The Learner's Journey

 What is Social Awareness? How it can help and Improve an Individual and the Nation as a whole?  Social Awareness is an ability to know and understand the needs of other people - and do something about it. It is being sensitive and knowing what to do with it. If a person has a low social awareness, their attitude and behavior will appear to be selfish or self serving to the society in which they are involved. Getting the right response to the needs of other people improves social standing and success. It is a must attribute for a leader or manager. This is why, in a corporate world, the management puts an emphasis on their managers to be socially aware. This skill will bring a person a long way and of course their organization as well. It is needless to say that being socially aware is a de-facto core competency aside from the technical skills or managing skills. A harmonious society needs its people to be respectful towards its other, a pre-requisite of productive and pros

The Year 2020 is a really a bumpy ride, and it does throw many of us out of seats - our comfort zones. Many human lives has been lost and perished not only because of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic but because of its effect to the psyche and outlook of many people. The COVID-19 Pandemic has proven that the human society is a fragile fabric. It is evident to the performance of the Stock Market early this year. Many business are forced to closed or trimmed down their operations - forced to adapt and forced to lay-out many employees and workers. This has caused many sufferings. In some parts of the World, there are still domestic and inter-countries strife that has intensified and has been going since years before. The most recent is the Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict. There are also ravaging typhoons that happened in South East Asia, which destroyed livelihoods and homes of thousands of people - particularly in the Philippines. Leaders tried many things to address

Stressed or Pressured? Which is which? In a corporate world, you might hear some sayings that being stressed is bad and being pressured is better than the latter. Why is that? But what do you really feel? According to the dictionary, stressed is defined as "experiencing mental or emotional strain or tension". While, Pressured  is described as a "compelling or constraining influence, such as persuasion or negative attitudes, on the mind or will." But if you are familiar to the engineering definition of both words, then at least you will have an idea why being pressured is better than being stressed. This is the reason why usually you will hear that it is better to be pressured. Here are the definition of Stress and Pressure according to principle of Physics. Stress - It is the intensity of the INTERNAL resisting force, developing at a point. It can be acting  normal (90 degrees), parallel to the surface or both. Pressure - It is the intensity of the EXTERNAL resistin

In this age and digital era, we always wants to keep a part of memory. This is always true if you are a learner that strives to keep more knowledge and information. And there are many platforms that offers online storage - or the Cloud Storage. These are the following and most common cloud providers; Google Drive (by Google, Inc.) One Drive (by Microsoft Corporation) Smart Phone Sponsored Cloud Storage (capacity and quality varies on brand) Dropbox Cloud computing and cloud storage are now the trend for sharing large files and even Company applications are now using this. In this time of pandemic, the Cloud solution has provided many business an alternative and saving costs in its maintenance. Cloud computing has proven its worth more - it is really the future. It transform people in sharing files and how people collaborate together. But one cloud provider has captured attention of the many netizens and business companies. This is because, cloud computing is their flagship, and so, the

If you are working in a corporate environment, you probably always hear the S.O.W. (short for Scope of Work) on the conversation among your peers.  If you are in a Project Team, you are surely an active part of it. If you have not heard it, it doesn't mean you are/were not part of it. So, what really is the Scope of Work? What is its function? How important it is to have a clear SOW? These are the basic question that everyone in the team or stakeholders should know about  However, it is not enough that it is known but should also be understood and acknowledge - most of the time by affixing the signature on it. What is the Scope of Work? Scope of Work is a set of description of work to be done in the Project , with the defined responsibilities per party and the ultimate objective of the work - or Project being deliberated. Most of the time, it discusses how the proponent wants a specific task is done, the methodology and manner to do it. In a sense, it contains the work specificat