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Performance Reviews Your Employees Will Love to Get

Is inflicting annual performance evaluations on your employees or direct reports part of your job description? Would you like to wake-up from this recurring workforce management nightmare? Read on to discover the secret to giving performance reviews your ... Read >
Author: Beth Banning & Neill Gibson

Dangerous Conversations: Coaching for Exceptional Performance

How often do you engage in the kind of conversation that stimulates others to change their performance? First, reflect on the following: How many conversations do you have during an average day? 30, 50, 100? How many of these simply function as social lub... Read >
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Common Marriage Problems – Avoiding common marriage problems in your conflicts

Common marriage problems that most couples face often have to do with how a husband and wife manage their conflict. If you and your spouse can learn to argue in a way that avoids certain "deadly toxins" that can poison your communication, you can avoid s... Read >
Author: Grant Langston

Creators of The Amazing Race to produce Oprah's reality show

The Queen of Talk Oprah Winfrey is currently in discussion with Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, the creators of the popular television reality series, The Amazing Race. Oprah is collaborating with van Munster and Doganieri with the aim of launchi... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

Schizophrenia, a brain disease

Being a brain disease the effects it has on the patient are very drastic. Even daily things become difficult or like in the case of personal hygiene unmanageable and neglected. The behavior of the patient changes drastically, the person becoming very irra... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

Catching a Liar by Interpreting Body Language

Reading body language to know if a person is lying applies not just to ordinary people but even to professionals, as well. The police use it to determine if the person is guilty of a certain wrongdoing or not, teachers employ it to find out if the child r... Read >
Author: Michael Lee

Healing Your Workplace

You can heal your workplace. Symptoms of workplaces needing healing include poor service, unresolved conflict, complaining, blaming , confusion, defensiveness, excessive stress, hurtful behaviors, inability to communicate openly and honestly, lack of trus... Read >
Author: William Frank Diedrich

The Power of Kindness in Relationships

There is one choice you can make that will heal many of your relationship problems. This is the choice of kindness - to both yourself and to others. This may sound simple, yet for many people, there is one choice far more important to them than kindnes... Read >
Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

How Do You Succeed In Network Marketing If You Don‘t Like Cold Calling

Cold calling leads is one of the most common suggestions made to new enrollees in a network marketing program. A slightly more modern variation on this is to buy a list of email leads and plug them into the pre-written autoresponder series provided by the... Read >
Author: Rebecca Prescott

How to Speak Fluent Body Language

You've probably heard the expressions before.. "Chin up, shoulders back," "Keep your distance," "Feet on the ground," "Pain in the neck." But have you ever wondered how they came about? It all has to do with Body Language. Simply put, body language is ... Read >
Author: Michael Lee

Two Ways to Nip Dog Biting in the Bud

When raising a puppy, there is a fine line between a dog bite and puppy love. Adult dogs will bite for a numbers of reasons, including fear, defensiveness, and aggression. But puppies have yet to develop many of the behaviors (such as possessiveness, terr... Read >
Author: Martin Olliver

Making Marriage Work, Part 2

(This is part 2 of a 5-part series on making marriage work) Are you in a long-term relationship where you are either fighting a lot of the time or feeling distant, disconnected, and without passion? Or, do you find yourselves going along fine until a c... Read >
Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

The Art, Science, and Grace of Attracting Prosperity

Attracting prosperity is part art, part science, and part grace. A prosperous business must not only accommodate but support life in all its complexity. A thriving business requires and provides resilience and continuity. How do you go about building ... Read >
Author: Molly Gordon

For Sale By Owner Is A Mistake

Don't sell it yourself! Sometimes a "FSBO," or house "for sale by owner" can sell as fast, and for as much as it would have if listed with a real estate agent. Sometimes. Before you decide to give it a try though, consider the following ten points. 1.... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman

Live Life to the Fullest

"Dad, you're always so serious," my son told me. "You never have any fun." My initial reaction to my son's accusation was defensiveness. Of course I have fun, I thought. First of all, my work is fun. And I have fun in other ways, too. I enjoy playing w... Read >
Author: Brian Bartes

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