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In fashion or decorating, style is easy to define: It’s simply your choice and combination of clothing and accessories, or furniture. In writing, style is similar—it’s the words you choose and the way you put them together to create a unique impact.
A good business writing style is one that sounds like you and conveys your message in a clear, professional manner. Here are some tips to help you create a good style.
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| The Oats Formula: How to Better Plan Your Time
Time is a bit like cholesterol. There is good and bad cholesterol, and there are good and bad time uses. Exercise will increase your good cholesterol, and improve the ratio of the good kind to the bad kind.
Planning is an exercise that will increase your good time uses, and improve the ratio of good time use to bad time use. A regular diet of oatmeal will help cut down the bad cholesterol; help get the fat out of your system. The regular use of OATS, the formula for a powerful time principle, can also get the fat out of your daily schedule.
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Did You Hear? Three Surefire Steps to Minimize Gossip at the Office
It starts out innocently enough with someone in the break room saying, “Isn’t it a shame about Jack?” Clueless, you reply, “What about Jack?” “Don’t you know about his wife?” When you answer in the negative, your colleague seizes the moment to fill you in on all the gory details of Jack’s wife’s ongoing affair with none other than your boss’s husband, and poor Jack is now in rehab because he started binge-drinking to drown his misery. Of course, since your boss’s husband is the party of the second part, you just have to know if she knows about her husband’s infidelity, which would account for her showing up to work lately looking like a subject in a sleep-deprivation study and biting everyone’s head off for no good reason. And before you’ve finished pouring your coffee, you’ve enabled a gossip to perpetuate the vicious cycle of rumor mongering that too often contaminates a workplace.
The consequences of participating in office gossip are far ranging and always affect at least two or more people. First, consider the person who is the gossip spreader. Why is this person presenting the information? Can any good come from it? Will the information benefit you or the office in which you work? What’s in it for the gossip?
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| Preparing Makes Sense - Home Disaster Planning
The likelihood that you and your family will survive a house fire depends as much as having a working smoke detector and an exit strategy as on a well-trained fire department. The same is true for surviving a terrorist attack or other emergency. We must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, at least for a period of time, no matter where we are when disaster strikes. Just like having a working smoke detector, preparing for the unexpected makes sense.
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