16.04.2025
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT - HOW ITS AMOUNT IS DETERMINED AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES IS IT STOPPED
Cash benefits for unemployment are a short-term payment from the "Unemployment" fund of the state social insurance, which replaces for a certain period of time part of the lost income from employment of the person concerned.
For the time during which they receive cash compensation for unemployment, the persons are health insured at the expense of the state budget, explains the National Insurance Institute.
Who is entitled to unemployment benefits?
Persons for whom insurance contributions have been paid or are due in the "Unemployment" fund for at least 12 months in the last 18 months before termination of insurance and who:
- are registered as unemployed at the Employment Agency;
- they have not acquired the right to a pension for insurance service and age in the Republic of Bulgaria or an old-age pension in another country or do not receive a pension for insurance service and age in a reduced amount or an occupational pension;
- do not exercise labor activity for which they are subject to mandatory insurance under the Social Insurance Code or the legislation of another country, with the exception of persons who have entered into an employment contract for short-term seasonal agricultural work for one day.
Amount of cash compensation for unemployment
The daily cash compensation for unemployment is in the amount of 60 percent of the average daily remuneration or the average daily insurance income, on which insurance contributions for the "Unemployment" fund have been paid or are due for the last 24 calendar months.
At the same time, it cannot be less than the minimum and greater than the maximum daily amount of the unemployment benefit determined by the Law on the State Social Security Budget for each calendar year.
The minimum and maximum daily amount of the unemployment benefit is determined annually by the Law on the State Social Security Budget. The monthly amount of cash compensation for unemployment is determined by multiplying the received daily amount by the number of working days in the month to which it refers.
When does the benefit stop?
The payment of unemployment compensation is suspended in the event of the following circumstances:
- Receiving compensation for temporary incapacity after termination of insurance - for the period for which the compensation is paid.
- Payment of compensation for remaining without work on the basis of a normative act - for the period for which the compensation is paid.
- Collection of evidence of social security experience and/or social security income, acquired in application of the provisions of an international treaty to which Bulgaria is a party or of the European regulations for the coordination of social security systems.
- Carrying out an inspection by a control authority or other competent authority regarding circumstances relevant to the right or the amount of the compensation; in this case, the suspension is until the inspection is completed, but for no more than 6 months.
Payment of the unemployment benefit resumes from the day the grounds for suspension cease to exist for the remaining period as of the date of suspension.
Payment of cash unemployment compensation is terminated when:
- Starting work for which the person is subject to compulsory insurance under the Social Insurance Code or the legislation of another country
- Termination of registration by the Employment Agency
- Acquiring the right to a pension for insurance service and age in the Republic of Bulgaria or an old-age pension in another country, or when granting a pension for insurance service and age in a reduced amount according to Art. 68a of the Social Insurance Code or of an occupational pension under Art. 168 of the Social Security Code
- Death of the unemployed.
The person is obliged to declare to the relevant territorial division of the National Social Security Institute the occurrence and disappearance of the specified circumstances (with the exception of the last) within 7 working days by submitting a sample application.
10.04.2025
5 USELESS ATTITUDES AND 5 SUBTLE MINDSETS THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS
You dress to go out and hop, loop the pantyhose. You say to yourself, "Well, it's thin, it's breaking", you take another one and put on your shoes as if nothing happened. Or a button falls on your shirt and you change it quickly, without drama.
Congratulations - you are one of those people who think pragmatically and are set up for success.
You could have been one of those who would immediately exclaim "Oh, horror, I'm not going to do well today". According to psychologists, this is a wrong state of mind. It's some kind of loop, it's some kind of button, but it shakes the attitude that you're in for a good day. Faith in your own strength is too fragile. And it is the most important one, on which your achievements are built both in your professional and personal life. Everything starts from your own head, from your way of thinking.
Wow, how sick of these self-fulfilling prophecy theories. But if you will believe it, experts say that the wrong state of mind sabotages success.
In life, practically nothing is black and white, there are always nuances. But if you want to get to know each other, you might try looking at each other a little simplistically, through mutually exclusive attitudes. Honestly tell yourself which of the two you are more inclined to give in to, is it good and if not, what are you doing to change it.
This morning sock or button drama is an example of tuning in to scarcity, not abundance. You get angry at luck, you see a finger with which fate points to you that today will not go well for you. A little thing happens, and you attach great importance to it because of your insecurity. You don't care - if you don't have any other tights, you'll go out barefoot, if you don't have another clean shirt, you'll go in a T-shirt, do your job and win.
Another crooked manifestation of the "scarcity-abundance" attitude is envy. Business and society are based on competition, but you will always fail if you think that the success of one means the failure of another. This should not be the lottery, so that when someone wins the jackpot, there are no millions for the others in the next few draws.
Work, don't envy, enjoy the success of others and believe that as it came to them, so it will come to you - this is the attitude of a winner, emphasize the experts in personal development.
Comparison is another unhelpful mindset. It is instilled from the early years, when parents and teachers cannot help but make an example of excellent students. Remember how much you hated that Veselka and that Deyan who did everything perfectly.
If you know how unpleasant it is to compare, why do you continue to inflict negative feelings on yourself by thinking about your fellow high achiever. This is completely unproductive. He may have a talent that you don't have. That doesn't make you incompetent, it makes you different. Look at yourself, appreciate your strengths and develop them to achieve success.
However, experts emphasize that you should not make the opposite mistake - getting drunk on yourself by comparing yourself to incompetents. So you are not able to use your potential.
But since you're working among people after all, and it's somehow inevitable to compare yourself, at least let it be constructive. Not as an opposition "excellent - incompetent". Do not envy the colleague, do not hate him, but study him - how he achieves success. This already means having the right mindset, wanting to value and "buy" head-on experience.
By the way, experts advise not to pay "public opinion tax". You expect recognition from others, and if you don't wait for it, you get so disappointed that you start to underestimate yourself. Get used to the idea that most people are selfish, self-centered, and rarely value someone else's achievement. This may include your boss, who thinks it is your job to succeed.
Do not suffer even if the partner, parents, friends do not think to praise you. They probably believed in you, that's what they expected to happen, they don't see your success as a big event. You know best what it has cost you, so give yourself the credit you deserve. Be truly happy and be inspired for further success.
This attitude is also formed from early childhood, parents and teachers start it, then the boss takes over - you are asked to do everything in the best way. And you begin to want this from yourself, you become maximalists.
However, you run the risk of rewinding and missing out on success. Or you achieve it, but you don't feel satisfied because a little something didn't turn out exactly as you planned. Or you're so consumed with trying to be perfect that you can't be happy.
You can't be perfect. This is not just a wrong mindset, but a proven recipe for unhappiness and even a shortcut to professional burnout, depression, and various other scary things.
It is not a shortcut to success, however, to be undemanding to your own work. "Whatever happens" is disrespect, above all, to yourself. With such an attitude it usually goes badly.
You go after a goal and you don't give up until you reach it. Great, but only at first glance.
Successful people don't get stuck, they don't set their minds in one direction, they change when they need to.
Not only can, but you must be flexible, reshape the plan. And it is not a sin to change the goal if it no longer seems the right one, either because the circumstances are different, or because the path to it does not make you happy. Single-mindedness and rigidity are not synonymous.
Naturally, giving up quickly is not a good attitude. One of the most valuable qualities is being able to choose when it is worth continuing and when it is wiser to make changes in one's efforts and intentions.
This setting is very easy to check. Think about how often you tend to reject. The boss orders something or a colleague makes a suggestion. Your knee-jerk reaction to your mind or voice is "That can't be done."
The attitude of disbelief even "at first reading" is a stereotype that condemns to failure. Everything can be rejected, but after thinking about it, after weighing the pros and cons.
Blind faith is stupidity, but blind disbelief is also, in principle, highly unproductive. Usually a person who reacts this way to the suggestions of others develops the same reaction to himself. He starts chasing his ideas with "That won't happen, why bother".
Some people are prone to pessimism by birth, but very often they exhibit or do not exhibit this quality depending on their environment.
Being influenced by black people is easier. Every office has them and they are contagious. How much is it to join those who are forever grumbling, complaining, thinking that "this can't be done", predicting collapse. But whining confuses your thoughts, saps your energy, robs you of belief in success.
It is up to you to avoid negative people and associate with motivated ones. Enthusiasm is also contagious.
------ The self-satisfied or self-critical self -------
The attitude of success or failure is really in the head, and it starts with how you talk about yourself to yourself.
A mature person must believe in his own strength, have a proper self-esteem and neither underestimate himself nor be complacent. The balance is quite complicated. Staggering at one extreme or the other is more common.
Complacency clearly does not lead to development. But excessive self-criticism also does not lead. It is generally a good quality within certain limits. Outside of them it hurts.
If you call yourself a "fool" at every mistake, if you don't like anything about yourself, you won't achieve anything.
On the contrary - positive self-talk helps a lot, psychologists assure.
Don't take the term too literally. You think positively of yourself. And every night tell yourself out loud that you are great because of how many good things you have accomplished today.
09.04.2025
4 MINUTES DELAY - WHAT THE HELL IS SOMEONE ANGRY? IT MAY BE INHERENT, BUT HOW IS IT OVERCOME
You are at work, you have to go to a meeting in the next room, and it is not clear how it turns out that you are there a few minutes after the appointed time. And after the boss, unfortunately, who glares at you. He probably thinks you're late because you don't know how to organize yourself, you don't really care about work, you're lazy, you don't respect your colleagues, and other unpleasant things like that.
According to a new theory, all of this may not be true, but you may be one of those people who are genetically predisposed to be bad at managing their time.
Studies show that about 20% of people have difficulty meeting deadlines. For them, time seems to flow differently. They perceive it in a distorted way - sometimes it stretches in their imaginations, and other times it shrinks. This makes their way of thinking illogical, says researcher Grace Pacey.
They have trouble determining how much an activity will take them, mistaking it for 20-30%. They fit something into their schedule that they think they will be able to complete. They leave at the last possible minute and leave no reserve for unforeseen delays.
The researcher calls this type of people time warpers. "The problem is not in their upbringing, but in their nature," she assures.
Time warpers can be identified with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test. It is complex and with different combinations of 4 pairs of opposite preferences (such as thinking-feeling, judging-perceiving) forms 16 personality types.
According to Pacey, time warpers are perceptive individuals who prefer to react spontaneously. Because they are born that way, they can hardly beat being late. It is not an acquired, but an innate habit.
Science has long been aware that every person has a built-in neurobiological clock that dictates a sense of time. It is largely the same for all people. Life rests on it, and without it the consequences would be catastrophic. For example, without a generally uniform and correct idea of time, the ability to estimate distance and speed is lost, because the brain calculates them in time, and this will affect driving.
Exactly how the biological and neurological mechanisms of the internal clock work is not known. Scientists have so far only identified the brain lobes that are responsible for time judgment. But like everything else in the human body, these mechanisms can be disrupted. Some scientists even talk about a new branch - medicine of individual time.
The so-called hyperactive people, for example, have exactly a problem with the sense of time. The condition is thought to be due to insufficient activation of three brain centers due to a lack of dopamine. Drugs that stimulate the production of dopamine restore the normal activity of these brain centers and the true sense of time.
In some people, the innate sense is very strong - you can run a stopwatch and when it says 48 seconds have passed, it will point to exactly that. In others, the deviation is small. And for the third it is large - by 20-30%.
Perhaps for this reason, in business etiquette it is accepted to have tolerance - 15 minutes late for a meeting is not considered bad manners and disrespect for partners.
Medicine does not deal with people who are always late, but it is logical that for them the mechanisms of the internal clock work differently - they bend and distort time. It's not a defect and a disease, it's just a different feeling.
However, many of these people deny that they have a problem. Although they happen to be late very often, they get used to living like this. This can be detrimental to both their careers and their personal lives, because it hurts those close to them - they see it as disrespect. Therefore, the first step is awareness of the problem.
The second is a desire to deal with it. Although they cannot get rid of it completely, they can learn to adapt to external conditions and adopt other behavior, as, for example, closed people try to use ways characteristic of extroverts, the researcher believes.
Pacey advises what to do if you want to cure yourself of chronic tardiness.
You should always set a deadline that has clear, real-world consequences. Make them aware - what happens if you are late. For example, the vehicle will leave without you, the person you have a meeting with will leave offended, the boss will punish or fire you. This will spur you to action and strive for a truer real time estimate.
If there is no deadline - a meeting time, say, set yourself. Say to yourself "If I don't finish this by 3pm, I'll be late for the next one and I'll have to stay past 5pm and I'll have less free time today".
It makes the most sense, if you are always late, to make a habit of always starting early. But then you will feel like you have too much time. These types of people work most effectively right before a deadline, Pacey says, and cautions against jumping in too early because you'll get even more bogged down with your assignments. Because of the long distance between the start and the end point, time will "bend", your productivity will be low, you will rush only at the end and you may still be late. At least for routine tasks, use your experience of how long it takes and leave a small reserve for unexpected obstacles .
It is useful to make a detailed list of what you have to do every day, try to plan a schedule and set a deadline for everything. Since you have a problem with the perception of time, this list should not be wholesale, because then the probability of making a mistake in your judgment is greater. Break the task into smaller steps to make it easier to visualize how long it will take you to complete them.
The other thing is to try not to get distracted by anything or anyone. This is important for everyone, but even more so for people who do not have a good sense of time. Your internal clock won't tell you at the fifth minute to stop chatting with your colleague because you're missing your task schedule. Therefore, try not to get carried away at first.
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Science has found that even in people whose sense of the innate neurobiological clock is working correctly, there are activities that disrupt it. If you are aware of them, you will not be late.
People lose track of time when they are intensely focused on an activity. Then the working memory is fully occupied and has no capacity left to count the time correctly. This means that you can be extremely conscientious employees and miss the starting time for the meeting with the boss. Don't take the risk of him looking askance at you just because you were engrossed in work, activate the alarm on your smartphone or computer to remind you.
Emotions change the sense of time, say scientists. Pleasant ones speed up time. A person simply does not feel it when he is in love, joyful, happy. So if you are engaged in a work task that you really like, you can get so carried away that you don't feel how hours have passed. The bottom line is that even in such moments you must consciously control yourself so as not to get into trouble with the boss.
Unpleasant emotions slow down time. Half an hour with the boss criticizing the team feels like half a day.
Everyone knows this from their own experience, but researchers have established with complex experiments that confirm the change in the perception of time according to external stimuli.
Their observations have also shown that in older people the sense of time seems to slow down, while in young people it speeds up. Therefore, children are very impatient or new employees think that in just a few months they should get a promotion.
The practical takeaway from the theory is to be aware that emotions and age affect your sense of time, and try to account for slowing down or speeding up so you're not late.
03.04.2025
INTRODUCING YOURSELF? IT'S NOT ASHAMED, IT LEADS TO SUCCESS BY DOING IT IN 3 SMART WAYS
There is no 100% guaranteed way to advance in your career, there is always a stumbling block. But there is one sure way to not advance - to sit meekly and wait to be noticed.
This is highly typical of 40+ people raised under socialism from childhood. Modesty beautifies a man, but laziness threatens him, it was written in the classrooms. The second part of the slogan is true, but the first is not. It's not about bragging, it's about boldly declaring "I can" and "I want".
You are not new to the profession, you have gained experience, you are excellent at your tasks. You have the ability and desire for more. Well, claim them - offer yourself to take on the next task, the performance of which raises you to a higher level of competence.
There's no shame in asking for it to prove you can pull it off like a brilliant pro. You're not being immodest, you're going to get the job done. Yes, your goal is to be noticed and appreciated by the boss. But this is a completely normal and legitimate desire of any employee who wants to develop his skills and advance in his career.
However, there are tricks to successful self-promotion.
The first is horizontal scrolling. This means that you should not directly desire the boss's chair if you are 3-4 levels below him in the company's hierarchy.
First desire your neighbor's work. I.e. offer yourself to do something within your team that will distinguish you as a specialist with the qualities to take on new responsibilities. State that you will relieve an overburdened colleague. Or if he is absent, immediately tell the boss that you will take his job.
At the same time, do not open a word about money. Your goal is to shine, not win. But remember that you need to make everything visible enough for the eyes of the boss. You have no use for him to breathe a sigh of relief that someone has taken over and forget who that someone is.
Another trick to moving horizontally is to pay close attention to what new assignments are coming up and let your manager know that you want to take on one before it's even time to assign them. Motivate yourself as to why you are offering yourself - because your project is interesting. And immediately explain how your experience and abilities will help to realize it. Activity and enthusiasm always make a good impression, so the boss will not refuse you.
When you successfully complete a few such horizontal tasks, vertical advancement will not be long in coming because it will be clear that you have the qualifications and skills to handle more responsibilities than are included in your current job description.
It's a little trickier to offer to help the boss himself. This is a vertical maneuver that you perform from a standing position. Everyone needs something, no matter how good a professional they are. And if you are able to provide it to them, they will pay attention to your abilities.
There is no question, of course, of giving him a massage when he has a headache. But you might, for example, prepare a report to facilitate its presentation to clients. Or gather information for him about a company you are going to meet with. Or write a message about something your team is doing on the corporate site.
Anything you can do to ease your overworked boss or give him a chance to impress higher ups will be appreciated.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with directly applying for a higher position when there is a vacancy. In many companies, managers prefer to promote insiders rather than train newcomers from the outside. But that doesn't mean they don't advertise the vacancy on popular job search sites. It's understandable - they want to see all possible candidates.
Make it clear that you are among them, without feeling offended that it was only right that the bosses noticed your qualities and offered you the position themselves. Yes, it's fine, but it does you no good to sulk and be modest.
Allow yourself the right to be angry if you are rejected. Then it is already worth thinking about whether you are evaluated correctly, what are your chances in this company and whether it would be better to start looking for a place in another company. But think honestly, answering the questions of whether you deserve the place you were denied and why you deserve it. If you're convinced they've treated you unfairly, there's nothing holding you back with these bosses.
Don't hesitate to take advantage of any advanced training the company offers. This is a very clear sign to any manager that you have ambitions.
Career development experts advise that you find a convenient opportunity and state in plain text to your boss that you want to take on more responsibilities and that your goal is to get a higher position. You can ask him what your chances are and what he thinks you should do to increase them.
If you still think all of this is immodest, remember that all-too-common job interview question - "Where do you think you should be in 10 years". Well, tell your boss where you think you should end up now that you've practically proven what you're capable of.
27.03.2025
HOW TO DEAL WITH A COLLEAGUE CRITIC
"Colleague Filipov tried very hard, but..." You know that this is how colleague Ivanova will start her speech after you present to the boss and the team the proposal on how to work on a new project. Not that he has anything against you specifically. She is like that - from the eternal critics.
Ivanova enters the list of types of nasty colleagues, which also includes the mean, the envious, the gossipers and the like. But critics are first and foremost unpleasant people who can be very useful if you use them correctly.
Instructions for use
In it, the first thing is to change your point of view. Ivanova is a good professional. She participates in the team and has an interest in the success of the task you will all be working on. Assume that by criticizing, he wants to contribute to your proposal, not (only) demean it and shine in front of the boss at your expense. Therefore, you should not come into conflict with her. You need to turn the confrontation she starts into a productive one.
Knowing Ivanova to be a critic, prepare yourself mentally that she will definitely speak out. Once you have this expectation, you will not go into "battle mode", i.e. retort sharply and scold yourself. You will patiently listen to her, thinking that she wants to present a different point of view. And you will try to learn something new, extract something valuable to enrich and improve what you offer.
So would the boss who assigned you to develop the proposal, present it to the team and discuss it. But when you voluntarily show yourself open to hear criticism and take what is useful, you are undoubtedly an excellent professional, able to cooperate with colleagues. You do not consider yourself overcompetent, you are not offended by remarks, you are not stubborn about yours, you are ready to change.
Demonstration of curiosity
In fact, why not be ready? People have different views. Your colleague's understanding may seem incomprehensible or wrong at first, but it is unintelligent to dismiss it just because it doesn't match yours. On the contrary, try to procrastinate with questions. Ask them kindly, carefully, showing a genuine desire to learn why she thinks the way she does and what exactly she's suggesting.
Communication specialists advise that you definitely create this attitude - that you will demonstrate a good-natured curiosity towards the critic Ivanova, instead of making her out to be a slanderer and a fool who nags for the sake of sport.
Gently ask her "How did you get to this position", "What do you think we should do", "What specifically do you suggest". Approach constructively, create an opportunity, ask her to express herself in substance. In this way, it will be known if there really is another point of view and another solution. If not, the critic herself will fall into the trap.
Even if you are completely sure that Ivanova will point out completely irrelevant things or nag, arm yourself with patience. Then it's even more important not to lose your temper and argue with her. Let her expose herself, your boss will probably cut her off. Or at least it will become clear to everyone how devoid of content her criticism is.
It is usually very difficult to hold back when someone is nagging and devaluing one's work. But promise yourself that you will do exactly the same with Ivanova, because in this way you will use her obsession with criticism to your advantage.
Think of confronting her as wrestling with the machines at the gym. You will sweat there, but it is good for your health and beauty. Here, too, you will sweat from efforts - to get something valuable from the criticism or not to quarrel with the petty nagging Ivanova, but this is beneficial for your career.
By the way, if your colleague is a good professional and always criticizes, but with the intention of improving the team's work and achieving greater success, use this in advance. Consult with her even before you present your proposal to the boss and others. Ivanova will be flattered, because critics like to ask them for their opinion.
The Franklin effect
Earns and the so-called Franklin effect. You can read about it in detail, but in short - ask the hostile person for a favor in order to change your attitude and his attitude. It is deeply rooted in the mind that a person helps his family, his friends, people with whom he has similar views. If you want a favor from this person, then he falls into one of these categories. If he does you a favor, then for him you also fall into one of these categories.
So ask Ivanova for a favor to change her attitude. If she tells herself in advance her objections to your proposal and you comply with any of them, she will feel respected. And either she won't criticize you, or her pathos will be far less.
26.03.2025
IN WHICH CASES ARE WE ENTITLED TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT?
According to Art. 54c of the Social Security Code, cash benefits for unemployment are paid monthly in the month following the one for which they are due, for a period determined according to the duration of the insurance period during which the persons were insured for unemployment, for the time after 31 December 2001, as follows: up to 3 years of work experience - 4 months; from 3 years and 1 day to 7 years – 6 months; from 7 years and 1 day to 11 years – 8 months; from 11 years and 1 day to 15 years – 10 months; over 15 years – 12 months.
According to Art. 67 of the Labor Code, the employment contract can be concluded: 1. for an indefinite period; 2. as a fixed-term employment contract. In Art. 70, para. 1 of the Labor Code provides that the final employment acceptance of the worker or employee may be preceded by a contract with a trial period of up to 6 months. The main purpose of the trial period is the party in whose favor it is arranged to ensure that the work is suitable for the person concerned, that it is performed according to the conditions and requirements set by the employer. The employment contract can be concluded for an indefinite period of time or as a fixed-term employment contract. Until the trial period expires, the party in whose favor it was agreed may terminate the contract without notice - Article 71, Paragraph 1 of the Labor Code. After the trial period expires, the term of the contract remains in effect.
In Art. 54a of the Social Security Code stipulates that persons for whom insurance contributions have been paid or are due in the "Unemployment" fund for at least 12 months in the last 18 months before the termination of insurance and who:
20.03.2025
WRONG WITH YOUR INTERVIEWER'S NAME?! BIG FAIL. TRICKS TO REMEMBER
He mutters something as you shake hands. He tells you his name because you are meeting for the first time. It doesn't give you a business card to read it. You're kidding a bit about who exactly you're dealing with. And it is important for you to convince him of something, to make a deal.
Then don't be shy about asking him for his name, apologizing that you didn't hear him well. You have a better chance of succeeding in your intentions if you repeat it often. If you get it wrong, you torpedo the meeting.
Most people like to hear their name. Psychologists explain why - for each person, it is the most essential connection with their identity and individuality. By repeating it, you shorten the distance. You stop being two strangers, you build closeness. You make the impression of an attentive, kind, even warm-hearted person who can be trusted.
Do not hesitate to address your interlocutor by name often, this trick has been proven to work, advise communication experts.
However, there is an exception where you should refrain - the person has a strange last name that you suspect he does not like. For example, Gazibarov. In such a case, you can artistically suggest that you talk to each other in small names.
It is very important to pronounce the name correctly. You should not only remember it when the person introduces himself, but also pay attention to where he puts the emphasis. At the same time, it is not necessary for the name to be unfamiliar and complicated - a mistake is allowed even with Todorov.
Don't be afraid to ask how the name is pronounced when someone hands you a business card in Latin and you're not sure how to read it.
The second problem is how to remember the name.
"People's names are not a priority for our minds," the scientists point out. for us or is friendly. And the name is not essential to this judgment."
It is precisely for this reason that it is customary for business people to exchange business cards on a first meeting. When your interlocutor is alone, put it in front of you and quietly look at it. When meeting with several people, arrange the cards in the order in which the people are sitting across from you.
When giving a verbal introduction, it will be easier to remember the name if you repeat it while looking the person in the eye. Saying it out loud has been proven to help you remember it. And when you look the person in the eyes, you naturally connect a name and a face.
If the name is hard to pronounce, repeat it slowly. This will allow the interlocutor to correct you to say it correctly. You won't look stupid. You will give the person the impression that you care if you know their name. He will feel respected.
Experts advise you to practice if you are one of those who have a hard time remembering names.
You can create a system. The most basic is to imagine something related to the name. Boyadzhiev, Hlebarov, Kovachev, Tsvetanov are blessed. For Ivanov, Georgiev, Dimitrov and many other common names, build associations. For example, Radev as the president, Ivanov as the neighbors' family, Petrunova as your colleague, etc.
Some people say seemingly illogical things when meeting: "Emilia? That's my niece's name." In this way, the person articulates out loud the association he is building in his mind to remember the name. It also shares something personal and throws another bridge to intimacy.
When the last name is difficult to remember, you can introduce the person as a friend (it doesn't have to be true) and ask to be called by their first name. However, consider whether the situation allows for such intimacy.
And you will be pleased when the interlocutor calls you by name. To make it easier, when introducing yourself, introduce yourself slowly and clearly. Don't count on him remembering your name, even if you've met before. Better to repeat your name yourself. Otherwise, you put him in the awkward situation of asking you and pretending that he didn't remember you because he has a bad memory or because he didn't think you were important. This is a false start for the conversation.
19.03.2025
HOW NOT TO ALLOW ANYONE TO ANNOY YOU AT WORK
You will have more success in your work and you will live happier if you get used to the thought that from time to time your boss criticizes you, makes you notes, annoys you, you get into some contradictions with colleagues and partners. Scientists are inevitable to get used to the thought that negative emotions are inevitable. They explain that the secret of spiritual peace is in accepting negative events and feelings as an integral part of everyday life.
Researchers have found that by the sample method and the age error, people naturally reach this conclusion. They become more patient, less angry and suffer shorter when they meet a bad attitude. It is usually said that they are wise.
These results once again confirm a study involving 340 people between the ages of 21 to 73 years. Everyone had to answer questions related to the way they feel every day and the extent to which they accept their emotions. Analysis of the answers shows that the ability to accept increases over the years, and the power of negative emotions decreases.
You do not have to wait to grow old to learn to welcome more peaceful insult, anger, sadness, guilt. The earlier you have to accept these emotions, the easier it will be to control them and will not be left to their destructive power. You will be cooler, you will make more correct decisions, your behavior will be more pre-remedied and adequate to situations.
This means, instead of rejecting negative feelings, to get used to that they exist. Do not deny what you are experiencing, as bad as it sounds, however nice you are to admit to yourself - hatred of the boss, contempt for an incompetent colleague, annoyance from work, etc. The goal is to change your relationship with a negative feeling, psychologists explain. In this way, you engage in the negative emotion, but you can also overcome it more easily.
Scientists specify how acceptance works and why it is useful. It reduces the affect by two connected processes.
The first is that you give yourself the opportunity to admit, name and understand your negative emotions. With this, you encourage compassion for yourself, and hence psychological and behavioral flexibility.
The second process is that acceptance decreases the "preference" of negative feelings and so -called. Metamines. This is what the effects of the type "angry I am angry" are called. They do not help to deal with the initial negative emotions, but deepen them.
Although intricately interpreted by scientists, the psychological effects of admission are generally a clear life. Everyone knows that anger is a bad advisor. Everyone was nervously nervous, and then he said "well, why should I have so much."
However, many people fail to follow the behavior of acceptance, because engaging in negative emotions initially enhances their subjective experience and suffering. In an acute situation, they most often act in one of the two opposite ways: either throwing out - anger, eating out, grilling, crining, or suppressing a negative feeling.
Both ways are equally unproductive in terms of social relations and health, psychologists explain. Acceptance is actually a reaction, with the right one that can replace much more effectively, the outburst and the suppression.
Let's say your boss made a note because you are late for work. You feel offended - muttering for half an hour today, and forgets that yesterday you had to stay 2 hours after working hours to do an emergency task. This injustice is angry with you. You are affected, you say something immense to the boss, or just in mind you "come up" for a few hours. What do you get? Or complicated relationships with the chief because of his angry reaction. Or you are torturing and working for a few hours less efficiently.
Acceptance means to name your feelings: you are offended and angry. This will strengthen your suffering. But it is also a kind of expression of emotions and at the same time you will experience compassion for yourself. This reaction will help you experience more negative feelings.
However, you should not fall into self -pity, but to show flexibility - to quickly get rid of insult and anger. What will you achieve by suffering from insult? Haring yourself, the boss of this will happen to him.
To give the will to your anger before the boss will not lead to anything good.
An important part of accepting negative emotions is not to condemn, not to try to "return it" to the one who has caused them to you. At least not right now.
In the case of the remark about the delay, your boss is as straight as you are wrong. If there is a working time, it must be observed and part of its obligations is to keep track of it. Well, not only the beginning but also its end must be observed. Instead of being angry, you think about what your long -term behavior should be - is it worth making extra effort, working with this manager and in this company.
However, this is a matter of analysis that you only do after you have realized and accepted your negative emotions. Whether you are an account and how often you experience them in your work.
The productive behavior is to consider that they are an inevitable part of professional life, but also to put a measure beyond which their quantity should not pass because there is a threat to your health.
13.03.2025
7 TECHNIQUES TO CAPTURE UNKNOWN COLLEAGUES
You're so tired that you'd rather go home after work than go to that event your partner or competitor invited you to.
Make an effort and go, otherwise you will make a big mistake.
Even the cocktail is not entertainment, but part of your official duties. If it is a company you work with, they will write you a black mark for the absence, because they will consider it disrespectful.
Also, there is no doubt that communicating in an informal environment helps business. By meeting colleagues from a competing company and with other people in the industry, you will learn interesting things that will be useful for your career. You might hear that there's a job opening somewhere that's right for you, and you might consider a job change.
Many people do not like going to informal events, not because they do not appreciate their importance, but because communication does not come easily to them. This skill is learned and you will quickly become cute with simple tricks.
Most of them are very common, but you need to understand well how you should apply them to have the desired effect. And some are quite different from what your mother taught you were brought up to do.
The proper way to get together informally is to consistently appear welcoming, not sullen. When you see someone you know, don't immediately burst into a smile. Look the person in the eye for a second or two and then smile slowly. It's called "hearty", which means sincere, although your smile should reach another organ - the eyes.
This is the way for the person to understand that your smile is not some frozen grimace, not for everyone around, but meant for him. They call it those seconds of delay.
Staring, especially at a stranger and even more so from a woman to a man, is considered indecent. However, this is a daring technique to introduce a colleague at an event. He will notice your insistence, be interested, and probably talk to you himself. Surely he went with the same purpose - to communicate. If he doesn't, you approach, introduce yourself and strike up a conversation. This is not only permissible, but mandatory in such places. There is not much benefit in talking only to acquaintances and not making new contacts.
Specialists advise, for example, not to simply introduce yourself as "Georgi Vlaikov/Bilyana Antonova, financial manager at...", but to add something about the position and your company in order to arouse the curiosity of your interlocutor.
There is nothing to stop you from even saying "your admirer" at the end if you are really getting to know a person in the profession whom you admire. It is not a "dump", but a normal way of professional communication.
There are usually enough people experienced in communication who create groups around themselves even when they find themselves in a completely unfamiliar environment. Choose a company you want to join. Come closer and listen to what they are talking about. Wait for a line to latch on to and slip into the conversation gracefully. If you have found something relevant and intriguing to say, you will immediately engage in the most natural way among the interlocutors.
When you approach a colleague in this way, with whom you meet on your own initiative, you shower him with your positive aura and help yourself with difficult first lines, which are often too prosaic. They are, of course, important to strike up a conversation, but by showing joy you have already made 80% of the good impression to make contact.
It looks like adjusting to the interlocutor, and it is exactly that, but it is not indecent, but very useful, especially in the first moment of acquaintance.
In the second, absorb everything said and catch clues to his preferred topics. By talking about something he likes, you will become closer. Well, he might love it so much that he can't stop, and you'll have to listen mainly. But consider whether it's worth it and how to elegantly get out if it's not.
If you want to continue the conversation, but without actively participating in it - for example, not to tell anything about your plans or about your company, but it is important for you that the colleague from a competing company says as much as possible, do not shy away from parrot repetition. When your interlocutor falls silent a little, do not pick up the topic, but repeat his last words "So you've been working on this all day." That way you put the ball back in his court, then all you have to do is listen.
When you are in a larger company, recall stories that the person has told you or that you have witnessed and they can shine with them. He'll appreciate your gesture of making him the center of attention, and he'll be yours.
--- Slightly extravagant advice ---
Experts recommend that you make it easier to communicate at an informal gathering by making an effort to stand out from the crowd of other people who will be attending.
Wear something unusual that will get you noticed, will give people a reason to approach you and ask what it is. It could be an interesting badge/brooch, say.
Look around at other people - unusual things about them are also an opportunity to get to know each other. It's not rude. Since this trick is not unknown in business circles, this is probably why people excel at something.
However, it is imperative that you keep your highlighter in moderation so that you don't look ridiculous.
12.03.2025
10 WAYS TO MANIPULATE ELEGANTLY
Convincing and getting what you want is an art. Some people seem to be born with this talent, others have to work hard to learn to be charismatic.
There are a few tricks that will make it easier for you to inspire trust in your interlocutors. They operate mainly on a subconscious level.
The first condition is that you yourself do not feel nervous during the conversation. So manipulate yourself.
In any meeting, the beginning is important. Therefore, you should make an effort to make it as pleasant as possible.
Sometimes you have to start a conversation in a public place.
During the conversation itself, you can help yourself with tricks.
