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Work etiquette encompasses far more than simply knowing which hand to hold your knife and fork in at a dinner party. It incorporates all types of manners and behavior in relation to work dealings such as how you come across as an individual, how you relate to others both within your own organization and externally and how you make use of the tools with which you can communicate.
Etiquette isn’t fixed and rigid. Workplaces are very different when it comes to what’s considered acceptable behavior and conduct and the formality of etiquette will vary between companies. Likewise, when doing business overseas, a whole new set of rules will often apply.
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| The Benefits of Doing Brain Teasers!
A study in the Washington Post finds that "Ten sessions of exercises to boost reasoning skills, memory and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people is the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body."
The researchers also showed that the benefits of the brain exercises extended well beyond the specific skills the volunteers learned. Older adults who did the basic exercises followed by later sessions were three times as fast as those who got only the initial sessions when it came to activities of daily living, such as reacting to a road sign, looking up a number in a telephone book or checking the ingredients on a medicine bottle -- abilities that can spell the difference between living independently and needing help.
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| Stress Management
What is stress?
Stress is simply a fact of nature—forces from the outside world affecting the individual. The individual responds to stress in ways that affect the individual as well as their environment. Hence, all living creatures are in a constant interchange with their surroundings (the ecosystem), both physically and behaviorally. This interplay of forces, or energy, is of course present in the relationships between all matter in the universe, whether it is living (animate) or not living (inanimate). However, there are critical differences in how different living creatures relate to their environment. These differences have far-reaching consequences for survival. Because of the overabundance of stress in our modern lives, we usually think of stress as a negative experience, but from a biological point of view, stress can be a neutral, negative, or positive experience.
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| St Patrick’s Day – Wear Your Green!
Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish people and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in Australia and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the color green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Guinness or Baileys Irish Cream) and attending parades.
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