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Greetings!
In this holiday edition of our newsletter, our theme (and perhaps our gift to you), is choice. Both of our original articles explore the choices we don't realize we make, and how those choices affect our peace and happiness. Our Featured Business and Personal Matters articles delve beyond the conceptual by building awareness and offering ideas that will help you find more joy in your work and your personal life.
Other "choice" articles and links include an article with key strategies for making decisions at work, ideas for improving communication during open-enrollment, suggestions for holiday gift-giving, and some fun links on "things to do" this holiday season.
As the year comes to a close, we want to say Thank You to our many clients, colleagues, and friends. You've helped our business grow and be the success that it is. We value your loyalty, and admire your devotion to your company, your employees, and your own best self.
Happy Holidays!
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 Featured Business Articleby Candice Gottlieb-Clark
The Power of Positive Perspective
How do you stay so positive? Especially when life presents inevitable challenges and "bad" things happen? Be it workplace issues or personal struggles, we all have the power to choose how we view each situation we encounter. The problem? Most of us don't realize we have that power.
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Turn to Clear Vision
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This is not to say that some of life's experiences are not more pleasant or more dreadful than others. Instead, it is to say that the same situation can be viewed in many different ways; and how we choose to view it has a profound and compelling impact on how we feel about that situation and how it affects us. Read more
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Personal Matters
by Candice Gottlieb-Clark
How to Choose Happiness for the Holidays
Around the holidays we are often confronted with the same difficulties we have experienced year after year. Family pressures, repeat arguments, logistical challenges, etc. While we can't always change the cyclical pattern, we do have control over the choices we make within those situations, and therefore have the ability to control our experience of those otherwise complicated and uncomfortable moments.
The holidays are meant to be joyous - for everyone. If you aren't finding the holidays bring you that experience, look more closely at the choices you are making that allow them to be less than pleasant. Read more
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From sbconline.com
3 Tips for Making the Right Choices
Left or right? Up or down? Yes or no? The human life is full of choices. We make them on a minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis. It's what we do, how we live and move and have our being in the world.
Decisions are usually easier when we are only faced with two choices. It's when we have more options that we sometimes stall, flutter or downright choke.
To learn the questions we need to ask in order to make the right choices both in life and in business, Read More
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from WorldatWork.org
Engaging Employees with Benefits Communications
It's open enrollment season for a majority of companies, and employee populations are excited to the point of distraction.
OK, maybe not. Perhaps what's happening right now isn't much different than what happens during the rest of the year: People are working and, oh yeah, it's open enrollment.
But this kind of attitude leads to poor benefits decision making and, worse, potentially higher costs for employers and employees. Fact is, the way to get the most out of Read more
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Curious about our services and training programs?
At Mediating Solutions we team with business owners, Human Resource departments, and C-suite professionals to provide services and programs that improve workplace relations, resolve interpersonal conflicts, and provide for improved skills in communication and conflict resolution.
Services Include*:
- Mediation/Conflict Resolution
- Group Facilitation and Problem Solving
- Executive/Leadership Coaching
- Training and Corporate Retreats
We are happy to meet with you to discuss ideas for improving your work environment, company culture, and employee relations.
*For more details on our programs and services, please visit our website or contact us at (818) 400-5670. |
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Nov/Dec 2012
Volume 6, Issue 8
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Candice Gottlieb-Clark
President
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A Gift Idea for the Person Who Has Everything
Looking for an unusual, meaningful, or purposeful gift this year?
I may have found it for you.
Heifer International is a charitable organization that turns your financial donation into a sustainable gift to the impoverished, who then pay it forward through similar gifts in their own community.
Gift amounts start as low as $10.
Click here for more info.
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Fun Things to Do
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Business Tips
Your To-Do List: The Value of Alternating Tasks
New Hiring Pitfalls to Watch Out For
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From Susan M. Heathfield, About.com
Celebrate Holidays for Motivation and Team Building
Traditions are important in companies just as they are in families. And, nothing is more important than the annual traditions work places establish around the celebration of seasonal holidays.
Create Holiday Traditions at Work
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