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WHAT ARE YOU LIKE AT GROWING PEOPLE? Sci-fi? Advice to mothers? No, just a different way of looking at how business handles staff development. Healthy people make for healthy businesses. People are part of nature. So it pays to look at how to grow healthy plants and what lessons that might offer to staff development programs. (read more) HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY BOTTOM LINE Her day began at 7.10 am and ended at 7.10 am next morning. Her life had barely stopped in between. How much would her employer care? Probably very little. But the employer isn’t necessarily the ogre. Every working person carries their work and personal problems 24/7, with demands having little respect for the traditional 9-5 office prime time. A healthy bottom line depends on recognizing all people at work as humans, not resources. (read more) HOW TO CREATE THE BEST LIFE FOR YOU Your most potent personal growth mix is a combination of 1) expressing your natural skills and talents triggered by 2) passionate interests and 3) pursued in the company of positive, like-minded people. Be wary of the current work-related pressures you face to give up non-paying personal passions. All passionate interests - work related or not - are of equal importance in making the most of your life. If you get personal enrichment only through your work, you are living a narrow life. You won’t fully appreciate this point until you don’t have a fulltime job and wonder what's left for you in life. I speak from personal experience and I also know it’s never too late. Read more HOW TO MANAGE WORK/LIFE STRESS Recent research suggests Work Life Balance is the number one desire by Australian workers, even more than salary. In fact, work life balance is a misnomer for what people really want. My previous article on work life balance has been by far my most popular, with more than 2000 readers over various internet article sites. But the situation has rapidly evolved since and it is time I updated my views. Read more HOW TO FORGE YOUR NEW LIFE OUT OF THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN You can let the financial meltdown run your life, or you can run your own life. You have some powerful natural weapons at your disposal to help you forge the direction you always wanted to go. Your authentic self knows what I am talking about. Go here for the full article. HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS Yet another article adjudged by The Sales Corporation (UK) as one of the Top Ten Sales Articles for the week ending 17 October 2008, as selected from ten of the world's top Articles Directories. There are many organisations who have got it right - everyone working together in harmony, passionate about what they do, committed to ever-improving group outcomes, supported and constantly energised by a people-oriented culture that generates powerful emotional energies, resulting in fantastic popular products. They are top orchestras, choirs, rock groups and sporting teams. There is much every business manager can learn from them (more) HOW TO START BEING A BETTER BUSINESS SPEAKER Adjudged by The Sales Corporation (UK) as one of the Top Ten Sales Articles for the week ending 28 September 2008, as selected from ten of the world's top Articles Directories. You're asked to make a presentation to a meeting or seminar. No matter how brilliant the material you plan to present, it can all fall apart in the telling. (more) SEVEN STEPS TOWARDS CHANGING YOUR WORK/LIFE PAIN TO PLEASURE Its hard to enjoy life when you are stressed to the eyeballs by a poor work/life mix. Here are seven practical steps you can taking to start turning things around and enjoy getting back in control of your life, beginning from today. (more) HOW TO ENJOY GOOD HEALTH FOR WORK AND LIFE Good health is a basic essential to the enjoyment of life. But have you thought about the role of enjoyment in promoting and sustaining good health for work and living? When you lose yourself in an interest you enjoy, you find yourself. You feel good about yourself, enhance self esteem, promote a positive state of flow. It's the way to stay healthy. (more) HOW TO STOP LOSING YOUR BEST PEOPLE It's increasingly hard to attract and keep the right people. They aren't sitting waiting for someone to give them a job, so you need to poach them, usually from your competitors. The workplace culture can be a major winning factor in ensuring you stop your best people being poached by your competitors (more) I WANNA BE A KID AGAIN! - IT'S MORE FUN THAN RETIRING Life became serious. I started taking courses I didn't want to do. Fun became a waste of time that could be better used to make serious money. The one life I had was slipping by fast. I hit 'the big 60' when bosses tell you "you're too old to work anymore...book into God's waiting room and pass the time until you die". That's when I exploded. (more) HOW TO ENJOY WORK LIFE HARMONY RATHER THAN WORK LIFE BALANCE Work/ life balance as we know it at present isn't working, because it's based on conflicting demands of employer and employee for a share of the 24/7 day. There simply isn't enough time to achieve everything - and its getting worse. (more) EMPLOYERS OF CHOICE - WHY THEY ATTRACT STAFF LOYALTY Far from business determining the future of the workforce, the workforce now determines the future of business. While earning money at work is still vital, commitment to one employer is not. People want more than money - they want employment that enables them to achieve their personal goals. (more) WHO'S WRITING YOUR LIFE SCRIPT? Imagine you’re attending a live theatre show with friends. It’s interval and the inevitable question comes up: What do you think of the show so far?” This particular show is rather different and is vitally important to you - it’s called “Your Life”. You’re the star, the director, producer and script writer. What do you think of your life so far? Are you hoping the second half of the show will be as good as, or better than, the first half? It's time to remind yourself that the show has only one performance - and who knows how long it will be? It’s time to focus on the person within you, more than the world around you. (more) LOSE YOURSELF TO FIND YOURSELF - HOW PASSION UNLOCKS POTENTIAL It's after knock-off time and you're still at the office, working on a project you feel was made for you. You've become so absorbed in your thoughts and ideas and the sheer enjoyment of the experience, you haven't noticed everyone else has gone home. Your mind, body and spirit have come together as you pour your natural talents, skills and abilities into a product that only you could create. It's a feeling sometimes described as a ‘state of flow'. And it doesn't just happen at the office...(more) GET A LIFE! Adjudged by The Sales Corporation (UK) as one of the Top Ten Sales Articles for the week ending 13 April 2007, as selected from ten of the world's top Articles Directories. Workaholism is rife in the business world. To many it is a badge of honour, worn with pride. A workaholic sees work as their life - the means and the end in their search for successful living. If this picture fits you it is worth noting that, of the people on the 9/11 hijacked planes who were able to make a last-ditch call from their mobile phone, none of them called the office. (more...) More of my articles:
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