Welcome to the episode of Engmates’ podcast: Emotions or Hum Episode 1.

Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed by your emotions?

Do you wish you could understand and manage your feelings more effectively?

If so, you’re in the right place. This podcast is dedicated to exploring our emotional landscape and providing you with practical strategies to navigate it. Each episode will offer actionable advice to help you handle your emotions and feature inspiring stories to learn from.

Whether you’re looking to manage anger, reduce anxiety, or simply express your emotions more clearly, this podcast is here to help.

Join me, your host Shruti, as we embark on this journey of emotional discovery together. We’re thrilled to kick off our first episode with you. Get ready to dive deep into the world of Emotions or Hum.

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Here are some of the key points covered in the episode:

• The definition of conscious consumption and why it’s important
• The impact of our consumption choices on our self-image, our health, and the environment
• How to start making more conscious consumption choices
• Tips for overcoming challenges to conscious consumption
• The benefits of finding calm in a chaotic world

If you are interested in learning more about conscious consumption and how it can impact your life, I encourage you to listen to this episode of the Self Image Podcast.

EPISODE #1 SELF TALK SELF GROWTH

Here are some additional details about the episode:

• Host: Shruti
• Episode title: Episode #2 Self Image (Personality Development Podcast Series)
• Episode number: #2
• Release date: August 21, 2023
• Podcast platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other major podcast platforms

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Whether you’re traveling abroad or just meeting new people, it’s always helpful to know what a person’s hand gestures mean. In this article, we’ll explore the meanings of different hand gestures around the world, including ones for hello and good-bye, gratitude, zero, please and thank you, numbers, and more. You’ll learn how to communicate with others in their native language by mimicking their body language with your own hands!

At Engmates we introduce hand gestures in our spoken English classes and interview preparation classes to enable our students to understand people of different cultures and countries better.

Hand Gestures for Hello and Good-bye

• Waving hello and goodbye: You can wave to someone you know or a stranger to say hello, goodbye, or that you’re leaving. The gesture can also be used to indicate the amount of time remaining in something, like how many minutes are left in class.
• Shaking hands: This is most commonly used by males. It usually means friendship or agreement on some level.
• Bowing: Bowing shows respect for another person and their position as well as indicating submission (e.g., if you bow before your teacher). If someone bows back at you after bowing yourself, it means they accept your submission.
• Nodding: Nodding is often used when greeting someone or showing agreement with them (e.g., saying “yes” out loud). It’s also used in place of saying “hello” or “goodbye,”, especially among people who don’t know each other very well yet because it’s less formal than shaking hands but still shows respect for authority figures like teachers/bosses/etcetera

Hand Gestures for Gratitude

• Hand on heart: In many parts of the world, this gesture is used to show gratitude. The person who did you a favor will often respond in kind, showing their appreciation and thanking you in turn.
• Pointing: An open palm with three fingers extended is the most common way people point at things, but pointing with just one finger can mean something different depending on where it’s done. For example, pointing at someone’s nose or face means “you” in some cultures; in others, it means “me”.
• Clapping: This gesture shows approval or appreciation for something another person has said or done. It can also be used to call for silence so that everyone can hear what’s being said by someone else—a form of applause without actually clapping!
• Bowing: Although bowing isn’t necessarily a hand gesture itself (it involves bending your upper body forward), it’s commonly used as an expression of gratitude when saying hello or goodbye to someone important like your boss or teacher at school.

Read More- How to Confidently Make an Appointment in English

Hand Gestures for Zero

The gesture for zero is a circle with the thumb and index finger. In many countries, this gesture has become the standard symbol for “zero” or “nothing.” It’s used in China, Japan, and other Asian countries as well as in France, Spain, and England.

Hand Gestures for Please and Thank you

If you are in a country that uses the palm-down gesture for please and thank you, it’s important to know how to use it properly. You want to make sure your palms are facing down toward your chest, not out toward someone else. It can be hard to tell if someone has their palms facing up or down when they’re far away from you, so try making eye contact while they do it and see what direction their hands are pointing in.

If someone asks you if they can have something (for example: “Can I have some water?”), hold up your thumb and index finger as if they were holding an invisible straw between them. This gesture means “as much as this” and is used all over the world—just like a thumbs up!

Hand Gestures for Numbers

• To count numbers, use your fingers. The number one is a fist; two is a single finger; three is a thumb and forefinger together (or any other combination of numbers); four is a hand with an index finger pointing up; five is a thumb and index finger touching (or any other combination of numbers).

Many languages have their own ways of expressing words or phrases using gestures. For example, in some countries, it’s common to use certain hand gestures when you’re speaking English or Hebrew. Some examples include:

• Thumbs up – Good luck!

Hand Gestures for “come here” and “go away”

• Pointing to someone or something
• Pointing to yourself
• Pointing at the ground
• Pointing at the sky
• Pointing at a clock to show the time
• Pointing at a calendar to show the date

Read More- 12 Powerful Words to Use When Interviewing

You Can Learn the Meaning of Hand Gestures to Communicate with People from Other Countries.

When you travel to other countries, you may find that hand gestures are used in place of words. Hand gestures can be used to communicate with people who do not speak your language. Learning the meaning of hand gestures can help you communicate with people from different cultures.

Conclusion

I hope that you’ve learned a few new hand gestures and are now ready to try them out with people in your own country. I think it’s important to remember that we can all use more opportunities to make friends with people from other countries, so don’t be afraid to reach out!

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A lot many people have faced unwanted and forced back-off from the corporate sector, owing to the unrealistic pressure it creates from time to time. People have been even seen coming out of the corporate sector and settling for something lesser in terms of economic value. Often a gasp of frustration is seen among them who drift apart from the corporate landscape. They feel down of themselves, and start to identify as ‘losers’ which, to say the least, is not the case.

In one hand it is a fact that juggling the corporate may not be a cup of tea for all, on the other hand, it isn’t impossible as well. Once the right attitude is adopted, correct measures and mindset are made, it might start to feel like a cakewalk.

Here are the 10 Ways to Sustain in the Corporate Milieu.

1. Maintain a Distance from Office Politics

   Office politics can be the dirtiest game played inside your office and can potentially affect your work-life, negatively. It can affect both your confidence and standing as an employee. Unsurprisingly, office politics is very prevalent and there is often no way you can expect an office that is like a kid’s playroom. You’ve got to face it at some point. However, the best way is to steer away as soon as you smell it.

2. Keep Attending Meetings

   A prim and properly dressed you, sweeping up and down or to and fro the office building (or anywhere) attending meetings is sure to make you an unputdownable part of the organization. So, schedule and attend a lot of meetings. It is often seen as an indication for a productive employee. The number of meetings you’d attend a day will affect the judgment of your higher authority when it comes to judging you.

3. Master Email Management

   What press releases are to companies, email is to you, as an employee! It means killer email management skills can screech your way to success positively. How? You might want to mark the emails to the aptest audience, maintain a positive note in your emails, mail your boss once a week in times like early morn or at the end of the day (not too many in the working hours) and last but not the least, respond to emails proactively without reminders.

4. Leave Office Late. Arrive at Office Early

   In India, employers might not be as much bothered to your actual product, then they’d be after the time you spend in the office. That said, if you spend more hours in the office and squeeze the allotted amount of workload into this broader timeframe, you’ll stand out against them who would come on the scheduled time and leave on the same. It is much like an optical illusion. So, come to the office early, fiddle with things, play games, do the right amount of work you should do, then again pass time and viola, you might have impressed someone, whose call starts with ‘B.’

5. Treat Your Boss Well

   Bosses can be bothersome. But know that they’re similar employees like you, just with more sense of duty, more on the plate to handle. So to make sure the person is in good humor, why not you do something about that? Like, if your boss loves to eat Belgium chocolate, get the person the best box of chocolate you can get. You should try to be the blue-eyed boy/girl of your boss. Try to notice what pisses your boss off and what makes him happy. Just suit yourself to it and it should make your place much stronger.

6.  “If you’ll Excuse Me!” You’re Busy

   This means you must try to look busy. Great, if you are. But if at times you’re not (understandably) then act you’re. This is ironical to the demure most Indian organizations possess; they want happy, relaxed and joyful employees. But try being relaxed and happy all the time, you might garner a negative reputation. Workers who look worry-free and relaxed might mean to some organizations that the person is not being productive enough. So, put a check on it.

7.  Pat Your Back From Time to Time

   You must know that if you’re not confident/ satisfied with yourself, people surrounding you might not be with you as well. So it is beneficial you show self-confidence, and that you’re satisfied with yourself. You’re the brand ambassador of yourself and from time to time indulge in self-praise in witty, balanced and smart methods. Don’t overdo it, else you’ll seem like a narcissist.

8. Play Smart

   There is often a short cut to a longer destination. You’re smart and reliable, so why not try to figure out the smartest solution to the otherwise exhausting processes. This is like going full key with some instructions on the Windows OS instead of using the set of shortcut keys. Try to figure out a smart way to work and you’ll not overwork. It will save yours a lot of energy, beneficial for your performance in many other spheres.

9. Strategies

   A story goes- once a mechanic was called to repair a broken machine at a factory. After numerous mechanics failed to make the machine even a single huff and puff, the new mechanic came, saw and hit the same once. Wonderfully the machine started to work. Then he demanded quite some amount as fees, say like 5000 rupees of hitting the machine. The factory authorities countered him, demanding an explanation for such a huge payment? The mechanic said, “I am only charging 100 rupees for making the machine run with the hit, the rest 4900 is to hit with the hammer in the right spot. Thus, the strategy works fine. Find out yours.

10.  Hit the Correct Cords

    There is a term used to identify them who’s influential inside an organization, as they’re close to their bosses. They’re called ‘chamchas’ in their hindsight. But why should it matter to you? Because you’ve got to stay close to their good wish. Harnessing your interpersonal skills, try to make some good rapport with the influential people in your office. There should be a handful of staff who’d essentially say good things about you. This positively affects your standing inside an organization.

    There you stand enlightened in 10 ways how to juggle the corporate life. Be yourself, be a fountain of patience and keep the above things in mind. It has potential to screech your way to success in the long run.

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Personality is reflected in the way you behave with others. An individual with a pleasant personality is always respected and appreciated by all.

Effective communication plays an important role in sharpening one’s personality and command over the language of communication always reflects your confidence. English is a language that is being used for a long time by all of us as a business language. English helps individuals to express themselves in the most effective way. Your thoughts, feelings, and knowledge should be passed on in a most desirable manner and effective communication with English helps you the same.

A person should be able to speak English in a really well manner to make an impression. Always remember, no one will take you seriously if you do not master the art of English Language and make your communication, smarter, better and faster.

English plays a vital role in our life. English is utmost important in the modern world. But English should be continued with Hindi or other regional languages that you prefer.

India is a land of numerous regional languages in different states. But, English always serves as a link-language in this country.

English is widely being used in official communications.

The termination of use of English will adversely affect the way we work at the office. Most corporate people know English, but most of them do not know any other language other than their mother tongue or regional language. So, they communicate with each other in English for their daily work. So, if these people are asked to say goodbye to the English, there will be a chaos.

People with excellent English have a different stamp of their personality because it really helps in getting a better impression in all sections of life.

Effective command of English will strengthen the bond among people. It also helps in improving the interpersonal relationships with other people. Selecting the words carefully is an essential thing for effective communication skills. We really ought to know what you are speaking. We never know what will hurt the facing person. Never use abusive words in English with anyone.

Speaking convincingly so that another person understands what is your intention of communication.

The style of speaking English also makes a tremendous impact on your personality. Speaking slowly and with a humble attitude helps as it helps you find the appropriate words and also reflects your thoughtfulness.

English is utmost important for impressive and great personality, so be confident while interacting and never look around while interacting with the other person.

English is no doubt the finest language for communication, which is the ultimate key to your pleasant personality. To improve your English today!

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