Article Category : Work Place

There are millions of people working extremely hard every day in the UK to ensure that the public are healthy and recover from illness or accidents. Countless medical staff around the country study hard to become doctors and nurses and then work long hours and endure stressful situations in order to save the lives of men women and children every day. These people are present day saints and have chosen the caring professions because they genuinely want to help others. Sadly though, their efforts sometimes are not appreciated.

Figures show that each hospital in the UK reports an average of 43 violent assaults on staff every year. From receptionists and porters, to nurses, surgeons and doctors, people trying hard to make others feel better, are constantly at risk from unprovoked attack by unruly patients. Under the Freedom of Information Act, hospitals around the country have revealed that patients will use the nearest weapon available, from a hot drink to a zimmer frame, in order to inflict injury upon medical staff. In Wales figures show that a worker is attacked every two hours, with an average of 13 attacks per day across the country. There were around 7,500 reports of physical and verbal abuse across Wales last year.

The reasons for these attacks range from anger about waiting times to frustration from friends and relatives about visiting hours. Around 40% of attacks are alcohol induced with many patients being admitted to hospital with self inflicted drinking injuries. It is believed that the high numbers relate to the fact that staff are now actively encouraged to report any incident where they are threatened or attacked.

Under current law people who attack medical staff are likely to receive a charge of assault rather than the offence of serious assault, which is the offence people are charged with after attacking a police officer. Calls are being made for attacks on hospital staff to be taken more seriously after it was revealed that of 116,000 verbal or physical assaults carried out in 2003, only 50 led to prosecutions. Staff are hoping for a zero tolerance approach to violence in hospital.

There are several cases where staff have made successful compensation claims against hospitals where they work. For example a nurse made a claim for compensation and received ?,000 after being attacked from behind by a patient. She had tried to prevent the patient from attacking another and was then attacked herself. Hospitals have a duty of care, just like any other employer, to protect their staff from injury and accidents at work. Even though violence appears to be commonplace, action should be taken to reduce the risk to people who have dedicated their lives to helping people who are sick and in need.

If you have been injured whilst at work and your employer was to blame or did not protect you, then you are entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation.

To get free legal advice and a no obligation assessment of your claim then call The Accident Compensation Solicitors on 0808 144 00 43.

Editorial notes: www.accident-compensation-solicitor-uk.co.uk provides personal injury compensation following a non fault accident.

The author: Sophie Evans - www.accident-compensation-solicitor-uk.co.uk

Accident Compensation Solicitors provide customers with personal injury compensation following a non fault accident. They work on a no win no fee basis ensuring that customers get 100% compensation. Call 0808 144 0043 for more information about making a claim.

The Biggest Distractions Of Working From Home And How To Avoid Them

Article Category : Work Place

Do you ever have days when the little things in life seem to be fighting to keep you from getting any work done?
Relatives, children, neighbors, errands to run and even our own mental chatter can all hinder our work day performance.
Here are some suggestions to help you alleviate some of the most common distractions people face when working from
home.

For many people, running a home-based business means the freedom to spend precious time with children and family.
If you have young children underfoot throughout the day, it is easy to be drawn away from work.  Staying busy during
nap times and after the children have gone to bed can be helpful.  During the afternoons, you can hire a teen aged
‘mothers helper’ to come in for a few hours, or go all out and hire a Nanny.  Even 10 hours a week of quiet,
uninterrupted time will help you drive your home business forward.

The internet plays a big part in many home business enterprises, but it’s easy to get sucked into reading and
surfing when you need to be focusing on business.  Replying, deleting, and managing emails can become a drain
on your time if done too frequently.   Try checking your emails no more than 3 times a day, and deleting unwanted
emails only once a day, in the evening.    You will be surprised how much time this will free up for you to do
more important tasks.

If you are looking for specific information on the internet,  find what you need quickly and then get out. Sign yourself off of messenger services, and by all means stay away from chat rooms, forums and blogs until you have completed your work for the day.

Use a voice mail service to take your phone calls if you don’t wish to talk on the phone. Make sure to turn the
ringer off so you won’t be distracted.   Set aside a specific block of time each day to call contacts and follow up. Stick to your plan.

Running errands can be done at specific times during the week, such as on Wednesday between  1 and 3.   Going out
for just one errand  2 to 4 times a week is a waste of energy, time and gas.  Get it all done in one afternoon and
don’t worry about it for the rest of the week.

Housework is not everyone’s favorite activity.  If you avoid it, you’ll get overwhelmed.  If you are spending too
much time on it, you have little time for your business and family.    It helps if you delegate some of the
responsibility to other family members.   Break up the chores by doing 15 minutes worth of cleaning several times
a day.  This has the added benefit of getting you up out of your desk chair and moving.  If finances allow, you can
hire a cleaning service to assist you with the chores that you really dislike doing.

Putting these suggestions into practice will keep the distractions to a minimum and ensure your home business
will run more smoothly.

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Angie Hewerdine is a successful home business owner in the fields of Wealth Creation and Personal Development.  She
exhibits a driving passion for assisting people in realizing and attaining their personal and financial objectives.
To learn more call 1-800-491-4758 or visit http://www.TheTimeForChange.com

Category : work

How to Manage Your Career Like a Business

Article Category : Career Management, Work Place

Look upon yourself as a company with a product or service to sell. Understand your market and devise a dynamic marketing campaign, remembering that companies hire employees who offer them the best results and the best value for money.

Begin by identifying your skills, qualifications, and accomplishments. Adopt a customer-focused approach. What benefits and results can you offer employers? Are your skills marketable and up-to-date?

Employers are in the market for team-players and problem-solvers. They want to see evidence in your CV or resume of specific, quantifiable accomplishments.

Determine what additional skills you need to develop to make yourself more marketable. Take advantage of all opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

Successful businesses win customers by developing a unique selling proposition. To give yourself a competitive advantage, analyse what other employees in your field are offering. It is not enough to emulate them; you must strive to differentiate yourself by offering something extra, something unique.

Try to assess yourself as objectively as possible in order to identify your marketable features. Analyse your performance appraisals and, if possible, enlist the help of a trusted friend or colleague to help you evaluate yourself.

Define and prioritise your short-term and long-term career goals.

Study recruitment websites and the appointments pages of newspapers to familiarise yourself with the current requirements of employers.

Your CV/resume should be fine-tuned regularly and kept up-to-date to enable you to make a swift and targeted response to any suitable job opportunity that arises.

Learn all you can about job search strategies, job-specific resumes, and professional interview techniques.

By adopting a planned and proactive approach, you will maximise your chances of landing the job that best fits your skills and personality, and increase the likelihood of achieving your long-term career goals.

Gerard McLoughlin, author of ‘Four Minutes To Interview Success’, has contributed career-related articles to hundreds of recruitment companies, websites and publications throughout the world, including: USA Today, JobBankUSA.com, US-Recruiters.com, etc.

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Category : intraprenuer

Find the Right People, for the Right Job

Article Category : Career Management, Work Place

If you are a business owner, many times you can’t handle all the business’s tasks alone.  Many times it is important to hire a person that is willing to help you out.  Finding great help can sometimes be difficult.  If you are trying to find the person for a job, here are some tips.

Hiring a person can take some time, so don’t expect that within three days or so to have a great person working for you.  It is important to either place an ad in the paper, online or use word of mouth.  The best way to raise your chances of hiring a great worker is to pay a higher wage and to allow some flexibility in the job.  Many people would love a job and can give you their time, energy and brain, but they sometimes have kids or need a certain schedule.  If you are more accommodating, you can be much more attractive to the labor force.

If you just need a body, then it you can always hire temp workers.  This way you don’t have to deal with benefits and other formalities and if they don’t work out you don’t have to be committed to them.  If a temp worker is great for your business, you can always talk to the agency and switch their status.  So if you are looking for great help, take a look at the above tips.

How to Terminate an Employee and Live to Tell the Tale

Article Category : Work Place

1. Employee Backdrop in Australia

The whole arena of Industrial Relations and the interaction between employer and employee is conducted within the complex framework of various statutes, state and federal, regulations and rulings and common law. Unlike ‘tort’ law (a civil wrong such as negligence) the practice of Industrial Relations has many interlocking precepts and requirements that make it difficult for the small business practitioner to apply without assistance.

2. Terminating an Employee

When considering the termination of an employee you should give careful consideration to the possible future consequences and ensure that your actions are within the law. I the heat of the moment do not make a decision that could affect you or your business long term. Take advice.

A date with the Industrial Relations Commission can be expensive, time consuming and stressful.

2.1 Industrial Relations Acts - State

Most State Acts in Australia place responsibility on the employer to ensure that termination of an employee was connected with, the capacity, performance or conduct of the employee; or the operational requirements of the employer’s business.

2.2 Federal - Workplace Relations Act 1996

The Workplace Relations Act 1996 provides legislative requirements regarding unfair termination of employment for Federal Employers and Employees. Grounds for unlawful termination are where the termination was harsh, unjust or unreasonable.

3. Terminating an Employee

In most Industrial Relations Commissions claims the sad fact is that much of your defence will relate on how well you followed proven human resource policies, procedures and determinations of the Commission. Terminating an employee’s employment in haste, not following proven human resource policies and procedures will likely result in the commission finding against you in favour of your employee

Off paramount importance is your ability to keep diary notes and documentation supporting your ‘actions’.

If you have any doubt over the process you should take ADVICE from a professional. The law can be quite harsh and unforgiving. In Australia you can be fined up to 50% of the employees’ salary plus costs n the worst case. The current threshold for a hearing by the Commission is $90,400. This means in a worst case you could be ordered to pay $45,200 plus the employees’ costs plus your own costs ? not a good day out.

The following steps are a guideline as to the minimum you should follow:-

3.1 Counselling / Correction

Speak informally with the employee informing them that this is a counselling meeting and that wish to speak with them about their behaviour and/or performance and that you welcome their explanation. Document the meeting.

3.2 First Written Warning

Provide the employee with a written outline of the first warning detailing the issues of performance, expected changes, timelines and review date.

Let the employee provide an explanation.

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Category : management, staff, HR, relations

Finding Success In Todays Job Market

Article Category : Resume Presentation, Work Place

This year we are experiencing the most dynamic and rapidly changing economy in all of history except for next year, and the year after, and the rest of our working lives. The days of being able to get a college education, then get a good job for life, which will give you financial security and retirement are gone forever.

There will be more changes in your current field in the next year than there has ever been before. The only thing we know for sure about the future is that it will be different from the past. And not only is change inevitable, the rate of change is accelerating. And these changes will affect every part of your life.

The future will bring more competition in your field than ever before. More and more people and companies will be struggling to take advantage of the same economic opportunities and customers. And your competition is both ruthless and determined. It is both national and international. Your competitors want your business, and they will do anything and everything to get it.

This new economy will open up more opportunities in your field than every before, but they will be in different areas. Possibilities are opening up at this very minute for you to sell your product or service to different customers in different forms, in different places, and in different ways. People who focus on the opportunities of the future, rather than getting bogged down by the problems of the past, will be the people who enjoy the rewards of tomorrow.

Government and university studies have concluded that a college graduate with a non-professional degree will have an average of ten to twelve different jobs or careers during his or her working lifetime. The majority of the people working today will be out of their fields and doing something else within two years. Anyone who does not adjust rapidly to greater change, greater competition, and opportunities of the future, will be swept aside by those who do.

To master today’s job market it is important that you first understand how we got to where we are by taking a look back at history. At the end of World War II America and American industry dominated the world. Not only did we have abundant natural resources, but we had advanced technology. Meanwhile, the rest of the industrialized world was largely ravaged by war. For these reasons, anything that American factories produced found a ready market, both nationally and internationally. The economy took off. After a few years of this robust, expanding economy with opportunities and jobs for all, Americans began to accept this as their birth right.

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Discover the Top 5 Reasons why to Work from Home

Article Category : Work Place

Why work from home?? In the past year I have often been
asked the same question over and over again. Even though I
actually enjoy all the benefits of working at home and have
more free time than most people, I still feel, it might be
useful to give you my Top 5 reasons. This way when somebody
asks me this same question again, I can just send this
article and go straight back to being lazy.

1. Never again will somebody else tell you what to do.
This truly is the biggest benefit of all. I am a person who
has a hard time taking orders from anybody, I used to work
as a Regional Manager setting up car- and motor bike
workshops all over the world and although this was a job
where I was on my own most of the time, there still was a
board of directors telling me what to do. You will not know
how good this feels till you experience it!!

2. You can start the day whenever You feel like it.
Can you remember the last time you had a late night with
friends? Perhaps had a bit to much to drink.. Then you can
probably also remember how you felt when you had to get up
early the next morning to go to work. Wasn’t it awful? You
could be doing what I do, sometimes I start at eight in the
morning, sometimes I only work in the evening since I
decided to spend the day with my two year old son. It is
totally up to me.

3.   Money keeps coming in, even if you don’t work.
This is also one which creates an amazing feeling, just try
to imagine, you have been out and about enjoying a
beautiful Sunday afternoon with friends or family and your
money machine keeps working. You come back home and check
your sales statistics and guess what.. You have made more
money then you would have been able to spend that same day.
Believe me, I am still checking my statistics every Sunday!!

4. There are no limits to what you can earn on line.
Once you have discovered how to make something profitable
on line, either through work at home offers or selling
something through your own web site, you can do it over and
over again. That is the beauty of the internet, you can
make your work at home business almost fully automatic
which means you can keep repeating. Like I said, No Limits.
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Category : work

Integrity At Work - How Do You Show Up?

Article Category : Work Place

As the business sections of today’s papers and magazines read more and more like the police blotter, ‘’Integrity'’ is fast becoming a hot topc of conversation in business boardrooms, around water coolers, and in today’s business best-sellers. Integrity is defined as walking the talk when it comes to living one’s true values, being authentic. Take this self-assessment and explore how you walk your integrity talk when you show up at work.

Integrity is a lot like being pregnant. In other words, either you are pregnant, or you aren’t. There’s no middle ground. I’’s the same with integrity.

At work, integrity is not a robe that one can put on and take off when it’s convenient. However, day to day workplace behaviors more often than not seem to indicate convenience does lay a lare part in whether people show up in integrity or not. Who people are at work, and how people are at work, seems to change like the weather, the weather of convenience.

When asked, many folks say they believe they are, in fact, always acting in integrity. However, when we look at actual day-to-day, minute-by-minute workplace behaviors this is clearly not the case. Why? One reason is folks’ basic needs for control recognition and security.

Because most people are driven by their egos and their ego needs for control, recognition and security, they often move away from their true and authentic self, from their deeper inner values, and behave in ways that are contrary to do-ing and be-ing in integrity.

So, do you think, feel and believe you live your core values at work, that you show up in integrity in your workplace? Take this self-assessment and explore who you are and how you are at work when it comes to integrity.

1. On an integrity scale of 1(low) to 10(high), how would you rate youself with it comes to the following workplace behaviors: (a) gossiping; (b) bullying; (c) viewing or downloading porn; (d) stealing physical materials; (e) stealine intellectual capital; (f) stealing time; (g) telling the truth; (h) taking responsibility for your piece of your team’s projects; (i) making excuses; (j) being direct, open and honest in your communications; (k) respecting others; (l)

2. Who or what usually takes you our of interity?

3. When you’re our of integrity, what kind of self-talk do you engage in?

4. Do your needs for control, recognition and security take you out of integrity?

5. Do you lie to yourself about being in integrity? If so, why?

6. Does it matter to you that you are out of integrity?

7. Do you use the same definition to define integrity for yourself and for others? If not, why not?

8. Do you respond if others act our of integrty and their actions directly affect you?

9. Do you respond if others act out of integrity and their actions affect your team, your unit, your department or your organization?

10. Do you ever excuse or rationalize your being out of integrity? If so, when and why?

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Integrity At Work - How Do You Show Up?

Article Category : Work Place

As the business sections of today’s papers and magazines read more and more like the police blotter, ‘’Integrity'’ is fast becoming a hot topc of conversation in business boardrooms, around water coolers, and in today’s business best-sellers. Integrity is defined as walking the talk when it comes to living one’s true values, being authentic. Take this self-assessment and explore how you walk your integrity talk when you show up at work.

Integrity is a lot like being pregnant. In other words, either you are pregnant, or you aren’t. There’s no middle ground. I’’s the same with integrity.

At work, integrity is not a robe that one can put on and take off when it’s convenient. However, day to day workplace behaviors more often than not seem to indicate convenience does lay a lare part in whether people show up in integrity or not. Who people are at work, and how people are at work, seems to change like the weather, the weather of convenience.

When asked, many folks say they believe they are, in fact, always acting in integrity. However, when we look at actual day-to-day, minute-by-minute workplace behaviors this is clearly not the case. Why? One reason is folks’ basic needs for control recognition and security.

Because most people are driven by their egos and their ego needs for control, recognition and security, they often move away from their true and authentic self, from their deeper inner values, and behave in ways that are contrary to do-ing and be-ing in integrity.

So, do you think, feel and believe you live your core values at work, that you show up in integrity in your workplace? Take this self-assessment and explore who you are and how you are at work when it comes to integrity.

1. On an integrity scale of 1(low) to 10(high), how would you rate youself with it comes to the following workplace behaviors: (a) gossiping; (b) bullying; (c) viewing or downloading porn; (d) stealing physical materials; (e) stealine intellectual capital; (f) stealing time; (g) telling the truth; (h) taking responsibility for your piece of your team’s projects; (i) making excuses; (j) being direct, open and honest in your communications; (k) respecting others; (l)

2. Who or what usually takes you our of interity?

3. When you’re our of integrity, what kind of self-talk do you engage in?

4. Do your needs for control, recognition and security take you out of integrity?

5. Do you lie to yourself about being in integrity? If so, why?

6. Does it matter to you that you are out of integrity?

7. Do you use the same definition to define integrity for yourself and for others? If not, why not?

8. Do you respond if others act our of integrty and their actions directly affect you?

9. Do you respond if others act out of integrity and their actions affect your team, your unit, your department or your organization?

10. Do you ever excuse or rationalize your being out of integrity? If so, when and why?

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Work At Home Using The Internet

Article Category : Career Management, Work Place

If you want to work at home, start a home based business on
the internet. Basing a business on the internet broadens
your client . It also has the advantage of low or no
overhead.

Home based businesses on the internet abound. To find one
that suits you, work within a field you enjoy. The internet
increases your client base, but because of the competition
you will have to work hard to make your product or site
stand out.

Home based business on the internet can be started in
almost any field of interest. If you want to offer
services, writing web content and designing websites can
provide good opportunities. Artists can offer services
ranging from graphic design to pet portraits. You can offer
advertising services on the internet. Think of any field
you are interested in and search the web. You will probably
find somebody offering services in that field. If the
competition is too much, you narrow your services to a
specific group. For example, instead of offering pet
portraits you could offer dog portraits.
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