Browsing December, 2009

Think ‘Happy New Year’

Want to know how to create a Happy New Year? Here are seven pointers to help. By the way, you can use this at any time of the year to help with focus or motivation. When is New Year anyway? There are several options.

Expletive deletive

Swearing has lost some of its taboo; we swear more, and more publicly. Now we have research that positively promotes swearing at work and says this can benefit staff and their employers.

Help kids handle disputes

The author Michael Lang suggests a few simple methods that can help children resolve their disputes. They won’t avoid conflict, but their disagreements will be less disagreeable and that will make life a lot more agreeable for parents or carers as well.

Workplace mediation

The media love to remind us of the ubiquity of conflict, so it was a surprise to find that the Guardian had published an article on workplace mediation; “people realise that ongoing conflict is not good for them”.