t define love; I don’t know what it is; To me, it may be a combination of respect, admiration, wish to copy, wish to help, wish to contribute, altruism; But love itself is a wonderful thing to do in this life;
2. Having models in life – There are a lot of people I admire, but basically they fall into these three categories: models of excellence (both professionals or lovely persons by themselves), relatives and friends; The smallest category is friends; Having these pillars of support in my life is such a great thing;
3. Knowing life has a meaning – I could have said “believing”, since “knowing” is mostly associated to science; And yet, at a spiritual level, knowing (to me) that life has a meaning, that values and principles and human actions all converge into one aim, can be a wonderful experience;
4. Talking – Sometimes talking means silently listening to the other party and nodding, while trying to understand the most of what the other person says; Sometimes this works for me, sometimes it doesn’t; But talking, expressing my view, sharing my experience, presenting my emotions, selling my abilities, boy, oh, boy, isn’t that just great?
5. Making people laugh – You might notice that on this blog I only post smilies on comments, instead of blog posts themselves; But you may also notice that some remarks are strangely funny; Making people laugh in one of the best pleasures of life;
6. Learning – This is a blog on self-development, on sharing information, on making a things better; Right now on my job I’m on a learning phase (it’s a job where I learn a lot of new things as time goes by); When I fail a project, I consider it a learning experience; When I go see something, I try to make the most out of it; After I go to an event like a conference or seminar, I try to express what I’ve learned in there; So, at the end of the day, most of my life really is a learning experience; And that’s just great;
7. The wonderful feeling of feeling healthy – Although it may seem a bit hard to sleep the time I need (rarely do I wake with the alarm clock), to eat the healthy things my body requires (and some veggies are really not that tasty), to drink healthy thinks (here comes only filtered water), there are some good parts: to try and have a happy feeling in you whenever possible, to live a good social life; And, at the end of the day, when I feel I’ve done everything in my powers to live a healthy life, that’s just a wonderful feeling to share; Doing everything to be healthy? Lovely, just lovely;
8. Helping people – This gets complicated; It’s not clear to me if I do a right thing if I help someone (it may as well live a better life if that person manages to solve things with its own powers), but the feeling I get when helping is priceless;
9. The Internet – The Internet is just great to me; I can search for things, find different information, download some stuff, download some legal stuff, and interact; I have a job on the Internet, I’ve worked on Internet for quite a few years, so I think life is fine on that matter;
10. Listening to music – What’s music? I can’t define it; It’s in the same time something cheerful and something sad; It’s something serious and funny; It’s angry and joyful; It’s modern and classical; It’s socially acceptable to listen to or less-than-that; But in the end it’s just a plain wonderful experience;
11. The wish to freely say what I think – Embracing a way to live different way to live is one thing, but saying hard truths goes into a bit of a painful experience; And yet it’s lovely, sometimes funny (I amuse myself watching other people’s reactions), sometimes tragic (truth hurts, oh!, so badly)
12. The lust to be different – It’s a repeating pattern in my life; People tell me again and again: “Be like the others! Do like the others do!” But it is, after all, my life, and if I choose to pick a shockingly different way of living, I learned to accept that about myself; And more than accept it, I’m happy to be different.

These are the things that make me the happiest person in the world and you, my reader, a person I’ve shared this with.

The two things I’ve learned today at a workshop on Public Speaking

Olivian BREDA — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:47:09 +0000

I’ll keep this one simple:
1. Sell information, don’t boringly present it; Convince me!
2. When having a slide in PowerPoint with a few bullets, and you speak about each bullet one at a time, it might be a great idea to synchronize the appearance of bulleted text with your speak, rather than showing all the bulleted text at once.

Two things I’ve learned in a four-hour talk with a very close friend

Olivian BREDA — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:25:52 +0000

Saturday I went for a long talk with a friend of mine. Long time no see, a lot of thoughts to share with him. I’ve spent about two hours travelling in Bucharest and more four hours at his home talking with him. What I’ve learned from this talk? Find out below.

1. I need quite a few money if I ever decide to go to Navodari
This may seem like a no-brainer, but for me it was not obvious that I needed quite a few money to go to Navodari (I now live in Bucharest, for almost 8 years). What will the money bring? Safety, a net which can catch me if I fall.

The alternative is simple: be so good as a professional, that I can’t possibly fail in anything I do in the online area from Navodari.

Both requirements are quite tricky. What’s important to know is that I need either a financial stability for a few years or be a great professional;

What are my actions for this?
a. Try to earn more money; This should be simple; All I have to do is continue doing what I do now that brings me money and, hopefully, to be able to save more money; No dead-line imposed, but a general objective;
b. Try to improve myself; This includes (and is not limited to) write better in English (the purpose of this blog), be a better professional at Search Engine Optimization (the purpose of GetSeoIdeas.com blog), be more productive (the goal at work); Having a portfolio of clients and improving my online networking skills should also help; I should be physically fit;

2. Focus on the positive things in life
I was talking to my friend (old mate, used to live in the same room, along with two other guys while a student in 2002-2003) about our common past. What I’ve noticed about the past:
a. Oh, those time were great; Lovely times, beautiful life, great friendships; (It’s also a sign that people tend to remember only good memories in the past – see this article: “We Don’t Remember the Bad Stuff So Well”);
b. During that time, I focused on a few bad things;
c. Focusing on those bad things didn’t bring any obvious advantage.

Come to think about it, I’ve had a great life, but I focused on some bad things (and this focus didn’t bring me value).

Now I looked at today’s life. There are two aspects:
a. Life;
b. Work.

I think I have a great life, and a wonderful work. Sure, there are things to improve, but the bottom line is that my life and job are very close to being perfect.

What will I win if I focus on the negative thing? Aside frustration, not too many things can be changed easily.

What will I win by focusing on the positive things? “Oh, what a beautiful life! Oh, what a beautiful job!”

There are some things to keep a close eye on (I seem a little brain-dead), but, all-in-all, it’s a pretty neat way of thinking.

What will my actions be on this?
a. Try to emphasis positive things in life;
b. Capture the moment; Smile, laugh if you have to, but, oh!, be so happy;
c. Only focus on negative things if you can make your life better.

PS: I’ll look at this blog post years from now and I’ll probably thank myself for good ideas. But why not start thanking myself right now?