Motivational: Helping Mid-Life Employees Find Meaning

Helping Mid-Life Employees Find Meaning

Written by Craig Nathanson

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Provide a safe environment to express personal needs. The fear of projecting weakness is a powerful undercurrent in corporate culture. Organizations that provide a safe environment to express fear and doubt and explore ways to address these concerns will defuse many potential retention challenges among employees who fear reprisal if they confide a desire to achieve more work-family balance, take off time to pursue a personal interest or take a new direction in their careers. Organizations need to make their employees feel comfortable to ask questions, confide doubts or concerns. More critically, organizations need to demonstrate they will treat these confidences appropriately and direct them toward a higher level of employee satisfaction, rather than use them as “ammunition” at repparttar

next performance review. Make “renewal” a job requirement. This may seem counter-intuitive. Force employees to take time off every so often to walk barefoot through repparttar 123041

park. Or more substantively, strongly encourage them to pursue outside interests. Ask yourself if there is a member of your staff that sings in cabarets on repparttar 123042

weekends. Was this information volunteered? Or did management find out by happenstance? Was management’s reaction to reserve a table at repparttar 123043

next performance or have a hallway meeting to question whether this employee valued lounge singing more than her job? Think of it this way. If repparttar 123044

cabaret singer feels comfortable pursuing her avocation, she is less likely to regard work as a burden that keeps her from pursuing a personal passion. Encourage that pursuit, and it is much less likely repparttar 123045

two activities will come into conflict. Taking an intangible like personal fulfillment and turning it into a job benefit is a significant challenge. It is much easier to give time, money or prizes. But repparttar 123046

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deeper personal satisfaction of key employees offers a bigger and longer lasting pay off.

Craig Nathanson is The Vocational Coach™ and the author of the new book, P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day by Bookcoach Press and the publisher of the free Ezine, ‘’Vocational passion in mid-life’’. Craig believes the world works a little better when we do the work we love. Craig Nathanson helps those in mid-life carry this out! Visit his on-line community at http://www.thevocationalcoach.com

Become a Babe Magnet without Surgery or Drugs!

Written by Kathryn Lord

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2. Go to dances.

3. Ask women to dance. Lots of women. They'll love it. Even if you aren't so good, they'll appreciate your efforts.

Dance lessons themselves are good places to meet women, and most dance studios have regular parties for their students to practice what they have learned. Ladies: 1. Take dancing lessons yourself and learn how to follow. Here I was, 50 years old, thinking I loved to dance, and I had no idea how to do repparttar woman's part! Following takes skill! You have to figure out what your partner has in mind for you to do in a split second, and then actually do it, all while dancing backwards.

2. Buy yourself some real ballroom dancing shoes, maybe with high heels. Believe it or not, those shoes are comfortable. They have to be. Not only do they look very sexy, they stay on your feet!

3. Hang out at dances, too, if you like to dance. Single guys go to dances.

If you are connected to a dance studio, other single women will be at their parties as well as repparttar 123040 studio instructors and male students, so you will know people. Dance parties are safe and comfortable for single women. Guys -- nothing enhances as man's romantic marketability more than becoming a decent dancer. Learning to dance is cost efficient and relatively painless. No surgery or blood loss, no sweaty hours at repparttar 123041 gym, no personality makeovers needed. Just dance lessons. What's stopping you? Look up repparttar 123042 dance studio nearest you and make that call! You'll become a dancing babe magnet!

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