By Erika B. Webb
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 6:57 pm)
This is the time of year when people tend to be more conscious of their goals–those they want to achieve or those they’ve failed to achieve. Depending on where you are in your thinking, you’ll either hit the ground running, super-charged and driven or you might be melancholy, down on yourself, and feeling unmotivated as a result.
That’s […]
By April Masini
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 5:43 pm)
Can a negative atmosphere actually make a player (or a team) worse?
There are two challenges of the game. The first is athletic ability, and once you teach form and game rules, there’s not a whole lot you can do to make a person more or less athletic or able. They’re shooters or they’re not […]
By April Masini
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 4:02 pm)
Seniors are living longer these days thanks to technology and medicine. They are also, often separated from their families by distance.
* Computers are great for keeping in touch with adult children, grand children and great grandchildren.
* Computers are cheaper for seniors to keep in touch with family and friends than using telephone or […]
By April Masini
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 2:55 pm)
Take a zero tolerance policy on language.
1. Make the policy clear to everyone in the company. Articulate what you expect in writing, and verbally.
2. Make a consequence for behavior. Make the consequence appropriate.
3. Enforce the consequence.
Why?
– Cursing at work is offensive to many people.
– Cursing at work shows a […]
By April Masini
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 12:59 pm)
Stress…. It’s making magazine covers and getting lots of medical attention. It’s a very real issue and it’s effects are known, but it’s causes have to do with individuals. Not everyone reacts to stress the same way. Some people are sensitive, some very sensitive, and some hyper-sensitive, while others are not sensitive. The effects of […]
By April Masini
January 2, 2007 (Posted at 12:55 pm)
Clothing is so important!! Most people don’t think of clothing as a tool. They just think of it as a necessity and then a luxury, but the truth is clothing can take a woman from boardroom to bedroom - or the other way around — and the clothing can make or break the success in […]