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Unlocking High-Paying TEFL Jobs in the UAE and the Middle East: Your Guide to Top Salaries and Benefits
Finding the Best-Paid TEFL Jobs in the UAE and the Middle East Teaching English in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader Middle East offers lucrative opportunities for educators seeking high-paying positions. With competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to immerse oneself in rich cultural experiences, this region is a prime destination for … Continued
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09-06-2021
How to Become Emotionally Intelligent
Emotional intelligence has been described as the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and those of other people. It incorporates areas such as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
In this course we'll look at these elements in detail, providing clear explanations of the concepts, and useful tips and exercises aimed at aiding you to acquire or develop them. We’ll also consider how they can be put into practice in real-life situations.
As you develop the capacity to better recognise and understand your own emotions, you'll find it easier to appreciate how others are feeling, improving how you communicate and helping your personal and professional relationships to flourish.
Does that sound good? Then let's get things started!
Career Development
In today's world, it has become a bedrock of building good relationships and becoming a good leader.
The fundamental elements that make up emotional intelligence are:
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- self-awareness
- self-regulation
- empathy
- motivation
- social skills
09-06-2021
Building a Growth Mindset for Lifetime Success
It's fair to say that most of us strive for lifetime success. However, there is no silver bullet for achieving lifetime success. What we do know, however, is that there are some strategies/plans of action that offer a better chance of helping you to achieve lifetime success.
There's no definitive guide to what success is because success means many different things to all of us. For some, lifetime success may mean:
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- Happiness
- Wealth
- A fulfilling role in society
- Leading a religious or spiritual life
- Job satisfaction
- Power
- Achieving a specific lifetime goal
- Overall wellbeing
09-06-2021
Embracing Change Successfully
Change is a natural part of life, especially in the manic, non-stop world that we inhabit today. Not only does everything around you change, but you tend to change as well. Problems arise because we, more often than not, resist and reject it.
And when you try to resist change, you rob yourself of the experiences that can transform your life on both a professional and personal level.
But it doesn't have to be this way at all.
Through this course, you'll learn that change is inescapable, but that opportunities inevitably emerge from the process. You'll learn why we're so afraid of change and how to get over those fears, and that accepting change requires a serious, long-term commitment.
Career Development
The sooner you can start embracing and seeking change, the sooner you can begin to enjoy the natural process of life.
There are a plethora of opportunities out there waiting for you to discover. You can't alter the fact that change exists, but you can adjust your view and approach to live a happier and more fulfilled life.
Stagnancy leads nowhere. Change is what keeps you alive. We're either moving up or moving down.
By embracing change, we make the conscious choice to keep moving forwards and continue growing and improving.
Course Review
If you follow and adhere to the key points of the first three modules such as accepting that change is inevitable, overcoming fear of failure, quashing restrictive beliefs and focusing on positive outcomes then success will be well within your grasp, and you'll be able to fully enjoy the benefits and opportunities.
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09-06-2021
Spending and Saving – Making Positive Trade-Offs
It's sometimes difficult to get the right balance between spending and saving. Sometimes we get it right and sometimes we don't.
There are several factors involved in our financial dealings.
Often we need to make trade-offs.
What trade-offs are.
A trade-off is recognising what you are willing to give up in order to get something else. We make many trade-offs in our personal lives, both financial and non-financial trade-offs.
Career Development
In our financial dealings, we often need to make trade-offs.
A trade-off is recognising what you are willing to give up in order to get something else. We make many trade-offs in our personal lives, both financial and non-financial trade-offs.
In addition to trade-offs, it's imperative that we are aware of, and understand, three key elements which underpin our personal finance decisions. These are:
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- gratification
- needs and wants
- budgeting, and how to budget
09-06-2021
How to Make the Right Decisions
We make hundreds of decisions every day, sometimes without even realising that we are deciding. For example, one or two lumps of sugar, or none at all, in our tea or coffee.
But there are other important decisions we have to make and these may have a great effect on what happens in the future to ourselves and perhaps to our families. These decisions may affect major parts of our life or lives considerably.
Career Development
We make hundreds of decisions every day, sometimes without even realising that we are deciding. For example, one or two lumps of sugar, or none at all, in our tea or coffee.
But there are other important decisions we have to make and these may have a great effect on what happens in the future to ourselves and perhaps to our families. These decisions may affect major parts of our life or lives considerably.
Course Review
It's wise to determine which strategies/activities are best for your circumstances. It's also wise to utilise different creative decision-making activities. Using Mindfulness techniques, and identifying and dealing with risks, are key to your decision-making success.
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07-06-2021
Be Positive and Enhance Your Wellbeing
Welcome to your course, where we will explore positivity, positive psychology, and strategies for increasing your positivity and wellbeing.
Let's first explore part of an article on positivity from the renowned Mayo Clinic in the USA.
Positive thinking, or an optimistic attitude, is the practice of focusing on the good in any given situation. It can have a big impact on your physical and mental health.
That doesn't mean you ignore reality or make light of problems. It simply means you approach the good and the bad in life with the expectation that things will go well.
Career Development
Positive Psychology is the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of a satisfying life filled with meaning, pleasure, engagement, positive relationships and accomplishment.
It is the study of the conditions and processes that contribute to the flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups, and institutions.
Positive psychology shifts the focus from what is clinically wrong to the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of a satisfying life. It focuses more on what makes already-functional people thrive even more.
Course Review
Martin Seligman sets out several positive psychology strategies to increase your positivity. In addition to Seligman's strategies, there are other tried and tested strategies which will increase your positivity and enhance your wellbeing.
Remember: The more positive you are, the greater your wellbeing will be.
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