Enhance your Organization by Leveraging Diversity

Leveraging Diversity is part of your Empathy - a component of your Social Competence.

While Empathy, in general, is related to your awareness, needs and concerns of others -Leveraging Diversity relates to your ability to cultivate opportunities with different kinds of people.

People who have this competence usually:

• Respect and relate well to people from varied backgrounds
• Understand diverse worldviews and perspectives 
• Are sensitive to group differences
• See diversity as an opportunity
• Create an environment where diverse people and views can thrive

People, in general, need to be valued based on their moral values, knowledge, performance, and success rather than their background.

Diversity of people brings diversity of ideas to a business - it boosts competitiveness since diversity is most likely to enhance organizational flexibility allowing a rapid adaptation to shifting markets.

Written by John Krumbach,
VP of Finances, ISU Corp

The Importance of Social Skills in Our Overall Social Competencies

In our last blog, we had an overview of the different aspects related to Empathy as part of Social Competence; we will now cover aspects related to Social Skills

Social Competence relates to your ability to handle relationships in a positive way, and your ability to get along with other people. Social Skill is a part of your Social Competence personality.  

While Social competence, in general, relates to your ability to handle relationships properly, Social Skills relates to your effectiveness at inducing desirable responses in others.

People who have this competence usually:

• Have influence
• Good communication skills
• Manage conflicts with great success
• Bring leadership
• Are catalysts of change
• Build bonds
• Collaborate and cooperate
• Have team capabilities

We’ll be covering each of these eight aspects in details later on.

Success is Not the Key to Happiness, This is..

Your happiness is your success. These days, a booming business is available to anyone, even you. Gary Vaynerchuck, author of crush it!, says not to measure your success by the wealth and grandeur of your business, but to measure it in happiness.

The secret to success is only made up of three simple rules: love your family, work super hard, and live your passion. If you are measuring your success in happiness, that first rule is crucial. Second to that, working hard may be on obvious rule for achievement. However, it is one of those things that are easier said than done. Finally, the key to your true happiness is living your passion: “Are you living, or just earning a living?” (Vaynerchuck, 3). 

We as a society have shifted in the way we do things. With the invention of the Internet, we’ve been flocking towards the web to socialize, shop, find entertainment, and more. This is a gigantic opportunity for businesses to harness and take advantage of. With the global audience that has moved to the Internet, it is clear that businesses, too, must move to the Internet.

Now, personal branding has never been easier, and advertisements are found (these days, personalized advertisements) everywhere in the online world. The Internet is a moneymaking machine just waiting for you to learn how to use it. Using the Internet as a tool will boost the speed of your success, and minimize the money you would need to put in to make it flourish. Keep in mind that, “[these tools] are only as good as the person who uses them” (Vaynerchuck, 12).

You have to have passion and an excellent work ethic to make things happen. If you have the drive, you have the power and everything you need to start making money. However, this isn’t all about the money, this about taking your passion and finding a way for you to live from it. Remember, we’re measuring success in happiness. 

Written by Natalie Mansilla,
Growth Hacker