Enkahnz Shared: Character Counts, But It Can Lead You Astray

Enkahnz: Let me start by saying I place a high value on a person's character. However, unlike like many coaches and executives I have worked with, I also understand that it is not as determinative as it is often portrayed to be in the media or as much as most people think it is.

Coaches often brag about a player being of high character. Teams and businesses often proudly state that they only hire people who possess fine character. Yet we are inundated with news stories about workers who commit malfeasance against their employer, and players who run afoul of the law from these same companies and teams that only hire people with great character.(Enkahnz)

The assumption we tend to make when things like I just described happen, is that the business or team was wrong about those individuals' level of character. While that certainly is a valid possibility and perhaps accurate in some cases, chances are much higher that the reason for this is what is known as the Fundamental Attribution Error. This is where we take a perceived trait in someone and assume that since they possess it in one area, it applies to all areas. When it is a positive trait, like high character, it is often referred to as the "Halo Effect."(Enkahnz)

We forget that good people sometimes do bad things; like the clergyman who cheats on his taxes, or the man who volunteers to help underprivileged children and then goes home and abuses his wife. Not long ago, several professional athletes were taken for millions of dollars by a financial advisor and when one of the bigger victims (QB Mark Sanchez) was asked about it, he said he trusted him because he was a Christian, thereby assuming he was honest and trustworthy. That is an excellent example of an attribution error in action.

New leaders often start by saying they are only going to bring in high character people. This is a great and noble idea, but if you start bringing high character people into a corrupt environment, they are more likely to become corrupt as well, rather than be able to convert the corrupt people into people of high character.(Enkahnz)

Sometimes it is better to clean house and build back up. When trying to salvage what was good, you may end up making an attribution error or two when deciding on what or who to keep, and be back where you started before you have a chance to succeed.

So, my advice to businesses and teams is to evaluate the character of all of your prospects, but do not use that evaluation as a heavily weighted factor in your hiring decision.(Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: Multiple Areas to Choose From in Data Science

Enkahnz: Today data science is being used by industries, so prolifically that the demand of data scientists has risen too. Data analysts are those professionals who collect and analyze unstructured data and find insights which will help in strategic decision making.

Data analytics business is increasing its revenue every year, not just domestically but also getting involved in analytics export to countries like USA, UK, and Australia. And it's always seen that when an industry spreads exponentially, so is their need for human resources and in this case data scientist.

Data science as a career option has many other subgroups. It has many activities in its data cycle and usually has different experts working on them.(Enkahnz)

BRANCHING OF DATA SCIENCE

Data science as a field is divided into different areas and handled by respective experts.

Data engineering: it involves formatting the raw data into an accessible form, includes managing the storage, source of data, quality and structure maintenance. This makes analyzing easy and one can easily find the details related to it. Jobs in this area are data engineer, database developer.
Cloud computing and architecture: it involves maintaining and developing the infrastructure needed for cloud management. Also, it makes sure that the analytics are integrated with business applications and uses. Related jobs to this area are platform and cloud engineer, cloud architect.
Database management: this area involves maintaining and developing databases according to their need in data transactions during different uses. Jobs related to this area are data specialist, database engineer, and architect.(Enkahnz)
Data mining: this involves exploring the data using different statistical analysis. This helps in building predictive models for various business problems and their future trends. Jobs related to this area are a business analyst, statistician.
Business intelligence: this involves managing the data sources, finding analytical solutions, communicating with shareholders, test designing and documentation. Jobs related to this area are data strategist, BI analyst, BI engineer and developer.
Machine learning: this involves getting inputs for algorithms and designing data cycles, testing hypothesis, and data infrastructure. This area usually makes use of standard data tools and different statistical models. Jobs related to this area are a cognitive developer, machine learning specialist, and AI specialist.(Enkahnz)
Data visualization: this involves presenting insights in a visually appealing way. Designing graphics interfaces and customer appealing designs is the main agenda here. Job related to this area is a software developer and data engineer and developer.
Data analytics: this involves problem-solving and finding patterns and opportunities in the data scenario. Analytics can be a market or sector or internal operations based. Jobs related to this area are communications, planning, decisions, web, market, product, sales analysts.(Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: Benefits of Using a Waste Management Business

Enkahnz: Waste is being generated everywhere we look from household to industrial, medical to hazardous and chemical; our planet is becoming consumed by waste and there is no hiding from it. It is all too easy to ignore this growing problem of increasing waste plaguing our world and taking thousands of years to decompose - if at all.

No longer can we turn a blind eye to the suffering of our land, sea and air as well as global warming - say hello to the birth of the waste management industry, here to save the day.(Enkahnz)

Whilst waste matter isn't the nicest of discussion points, it is a vitally important topic which needs to be addressed in order to protect our environment from further hazardous and chemical substances. A world without frequent and proper waste disposal would be a world that horror movies are made from; deadly mountains of toxic trash slowly killing all life forms and destroying our environment once and for all.

I'm sure that if you are reading this, you feel confident in your own life that you 'do your part' by recycling when possible and taking your bins out on rubbish day. Small and large businesses are producing a significantly higher amount of waste but may still feel satisfied that they are disposing of waste correctly by passing it on to an outside waste management provider and wiping their hands clean.(Enkahnz)

It is essential that you - as a business - not only hire a professional waste service to dispose of your waste but that you trust your waste management company and know with utmost certainty that your waste is being transported and destroyed legally and safely. By choosing a quality waste transport and disposal company, you can rest assured knowing that you are getting more for your money, first-class customer service and peace of mind that your waste is being disposed of correctly.

Whether you are a small or large business, hiring a specialised waste collection company will make your life easier and provide a tonne of advantages. Here we look at some of the central benefits of expert waste collection and waste removal.

• Get your waste management service to do the dirty work; you save time and money!

Time is of the essence and when you're trying to run a successful business, dealing with waste matters can eat up a lot of time, resources and money. By hiring a professional waste management team, you can save your time, resources (and often money) by focussing on your business and letting the expert waste staff deal with your waste discreetly and efficiently.(Enkahnz)

• Health & safety is paramount in the workplace; safeguard your employees and yourself.

It is your responsibility to make sure your staff have a safe environment to work in. You can maintain the health and safety of your workforce by employing a dedicated waste management service who will ensure that your hazardous or chemical waste is professionally removed regularly to reduce the risk of health issues.

• You are reducing your carbon footprint and making huge difference to the future of our planet.

By selecting an environmentally friendly waste management company you can be confident that any waste which can be recycled or reused will be. When your business starts working together with a reputable waste management service, you can expect your profits and productivity to increase significantly as sustainability is highly regarded and you can be proud to be environmentally conscious.(Enkahnz)

• Managing your waste professionally is win-win in the public eye.

Once you establish a solid relationship with your waste management company, you can advertise the fact that you are actively recycling, reusing and disposing of your waste in an environmentally mindful way. This will do wonders for your company's image as well as promoting proper waste management to your clients and customers.

• Greener, cleaner living; it's a way of life.

Maintaining your waste free work environment will become easy once your waste management team regularly visit. A clean work place is far more inviting to potential clients and your employees will quickly reap the benefits of a greener workplace. By having a dedicated waste management company on hand to help you eliminate waste from your business, you and your employees will soon realise the health benefits as well as the time and money savings it delivers.(Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: How A Life Mentor Can Change Your Life

Enkahnz: You would always want to have a special person in your life who carves it so efficiently that you gradually realize the importance and beauty of having a life mentor in your life. A life mentor changes your life for good and gives you all the right principles to mend your lives and help you in achieving the best of your abilities.

These mentors have certain responsibilities that they need to fulfill and certain expectations they need to meet and when they do that to perfection, they grow up to be a role model for the respective person because of all the guidance and knowledge that have been imparted.(Enkahnz)

Here are a few benefits of having a life mentor like that:

• GIVES YOU ALL THE SUPPORT THAT YOU MIGHT NEED

It is very usual and common to feel dejected and low after a failure or defeat, it is during this time that a life mentor provides you with the much needed support that will make you jump back in your feet right away. This life mentor will console you and guide you and make you see the brighter side. They will patiently listen to you and remind you of the times when you were successful which will also remind you of the potential you have, this kind of motivation is very much required to get back on the saddle.(Enkahnz)

• THEY ARE THE STRONGER VERSION OF YOU

There will be times when you yourself will not believe in your capabilities and strength and potential, it is during this time that your life mentor will never give up on you and believe in you much more than you can ever believe in yourself. Your life mentor knows you the best and knows exactly what is possible for you and thus never gives up on you so easily, they are always there for you no matter what and that is how a life mentor should be.(Enkahnz)

• THEY ARE ALWAYS HONEST WITH YOU

You can be totally confident of receiving the correct and honest feedback on your work from your work mentors. They want the best for you and hence they will never lie about how good or bad your work is so that there is enough scope for improvement. Your life mentor will do the job of showing you the correct path and discover your own self very effectively because of this honesty.(Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: Ways to Generate Leads to Upscale Your Sales Target

Enkahnz: You can identify among a crowd those prospective business partners by indulging them into discussions for your business proposals. This is technically called as "Lead Generation". It is about finding unique methods to gain the attention of people towards your business. You can provide an ample amount of perks to create that interest in them so that they would want to look for more information towards your brand.(Enkahnz)

This typically works out well and that what exactly called. It is nothing but a way of preparing your potential customers to your business and steer them to the extent of making them buy your products.

However, the question arises that when your product is already in good shape, then buyers will automatically be buying it. Then what is the need for this? Well, the answer lies in the kind of relationship you build with your potential customers.

It can be those strangers and potential customers that may show an organic interest in your business and might want to initiate a business proposal with you versus you as an owner of the business initiating a discussion with them. The former approach makes it easier for the future customers to buy from you over the given point of time.(Enkahnz)

In the concept of inbound marketing methodology, it comes with the level 2 stage of learning. Its role becomes significant when you have already attracted your targeted audience and are almost on the brink of actually converting those set of the audience into leads for your sales team.

Let's talk about creating the best fit for the idea of lead generation into the inbound marketing methodology domain. For this, we first need to understand the concept of this in detail.

Suppose a visitor has come across your business, it could be through any means such as your company's website, or a blog promoting your venture or even through a social media platform. Once he identifies if it interests him, he will try to look for a CTA button which is a Call-To-Action button. This CTA button actually will prompt him to take some more actions if he wants to get the information in detail.(Enkahnz)

Another form of generating leads us through a landing page through which you can understand the specific need of the guest who clicked to access that landing page.

Attaching a form with multiple fields is also a good way to generate leads. If this form is embedded in the website then you can capture the needs and requirements of the customer through his response in the given form.

How to Validate a Lead

There can be an odd number of visitors to your website, but how can you identify that which one of them can be converted into leads? So let's try to figure out that way to ensure that which visitor is actually interested in your product or can be a potential lead.(Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: YOU Can and Should Make a Difference

Enkahnz: If you know me, then you realize I often say that there's a disaster happening in someone's life every day, and you might not even know it. As a nation, we've recently watched the heartbreaking images as Hurricane Harvey battered Texas relentlessly. People lost their lives, and many lost all of their worldly possessions. The images were heartbreaking.

Did you watch the screen and wonder what you could do?

I've told this story often, but it bears repeating because years ago, I wondered what I could do. During that time, I was watching the television screen as the aftermath, and complete devastation of the Indian Ocean was unfolding during the holiday season.(Enkahnz)

At the time, I was the president of an international footwear manufacturing company. When I saw the image of a shoe wash ashore on a beach clear across the world, the footage captured my attention. Shoes have played a large part in my life, both professionally and personally.

Here's the deal. It's easy to be detached. It's easy to stay at a safe distance and not get involved.

So many people do that, but I couldn't live myself.

By that, I mean not just the tsunami. When I see someone in need or suspect something is going on, I ask. Just saying to someone who may be experiencing a tough time can be immense and lets that person know that someone cares. Saying, "How are you doing today? Are you doing okay?" is simple.(Enkahnz)

We worry that people are going to unload their problems on us and we're carrying our concerns. That's the main reason so many don't take a moment to help someone else.

But, aren't in all of this together?

What can one person do, what can YOU do?

My answer to you is simply this: YOU can do a lot.

When I saw the situation unfolding after the tsunami in the Pacific, I had no idea initially what I could do. But I knew that I couldn't live myself and simply not doing anything would not be acceptable.

I was in the shoe business, and so I put two and two together. If people had lost everything, that meant they lost their clothes and shoes, among so much else. I set on a course to get shoes to families and individuals affected.

Candidly, when I told my team we were going to ship shoes to Asia from America, no one questioned me. They just knew it was something we would do, whatever it took. I worked the phones and called on senior executives in the business asking for shoe donations. I expected a couple of thousand shoes. I ended up leading an effort that shopped over a quarter million shoes to the Pacific Ocean countries.

That event changed the trajectory of my life.(Enkahnz)

I'm not saying that you have to leave your world and become a humanitarian like I did.

That's not what I'm saying at all.

What I am saying, however, is that if you think that YOU can't make a difference in the lives of other people, you're mistaken. Your smile, your heartfelt prayers, your shoulder to lean on if you know someone who is close to you and needs your help can go far.

I have a friend who has a close friend who has been struggling with depression for a very long time. The two friends live in different states, but for more than a year, not a day goes by that my friend doesn't send a note, picture or message of encouragement each morning before the sun rises on the West Coast.

I'm telling you, it doesn't take much to help.

As I said at the outset, we recently saw the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. Someday soon those stories and lives will recede into the background of our collective consciousness. However, the people who lived through it and lost everything will need help for weeks, months and even years to come.

YOU can make a difference. There are thousands of religious organizations, nonprofits, schools and civic groups that have started to mobilize in Texas to help bring normalcy back to people who have lost so much. They need your money. They need your financial assistance, and I've said in the past, if you can only give $1, that's just as important as someone who can give more.

More broadly, I have a message that bears repeating. If you think one life--your life--can't possibly make a difference, you're wrong. YOU can make a difference and YOU matter. We need many more humanitarians out there! (Enkahnz)

Enkahnz Shared: Test Your Wits And Composure Using An Escape Room

Enkahnz: Games that are based on the real life adventures make some of the best when you want to test yourself at different levels. Such games also promote team work when you take part as a group and they can be real learning adventures to help you tackle life better. Escape rooms are a must try for those who wish to try their wits in puzzle solving within very short periods of time failure to which there are repercussions. An escape room is generally a real life adventure game that is not online. This means that you actually get locked in a room and are expected to use elements within that given game to solve puzzles and escape the room within the time given.(Enkahnz)

The rooms come in different themes and you can choose the challenge, according to how much you feel you can take and the kind of fun you want to enjoy. Most come with added lighting and sounds to make the experience as real as possible so you can work fast in finding the clues and solving the puzzles to gain your freedom before the time elapses.

Choosing your games

One of the most important considerations when it comes to escape room games is the length of each session. Usually, you will have about 60 minutes to solve the puzzle and escape from your room. It is important to remember that the games can get quite intense, giving you adrenaline rushes that can leave you shaken somehow. Ensure that you can handle the length of the game without going into a serious panic attack.(Enkahnz)

Since it can get pretty intense inside the room, consider how possible it is for you to get out as soon as you feel you cannot take it to the end. You do not need to be forced into going all the way to the end of your minutes if you do not want to. A game that gives you the comfort of a panic button so you can be let out as soon as you feel the need to is therefore important. You may want to push yourself to the edge, but you also should have the liberty to leave the room as soon as you start feeling uncomfortable. Not everyone can handle the same levels of endurance so do not be ashamed to walk away.(Enkahnz)

To help you manage and enjoy your session to the end, it is best that you choose game providers who give you a valuable briefing before the start of the experience. Ensuring that you know exactly what is expected of you during the lock-in will give you the energy to hold it together until the end without necessarily getting too worked up. The briefing is very important also because it gets you familiar with the rules of the game, hence adding to the fun of the game and ensuring you achieve your freedom out of using your own brain power.(Enkahnz)