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Recession Anxiety: Making it Work For You

Recession anxiety is at the top of the news every day. It's inevitable that your team and staff will be affected.

Symptoms of recession anxiety include: chronic worry about job security and financial issues. Is your business going to survive? Will you have to lay people off? Arguments, gossip, stress-related ailments, and loss of productivity due to managers and employees taking sick days can reduce your company's effectiveness at the time you need it most.

Here are some guidelines for proactive management:

. Keep information flowing. Employees who sense that management is holding out on them by witholding information tend to lose motivation. Even if the future of your business is uncertain, keep your team informed and make sure the flow of information reaches everyone in the company.

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May 26, 2008 Posted by Laurie Nadel, Ph.D. | opportunity, motivation, leadership, fear, enhancing productivity, effective, decisions, communication, anxiety | Comment (0)

HOLDING ONTO THE GOOD IN A SEA OF NEGATIVITY

You wake up one morning and the world seems to be collapsing around you. Your tenuous time living with you parents because you are running out of money has gotten worse because you placed a bowl in the wrong place in a washing machine or forgot about a coupon to purchase a scooper for cleaning out leave troughs. The previous week a job hunting trip went bad because your car with 120,000 miles on it broke down on highway with steam coming out from underneath the hood. One day late in paying off your membership in your health club, you ask the owner if you can discount for doing some work around the gym. You are told that the gym has more than enough people working for them. Even if they did, you wouldn't be the one they would want. So it goes.

You can develop a real bad feeling about yourself if all this continues. Just because others suggest bad things doesn't mean they are true.

Life occassionally sends each of us life perservers. If these life persevers ar

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October 22, 2007 Posted by Anthony Cooper | workplace wellness, wellness, stress, strengths, over 50 fitness, opportunity, meet people, imbalance, financial coaching, fear, extraordinary living, expectations, employee values, control, business coaching, bridge, balance, backup, baby boomer fitness, anxiety | Comment (0)

THE AMC MADMEN PROGRAM: corporate suite fragging

Just imagine working for the imaginary Cooper Sterling Advertising Agency? A Creative Director is hiding a past life that started when he assumed the identity of a commanding officer who was killed next to him in a Korean War battlefield incident. A sex obsessed senior partner has suffered a heart attack while indulging in a tryst on company premises. Publication of an article/book by one of the copywriters is greeted by ridicule and personal put downs by fellow employees. An arrogant junior employee who undermines his boss is retained on staff because of the importance of his family's connections.

Gossip and scandal seem to run the Cooper Sterling Company. The quality of product and financial health of this company seem to be of secondary importance. Is it any wonder that an employee who feels passed over has started to search for ways to bring down his boss (and perhaps the company?)

During the Vietnam war 120 officers were

Good Grief! Dealing with the stress of losing a loved one with the power of the heart!

Losing someone we love can be one of the most challenging stressors we face as human beings.

Science shows us that "two hearts that beat as one" is more than a poetic concept. It's literal. When we fall in love, our heartbeats literally get in synch, internally and with one another, and beat as "one heart."When we lose a loved one, either through death or separation, having that "other" heart we entrained with go away can give us a lost feeling. We may think that it is the absence of the other person that creates this uncomfortable sensation we call a "broken heart." But in fact, it is our own grief reaction which causes our heart rhythms to take on a chaotic pattern, throwing everything else out of whack with them.
The good news is that we can access the power, beauty, and joy that we feel when we are in synch with the objectof our love, even

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July 3, 2007 Posted by Sheva Carr | stress, loss, heart, fear, Faith, extraordinary living, cardiovascular fitness, baby boomer fitness, anti aging | Comment (0)

Reducing Ahs, Ums and other Filler Words

Because I was the Ah Champion of my Toastmasters club when I first joined in 1991, I've been asked many times, "How can I reduce my ahs, ums and other filler words?"

First, I explained that many people use filler words thus, if you are surrounded by these people, the ahs and ums are not as noticeable to others simply because they are used to hearing filler words. I've heard a District Attorney, elected to office and having spoken to many, many groups have over 100 ahs and ums in the first 5 minutes of a 20 min. presentation. I've seen a criminal attorney asking the judge to reduce the bail for his two clients with multiple ahs and ums. Additionally, he was pacing back and forth and his eyes were focused on the floor rather than making eye contact with the judge. In actuality, the use of filler words may be due to a lack of confidence, inability to think on our feet, etc.

Before continuing, I don't mind

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May 29, 2007 Posted by Frank (Francesco) S. Adamo | ums, speaking, perseverance, listening, fear, communication, coaching, ahs | Comment (1)