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Gossip in the Workplace: Should We Have a Zero-Tolerance Policy?

[featured-image size=”pinterest” single_newwindow=”false”] “Of course we don’t tolerate gossip.” Is that what your company would tell me? If you have people working for you, you probably have gossip, at least in small degrees. Some companies, knowing how damaging gossip can be, decide to have a “zero-tolerance” policy about it. In other words, you get caught […]

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10 Things I Learned in 10 Years of Business, Part 1

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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Ten years. Wow. It’s time for a big birthday celebration and that’s going to happen in April! In fact, there will be a special announcement later this week about how we are going to celebrate, which includes the giveaway of 10 Chick-Fil-A gift cards (worth $10 each!) Why am I doing this? Read

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10 Tips to Celebrate 10 Years

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What are your top tips for overwhelmed professionals? Before I give you mine, I’m happy to share that the first entry in my business checkbook is 4/22/2005 and we’ve been celebrating the 10th Birthday of HOPE all month. (Did you enter the drawing for the Chick-Fil-A gift cards yet?) Thought it’d be fun to list 10

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10 Negative Habits to Get Over at Work

People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

Ah, the stress we sometimes create for ourselves at work. Maybe it’s time to get over some things. Which of the following would be of most help to you to get over? Overthinking/Over-analyzing: this is more of a challenge for analytical personalities, but we all can fall into a trap of overthinking or over-analyzing a

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Books for Gifts!

Engagement and Communication, Organization and Time Management, People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

Hi everyone! I hope your holiday season has been a blessed one so far! I’d like to encourage you to take a look at my books as possibilities for Christmas or New Year’s gifts. You can find them all on Amazon.com or link here. Here’s a summary of what each book is about: Time Management,

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The Stress and Blessing of Criticism

1 Comment / People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

OPP: You’ve worked hard on an event, and it went over reasonably well. But in the debrief, your supervisor concentrates only on the elements that didn’t go as smoothly as he’d hoped they would. Every professional faces criticism from time to time. Much as we hate to admit it, we aren’t perfect, and we aren’t

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Saying "Happy Birthday" with Integrity

Leave a Comment / Engagement and Communication, Organization and Time Management, People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

I was listening to a podcast and the speaker was sharing ways to show appreciation to your team. Most of the ideas were spot on, but I was concerned about one of them. This business owner greets his employee’s birthdays with a “Happy Birthday” email. Nice idea, right? Well, he went on to share how

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10 Things I Learned in 10 Years of Business, Part 2

Leave a Comment / Engagement and Communication, Habits and Values, Organization and Time Management, People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Still in the mode of celebrating ten years, here are five more lesson I’ve learned since being in business for ten years. (For the other five, click here.) Your mission may change, but your character shouldn’t. I went from focusing on church office personnel to a more general audience, and back to “overwhelmed

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Teamwork Activity: Are you puzzled?

1 Comment / People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

Through the years, I have used a puzzle of a United States map to demonstrate principles of personality, productivity and communication at workshops I conduct. When preparing for my latest workshop, I discovered that Illinois had come up missing. My husband carefully took a printout I made of the state and crafted a brand new piece. Sweet,

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Should I Accept Your Coffee Invitation?

1 Comment / Organization and Time Management, People Skills and Emotional Intelligence / Beth Beutler

“Let’s grab coffee sometime.” How do you respond to that? Do you add the coffee appointment to your already brimming calendar? Do you refuse all coffee appointments? Do you put off answering? On the day I began writing this, an article from Entrepreneur magazine called Why I Don’t Want to Have Coffee with You was

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