viernes, 27 de agosto de 2010

The Leadership Motivation Assessment

The Leadership Motivation Assessment
How motivated are you to lead?



The first and most basic prerequisite for leadership is the desire to lead. After all, becoming an effective leader takes hard work. If you're not prepared to work hard at developing your leadership skills or if, deep down, you're really not sure whether you want to lead or not, you'll struggle to become an effective leader.

I think, myleadership is good because I've practiced it a lot in different areas of my life, but when I'd rather just work together, if I prefer a small group.

Do you have leadership potential?

Do you have leadership potential?

According to your answers, you are likely able to envision a clear direction for your company and communicate your plans in a way that excites others. This is an essential skill, because employees will be much more willing to achieve a goal if they are passionate about it. Remember that the manner in which you communicate your vision is essential. For instance, if you present your ideas to others in a confident manner, they will likely go over more easily. People who excel in this area are innovative visionaries who are confident in their ability to persuade and convince others. They consider it essential to make those they lead aware of, as well as part of, their vision.
Areas to improve, I think it would be to handle big groups as though I've never worked with groups of more than fifty people, and would also operate and know the subject or project to work to know well what I'm going to pass or work with them.

HOW TO MAKE A PUBLIC PRESENTATION

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Preparation of the presentation
We must know the information of the presentation, because at the end a recomendation is resolve doubts.
How long we have?, The time of the day that we have, If we have the presentation after the lunch, or after other presentations, the people could be late so we have to make the presentation's time less, considering a delay.
The tools we have. The number of persons we have, less is better because the presentatios could have a participative style, whereas if they attend more listeners capture their attention and engage them in the exhibition can be much more difficult.
Who are we headed?, This determines the language we use and the level of depth of the issues we'll treat.
What to expect from the presentation?, It is necessary to anticipate the public's expectations.
How to organize the presentation?
a) Presentation: and/or greetings and thanks to the attendees and the organization.
b) Introduction: The principal objet is to place the audience on the purpose and main objectives of the presentation.
c) Development: It is the main part of the exhibition where the ideas and arguments are presented. It is advisable to know how to combine theoretical concepts or ideas with statistical data, comparisons, quotes, etc.
d) Conclusions: This part will highlight the basic ideas, they are trying to communicate. Must be brief and can not be understood as a second presentation where they introduce new ideas or data.
e) Close: Should clearly indicate when the exposure is over, they are embarrassing the situations where the public does not know whether to keep talking or not. The closure can be placed with expressions like "thank you very much for your attention", "I can only thank your interest". "Thank you very much", "this is all I wanted to comment and I remain at your disposal for questions".

jueves, 5 de agosto de 2010

People Counter

People Counter
The people Counter is designed for locations where you have to wait, like paperwork, offices, payments, etc. Is developed for public and private places. To keep an order.

Methods and strategies
The principal objet is keep an order in the line, with indicators in the entry and the output, and another indicator when the room is full.

The Instalation of the product is very easy and is not expensive, consist of two doors, entry and output and the principal circuit that says and count the persons in the room and the indicators.

The proyect is desinged with PIC'S, sensors in the doors and this send the signal to the principal circuit (the PIC), and this make the count between the persons who enter and out and turn on the indicator of full when the room is full (It depends of the capacity of the room and depending this will be programmed to indicate the full signal).