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		<title>When you recur a roister whether you are the unduly eye-catching paramount?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you recur a roister whether you are the unduly eye-catching paramount? If you give blessing yes, I&#8217;m ultra by much blithe belonging to you. precise not, don&#8217;t discouraged, correct doesn&#8217;t terrible that you are never bewitching. You deserved pooh-pooh some small lug hypothesis. owing to example, you languorous the important monogram uncut body, germane [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you recur a roister whether you are the unduly eye-catching paramount? If you give blessing yes, I&#8217;m ultra by much blithe belonging to you. precise not, don&#8217;t discouraged, correct doesn&#8217;t terrible that you are never bewitching. You deserved pooh-pooh some small lug hypothesis. owing to example, you languorous the important monogram uncut body, germane to you examine not wink at an main accessory twin owing to earrings.
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		<title>YouTube and Its Impact on the Internal Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may dismiss it as a website for attention-deprived teenagers with an interest in strange cats, but YouTube, and other video sharing services like it, have the potential to change the way you communicate. YouTube factor is about much more than generating publicity. As impressive &#8211; and destructive &#8211; as viral video can be, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may dismiss it as a website for attention-deprived teenagers with an interest in strange cats, but YouTube, and other video sharing services like it, have the potential to change the way you communicate. YouTube factor is about much more than generating publicity. As impressive &#8211; and destructive &#8211; as viral video can be, it is its impact on internal communicators, and the way organisations operate, that really interests us.
<p>For communicators with deep enough pockets, video has been a much loved channel since the mid 1990s. Those organisations lucky enough to have the technological infrastructure, and with a big enough team and budget, have used video as an integral part of their communication mix &#8211; to bring corporate messages to life, to broadcast time-sensitive news to all employees, to reach people in far flung locations, and to generally increase the impact of their communications.
<p>Whilst its power as a communication tool cannot be denied, video has remained out of reach for many of us- a medium that is simply too costly and too time consuming for the majority of internal communicators to consider using as a core channel. But all that has changed.
<p>The barriers to video production and broadcast have now all but disappeared. Businesses of all sizes now possess the technology to stream video direct to employee&#8217;s desktops via their intranets. No longer do we have to rely on expensive business TV satellite networks or on distributing content on VHS cassette or DVD in the vague hope that employees will make the effort to view them.
<p>Furthermore, the YouTube factor means that your video production no longer has to be of Scorsese standard &#8211; as long as it&#8217;s interesting, relevant and authentic, &#8216;home grown&#8217; will do. As many podcasters have already found out, content is more important than presentation &#8211; if you have something to say that is relevant and genuinely interesting then listeners will tune in. The same goes for <b>internal communications</b>.
<p>When it comes to capturing content, decent quality digital video cameras can now be bought for a few hundred quid, making them cheap enough for even the most budget-restricted teams. You may well want to use a video production house to shoot additional content and to edit your video, but remember that in the world of YouTube, it is authenticity that counts. As marketers are now finding out to their peril, content that is over produced is increasingly greeted with caution.
<p>The same principle applies internally &#8211; employees will respond much more favorably to a CEO&#8217;s honest unscripted assessment of an organisation&#8217;s performance shot by a member of the comms team on a handicam, than to a glitzy professionally-filmed and heavily scripted TV-standard video. The same rationale underlines the role of face-to-face inside organisations &#8211; the more &#8216;real&#8217; and &#8216;unfiltered&#8217; communication is, the more credible it generally is.
<p>With trust inside many organisations at rock-bottom, it is those leaders and communicators who learn how to apply social media techniques internally that will be rewarded with higher levels of trust and, ultimately, improved performance.<br />
<h3 class="about_author">About the Author</h3>
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<p>Lee Smith is co-founder and director of Gatehouse, an <a target="_new" href="http://www.gatehousegroup.co.uk">internal communication</a> agency, consultancy on <a target="_new" href="http://www.gatehousegroup.co.uk/culture.php">internal communications</a>, internal comms, employee communication, research, audit, <a target="_new" href="http://gatehousegroup.co.uk/communicate.php">internal communication jobs</a>, change management and employee engagement.</p>
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		<title>Wintertime Income for Landscape Contractors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wintertime Income for Landscape Contractors Landscaping is a job with many benefits. 2 of the biggest benefits are making a lot of money during the summer months and being able to work outdoors. Although there is a lot of money to be made during the summer, for many landscapers the money virtually stops flowing during [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wintertime Income for Landscape Contractors</p>
<p>Landscaping is a job with many benefits. 2 of the biggest benefits are making a lot of money during the summer months and being able to work outdoors. Although there is a lot of money to be made during the summer, for many landscapers the money virtually stops flowing during the winter months. This means landscape contractors have to find other ways of making money. Here are some ideas for winter time income for landscape contractors.
<p>There are a few different ways landscape contractors can make money during the offseason. One of the best ways is by installing Christmas lights for people. This can be done for both residents and businesses. It actually fits right in with a landscaping business because the landscape contractor can use the same work crews and already has a large client base to market to.
<p>Believe it or not, installing Christmas lights is very profitable. There are a lot of people who love to have their home or business decorated for the holidays but they don&#8217;t have the time, the will or the skill needed to do it well. These are people who are more than willing to pay to have their Christmas lights installed for them. They&#8217;re also people who hire a landscaper to get their lawn done. And that&#8217;s why installing Christmas lights is the perfect add-on service for landscapers.
<p>Landscape contractors do need to begin to market and plan their Christmas light installation service early in the summer. They should start with the existing clients that they have. For example, a landscape contractor could have a basic brochure printed and pass it out to every customer. With the brochure could be a coupon for a percentage off for existing clients who sign-up to have their Christmas lights installed before September 15th.
<p>Not only should the marketing be done early, everything involved with the Christmas light installation business should be done as soon as possible This includes retaining or even hiring employees and ordering materials such as Christmas lights and decorations. Most Christmas light distributors raise their prices as the holidays get closer. So landscape contractors can save themselves a lot of money by ordering their lights and materials early.
<p>Landscaping and installing Christmas lights really do fit together very well. They are both jobs that involve outdoor work yet they need to be done at different times of the year. Most importantly, many of the same people who hire landscapers are also interested in hiring someone to install their Christmas lights. So, any landscape contractors that decide to install Christmas lights will find that the transition is very smooth as well as profitable.
<p>There are many benefits to being a landscape contractor. However, there is a major drawback too. That drawback is the fact that during the winter months there is usually no work to be done and most companies are forced to lay of most of their employees. That&#8217;s why the perfect business for landscape contractors is installing Christmas lights. Landscape contractors just have to make sure they start planning the business in the early on and that all the plans are done by late September. Then the landscaper can begin to install lights sometime around Halloween. This will allow the landscape contractor to make a lot of money during the winter time.
<p>For more information on starting a holiday lighting business, visit: <br />&gt;&gt;&gt; <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/385h3la">http://tinyurl.com/385h3la</a></p>
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		<title>Toll Free Conference Calling: What You Need to Know</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toll free conference calling has become an important tool for business owners. It helps them connect with their employees as well as clients to make communication easier and simpler. There are a lot of companies out there that offer this service, but before business owners choose which one is the most suitable, they should look [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Toll free conference calling has become an important tool for business owners. It helps them connect with their employees as well as clients to make communication easier and simpler. There are a lot of companies out there that offer this service, but before business owners choose which one is the most suitable, they should look into the features and limitations of the provider.
<p>One important factor to consider is the number of participants the provider allows for each call. Buying a subscription from a provider that cannot accommodate all the participants you need in one call is a bad investment. What you should be looking for is a provider who can allow up to 1,000 users from different global locations to dial into the call. This gives your subscription more value.
<p>Some companies that offer toll free conference calling unreasonably restrict the length of each call. Needless to say, this won&#8217;t do in a business setting. Deals and product pitches are often made over the phone and getting cut off is not going to do your business any good. A company that allows calls up to six hours in length is the best choice for your business. This is more than enough time to finish everything that needs to be talked about with employees and clients.
<p>Lastly, look for a provider that gives you extra features at no extra cost. Important features to have are recording, playback and archiving. Being able to download your audio files is also important because it allows you to distribute the recording to other people who need to know what went on during the session.
<p><b>Resource Box:</b>
<p>TollFreeConferenceCall is a provider of high-quality conference call services like <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tollfreeconferencecall.com">toll free conference calling</a>. The company uses the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which is a more reliable <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tollfreeconferencecall.com/services.html">audio conferencing</a> system than the more commonly used VoIP. The company has excellent deals, with rates going for as low as six cents a minute per person. For more information, visit TollFreeConferenceCall.com or call 877-482-5838.</p>
<h3 class="about_author">About the Author</h3>
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<p>Bryan Abram Marks is a certified digital marketer and experienced online article writer. Bryan&#8217;s interest in a diverse range of industries and what they have to offer drives him to conduct extensive research, and publish informative articles that aim to benefit astute consumers like himself.</p>
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		<title>How Words Add Fuel To The Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do You Ask Or Dictate? There is definitely a certain finesse to doing things that either magnetically pulls people to you or repels them away. So why do some people tick you off with the way they handle things and others don&#8217;t offend you at all? Is it the intent behind the words? Is it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do You Ask Or Dictate?
<p>There is definitely a certain finesse to doing things that either magnetically pulls people to you or repels them away.
<p>So why do some people tick you off with the way they handle things and others don&#8217;t offend you at all?
<p>Is it the intent behind the words? Is it the judgment?
<p>Imagine you are having a big dinner party and you have invited several friends.
<p>One emails you back saying, &#8220;Great! We can&#8217;t wait to see you. What would you like me to bring?&#8221;
<p>One emails you back saying, &#8220;Great, We can&#8217;t wait to see you. I will bring dessert!&#8221;
<p>How do those two responses sit with you? For most people I polled they like the first response and don&#8217;t like the second response. Why? Both are generous offers.
<p>The first offer puts the POWER and CONTROL in the hands of the person throwing the dinner party. If they want you to bring something they can pick what they like to least make, what will help them out the most, or they have the option of not having you bring anything if they are trying to do a &#8220;themed dinner.&#8221;
<p>The second offer puts the POWER and CONTROL in the hands of the person coming to the party. If the hostess has a theme she now has to explain herself to you as she tries to get you to NOT bring dessert, if she particularly likes to make dessert but hates to make appetizers you have taken away the fun part of the dinner for her and left her with what she doesn&#8217;t enjoy, and she now has to decide if she is going to have others bring things as you may make the other attendees feel awkward if they come empty handed.
<p>In other words, the second email put the hostess in a pickle. Did the person mean to? No, but the point is, do you make things easier on others with your communication?
<p>Any good and kind deed you do should make the other person&#8217;s life easier, not more complicated. You want to always remember that people aren&#8217;t like you and you need to do what is best for them, not you.
<p>I see this same play in emails at work. A team is formed to work on a project and one person just jumps in with &#8220;I&#8217;ll do __________ you do __________.&#8221; They are trying to be efficient but what they have essentially done is take the power and control in to their hands and stripped the other person. Even if they had just state, &#8220;How about if I do ________? Would you be okay with doing_________?&#8221; Just as efficient but not offensive.
<p>WHAT TO DO:
<p>1. Look over you last emails. Do you take power or equal it out?
<p>2. Look at projects you assign. Do you let people develop the key areas and assign themselves or do you just assign? If you do assign, do you do it in a way that makes them feel good?
<p>3. Look at your relationships. Do you OFFER assistance or do you INSIST on it? Do you ying and yang well with others?
<p>Think of it like the advice Mom used to give you. When it was solicited, it was great and brought you comfort. When it was unsolicited, it was seen as criticism, and it ticked you off.
<p>Take action: How do you know if you are not coming off the way you would like? Watch the replies you get. If the other person starts defending their position it is a clue that what you wrote or said offended them. Over time you will notice that you automatically make a conscious effort towards thoughtful communication.</p>
<h3 class="about_author">About the Author</h3>
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<p>When people want to know how to say the right thing at the right time, they call Anne Warfield. As the leading Outcome Strategist, Anne helps people negotiate, present, sell and lead by managing perceptions, since perceptions become reality. She does this by showing you how to speak so people WANT to listen to you. She is the &#8220;Tropicana Twist&#8221; of Communication!</p>
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		<title>Business Car Holder for That Chic Office Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major objectives of any type of business is to add to the opportunities so as to get profits and returns through it. Well, in addition to the normal business revenue and expenditure aspects, doing some small and simple things can also make your business reap good profits. In this regard, proper business [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the major objectives of any type of business is to add to the opportunities so as to get profits and returns through it. Well, in addition to the normal business revenue and expenditure aspects, doing some small and simple things can also make your business reap good profits. In this regard, proper business card holder really counts. Well, are you a bit surprised? Yes, having good and stylish business card holders in the reception or in other office desks can be a small, yet important and professional factor that can impress the clients ands grow your business opportunity.
<p>First impressions always count in business circles and this is also true for your office presence and behavior. If any client comes to your office for some business deeds and sees that you have a descent yet professional holder for keeping your business cards, his or her impression is bound to get boosted. The client will be absolutely impressed about your way of working and professionalism. Moreover your fine taste will also be reflected. All these factors will help you bag you the business contract over others. These are some little things like card holders which can speak and bring out a lot about our personality and professional attitude. If one talk with you and you in turn present him or her with some good business card from the card holder, automatically that person will have a good impression about the management and also about you. This means very little investment yet very good returns and goodwill.
<p>If you really want to project the positive and dynamic objective of yourself and your business, a professional and stylish business card holder is perhaps a must. The car holder should have such size that it does not consume much space of your table of shelf and at the same time looks wonderful and user friendly. You can opt for a wide range of business card holders such as 6&#215;4 postcard stands; DL leaflets stands, cardboard and metallic stands and so on. They are convenient, portable, light weight and can store good number of cards of standard sizes. There is one thing that you need to keep in mind. It is better that you do not try to keep very swanky card holders as they may provide a wrong impression to the person or client who is coming to visit you. One may think that the valuable your company&#8217;s valuable resources are being wasted in buying such expensive stuff.
<p>If you are thinking about keeping newspapers, magazines or other paper items along with the cards, you can go for some 18&#8243; 4 tiers cardboard counter display stands. They are ideal for multi storage. Most offices and workplaces prefer them in their reception area. These are lightweight, stylish and can store cards of varied shapes and sizes. You can keep these stands in the reception area or office shelf. Wire counter stands are also well preferred. They are ideal for both professional and personal use. The price money is also affordable.</p>
<h3 class="about_author">About the Author</h3>
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<p>John Rowbotham is a leading supplier of <a target="_new" href="http://www.stand-store.co.uk/acatalog/Business_card_holder.html">business card holder</a> in the UK. He also deals in wide range of Desktop <a target="_new" href="http://www.stand-store.co.uk/acatalog/Business_card_holder.html">Business card holders</a> with its stylish looks.</p>
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		<title>Eco-Friendly at the Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve read the articles on &#8220;going green&#8221; and are trying to do your part to save the environment. That is, until you start your day at the office. Staying green in the office can present a challenge due to the fact offices are notorious for using high amount the paper and electricity, and are often [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ve read the articles on &#8220;going green&#8221; and are trying to do your part to save the environment. That is, until you start your day at the office. Staying green in the office can present a challenge due to the fact offices are notorious for using high amount the paper and electricity, and are often located where employees are required to commute significant distances. Don&#8217;t worry there are simple, easy ways to turn your office space and co-workers into the same eco-friendly lover that you are.
<p>• Turn off ALL office lights: Office lights are the biggest corporate killers in the world. Make sure throughout the day, rooms that aren&#8217;t being used with lights on are shut off and that all lights are shut off at the end of the day.<br />• Keep printer cartridges: Instead of throwing away and ordering new printer cartridges every time, keep a box next to your office printer and toss empty cartridges inside. Have them all refilled once a month to save money and cut down on office waste.<br />• Electronic filing: Read and keep documents filed on your computer. Only print when necessary and when you must, make sure to print on both sides. Also, during meetings, take notes and make &#8220;to do&#8221; lists right on your computer or new iPad you got for Christmas.<br />• Activate &#8220;sleep&#8221; mode: Put your computer in &#8220;sleep&#8221; or &#8220;quiet&#8221; mode at the end of the day so that when it&#8217;s not in use, it will automatically switch from full power to &#8220;sleep&#8221;. This can reduce your computer&#8217;s energy use by 70%. <br />• Recycle: It seems simple enough but there are so many offices that don&#8217;t recycle. Be the initiator and bring in a recycling bin for paper, glass &#038; plastic bottles and keep it in an area accessible to everyone.<br />• Use eco-friendly furniture: Use furniture in the office that&#8217;s made from recycled items or has recyclability content. Check to see if they&#8217;re certified by <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bifma.org/">BIFMA</a> and/or <a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scscertified.com/">SCS</a>. Eco furniture is available through many different furniture companies to fit any business&#8217;s budget.
<p>This list is set up as a starting point. There are many more ways to help transform your office into an eco-friendly environment. These are quick, simple changes that can be added to your daily work routine and can bring benefits later on. If you use these tips or others, please share them on our blog for others to learn and us to learn as well. </p>
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<p>Jenna recently started an online blog called Eco Blu Blog which posts articles about everything related to being environmentally friendly.</p>
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		<title>How to Find Success and Fulfillment with Your Relationships</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success and fulfillment come from finding the &#8220;flow&#8221; of your work, having a best friend in the office, and connecting with others. If you&#8217;re the boss, being in touch with your staff members&#8217; concerns, authentically felt, will make your team more successful. Otherwise, success means finding the resources available for support. Ultimately, it means basic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Success and fulfillment come from finding the &#8220;flow&#8221; of your work, having a best friend in the office, and connecting with others. If you&#8217;re the boss, being in touch with your staff members&#8217; concerns, authentically felt, will make your team more successful. Otherwise, success means finding the resources available for support. Ultimately, it means basic understanding of and concern for others. In other words, show me the people, not the money.
<p>Negative experiences that damage our self-concept can slow the process of awareness. In turn, that can make us defensive and block our awareness completely. But those who are more open and less defensive will succeed; they&#8217;re flexible enough to &#8220;slide&#8221; into those opportunities that come along and fit their particular skills. &#8220;Luck&#8221; is just another word for no ego left to lose.
<p>Finally, what part does money, in terms of wages earned, play in the complexity of meaning fulfillment? If you haven&#8217;t yet heard, not as much as we thought. More important are factors such as personal relationships, the meaning of one&#8217;s efforts in the bigger picture, and authentically being of service to others.
<p>No matter how much you make, there&#8217;s always someone to compare yourself to who&#8217;s doing somewhat better. &#8220;Reference anxiety&#8221; is how psychologists refer to the fact that you&#8217;re always prone to comparing yourself to those around you-the old &#8220;keeping up with the Joneses&#8221;. And it&#8217;s so easy to see richer people around you-just turn on your TV. We at times ignore those suffering from poverty while we busy ourselves with comparisons to Donald Trump or Oprah Winfrey or whoever is gracing our televisions on a particular evening. But meaning and fulfillment have less to do with money, and a lot more to do with how we use our time with others.
<p>At the end of the day, enjoying productive relationships is good not only for the bottom lines of success but for our mental attitude as well. According to an analysis of 1,130 Australians over an eight-year period, those who enjoy their jobs become more extroverted and less neurotic over time. And, according to a new study, those executives who possessed higher levels of self-regard and other aspects of the Awareness Factor are more likely to give way higher profits in their organizations. </p>
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<p>David Nour is a social networking strategist and one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships. In a global economy that is becoming increasingly disconnected, David and his team are solving global client challenges with Strategic Relationship Planning™ and Enterprise Social Networking best practices. <a target="_new" href="http://www.relationshipeconomics.net">http://www.relationshipeconomics.net</a></p>
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		<title>Safety Hazard Judgment Developed Through Visual Reminders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focusing on the real world, most likely situations that people will face has brought the safety awareness of employees in one company to a whole new level of safety behavior. Very often, people who want to promote safety at their work place are at a loss when it comes to giving safety training or presentations. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Focusing on the real world, most likely situations that people will face has brought the safety awareness of employees in one company to a whole new level of safety behavior.
<p>Very often, people who want to promote safety at their work place are at a loss when it comes to giving safety training or presentations. The materials that they have are often plugged from sources that are remote or are foreign to them. There is no doubt that many of the safety concerns are quite similar and that whatever is true in one place is also true in another.
<p>But the similarity ends there. No two companies are the same. No two companies operate in exactly the same manner and none of them have the same people working in them.
<p>Putting up training without considering the situations that will arise is like shooting in the dark. The result is a futile, non-meaningful exercise that is a waste of everybody&#8217;s time and resources. The poor listeners become bored because they can recognize that the situations described are not applicable to them. If the presentation skills of the trainer is poor, and the training period drags on for hours, it will be extremely boring for the listeners.
<p>In preparing for a safety communication or training, a better way is to focus on the real world most likely encountered situations the listeners will face. This means customizing the information to suit the workers.
<p>This means identifying hazards wherever they are expected to occur for the particular type of work the workers do with a view to eliminating the hazards. This means also that much thought has to be given to understanding the nature of the work and what each task involves.
<p>Reminders of slip and fall hazards, driving hazards, extreme temperatures or dangerous environmental hazards will be targeted for the outdoor workers and not to workers who spend most of their time in the office. And these outdoor workers can further be sub-categorized into forklift drivers, building maintenance technicians, waste treatment operators, long distance drivers and so on and their particular work areas. For indoor workers, there will be another type of reminders of hazards, some of which could be just as hazardous.
<p>These reminders will be very useful if they are readily available visually at the places where the risks are highest. Safety signs and posters are particularly helpful in these areas. The visual effect tells the tale.
<p>Keeping it real means helping the workers to make the right decisions. Initially, there should be a basic safety training to help them understand the various hazards that they will encounter in their everyday working environment. This should be supplemented by real world situation reminders that are readily available in the form of visuals posted all over the place that they simply could not avoid seeing.
<p>Visuals have a very special role to play as reminders. Visuals that are colorful and appealing are especially effective for drawing attention to a particular situation. Posters come into mind when we talk about visuals. However, we don&#8217;t have to confine ourselves to posters only in our quest for delivering safety messages to those we intended them for. Many safety messages can be effectively delivered through printed T-shirts, mugs, badges, buttons, framed pictures, souvenirs, gifts, and other means. Attractive flyers of safety cartoons printed on pieces of paper are often appreciated and are known to travel on their own, copied and distributed through the efforts of others.
<p>Another advantage that these visual pieces of safety reminders have is that unlike the old boring presentation that goes in through one ear of a listener and goes out through the other ear, these kinds of reminders remain in place for a very, very long time, silently doing their job, 24/7.
<p>Many real world hazards do not result in accidents, but have resulted in near misses. However, there is a strong possibility that these near misses could one day result in accidents if they were not addressed. A good safety program will try to eliminate near misses too.
<p>However, very often, workers are quite reluctant to discuss about these near misses because these could jeopardize their safety track record and result in the workers being labeled as accident prone individuals.
<p>In order for this to work, the employer must have a culture of genuine concern for the safety of workers as a whole and not to find fault with them. There must be open communication. Workers must be able to talk frankly with their managers, whose role are to decide if others will benefit from the near miss experience. The management must do their part and take the necessary action on the feedback of their workers to avoid accident situations.
<p>Very often, accident situations are few and sometimes difficult to imagine for many workers. This is where visual reminders, especially cartoon illustrated ones are the favorites. Accident situations, impossible to photograph or described in real life, can be readily posted up in places where it matters. It may make a difference between life and death and management has to do their part.<br />
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<p>Thomas Yoon specializes in <a target="_new" href="http://www.cartoon-web.com">cartoon illustrations</a> that will make an impact on people&#8217;s opinions. <a target="_new" href="http://www.free-engineering.com/tm.htm">Subscribe to TechMarketing Ezine</a>. More information on engineering at <a target="_new" href="http://www.free-marine.com">Marine</a> and <a target="_new" href="http://www.free-engineering.com">M &#038; E</a> Engineer.</p>
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		<title>The Free Unlimited SMS Has Become a Part And Parcel of Life Now a Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can see the pigeons carrying messages in few of the epic movies on screen. But that was a way of life back then. That was then and this is now. Blip-blip goes the sound of the mobile. A floating screen icon informs about an incoming SMS. Now is the proud era of Free Unlimited [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One can see the pigeons carrying messages in few of the epic movies on screen. But that was a way of life back then. That was then and this is now. Blip-blip goes the sound of the mobile. A floating screen icon informs about an incoming SMS. Now is the proud era of Free Unlimited Sms and Free Online Chat. This has become a reality. In fact, this scenario was sooner or later going to get introduced into the daily life of people and society.
<p>But the unbelievable part is the magnitude in which these sms have got incorporated into people&#8217;s lives. Type in a few words and plan for a movie show. Gather people at a spot to celebrate a picnic. Even the fever of SMS has gripped every occasion, small and big. Come festival seasons, best wishes are transferred to friends and relatives by means of such short messages.
<p>A bigger contribution to achieve this aim of total SMS connectivity has been by various network providers. Along with a broadband internet service, many companies are actively bringing in customers into their services. The number is actively increasing everyday. And to cater to the problems and queries of these customers, the Online Live Support is always available. Most of the glitches and malfunctions can be reported to the company. It then takes up the responsibility to restore the very important services of Free Online Chat and SMS as soon as possible.
<p>With a computer at hand and internet connection, free SMS is now being sent by people. There are not much paraphernalia, nor there is an expenditure involved as using the computer is quite easy. The faster rate of sending messages, costs included in the internet charges and the easy delivery of the SMS has encouraged many people to follow this route of communication. The websites and platforms for such services are intending to bring more and more people into their sites and avail other facilities. The Free unlimited SMS is a perk that attracts internet traffic. People are using these sites for communicating with their friends and families.
<p>Although International Sms is being charged by a few websites, they are also going very soon to come under the purview of free services. This is because of the growing number of people living in foreign lands. With improved Online Live Support and services, they are about to become the nexgen tools.</p>
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<p>Whozzat services are beneficial for users &#038; website owners; it gives you Free SMS Service, Customer Support, Live Chat, <a target="_new" href="http://whozzat.com/">Support System</a>, SMS to Mobile, Free Unlimited SMS, Online Tech Support, <a target="_new" href="http://whozzat.com/aboutus.php">Free SMS In India</a>, Online Chat Rooms, Send International SMS, Business Support, <a target="_new" href="http://whozzat.com/international-sms.php">Free Live Support</a>, International SMS.</p>
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