Big bang disruptors are innovators that enter the market all at once with something so new and revolutionary that it disrupts the entire industry.

"Big bang disruption" happens when digital innovators leverage new technology to rapidly introduce revolutionary new offerings, devastating incumbents who are unprepared. It is sudden, swift and disruptive on an industry scale.

Recognizing Big Bang Disruption 


Disruptors should start niche, perfect the model, identify barriers incumbents face, then rapidly scale up. They should take advantage of incumbents' paralyzed denial to establish market dominance quickly before responses come.

Strategies for Disruptors

<ul><li>Incumbents struggle to respond quickly to big bang disruptors due to structures like cost focus, process rigor, and conventions.</li><li>Their operations excel at slow, linear innovation but falter amid exponential digital change.</li></ul>

Why Incumbents Struggle to Respond

<ul><li>Incumbents must disrupt their own business models through careful but rapid pivots.</li><li>Leverage existing strengths like resources, while freeing creative teams from constraints.</li><li>Iteratively test multiple small-scale projects.</li></ul>

How Incumbents Can Pivot

<ul><li>Regulators struggle with big bang disruption.</li><li>Flexible policies sustain exponential innovation while limiting harm.</li><li>Outdated regulations hinder progress and get outpaced by change.</li><li>Policymakers must adapt too.</li></ul>

The Role of Regulation

In fields prone to big bang disruption, pursue careers resilient to sudden industry change. Seek transferable skills, creative roles, emotional intelligence and abstract expertise less vulnerable to disruption.

Implications for Careers

Cultivating beginner’s mind, running fast experiments, collaborating beyond silos, and learning to disrupt yourself are essential.In exponential times, serial reinvention is required to survive and stay relevant.

Mindset for the New Normal

The book Big Bang Disruption by Downes and Nunes analyzes how innovation happens lightning-fast in the digital age, overturning incumbents overnight. It provides strategies for both disruptors and incumbent firms.

It used to take years or even decades for disruptive innovations to dethrone dominant products and services. But now any business can be devastated virtually overnight by something better and cheaper. How can executives protect themselves and harness the power of Big Bang Disruption? Just a few years ago, drivers happily spent more than $200 for a GPS unit. But as smartphones exploded in popularity, free navigation apps exceeded the performance of stand-alone devices. Eighteen months after the debut of the navigation apps, leading GPS manufacturers had lost 85 percent of their market value. Consumer electronics and computer makers have long struggled in a world of exponential technology improvements and short product life spans. But until recently, hotels, taxi services, doctors, and energy companies had little to fear from the information revolution. Those days are gone forever. Software-based products are replacing physical goods. And every service provider must compete with cloud-based tools that offer customers a better way to interact. Today, start-ups with minimal experience and no capital can unravel your strategy before you even begin to grasp what’s happening. Never mind the “innovator’s dilemma”—this is the innovator’s disaster. And it’s happening in nearly every industry. Worse, Big Bang Disruptors may not even see you as competition. They don’t share your approach to customer service, and they’re not sizing up your product line to offer better prices. You may simply be collateral damage in their efforts to win completely different markets. The good news is that any business can master the strategy of the start-ups. Larry Downes and Paul Nunes analyze the origins, economics, and anatomy of Big Bang Disruption. They identify four key stages of the new innovation life cycle, helping you spot potential disruptors in time. And they offer twelve rules for defending your markets, launching disruptors of your own, and getting out while there’s still time. Based on extensive research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance and in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, and executives from more than thirty industries, Big Bang Disruption will arm you with strategies and insights to thrive in this brave new world.

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<ul><li>Deciding how to make a living while you trot the globe is the biggest single decision you’ll have to make as a digital nomad. Start with what you know. It will almost always be easier to find work in a field where you already have years of experience.</li><li>You don’t have to be limited to just one thing. Plenty of digital nomads have several business ventures in play.</li><li> If you can’t find enough clients for one part of your business, shift attention to areas that are making money. If a formerly successful venture dips, try something new.</li></ul>

Top Trades For Digital Nomads

<ul><li>You already know plenty of people in your own industry, so approach contacts before you head off, either directly or via networking sites like LinkedIn. Let people know that you’re going freelance and looking for work.</li><li>Most people have a string of talents that could be leveraged to make money while they travel. Do you play guitar? Why not offer online lessons?</li><li>Consider taking refresher courses before you set off, so your business skills are in tune with what clients are currently looking for. And keep an eye out for new skills that could grow your business once you’re on the road.</li></ul>

Using Your Existing Skills

<ul><li>Software developer. Remote working is a standard part of development, so it’s a small leap to being a coding nomad.</li><li>Web designer. A perfectly portable profession, where what matters to clients is results, not where you are based.</li><li>Travel Blogger. Writing about your travels to pay for your travels is a perfect partnership.</li><li>Language Teacher. Thanks to distance learning over the internet, the world is your classroom.</li><li>SEO Specialist. Learn how to optimize content for search engines and make money helping companies up their game.</li></ul>

Top Digital Nomad Jobs (I)

<ul><li>Social Media Expert. Managing social media accounts is a business that works from anywhere.</li><li>Technical Support Representative. You don’t have to be physically in the room to keep tech ticking over smoothly.</li><li>Virtual Assistant. Companies need remote support in everything from accounts and invoicing to project management.</li><li>Freelance Writer. Writing is one of the most portable ways of making a living, whether you blog about wellness or write manuals for microwaves.</li><li>Graphic Designer. Some simple tech can transform your laptop into a portable design studio.</li></ul>

Top Digital Nomad Jobs (II)

The five vital attributes for a digital destination:<ul><li>Highly connected </li><li>Has lots of cafes, co-working & community</li><li>The best nomad destinations offer inexpensive visas or visa-free travel lasting several months.</li><li>Abundant accommodation. If you plan to stay somewhere for a long time, it’s essential that you can find a room or flat to rent without having to join a queue.</li><li>Low-cost living. Look for cities with inexpensive food and accommodation, free public wi-fi, cost-effective co-working spaces, and low-cost public transport.</li></ul>

Choosing A Destination

<ul><li>The Tech Metropolis: Some of the best hubs for digital nomads are vibrant, modern cities – often in Asia – with young populations, cutting-edge tech industries, and well-established networks of local entrepreneurs</li><li>The Merging Capital: Europe is dotted with small countries that are emerging as dynamic places to do business, away from the red tape of the big European powers. Typical characteristics of these hubs include easy visa regulations, innovative co-working spaces, and centuries of history, but more focus on work than play, which will appeal to some nomads more than others.</li></ul>

Digital Hubs: The Tech Metropolis And The Merging Capital

<ul><li>The Second City is typically the second-largest in the country – where local politicians are pulling out the stops to make things easy for business, the cost of living is manageable, and competition for space and resources is that little bit less cutthroat.</li><li>The Backpacker Hangouts offer loads of activities, cheap food, oodles of short-term accommodation, and intense nightlife, but can be lacking in local atmosphere. </li><li>The Work-Hard, Play-Hard Resort: there are plenty of digital hubs in beach resorts known for surfing and other wet-and-wild activities.</li></ul>

Digital Hubs: The Second City, The Backpacker Hangout, And The Resort Hub

<ul><li>Visit your doctor for a general check-up</li><li>Go to the dentist, and visit your optician for an up-to-date glasses prescription and a general eye health check </li><li>A month or so ahead of travel, get any vaccinations you need for your trip. </li><li>Make sure you have enough medication and know the generic, non-branded name for your meds in case you need to find them in another country</li><li>Getting travel insurance with comprehensive health coverage is essential.</li></ul>

Pre-Departure Health Essentials

<ul><li>Carrying cash: make larger withdrawals less often, to avoid repeated bank charges</li><li>An emergency stash:  store a supply of cash in US dollars, UK pounds or Euros hidden somewhere safe as a last-ditch emergency fund, in case you don’t have access to your accounts</li><li>Credit and debit cards are easy to use and simple to cancel if lost or stolen. But pre-advise your bank if traveling to a fraud-heavy destination to prevent your card from being blocked,  and monitor statements regularly in case of card cloning.</li></ul>

Managing Your Money Overseas

Bank accounts tend to be designated in a particular currency and operate in a particular jurisdiction, under a particular tax regime. Whenever money moves between banks, countries or currencies, there are fees to pay.Deciding who will pay these fees and charges adds an extra layer of complication to fee negotiations with international clients. Most freelancers grudgingly swallow the bank charges to avoid alienating clients with complicated payment procedures, instead of negotiating a fee that accounts for losing some of the lump sums in costs and charges.

Getting Paid

Traveling on a standard tourist visa can cause problems for digital nomads. Most are valid for between one and three months and, officially, should not be used for working while in the country. Similar rules apply to visa-free entry, for which you may have to show evidence of enough money to support yourself during your stay, or an onward plane ticket – all of which stand in the way of the fancy-free lifestyle you were signing up for.

Work-Friendly Visas

<ul><li>Always make sure that your policy covers medical treatment and evacuation in the event of a medical emergency or a natural disaster. </li><li>Keep the hotline number handy – your insurer may be able to advise on reputable local medical facilities as well as handle claims. </li><li>As a digital nomad, you’re likely to be toting some expensive tech. Make sure your policy covers the full replacement cost of valuable items, such as laptops, cameras, and mobile phones.</li></ul>

Travel Insurance

<ul><li>A universal travel adapter plug </li><li>Surge protection </li><li>A multiplug or power strip </li><li>An external hard drive, USB stick, or memory card for critical backups. </li><li>A 1m ethernet cable </li><li>Spare USB leads </li><li>A spare laptop power supply </li><li>Noise-canceling headphones </li><li>A battery power pack – essential kit for keeping your phone or tablet alive when you can’t find a socket. </li><li>An unlocked, backup phone </li><li>﻿Earphones with a microphone </li><li>An external mouse </li><li> A folding keyboard </li><li>A portable laptop stand </li><li>Universal card reader.</li></ul>

Items Every Digital Nomad Should Carry

<ul><li>Use a PIN or password to lock your phone, laptop, and other devices when not used for a few minutes. </li><li>Update passwords regularly, and don’t use the same password for multiple sites.</li><li> Upgrade to biometric ID checks wherever available. </li><li>Turn off auto-connect to avoid unsafe wi-fi. </li><li>Turn off Bluetooth and-fi when not in use. </li><li>Enable two-factor authentication and verification to protect sensitive accounts. </li><li>Confirm which is the correct network before you log in.</li><li>Disable automatic file sharing, unless you actually need to share them with someone.</li><li> Download and activate tracking apps for your devices. </li></ul>

Online Safety Tips

<ul><li>Do plenty of research ahead of time and work out a seamless route from the airport to your first overnight stop. </li><li>Fly overnight, land in the morning </li><li>Don’t arrive after dark: things will be closed, taxi fares are higher, and you’re more at risk of crime and simply getting lost.</li><li>Pre-book the first night’s accommodation. You don’t want to be wandering around lost in a strange city.</li><li>﻿Arrange an airport pick-up</li><li>Research internet access and mobile phone coverage ahead of time.</li><li>Change enough cash to get you through day one (or use an ATM) and worry about the big transactions later.</li></ul>

Arriving At Your Destination

<ul><li>Take a walk at first light</li><li>Find somewhere great for breakfast</li><li>Get acquainted with public transport</li><li>Hunt down a street food lunch</li><li>Relax in a local park</li><li>Investigate local co-working spaces</li><li>Find an authentic local meal</li><li>Find your new local. Skip the traveler hangouts for locals’ haunts and go native in the best possible way.</li></ul>

A Perfect First Day

Accommodation will be the biggest single cost of nomadic life, so plan ahead. Being a temporary resident isn’t like passing through on holiday; hotels and hostels drain budgets, and you’ll need your own living space to feel fully at home. Location is key: if you have to travel halfway across a city to reach cafes and co-working spaces, transport costs may outweigh savings on rent

Accommodation

That idyllic image of working at your laptop on the beach is a bit of a fantasy – you won’t be able to see the screen clearly, and where is the wi-fi coming from? Real-life nomads choose a workspace with free wi-fi and a quiet environment. Some options:<ul><li>The coffee shop boardroom</li><li>The (rented) home office </li><li>Co-working spaces.</li><li>Other public spaces: public libraries almost always provide desks for working and a famously quiet work environment. Bus and train stations, airports, museums and fast food restaurants are also good (if noisy) places to find free wi-fi.</li></ul>

Choosing Your Workspace

Being a digital nomad doesn’t have to mean being a recluse, even if you’re working for yourself rather than being part of a team. Plugging into the local nomad network is a great way to find out what other people are doing and get tips for great places to eat, sleep and work, as well as finding a new social circle.

Adjusting To A Strange Land

The first rule of fitting in anywhere is communication. Even if all your digital business is with people back home, learning some of the local languages will help with the logistics of running your business overseas, as well as making you feel more grounded and part of the local community. You could try learning online – there are hundreds of apps and sites that promise fast results with minimum effort – but you’ll progress faster by talking to real people.

Learning The Lingo

Dreaming of working from anywhere? Here are the key things you need to know about starting your digital nomad journey

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Escape the nine-to five and learn how to live and work on the road with the latest addition to Lonely Planet's Handbook series, a practical guide inspiring and motivating people to achieve their goal of travelling more, starting a whole new way of living and creating a flexible work/life balance.

Escape the nine-to five and learn how to live and work on the road with the latest addition to Lonely Planet's Handbook series, a practical guide inspiring and motivating people to achieve their goal of travelling more, starting a whole new way of living and creating a flexible work/life balance. Divided into two sections, this informative book firstly explains the practicalities of working on the road, such as income generation, managing career changes, keeping in touch with family and maintaining relationships, what to do with your stuff, overcoming common pre-departure fears, keeping healthy on the road and much more. The second showcases a number of ideal destinations for digital nomads, offering invaluable travel insights and information about the location in question, pros and cons, as well as inspirational tales from digital nomads out on the road. From the palm-fringed beaches of blissful Bali to the bright, neon-lights of dynamic Seoul, aspiring nomads will be inspired to make the move and start a whole new way of living. Written by some of Lonely Planet's very own nomadic experts, this book is packed with top tips, insights and real life tales on what it's really like to be working on the road. Chapters throughout include: <ul> <li>10 perks of being a digital nomad</li> <li>What jobs do digital nomads do?</li> <li>15 items every digital nomad should carry</li> <li>10 ways to overcome loneliness</li> <li>Top destinations for digital nomads</li> <li>Learning the lingo</li> </ul> About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Experimentation fosters innovation, but it can also consume time and resources. To make experimentation productive in your organisation, you must manage the following conditions: <ul><li>What you learn from experiments</li><li>How you apply what you learned</li><li>The opportunities that come from your learnings</li><li>The conversations you have with colleagues about your findings</li></ul>

Effective experimentation

Managers often assume that testing a new product, price, or service means approaching it like a clinical trial in medicine with a hypothesis and validation. But business is different. You seldom have a chance to do randomised trials. Instead, you have to alter the product or price while in use and in conditions you can't control. Some tests may be unnecessary if you use existing data and literature. Consider the opportunity costs in testing and adjust the methodology and scope.

Understand testing in business conditions

You need reliable data. Over 80% of the time and costs of data scientists and IT groups is spent cleaning up data due to, for example, inconsistent inputs and outdated views of buyer behaviour and legacy assumptions. You should build tests from data you are confident about.

Mind your data

The most difficult challenges in testing are internal processes. While managers are good at asking questions, they fail to specify what would constitute a feasible answer to those questions. Managers must always interpret data with a specific end in mind. For example, pricing has many dimensions, such as base price, discounts, rebates tied to volume, special offers, etc. The evaluation criteria for price testing should be established because testing means evaluating alternatives.

Establish decision-making criteria

Companies tend to allocate testing time and money to large initiatives while ignoring small ideas that can have a bigger impact. Seek progress, not perfection. Invest in processes that encourage employees to submit small ideas. <ul><li>Use your website purchase interactions. For example, when airlines ask if a trip is for business or personal, they gain insight into price sensitivity for upgrades.</li><li>Occasionally rotate the questions you ask to gather insights from a different perspective.</li><li>Engage users and non-users.</li></ul>

Small ideas can have a bigger impact with less risk

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How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation

The types of questions that you’re going to get asked are going to be completely dependent on the client, your job role and the project that you’re going to be working on. If going to be working on a project where you’re going to be expected to do a lot of user research and a lot of stakeholder management, then you’re going to get asked questions that relate to “how you work with stakeholders, what your user research process is about.”

Preparing For A UX Design Interview

If you’re interviewing for a role where you’re going to be doing more of a user interface role and you’re going to maybe be working with UX designers, you’re going to be working with developers, you’re going to be maintaining a design system or design library, then you’re going to go ask questions that relate to “how you work with developers, how maybe you work with remote teams, how you pair up and work with user experience designers.”

Working With Others

The other thing to say is that the style of interview is going to be completely dependent on the organization, the organization’s personality, management style and the personalities of the people that work there. You might go to an interview, a start-up and just basically have what amounts to a relaxed conversation with some of the founders or some of the heads of product. We might go to an interview of a bank, and you might have to go through a really rigid, formal interview process that has lots of different stages.

Type Of Company

You are surely going to be asked “introduce yourself and talk a little bit about yourself and what you’ve been up to,” and this is really your opportunity to go to interviews with a case study prepared, so you want to go to the interview with stuff that’s ready to talk about. Maybe it’s a couple of projects that you’ve been working on.

The Question Everyone Asks

So let’s say you’re interviewing for a UX role where there’s quite a lot of research going to be involved. Not necessarily like a pure user research role, but you’re going to be expected to do some user testing, some usability testing. If you’ve done that in a project, spend a bit of time talking about that, spend a bit of time talking about that process, spend a bit of time talking, like giving them some insight and some detail into how you went about those things rather than necessarily focusing on the user interface design of that project.

Research Oriented Roles

The interviewer can ask “Have you experienced using XD? Have you experienced using Figma? Have you experienced using Jira? Have you experienced working in an agile team? Have you experienced working with design sprints?”  You’re going to get asked questions where you just really have to talk about your experience working in a particular way that’s relevant to that business. So if that business uses Jira for its sprint management and they ask you, “Do you have experience using Jira?” You just need to say “yes or no.”

Application Related Questions

“What type of designer are you?” And that sounds like quite a simple question, but actually, when you with the kind of the spotlight is put on you and you’re there and you have to think, what kind of a designer am I? Is quite hard to answer, and it’s quite challenging, and I can’t remember what I said!Get prepared for those questions where they shine a bit of a spotlight on you and they put you on the spot towards the end of the interview.

Out Of The Blue Questions

Towards the end of the interview, you’ll get the opportunity to ask questions and this is an opportunity to show that you’re interested in the company or the business, and it gives you an opportunity to figure out whether it’s the kind of place you would like to work for or work at. Like I said earlier, it’s a two-way street. They’re evaluating you, but you should also be evaluating them because you’re going to be giving them your time and energy pretty much every day.

Your Turn Now

What types of questions can you expect in a UX Design Interview?

Hey, guys, what I want to do today is give you a bit of insight as to the types of interview questions that you can expect to get asked in the user experience or product design interview. I’ve seen a…

Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where an individual tries to gain power and control over you. They will lie to you and intentionally set you up to fail. They will say and do things and later deny they ever happened. They will undermine you, manipulate you, and convince you that you are the problem.

Gaslighting at work

The point of gaslighting is to instill self-doubt, so when an employee has the courage to come forward to share their experiences, leaders must start by actively listening and believing them. The employee may be coming to you because they feel safe with you. Their manager might be skilled at managing up, presenting themselves as an inclusive leader while verbally abusing employees. Or they may be coming to you because they feel they’ve exhausted all other options.Do not minimize, deny, or invalidate what they tell you. Ask them how you can support them moving forward.

Believe employees when they share what’s happening

Here are some potential warning signs: <ul><li>A manager who is gaslighting may exclude their employees from meetings. </li><li>They may deny them opportunities to present their own work. </li><li>They may exclude them from networking opportunities, work events, and leadership and development programs. </li><li>They may gossip or joke about them. </li><li>Finally, they may create a negative narrative of their performance, seeding it with their peers and senior leaders in private and public forums.</li></ul>

Be on the lookout for signs of gaslighting

<ul><li>If you see that a manager has excluded one of their employees from a meeting, make sure to invite them and be clear that you extended the invitation. </li><li>If a manager is creating a negative narrative of an employee’s performance in talent planning sessions, speak up in the moment and ask them for evidence-based examples.</li><li>Enlist the help of others who have examples of their strong performance. </li><li>Document what you’re observing on behalf of the employee who is the target of gaslighting.</li></ul>

Intervene in the moments that matter

What leaders can do when they spot this bad behavior.

How to Intervene When a Manager Is Gaslighting Their Employees

Emotional Intelligence(EQ) is an intangible trait based on feelings and emotions that employers look for in prospective candidates. 
It is the ability to tune in with the way others feel and is one of the most sought-after skills on Linkedin jobs.
It is good to know what kind of behavioural questions and case studies can be asked by employers to check our EQ.

Answering Interview Questions With EQ

As mental health at the workplace gets more press, employers look for new people who can enhance their company culture by:<ol><li>Having the quality to understand themselves and their emotions.</li><li>Understand others emotions.</li><li>Display social awareness.</li><li>Keep emotions under control.</li><li>Staying upbeat in adverse situations.</li></ol>

What The Employer Wants In 2021

Question: Tell me about a time when you handled a conflict with a coworker, client or boss.Answer: Describe a past conflict that may have happened at office by using the STAR methodology:<ol><li>S: Describe The Situation.</li><li>T: Explain the Task expected from you.</li><li>A: What specific Actions were taken by you.</li><li>R: The Results of the action taken.</li></ol>Don’t be too clinical and emphasize on your patience, listening skills, or any misunderstanding cleared by you.

Interview Question: Conflict At Work

Question: Tell me about a time when you experienced a setback at the office and how you handled it.Answer: Showcase that you are resilient, mature and stable, instead of whining about your former bosses and colleagues. Understand your own mistakes and emphasize the lessons learned. Show how gracefully the problem was handled and how it resulted in an ideal outcome.

Interview Question: Setback At Work

Question: What do you do when a coworker challenges you in a meeting?Answer: The employer is looking to find if you react or have a thoughtful response to sudden situations that can provoke or irritate you. It reveals your ability to regulate your emotions and feelings. Don’t be that guy who is easily frustrated and is forcing his own opinion down their coworker's throats.

Interview Question: Rumble In The Meeting

Question: When onboarding, how do you adapt to a new work environment?Answer: A fresh recruit with a high emotional quotient(EQ) would start to build relationships with colleagues, coworkers and bosses from day one.Relationship building is crucial as any project does not happen in isolation, and your employer will like your social awareness and the ability to read your surroundings in a new environment.

Interview Question: Adapting To A New Work Environment

Question: What is your greatest weakness? (and other variations of the same theme).Answer: This question asks about your strengths and weaknesses, but as a decoy. The hidden question is about your honesty, self-awareness, ability to accept feedback and to unlearn things that are not relevant.You can tell a story(short stories work great at interviews!) about how you utilized your strength/skillset at the office or how your weakness created a mess. Be honest and don’t forget to showcase your learning.

Interview Question:  Strengths And Weaknesses

Question: How do you keep a work-life balance?Answer: You can describe the ways you unwind yourself, like by doing a morning run, meditation, or a hobby that acts as a destresser and a creative outlet.Mental health issues and work-related burnout are hot topics in recent times. It really does help if you take care of yourself and are not grumpy, overworked and on the edge all the time.

Interview Question: Work-Life Balance

Question: What inspires you?Answer: Showcase your authenticity instead of blurting out buzzwords to impress the recruiter. If you are emotionally intelligent and honest, your answer will be holistic and passionate, but will not be boastful or egocentric.If possible, connect your passion with the job profile, and prove that you are in fact acting on what inspires you.

Interview Question: Your inspirations

Question: What have you done in the last year to grow professionally?Answer: This question checks the learning orientation and growth mindset of the candidate. A high EQ also leads to candidates being able to identify what they lack professionally and personally and work towards self-learning.Instead of talking about mandatory learning, focus on the self-initiated projects and personal activities that lead to professional growth, like social campaigning, data analysis, or even reading something specific.

Interview Question: Your Professional Growth

Question: What action would you take if you saw your coworker struggling with work?Answer: EQ makes us understand the feelings and emotions of others, and we can use that awareness to identify and help co-workers who are having difficulties coping up with their work and personal life.Tell your story making use of the STAR methodology:<ol><li>S: Describe The Situation.</li><li>T: Explain the Task expected from you.</li><li>A: What specific Actions were taken by you.</li><li>R: The Results of the action taken.</li></ol>

Interview Question: Working Together

Questions: How do people misunderstand you?Answer: Perceptions and the image being created is now as relevant as reality itself. What we are is not what others see at once. If we are passionate, co-workers can be overwhelmed by us. If we are quiet most of the time, bosses can see it as being unassertive.You can talk about how you have diffused wrong perceptions or handled misunderstandings of your colleagues.

Interview Question: Misunderstandings And Perceptions

<ol><li>Understand that the need for emotional quotient(EQ) is hidden in every question the employer asks.</li><li>Ask good questions yourself.</li><li>Be confident but not cocky.</li><li>Instead of trying to be perfect, just be real.</li><li>Provide examples that are specific and solutions-oriented.</li><li>Do not badmouth former bosses or colleagues.</li><li>Pay attention to the body language and other social cues of the recruiter during an interview.</li></ol>

Bonus EQ Tips During An Interview

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is one of the most in-demand skills in the workplace. Here’s how to answer questions about it—and demonstrate it—in a job interview.

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10 Interview Questions You’ll Get on Emotional Intelligence

The best way to understand the term "distraction" is to know what it is not. It's not focus. Distraction is something that pulls us away from what we want. Traction is the opposite of distraction. It is the action that moves us toward what we really want.
The difference between traction and distraction is planning. There's little wrong with scrolling through Facebook or watching YouTube videos if you plan to do so. It is when you do it without the intention that it becomes problematic.

Distraction vs traction

A schedule maker is a tool for building a weekly template for how you plan to spend your time. With a weekly schedule, you'll always know the difference between traction and distraction.
Time is a valuable asset. One way to guard our time is to use a schedule maker. Using it can significantly reduce the number of distractions and improve how we spend our time.

Make use of a schedule maker

In my research and consulting work, I’ve heard countless people tell me how difficult it is to manage their time. Yet, when I ask them what they got distracted from, that is, what they planned to do…

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Knowing the Difference Between “Traction” and “Distraction” will Change Your Life This Year

This works well for the chronic procrastinator: those who say they will do it later and then wonder why it never gets done. Instead of getting overwhelmed, tackle your to-do list in small manageable chunks. Scheduling your time by the hour takes little effort to implement but provides real results.

By the hour

Rather than trying to work flat-out, break down your day into a series of work-sprints with a short rest period after each session.Set a timer for 25 min and focus exclusively on your work for that time, take a 5 min break, and repeat.Some people find that taking a 5 min break destroys their flow. But it does help to break long complex tasks into a series on manageable sprints.

The Pomodoro Method

The 2-minute rule is a strategy for quickly assessing and taking action on small tasks so they don’t take up too much mental energy.Ask yourself if a task is going to take you 2 minutes or less. If so, just do it.

The 2-minute rule

This method involves literally planning out each of your next hours, rather than your whole day.Start the day by writing a list of what you intend to do over the next hour. Top up the list throughout the day so it always contains approximately one hour’s work.

The Next Hour

This works well for the over-promiser: those who overestimate how much they can do in a day.To prevent starting the day unplanned, plan your day the night before.

By the day

Assign every hour of your day to a specific task.Take your day’s to-do list and estimate how long each task will take. Plan your day out by assigning each task to your calendar. Include all related tasks such as commuting, breaks and admin tasks.

Time blocking

Eating the frog means taking the biggest job you need to do and tackling it at the very start of the day, getting it over and done with.Check out your to-do list. Pick the task you’ve been putting off.

Eating the frog

Identify when your peaks/troughs are and plan your day around your energy levels. Alternatively, you can also work with your chronotype.<ul><li>Bears are active in the day, but they’ll likely hit the snooze button before they get up. They’re best tackling intensive tasks just before noon.</li><li>Lions are early risers and are most productive in the morning.</li><li>Wolves would prefer to sleep through the morning. They peak late morning and late evening.</li><li>Dolphins are light sleepers. They should save intensive tasks for later in the day and are most productive in sprints.</li></ul>

Natural energy cycles

The method involves identifying your big rocks (i.e. your priorities) then planning your day around them.

Big rocks first

This is for the constantly over-committed - those who struggle to fit everything into a single day cycle.

By the week

Theme each individual day of your week to a specific type of task.For example:<ul><li>Mon: Research</li><li>Tues: Client work</li><li>Wed: Marketing</li><li>Thurs: Client work</li><li>Fri: Bookkeeping</li></ul>

Theme days

When you have a plan for the month, it gives you a sense of what you can realistically get done.Experiment with monthly planning and see whether or not it fits in with your productivity cycles.

By the month

This is good for the big dreamer because it helps with starting making progress on long-term goals.

By the quarter

Planning for a year leads to a lax attitude throughout the start of the year, leading to a burst of frantic activity as the end of the year approaches. Forget about your annual plan and accomplish the same goals in just 12 weeks.<ul><li>When you have just 12 weeks to reach your goals, every day counts.</li><li>It encourages you to think in terms of what you can accomplish in less time.</li><li>Promotes daily action to accomplish long-term goals.</li></ul>

The 12 week year

This works for seasonal workers.Make a list of your annual commitments including work events and personal events. Plan your tasks around these events.

By the year

Rather than planning your time, plan your goals. Ignore specific timelines and instead focus on progressing toward your key goals.For example, if you want to be President, you might choose to volunteer for local political activities, as opposed to taking a high-paying job in the private sector.

By the lifetime

What's the best time management strategy out there? Unfortunately, anyone who tells you they have the answer to that question is lying. The truth is there's no single time management system that works for every single person. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and their results will vary depending on your circumstances, goals, and personality.

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