Increase Inclusiveness and Respect in Your Workplace
Regrettably discrimination continues in our communities, organizations and workplaces.
Patricia Morgan
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How to Move From Self-Doubt to Trusting Your Feelings
Even those of us who are typically considered assertive can have off-guard moments of self-doubt.
Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and. . . – Book Summary
In 2009, Elizabeth Edwards published Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities. It is a quick 213-page read, written in a frank but intimate style. Overview: Edwards attracted a significant and fond following in 2004 when her husband, John Edwards, ran for Vice-President of the United States. Her three main stories […]
Sick and Tired of Your Home Business? Try These Tips!
Many people who work at home are challenged to separate household activities from career and work tasks.
Performing Under Pressure – Book Summary
Our lives are filled with stress and pressure. But what is the difference? Here is an explanation from the book, Performing Under Pressure by Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry. As they write: Every stressful situation — a longer meeting than you expected, the colleague letting you down on deliverables — can start to feel like […]
Fed Up With the Kids? How to Manage Parental Anger
Most parents want to be joyful, encouraging and wise with their children
How to Prepare to Be Laid Off Work
Being let go from work can be a traumatic experience, an opportunity, or both. Women have written to me describing, in hindsight, what they learned after a layoff or firing. Here is a sample of what they shared about being prepared to be laid off work. Thoughts on Being Laid Off Work Be prepared with […]
How to Help Men and Women Build Resilience
In North America, Medscape reports, on average, women live 5.3 years longer than men. As a wife, mother to one son and grandmother to 3 grandsons, I hope there is a solution to this discouraging fact. I wonder, Are there reasons women appear to build resilience easier than men? Certainly, Pat O’Gorman, author of Dancing Backward in […]
People Boost with Acknowledgement, Appreciation and Encouragement
Boosting other people costs nothing, takes little energy and will help those at work and home feel and function better.
How to Strengthen Your Internal Locus of Control
Those with a strong internal locus of control believe that they are primarily in charge of their lives. Those with a strong external locus of control believe that they are primarily at the mercy of other people, fate or chance. They often perceive themselves as victims of their situations.
Preparation and 12 Lines to Help Resolve Conflict
Conversation can take a nasty turn of misunderstanding.
Are You REALLY in An Abusive Relationship?
Too often one adult declares that another adult is being abusive. Before you decide you are in a bullying or abusive relationship and call the Abuse Police, get a handle on what is really happening. OK? Abuse is mistreatment, by any other person or persons, that violates a person’s human and civil rights. Children […]