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Knowing how to communicate is important in life; even more if our responsibilities depend on it. In my previous article, I addressed by holistic the importance of job communication. Give advices on how to handle it, to the pros and cons. But how to apply these solutions in practice? One of the typical scenarios in which professional communication is essential is that of job meetings 👥. Remember the saying “Prevention is better than cure”? If nowhere else, you will surely have read from me about it. Job meetings are one of the situations in which our personal skills - even before our professional ones - are put to the test. For this reason, it is useful to face these job opportunities prepared. Not only out of respect for our duties, but even more for ourselves. Live the experience as an opportunity to encourage your personal growth through others. So how can be ready for a meeting? Thinking ahead ⚡. The right spirit is to be pro-active. Take the initiative as soon as you receive notice of an upcoming job meeting. Whether you are the organizer or not, the game rules do not change. Take advantage of the time necessary to gather the information you think may be fundamental during the event. In addition to being a source of knowledge to ensure your preparation, it is equally useful for possible sharing with your colleagues. This approach will test your competence on all aspects: 🧑‍💻 Personal: your commitment to a common goal 🗣️ Social: your ability to relate to other people 🧑‍🏫 Professional: the demonstration of your skills and their importance in your job environment By showing yourself one step ahead, you will convey confidence to the group and gain trust for subsequent job initiatives. Being informed will put you at an advantage, especially with yourself. Each of the results and goals you achieve will contribute to strengthening not only your characteristics, but also your own self-esteem. A success for both you and those you deal with. Having examined the attitude with which to participate in a meeting, it is time to pay attention to your action plan. 💪 The 10 rules for a correct job meeting 🧘 Centering An excellent start already takes you halfway there. Having a correct mental state will help you manage possible obstacles that may arise, such as anxiety or stress. Find your balance a few minutes before the meeting starts: this is the best time to practice meditative breathing. 🕘 Punctuality The golden rule is to show up a little early. Whether in a meeting room or in a virtual one, being late at job is a bad business card. You can also see it as an advantage: using this preliminary space to socialize. This can help as ice-breaker and keep you relaxed for the start of the event. ✋ Presence Try to be present. Participate actively by asking questions about the job, or by expressing your points of view, as well as proposing alternatives. By showing interest, you will capture the attention of your collaborators and strengthen that feeling of trust that you will have already built by preparing previously. This warranty will be even more solid if when you speak, you will be always transparent. Don't leave anything out, express yourself clearly and be understandable to those who listen to you. Hiding something at job, even if for good reasons, could turn into a double-edged sword. Don't let yourself be defeated by shyness or fear of possible consequences. Knowing how to take on one's responsibilities is also a highly appreciated sign of personal and professional maturity. ✍️ Annotation Be sure to track the job content of the discussion. It is a good habit to always have a notebook or digital medium with you to write down everything that is useful. Choose the one that is most comfortable for you. Keeping a note of the arguments and decisions agreed upon has various benefits. It allows you not to forget anything fundamental and, at the same time, it is a valid witness for your job and that of your teammates. 💬 Communication Silence is a distinctive trait of a wise and introspective personality. However, in a collective context, it can be misinterpreted as a lack of interest. If you think you haven't found enough information to be prepared for the job meeting or that you will lack inspiration during the conversation, organize a B-Plan. Write down a few sentences or questions that you could show off, which have some points in common with the main topic. It doesn't need to be strictly tied to it. You can also count on secondary aspects. Such as how to introduce other subjects or tools directly or indirectly useful for the purpose of the meeting. 👂 Attention Listen, don't just hear. Live the Here and Now. Being in sync with what is happening around you is also essential in your daily life. In a job meeting, it translates into time saved in avoiding refining and translating the information collected for subsequent planning. In the worst case scenario, however, in the search for the missing ones. 📋 Consistency Maintain the subject of the job conversation according to the common objectives. Avoid wasting time and energy on topics that are not in line with the agenda. This will only create further confusion about what the meeting is intended to clarify. ⚖️ Balancy Making yourself available to others and taking on extra job tasks during the meeting, is the best way to strengthen the relationship of trust with the participants. When proposing, always take your current operational status into consideration. Be careful not to overdo it: too many additions could slow down your main work, depriving you of the time and resources needed for your job. 🔎 In-depth analysis After the meeting, review your notes and the data obtained. Ask your managers and collaborators for any clarifications or missing elements to be aligned with the job group. The review is critical as the previous steps. A well-structured check will avoid possible unexpected events once the process has started. 🗓️ Planning Armed with all the essential elements, focus on aligning your job agenda with the expected results of the meeting. Taking advantage of these rules and putting them into practice, is the winning card for maintaining a peaceful and productive collaborative relationship in your job. Becoming familiar with this perspective takes practice, but the change is clearly visible from the first try. If you have never tried these suggestions or have only had the opportunity to do so in part, don't wait any longer and try them in your work immediately! Cheers to the next tip. 👋

Even if you're on an individual job or part of a collective one, the way you interact with others is one of the key aspects of it. The communication is the trait that allows you to express yourself with others, relate to them and – on top of all – achieve your goals. Let's see how to manage it inside a team. Prevention is better than cure Did you ever heard about this? This is my favorite personal rule and one of the best advices I'm able to give you, because it can be extended on each aspect of our lives. I'm used to apply it in my job in a very simple way: When an issue shows off, raise your hand! 🙋 Yes, simple but effective. Especially in being part of a group of people, all coordinated to reach a common target. This represents one of your best weapons. Don't feel ashamed or worried in externalize your individual point of view. During different job processes related to different people, sometimes happens that something in it could encounter an obstacle. And that's the time the fracture in your framework could emerge in an easy or hard way during the work. The best solution to fix it most of the times is to discuss about the issue with the rest of the team. Better all together – including your job supervisor – or to those related to your direct area of responsibility. They will help you as team member and your collaboration will bring you the solution naturally. Most important, you're acting in a caring way to your coworkers, your team leader and your objectives as well. And this is how a real job team works. Don't hesitate: waiting is a killing enemy during this phase. Acting quickly will bring you the solving soon. At the same time, it proves your attitude to being reactive and ready to taking in consideration both your responsibilities and your team as well. Warn them, talk with your boss or job partner and place a dedicate meeting or discuss about it immediately. The choice is yours. Just be aligned with others availability and intentions. Taking the initiative and act by yourself isn't the way, and someone could intend it as a red flag. Being propositive in your job is ok and essential as professionals, but remember that being part of a team means cohesion. Join forces with your teammates is your priority to solve the problem in the most convenient way for everyone. I want to share with you a job example about how the communication could have been crucial if it would be used properly: > During the development of a project, a colleague finds an inconsistency in the assigned blueprint. Basically, the approach chosen by the author wasn't compatible in a final environment. The colleague decides to apply its own workaround. Later, during the general revision, the leader finds the incongruence between the blueprint and the prototype, asking for a clarification. The colleague explains proudly about his actions, with great disappointment instead from his supervisor. His own initiative – took without a prior approval - forces the entire team to take their steps back and refactor the task in order to implement a different solution chosen by the leader. 🙇‍♂️ As you can see from this (not so) “funny” 😅 story, it's the result of a bad communication on both sides. The job role doesn't matter, because the final result depends by everyone. This is a pill from my own career during my first experience in a team. Honestly, I'm not worried to talk about it, since that thanks to it and many other mistakes along the way, I definitely learned the true meaning of communication. As well as for my coworkers. I talked about communication during bad job situations. But how to adopt it in a practice way, even not only in these scenarios? Simple is better If you want to start from the very beginning, try to make habit of some best practices that can really improve your job communication: 📝 Notes: when something comes to your mind, if you know that you'll inevitably have to report something to your coworkers, manager or so on, write it. During your job, keep always a notebook with you – physical or digital doesn't matter – in order to take notes of important things. This counts for simple ideas than meetings. Even discussions and all the situations in which you'll have to manage information of any nature, across your team and in your job generally; ♯ Comments: It's a common practice and at the same time one of the most underrated. Leave useful comments in your documentation helps you in the first place to have a better understanding of your own job. It helps you in your mind processes and even in your self-improvement. Last but not least, it's treasure for your collaborators in order to be always on the same page and joining you in your own tasks; ❓ Ask: Asking is so simple and represents an extreme resource for you and your job. It's never a waste of time to ask for clarification and about anything needed to do your work properly. You didn't understand a particular task? Ask about it. Your teammate forgot to send you specifications about his last implementation before sending it to you? Ask for them. Many people are frightened about this last one for many reasons. They feel themselves stupid just for doing it, unconfident on how to approach others in their job and so on. But you're not stupid or clumsy. Simply you need to learn how to do it in an effective way. As introduced in my introduction post (read), the secret is to find the balance between our job and our wellness. If you feel so, try to take your time first: before asking, meditate. Extra: Meditation There are many way to meditate, the simplest one is based on breathing: Inhale for 4 seconds; Hold your breathe for 4 seconds; Exhale for 4 seconds; After that, make your question. You'll immediately see the benefits of meditation and how simple is making our job easier with these little strategies. 😉 Job: Utilities In addition, here's a few well common digital tools that could literally make the difference: 💬 Slack (see): this application is designed to manage the internal communication of your team. It can be customized in different ways and supports many features. Available on desktop and mobile too; ✔️ Trello (see): the agile approach is well supported with this software, which brings the Kanban methodology (read) to your workflow. You can customize and control different related features both on single tasks than the team. From your browser, your desktop or mobile device; 🕰️ TrackingTime (see): it allows you to track every team member by his active working time. A dedicated calendar paired with a pool of various features helps you to manage the time of your team precisely. It's available for web & mobile too. Of course there are different alternatives to these tools. Feel free to test them and use the most comfortable to you. Remember, you're part of a team. You'll face many times situations like these in your job, but communicating never be a mistake. You have to trust your colleagues and their skills, as well as they have trust in you. The failure could be around the corner, but you must never be afraid about it. Failure means growth and your own personal growth will be value for the entire team as well. Cheers to the next tip. 👋

Do you want to relocate to join a new exciting job opportunity, but you don't know where to start? You're in the right place! Read my advices on how to face it and set the proper organization. Otherwise, welcome back! ✋ As we seen, your motivation is the main engine that will guide you to your next job experience. It'll helps you to take action in your travel plan and the rest of your future commitments. So let's start from where we stopped: the house appointments. In order to make your efforts fruitful, there are some tips that you should follow for your success. Here's how to prepare for your travel in a helpful way: Light is better. You'll don't need excessively luggages. Pack your bags with the bare minimum. Your days will be dedicated mostly to the house inspections than anything other. You'll have time for that once there; Take preventively notes about what kind of movements you'll going to have around the place. Plan your routes by checking for local transports, from one spot to another. This will helps you to not waste time and shift from one date to another; Keep the agents contacts at hand and bring with you previously notes about every question you want to ask about a particular property; Due to your possibly lack of knowledge about the place, try to arrive always a bit in advance than your agreed time. On spot, briefly check all the building at first-sight: electrical/water/heating system - just switch on/off the lights, open/close taps/doors and so on. Everything must be functional and in good-standing - except if the property agree for a fix before the takeover. Try to not leave apart nothing. Take a look to the walls and their conditions (i.e. molds, stains, etc.). Be sure that the house is well enlightened from different directions. This is your chance to really rate the house and see if reflects the online announce. Once you found the right place and all terms are been set, you'll going to agree with the property the drafting of the contract. Then, take your time in its consultation before signing it. This last phase took me an entire week, by dating all the appointments every day at different hours. Trying to fill all the days on every possible free timeframe. Including traveling to Milan to make my inspections and back. Remember that a true and reliable time estimate to manage all the plan can't be done. Based on my experience, 6 months should be enough to manage the entire relocation. Your destination counts a variety of unknown circumstances that cannot be estimated. The size of the city itself, transportation time, services location and so on. These are all aspects that you'll have to adjust along the path. But at the end, you'll be repaid for sure! So, you've chose your new nest and successfully relocated on it? Congratulations for your new accommodation! 🥳 Now it's time for your main step. Job As well as for the relocation, the job itself could represent a true challenge in terms of cultural differences. These can embrace both the personal area – local customs and traditions - than the professional one – working attitude and so on. More often they could be remarkable when the chosen location is quite different from your birthplace. Once you've joined your new job position, remember to keep in consideration all these aspects. Be pleasant and open to all the divergences that you could face in the future. But be yourself at the same. Initially, you'll be the guest there and that's your chance to show your true potential to the others. Mostly on a new place in which you have never lived on. Your trump card will be your value. What you'll bring to your new job – your knowledge, your previous experience and your personal skills. Try to get all that your new team has to offer and repay them and yourself by growing with your commitment and your traits. Don't be afraid and enjoy your new workplace. Different places, same rules. Pro/Cons Do you still feel unsure about the implications that a choice like this could bring to your life and your job? As well as for the majority of it, a relocation is able to pop on your path a series of setbacks that probably you cannot foresee. A good way to solve all your remaining doubts is a true dialog with your inner-self. Take pen and paper. Write down a list of pro & cons that you sincerely consider as milestones for your plan, by answering a few relevant questions such as: I'm satisfied of my life and my job right now? What I really need to be happy? This experience will bring me a true opportunity to find my way? Or improve it in a better one? Getting away from my current environment, will help me to have a real breakthrough? The job that I'm looking for at the new place, will be able to help my professional growth in a productive direction? At last, you'll find your answers. Being honest with yourself is the correct practice you've to cultivate to find help in your own resources. If you notice that the most of the answers hang on the positive side, don't hesitate and grab the opportunity. On the other hand, you'll don't have nothing to lose. Don't you? 🙂 A job relocation can represents a real way to change our life, helping us to find our balance between our work and wellness. Hope that my suggestions could help your next job relocation. Cheers to the next tip. 👋

Maybe someone of you did ever thought about trying a new job experience outside his own city or country. To try a different environment, to take a look to an intriguing offer or embrace a total-new lifestyle. It's really important to test your adaptability skills on different levels for your personal growth. Especially if your goal is to increase your professional confidence and enlarge your job horizons. I did it and now I'm able to share to you my advices. Let's see how to achieve this. 👀 Goals The first step is about your intentions. What I'm looking for? What kind of job experience could fit me and my professional profile? These are the starting questions you've to ask yourself. They represents the helm which will guide you to define your next choices. For me has been the will to get more from my professional life. The certainty that I was in need of something extra than my hometown job was able to give me. With this initial evaluation, you'll going to reach your first target - which should be aimed to try to broke your mindset limiters. If you framed the range and the kind of your future job experience, dive in it totally. Fight the doubts and the uncertainties that your mind could suggests you. Believe in your talents and rely on them. If your thoughts driven you to decide for a choice like this, that means that you already have everything you need to succeed. Start looking for alternatives that could give you this opportunity. Inspect the outside job market and select a good number of offers with your scale of values. Get in touch with recruiters. Your new chance will show up in no time. Relocation & Job The job you're looking for could be on a different place than yours. That will force you to exit from your “comfort zone” and start to acquire more awareness, by facing the challenges that will going to show up along the way. Probably you'll have to travel in order to join a local team and work on-site. Or, like nowadays if jobs in your branch have to offer, you'll have to do it by remote. In the first case, your second step will be the relocation. Without ever had experienced it before, in most cases it could be scaring for various reasons. Keep in mind to overcome your limits and focus on your objectives. Visualize in your mind your final job goal and you'll be able to face it step by step with no problems. I always lived in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) and later, I've been in Milan for 7 years. When I had to deal with mine, I've always charged myself by thinking about what fantastic opportunities awaited me there. But of course you've to be prepared in order to make it. Well, How? Either that the job searching has paid off and your new one is already waiting for you or, at last, you chosen to look for it on a second moment, definitely you'll need a new house. Personally I opted for the second choice, because Milan has a very large job market for my previous industry and the demand doesn't missing, even in last-minute. So I was able to focus myself on my own relocation first. Due for its huge preparation requirements, you should start looking for your next home well in advance. Look around the most trustable real estate websites. Use those specialized in the place you've chosen, which are the most relevant for your search. Pay attention to read and inspect in detail the house description and conditions – both administrative than physical ones. Ask for more information to property if something of important missing. Some key questions are: Position: Is it near to the most useful transport means for my new job? How far is it from the office? Contractual rules: are expected advanced payments and/or initial deposit? Are expenses included or separated in the recurring fee? Which are the withdrawal clauses? Plus, take care to inform yourself about the amount of time required in order to leave the house – which should be quite reasonable. Many people underestimate this point, but it could be the most important when you could be forced to change location all of the sudden; Property conditions: when the last renovation has been done? All the systems are certified? What kind of services are present in the building (i.e. Reception, vigilance/security, urban neatness, etc.)? After you've collected a good number of classified, contact the property or the appointed agents in order to book a date to visit the building. Depending on your plan, at least around 20 or more is a nice starting point. Now it's essential to give yourself the time to visit the new location and carry out an inspection on selected ones. It depends on different aspects, among which: Location: how far is it from my current one? What kind of travel I'll going to do to reach it? Job: Was I already been selected for a new one? Have I enough time to dedicate to my relocation? Relocation service (if present): How much time the service will going to take to transfer all my furnitures and goods? What kind of insurance provides for it? Of course this is a very critical rating. In order to speed up the process, parallelize it: look for your house and pack your things. Plus, if you opted for a relocation service, request various quotes to different supplier to find the most convenient. Ensure that the transport will be insured. I managed them in this way and in my case, I spent around 6 months only for packaging during my spare time. The booking part was the easiest – just a couple of weeks to accurately select the most interesting houses (thanks Google! ?). Timing and management are indeed the main stages that you have to focus on. Your positive feelings and your willing to change must be your primary strength to help yourself in your new adventure. Come on, you did the half of the work, you can do it! 💪 On the next part (read) you'll know how to manage the house on-site inspection and your new job. Cheers to the next tip. 👋

This is not another technical – useful – job blog. Just a little guide to obtain the best from our lives. If you're asking yourself “who's this man?”, let me introduce myself. 🙂 I'm a holistic passionate, that has chosen to make this love his work. I've recently joined the holistic scene as professional, even if I've always been absorbed in this world from many more, practicing it at different levels. After a discrete amount of time that I've spent by working for a different industry, I've collected a lot of interesting gems – both from personal than the professional experience – that I've decided to spread to the world. This to be able to help others in improving their way to face their job – and more in general, their life - in a better manner. We've always known that, even if we try to keep separated our professional life (or any else) from the private, sometimes – if not almost always – we mesh them up. Leaving the result that emerges from this mix, free to influence us in a countless series of possibilities. If we let our job to overwhelm us in our spare time – or worst ever – if it stops us to enjoy it as were initially like. As well as if we finally surrender us to this kind of situation, by letting it to decide for us for our entire life. In this way, as the time passes, we'll get the point that we'll inevitably going to hate it, under all its aspects. Then, we'll start to feel frustrated, unhappy and tired about everything and everyone. But why an unknown Holistic Operator should know more than me about my own life? Things are simpler than you can imagine. For mine, I've always used to observe the world, trying to evaluate it – both with the people that populates it - from a real objective vision. This helped me to improve myself in a very helpful way. Focusing on my personal growth than later I've used in my professional development too. Just like others. But thanks to this, I noticed that people are used to close their eyes, when they reach the point that they loose the control of themselves. Due to the feelings that could emerge from this, they basically forget how to manage them. The key to face the above scenario in a very comfortable way for yourself, is to apply a few set of rules – born by the mentioned attitude - that can really change you, day by day, starting by the very little and common things of your routine. And these rules, are represented by your own individual skills. All the ensemble of your very abilities, dictated from your nature, your personality and all those aspects that define you as a person. And you know what? Everyone is able to achieve this. Through the journey that this blog wants to begin and that I want to invite you to follow, I'll treat all the advices - that I matured through my path - that I'll be able to share with you. We'll deal with topics that embraces the common life, such as: Job: tricks and techniques to live it at the top; Wellness: find the balance between commitments and hobbies; Life coaching: how to keep up the motivation thanks to relationships; As for me, you'll learn to develop these habits through you engagement with yourself. By applying these tips on the different cases that everyday you'll encounter. And, moreover, by your willing to get the control of your life and redirect it wherever you want. I want to share you my first advice. A very simple golden rule, I would you'll never forget about: never give up! 💪 Especially on what you love most. Life is ours, and we're obliged with ourselves to live it as well as possible. Are you curious about what I have to talk about? Read a bit more about me and subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch with my activities. 👀 Hope to have caught your interest and have you as reader. Cheers to the next tip. 👋