Starting this week with a visit to the PS News Personal Development articles and advices where two of our learned offerings caught PS-sssst’s ever-roaming eye for their delightful diversions and didacticisms that demand our divulgence.
Paul J Zak’s inspired commentary on creating a workplace culture in his article ‘Trusted on: How to create a high-trust, high-performing culture’ makes all the points that need to be made about performance enhancement until he unveils an almost brilliant acronym encompassing the eight building blocks of trust that magically morph into the ‘love hormone’ Oxytocin.
Paul conjures up his ambitious and bold ‘Oxytocin’ acronym from the headings: Ovation, eXpectation, Yield, Transfer, Openness, Caring, Invest and Natural and comes ever so close to pulling off the almost impossible abbreviation.
The only trouble is the purists who make up PS-sssst! noticed the noticeable stumble on the second letter, leaving them eXpecting a lot more.
On the other hand, Peter Wakefield’s equally energetic article expanding the definition of a successful career also makes its points but with a slightly more eye-opening opening headline.
According to Peter, success in winning the mad scramble for promotion to the top job isn’t always won by the most popular person in the running.
His advice to us all is to remember “The winner of the rat race is still a rat!”
Love that Peter, well done, although after a long and varied public sector career I can report it’s more a fun headline than a true one.
Email enlivened
To the PS News good news file now where hundreds, possibly thousands of PS News readers will be relieved and enjoyolated to learn that the highly handy and very much-used email option for sharing PS News stories, articles and (dare we say it) PS-sssst! snippets has been restored on each page by popular demand.
Many thanks to Ed and Lisa for making it all happen and apologies to the many email crazy readers who couldn’t live without it and let us know in no uncertain terms.
And just to make sure it’s working properly, everyone is invited to put it to the test and share at least one page from this week’s PS News to a friend, colleague or mortal enemy – just like old times!
Nouveau and neuro
And now to Rama’s weekly giveaway in which two lucky readers have the chance to win copies of the informative career-boosting book: Traction: The Neuroscience of Leadership and Performance by Kristen Hansen.
To get traction on the prize, observant readers needed to answer Rama’s question of how to ‘accelerate your leadership skills’, the correct answer to which was to “Become an ‘agile’ leader of change and performance through neuroscience principles”.
According to the book once you become an agile leader of change “You will be able to accelerate your leadership based on the NeuroTREAD model … which is a revolutionary way to learn how to Think, Regulate, Engage, Adapt and Develop with the brain in mind”.
The lucky entrants who knew all that and whose correct answer navigated the PS News Barrel of Booty best were Jim M of the national Department of Human Services in Queensland and Jacki G from the Department of Social Services in Canberra.
Congratulations to Jim and Jacki and thanks to everyone who took part. The prize books will be tracting their way to their new owners soon.
For another chance to win with Rama and PS News, simply follow this link for the latest giveaway.
Good luck!
Signed up
Staying with Rama’s generous giveaway for a moment, today’s lucky winners have not only scooped up a potentially career-bending, life-changing, future driving, success-guiding motivational book of wise wisdom and wonders, but have also collected the rare and much-prized autograph of the esteemed author – Kristen Hansen.
To quote our most modest Rama: “That’s no mean feat!”
“I’m sure the winning readers will feel extra special.”
We’re sure they will too, Rama.
Congratulations to you too for organising such a coup!
Surgical operation
And finally, a moment’s thought for the Sydney man who was caught and locked up in a combined effort of the Australian Federal Police, NSW police, ASIO and the NSW Crime Commission for allegedly heading off overseas to perpetrate terrorist acts in another country.
The combined group headlined their official report of the seizure: “Sydney man arrested in joint operation”.
If alleged terrorism wasn’t such a heinous charge PS-sssst! would find it worth commenting that when the suspected villain appears in court he could reasonably argue that the ‘joint operation’ he was arrested in was merely a knee reconstruction – one of the more popular operations Australians find themselves succumbing to these days.
On that painful, and potentially treasonous, note ….
Till next week……!
