Parents can help their children have more success in life and in school, by investing the time to teach them how to set and reach goals. One day it might be the goal of earning a college scholarship; today the challenge might be being ready when the school bus comes.
Think of it as a time investment. Break the task process into baby steps. You are teaching your child the fundamentals as they accomplish a step by step process of skill building. Your tasks are to teach, be a role model, and reinforce each productive behavior step. If you positively reinforce each skill along the way you will enjoy the bonus of building your child’s self confidence. It can be simpler than you think.
Raising A Reader, Help Your Child Learn To Love Books
It’s an undeniable fact; if you can read and can read well, you have a much better chance of finding a good job and having a satisfying personal life than you will if you struggle with reading. Children who learn to read early and well are much more likely to become adults who love to read and will continue to advance their literary skills. As a parent, you can help your child learn to love reading.
Workplace Bullies: How to Best the Business Bullies
By Margaret Ross
What should you do when an adult customer or colleague acts like a bully on the playground? How to change your reaction to workplace bullies to change the result. – Margaret Ross
Unfortunately, you didn't leave all of the bullies on the playground in junior high. They still exist, only now, they're in fully adult form. Some of the bullies come in the form of customers, and these are not so affectionately known as "business bullies," or BBs. They can be sarcastic, difficult, and demanding, and they think the world revolves around them. They are the adult equivalent of the kid who pushes others around on the playground, with you as the target. Dealing with them can leave you feeling like you're all alone and vulnerable. But especially if the BB is a customer, you have to learn to deal with the business bully because the success of your business can depend on it. You have to learn in the necessary skills in order to be able to handle him. At the same time, if you do so you can model the proper behavior for others you work with so they can learn to handle these BBs, too. If you do so properly, this can only help your business.
Attracting and retaining the best staff is a top priority for managers and owners. Taking action on this priority can be complicated. An employee has been offered a new job with more money, more vacation days, and access to a company car. What would make them choose to stay? A top performer being “happy” on the job can tip the scales in your favor when the competition comes calling.
Professional communications skills can build and support a positive work environment. Before you dash off a quick email or instant message to a friend or family member during a protracted work meeting, remember that your message may be monitored. Over three-quarters (76%) of US firms report that they record and review their employees communications on the job, with over half retaining and reviewing email.
The ability to lead effective meetings is an increasingly important and rare occurrence. Ninety percent of business leaders surveyed say the ability to conduct effective meetings is a key indicator of business leadership effectiveness. Developing your meeting leader skills can enhance your business value and increase your personal effectiveness.
Approximately half of U.S. students are impacted by bullying each school day. It happens on buses, in the cafeteria, gym, hallways, playground, and classroom. The most frequent form bullying takes is words (teasing, taunting, ridiculing, name-calling, and gossip) - not blows. This type of bullying happens in the "physical" world and that world has geographic limits. Cyber-bullying is making school days even more painful for many children. Bullying in cyberspace is not bound by school hours, school days, or facing the intended bully victim. Unfortunately, the anonymous nature of the internet often insulates the bully from the consequences of their damaging behavior.
Do you need some bully proofing? I did. You aren’t likely to get pushed down on the playground at work but you might feel like that’s what happened. Have you ever felt like a victim of ‘drive by’ bullying behavior? I call it ‘drive by’ bullying because I often didn’t even know what had happened until it was over and the person’s tail lights were rounding the hallway corner. The only evidence of the assault was something new on my ‘to do list’ and the emotional tire tracks on my face. Sound familiar?
Business success is like a treasure hunt. What often appears to be amazingly good luck or inborn business brilliance is actually a disciplined, predictable process like following a treasure map. Treasure hunting is a mindset, often the hallmark of entrepreneurs, but certainly not their exclusive domain. Treasure hunters are also identified by their track record of "blooming where they are planted."
Craig Randall drove a garbage truck in Peabody, Massachusetts. In a garbage container one day he noticed a Wendy's soft drink cup bearing a contest sticker. Having won a sandwich the week before, Randall checked it, hoping for a similar "find." Instead, he peeled a sticker worth $200,000 toward the construction of a new home, reported U.S. News World Report.
Women comprise 51.6% of the US online population and represent 60% of online spending. By 2008 there will be roughly 10 million more females online than males according to a new eMarketer study. The product categories traditionally dominated by female shoppers are the fastest growing categories on the web.
Online retailers, who can be expected to benefit most from the growth, are rethinking and retooling their sites to make it more interesting and effective for women to do business with them. Traditionally, sites were designed by men for themselves, which could be a liability for the future. It’s time for change.
Certain birthdays mark special life changes. A birthday could mean becoming school age, driving age, dating age or voting age. Thirteen has become the ‘cellphone of my own’ age. Just 12 percent of kids ages 8-12 have a wireless phone, but that jumps dramatically at age 13. Nearly half of young teens, ages 13-15, have a wireless phone number of their own. That number jumps to 68 percent for the 16-17 age group. The phone may be traveling with the new teen, but the phone bill is still going to mom and dad. Parents pick their children’s wireless service bills in over two-thirds of the cases.
From the outside looking in, being a people magnet - someone comfortable in every situation - is believed to be to be something we are born with.
Deep down, we’ve been wondering what it would be like to be the person everyone wants to sit next to at the lunch table since we were in elementary school.
Good news: It’s not a gift of birth. It’s a skill not a talent. We can learn skills. It’s like riding a bicycle or setting up your new MP3 player.
Parents can help their children have more success in life and in school, by investing the time to teach them how to set and reach goals. One day it might be the goal of earning a college scholarship; today the challenge might be being ready when the school bus comes.
Think of it as a time investment. Break the task process into baby steps. You are teaching your child the fundamentals as they accomplish a step by step process of skill building. Your tasks are to teach, be a role model, and reinforce each productive behavior step. If you positively reinforce each skill along the way you will enjoy the bonus of building your child’s self confidence. It can be simpler than you think.It’s an undeniable fact; if you can read and can read well, you have a much better chance of finding a good job and having a satisfying personal life than you will if you struggle with reading. Children who learn to read early and well are much more likely to become adults who love to read and will continue to advance their literary skills. As a parent, you can help your child learn to love reading.
Unfortunately, you didn't leave all of the bullies on the playground in junior high. They still exist, only now, they're in fully adult form. Some of the bullies come in the form of customers, and these are not so affectionately known as "business bullies," or BBs. They can be sarcastic, difficult, and demanding, and they think the world revolves around them. They are the adult equivalent of the kid who pushes others around on the playground, with you as the target. Dealing with them can leave you feeling like you're all alone and vulnerable. But especially if the BB is a customer, you have to learn to deal with the business bully because the success of your business can depend on it. You have to learn in the necessary skills in order to be able to handle him. At the same time, if you do so you can model the proper behavior for others you work with so they can learn to handle these BBs, too. If you do so properly, this can only help your business.
Attracting and retaining the best staff is a top priority for managers and owners. Taking action on this priority can be complicated. An employee has been offered a new job with more money, more vacation days, and access to a company car. What would make them choose to stay? A top performer being “happy” on the job can tip the scales in your favor when the competition comes calling.
Professional communications skills can build and support a positive work environment. Before you dash off a quick email or instant message to a friend or family member during a protracted work meeting, remember that your message may be monitored. Over three-quarters (76%) of US firms report that they record and review their employees communications on the job, with over half retaining and reviewing email.
How to Tame Time Gobblers and Meeting Monsters
by Margaret RossApproximately half of U.S. students are impacted by bullying each school day. It happens on buses, in the cafeteria, gym, hallways, playground, and classroom. The most frequent form bullying takes is words (teasing, taunting, ridiculing, name-calling, and gossip) - not blows. This type of bullying happens in the "physical" world and that world has geographic limits. Cyber-bullying is making school days even more painful for many children. Bullying in cyberspace is not bound by school hours, school days, or facing the intended bully victim. Unfortunately, the anonymous nature of the internet often insulates the bully from the consequences of their damaging behavior.
Do you need some bully proofing? I did. You aren’t likely to get pushed down on the playground at work but you might feel like that’s what happened. Have you ever felt like a victim of ‘drive by’ bullying behavior? I call it ‘drive by’ bullying because I often didn’t even know what had happened until it was over and the person’s tail lights were rounding the hallway corner. The only evidence of the assault was something new on my ‘to do list’ and the emotional tire tracks on my face. Sound familiar?
Certain birthdays mark special life changes. A birthday could mean becoming school age, driving age, dating age or voting age. Thirteen has become the ‘cellphone of my own’ age. Just 12 percent of kids ages 8-12 have a wireless phone, but that jumps dramatically at age 13. Nearly half of young teens, ages 13-15, have a wireless phone number of their own. That number jumps to 68 percent for the 16-17 age group. The phone may be traveling with the new teen, but the phone bill is still going to mom and dad. Parents pick their children’s wireless service bills in over two-thirds of the cases.
From the outside looking in, being a people magnet - someone comfortable in every situation - is believed to be to be something we are born with.
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