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Image Coach, Soft Skills Trainer - Answered on Feb 02, 2025

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An engineer from the PDA College of Engineering, Gulbarga, Archana had a successful career at Reliance Communications. But she has always been interested in teaching and training people. So she pursued a postgraduate diploma in teacher’s training at Pune’s Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies followed by teaching assignments in schools at Visakhapatnam and Mumbai.
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Asked by Anonymous - Jan 15, 2025Hindi
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Mam, how to cope with immense blame culture anxiety at work?

Ans: Hey!!

The solution for this is to learn to stand up to the bullies, learn to say "NO", protect yourself and communicate assertively. Assertive communication is communicating respectfully in a clam and collected voice, taking care of your needs as well as others and creating a WIN-WIN. Believe me... it is a learnable skill and comes with practice.

If this works , then congratulations, else start looking for other jobs and quit, no one deserves to work in a toxic environment.
Give utmost importance to your inner peace and happiness, stand guard, let this not be disturbed by anything or anyone.

Practice yoga and meditation, this will give you immense strength and clarity of thought.

All the best for making the wise decisions!
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My son has got 91 percentile in the recent jee exam , he has next attempt in april, but i feel its difficult for him , can i know about other good colleges in karnataka , as im based their. interested in computer science and aeronautical degree, also advise some recent good courses for his career in india.
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Do not get stressed at this stage. Even though his score is 91 percentile in 1st attempt, he can do well in 2nd attempt. But from the safer side, ask him to appear in the Karnataka State Engineering Entrance Examination also. Even if he scores less in JEE on 2nd attempt, he may good college via the state entrance examination in CSE or aeronautical engineering as per your wish. For your reference, there are 10 colleges in India where you can get admission without a JEE score. To know more details, please copy and paste the following link into your browser- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/10-engineering-colleges-in-india-for-pursuing-btech-without-jee-main-2025-score/articleshow/118162587.cms.
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