Article Category : Candidate Planning, Work Place, Self Improvement

Stress in small doses, and linked to positive events, helps
you be more productive, active and happier. However, when
stress reaches a certain level, it starts to have adverse
effects. Adrenalin floods the body, breathing becomes
shallower, your thoughts become less clear - everything is
framed in terms of fight-or-flight responses. If this state
persists for extended periods of time, irreversible
physical damage starts to happen in your body - including
the brain.

Some sources of stress you can avoid, but many you
unfortunately can’t.  However, you can make sure that you
regularly and actively reduce your stress level, so that
you don’t suffer its adverse consequences.

The first key to stress management is good sleep. Yes, it
does make a difference: If you sleep enough, you will be
able to better handle things that come your way, and your
stress response will be muted. So make sleep one of your
priorities, and avoid late nights at work as much as
possible.
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Category : stress

Are You Ready To Become Self-Employed?

Article Category : Career Management, Work Place, Self Improvement

If you are interested in starting a business, or taking over one, you face a daunting task that carries a level of risk and excitement not possible in the ‘employee’ world.

If the financial independence of self-employment appeals to you - no boss, no income limits as to time and wage, and the ability to let your personal drive determine your compensation - then you will no doubt be eagerly going over the many options available to release you from your current job.

However, the rush of financial excitement must be tempered by the necessary cost of time, money and effort in properly setting yourself up independently.

Despite income claims made by business opportunity companies, or competing businesses, you must be ready to accept the reality of not seeing personal income for several months - or even years.

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Category : Self-Employed, career-tips,

What is a Nurse? by Joseph Then

Article Category : Work Place, Careers Explained

If you are someone who cares about people and wants to make a difference in their lives, then you may want to consider becoming a nurse. Nursing is the one profession that you will be able to help people and feel good about yourself after you are done. There is not better reward then being a nurse.

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Category : occupations, about-nurses

Have You Been Appreciated Lately? - 6 steps to make yourself & others feel better at work

Article Category : Career Management, Work Place

We all want to be associated with a winner, be it a winning person, a winning team, a worthwhile cause or a successful organisation.  We all have sports people, teams, actors or artists that we consider “ours”.  When they do well, we bask in their reflected glory.  It’s the same at work - we want to be associated with a worthwhile “winning” organisation.  Our greatest reward is receiving acknowledgment that we have contributed to making something meaningful happen.  More than anything else, people want to be valued for a job well done by those they hold in high regard.

A famous study by Lawrence Lindahl in the 1940’s came up with some surprising results.  When supervisors and their employees were asked to list “What motivates the employees?” . . .

- Employees listed “appreciation of a job well done” as number one and “feeling in on things” as number two.

- Supervisors, on the other hand, expected the employees would rank these two items as eighth and tenth respectively (supervisors thought employees would put wages as number one and promotion number two!).

These results were replicated in similar studies in the 1980’s and again in the 1990’s.  In another recent study, employees were asked to rank job-based incentives – “personal thank-you’s” came first and “a note of appreciation from my manager” came second.  “Money” came in at 16th!

Praise, the thing that motivates us the most, takes so little time and costs nothing!  Famous management writer Rosabeth Moss Kantor once said “Compensation is a right.  Recognition is a gift.”

Have you appreciated the work of others lately?  Has the value of your own work been appreciated?  Here’s a quick test - over the last week, have you:

- Told someone they have done a good job?

- Looked specifically to find someone doing something well?

- Made someone else look good rather than taking the credit yourself?

- Thanked others for your own success?

- Passed on positive comments you have heard about others?

These are simple examples of the things we need to do regularly to acknowledge the good work of others.

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