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By BritChick Paris When I was a kid and teen, I was bullied mercilessly. My pigtail was pulled, my knickers pinged and all sorts of names were etched on my wooden desk. I was tied to trees, sent to coventry and at 18, I couldn’t wait to leave school and never see those horrid cows again. But the wounds remained, the constant feeling that I was never pretty enough, that no one liked me and that I would never be one of the cool crowd. But today the situation is a gazillion times worse. Before, bullying happened to me in my school and that was it. Now it has gone viral. It is mass torture, global humiliation. Being called a nasty nickname is one thing, having it plastered over your wall for hundreds of friends to see is another. Or having all your friends slowly “unfriend” you must be one of the most isolating cyber experiences. I recently saw a video of two girls pretending that they were in some form of top model show and voted who is beautiful and who isn’t in their c...

By Joel Garfinkle Valuable in-demand leaders are what turn a company from good to great. An organization’s most important asset is its talented, high-performing employees. Companies that prioritize retaining valued employees understand retention’s direct impact on their success. To maintain the company’s greatness, it must commit and invest resources in the vast pool of quality talent across the company. The most effective way to maintain a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace is to fully utilize your top performers. This will directly differentiate your company from its competition. But how do you do this? Begin to implement these three strategies today: 1.       Think outside the job . Motivated employees want a challenge. They are anxious to contribute to projects outside of their specific job descriptions. Look around you. How many people do you see who are underutilized? Who could contribute something more than they current...

By Myron Curry It goes without saying that good leadership is crucial to any successful business. But, what makes a good leader and how can someone develop himself or herself into a good leader if they are not one to begin with? The answer is that there are many factors that contribute to good leadership. And, whether someone is naturally a good leader or not, anyone can become a good leader. Get To Talking One of those factors of good leadership is communication. Communication is one of the most key elements of leadership. Good communication skills need to be learned to effectively become a good leader or manager. When communication occurs, as a leader, you will be able to accurately convey your ideas and thoughts to those that work for you. In fact, simply being able to convey these things in the first place, much less accurately, puts you in the right direction for leadership. If employees have no idea what is on your mind, your leadership is going to falter. Empl...

By Remez Sasson  Do you tend to lose your patience at work? What are the reasons for losing patience in the workplace? You try to teach a coworker a certain job, but he does not understand, no matter how many times you tell him what to do. Does this make you lose your patience? A client keeps asking questions on the phone. You have a lot of work, but you cannot end the conversation. What do you do? Do you become impatient with him, or do you try to stay polite on the surface, but impatient and angry inside? As a boss, you give your employees a certain job, but it takes them too long to carry out, do you lose your patience and get angry at them? There are many situations at the workplace that can cause people to lose their patience. There is no need to enumerate them, just look at your average workday, and you will find many occasions, where you, or someone else at work, lost his or her patience. Losing patience causes anger and unhappiness and harms relati...

 By kayode Ariba, LSSBB Wouldn't it be incredible on the off chance that you could advise individuals what you needed them to do and they would take care of business? How frequently have you been disappointed in light of the fact that you told a worker (or your child) what you required them to do and they didn't do it? Giving out instructions is not  the same as teaching a new skill or behavior. A perfect example is teaching a student time management so he can prioritize tasks and accurately judge the amount time needed to complete them . or For kids, a new behavior could be learning how to tidy up the rooms every-week  . A case of giving information is telling another worker where the lunchroom is found. When you are asking another worker or an understudy to take in another conduct we have discovered that telling isn't viable. You can't simply let them know and expect comes about. We have conversed with such a large number of human resource experts and superviso...

By Dr. Carmen Harra  Emotions are the most present, pressing and sometimes painful force in our lives. We are driven day by day by our emotions. We take chances because we’re excited for new prospects. We cry because we’ve been hurt and we make sacrifices because we love. Without a doubt, our emotions dictate our thoughts, intentions and actions with superior authority to our rational minds. But when we act on our emotions too quickly, or we act on the wrong kinds of emotions, we often make decisions that we later lament. Our feelings can alter between dangerous extremes. Veer too far to the left and you’re bordering on rage. Steer too much to the right and you’re in a state of euphoria. As with many other aspects of life, emotions are best met with a sense of moderation and logical perspective. This is not to say that we should stop ourselves from falling in love or jumping for joy after great news. These truly are the finer things in life. It is negative e...

Emotions can make you feel like you’re on a roller coaster sometimes. In the course of one day you can experience a range of emotions – happiness, sadness, anger, excitement, nervousness, confusion, anxiety – you name it, you can feel it. The negative emotions are undoubtedly the hardest to deal with, but they are just as much a part of life as the positive ones. So, we must learn to take the bad with the good, and cope with it all so we can be our happiest selves. If you’re experiencing a negative emotion right now, here are 8 steps you can take to handle it: 1. Recognize and name the emotion. The first step to handling an emotion is recognizing it. Everybody has their own unique ability to express their emotions, but this step is not about expressing it to anyone, it is just about recognition. Name the emotion in your own head. I’m angry. I’m sad. I’m really happy right now . Be a dispassionate observer, looking at yourself from outside the situation and making an...

Families are the essential building blocks of any society and happy families make a happy society. Everyone wants to live in a happy family as family is the place where human beings find the accomplishment of life. Modern families often face multiple relationship issues which have emerged as contribution of the changed lifestyle and les intense relationships. Living in a happy family is important to mould each and every human being into responsible social beings. Home and families are places where kids and elders live with a feeling of security and also places of sharing, love, care and concern. Mutual understanding, adjustments and love creates the unbreakable bond between family members and if taken care of certain aspects, any family can be made a happy family. Making a happy family is no magic as it requires just an extra strained nerve, to nurture love, to facilitate communication and to make each feel contented and secure. Let us see few of the inevitable building ...

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. Either way, they create unnecessary complexity, strife, and worst of all stress. Studies have long shown that stress can have a lasting, negative impact on the brain. Exposure to even a few days of stress compromises the effectiveness of neurons in the hippocampus—an important brain area responsible for reasoning and memory. Weeks of stress cause reversible damage to neuronal dendrites (the small “arms” that brain cells use to communicate with each other), and months of stress can permanently destroy neurons. Stress is a formidable threat to your success—when stress gets out of control, your brain and your performance suffer. Most sources of stress at work are easy to identify. If your non-profit is working to land a grant that your organization needs to f...

We are always thinking about something. Most of us are in any case. Most of the time we are not only thinking about  something  – we are thinking about  something very concrete . It may be a task we need to do, a problem that keeps bothering us, a challenge we still don’t know how to face, or some abstract thing like “the future.” Our mind is at high RPM most of the time. There are times when this mode becomes even more radical – when we go into an infinite thinking-loop. These are the times when one specific thing occupies our brain at 100% capacity and just won’t leave. If the outcome of these events would have been being super productive, you could argue that this a good thing. But the problem is that this is rarely the case. When we are caught in an infinite thinking-look we are anything but productive. In most cases, such a loop just pulls us down. It’s a pure waste of mental energy. The chances that a creative solution to a challenge we are facing wil...

By Dr. Brian Davidson   With football season just around the corner, teams around the country are working hard in preparation to compete for the next championship.  But what is it that ultimately determines whether a team hoists the trophy at the end of the year?  Clearly, a team must be composed of a group of exceptional athletes, but might there be more than athletic ability that ultimately gives teams the competitive edge?   Might the mental make-up of a team also play a significant role in determining their success? Curious as to what drives those that win, we sought out to study the minds of champions. To do this, we were fortunate enough to study one of the most dominant football programs in all of America.  There are few programs in the entire country that can boast the accolades and accomplishments of a football program located in Maryville, Missouri: The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats.  Since...