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Welcome to our newest issue of the Work911 Journal where you'll find updates, free offers, and discounts as we cover the world of work and personal development. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Better Learning- Better Lives - A Better World Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous Women in the Boardroom: Should the U.S. Have Quotas? | Business Ethics Columnist Gael OÂ'Brien says the U.S. has failed to show leadership in gender diversity on corporate boards, raising questions about what it can learn from other countries that have imposed quotas for women directors. While quotas can stir up discomfort, she writes, thereÂ's a Â"complacency, even smugnessÂ" about boardroom diversity in the U.S. that argues in favor of requiring companies to take action. (19-Oct-2011) Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous Who's Really in Charge of Board Performance? Ask people in the nonprofit world who is to blame for poor board performance, and you won't get agreement. Some people say it's the board's fault. Others say it's the CEO's. Rarely do these conflicting ideas get argued in public. But at the annual meeting of BoardSource, I had the opportunity to debate the point in front of an audience. Two-person teams argued opposing points of view on that and other controversial topics. At the conclusion of our comments, the audience voted. (17-Oct-2011) Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous OK Career Planner | Lifelong Learning Today's job market demands that we make learning a lifelong process, constantly acquiring new skills, education, and training. Whether you're embarking on a totally new career in mid-life; going back for that advanced degree to help position yourself for a promotion; or volunteering in a field completely different from your paid job, lifelong learning promises a life filled with excitement, wonder, and healthy challenges. (31-Oct-2011) Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous A Focus on Lifelong Learning for Career Success: The Reasons and Benefits to Continue Education for Workplace Skills | Suite101.com A common question adults have when considering continuing education is focused on the benefits of completing a college degree or graduate degree. This is a valid concern because of the financial costs and time required to complete a degree program. The simple answer is that the days of working for the same company for a lifetime rarely exist today, due to global competition. Because of this, most adults change their careers several times during their lifetime. (31-Oct-2011) Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous 15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning Assuming the public school system hasnÂ't crushed your soul, learning is a great activity. It expands your viewpoint. It gives you new knowledge you can use to improve your life. Even if you discount the worldly benefits, the act of learning can be a source of enjoyment. But in a busy world, it can often be hard to fit in time to learn anything that isnÂ't essential. The only things learned are those that need to be. Everything beyond that is considered frivolous. Even those who do appreciate the practice of lifelong learning, can find it difficult to make the effort. Here are some tips for installing the habit of lifelong learning: (31-Oct-2011) Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous Education World: Making Teacher Evaluations Work The ads and popups are a disgrace for a professional site, but the article is decent. Excerpt: Evaluating teachers is one of the most difficult jobs in any school district. The Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools handle teacher evaluation by incorporating it into an in-depth, wide-ranging approach to teacher learning called the Professional Growth System. Education World takes a close look at the system's practical elements and how it works. Read More Nov 03, 2011 08:07 am | Anonymous N.E.A. Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com This is big, since traditionally teachers unions have fought loudly against looking at student achievement when evaluating teachers. Excerpt: Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nationÂ's largest teachersÂ' union on Monday affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of school teachers around the country. Read More Nov 02, 2011 09:20 pm | Anonymous 99 Questions To Jump Start Your Partner Channel Brain In 1996, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago discovered how Nobel laureates and other creative people achieved their breakthroughs--Once they asked themselves the right question, their ideas flowed rapidly. Ten years later, McKinsey & Co. took this finding one step farther, examining how the most successful companies in recent history (startups to F500 firms) had achieved their positions. They found that a number of important innovations sprang from responses to particular questions. So this book is for creating breakthroughs in Partner Channels. Having the right questions gives your team a decided advantage over your competitors. Register for this FREE eBook and you will receive eBook updates and relevant B2B sales & marketing insights for business leaders, courtesy of Venture Marketing. Request Free! Read More In This Issue Women in the Boardroom: Should the U.S. Have Quotas? | Business Ethics Who's Really in Charge of Board Performance? OK Career Planner | Lifelong Learning A Focus on Lifelong Learning for Career Success: The Reasons and Benefits to Continue Education for Workplace Skills | Suite101.com 15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning Education World: Making Teacher Evaluations Work N.E.A. Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com 99 Questions To Jump Start Your Partner Channel Brain Recent Stories Free â€" Using Self-Talk To Manage Your Anger LearnBytes Helpcard The Google Search Meltdown â€" Dude, Who Moved My Website? Using Self-Talk To Manage Your Anger LearnBytes Helpcard (download) Why is most communication training misleading? Customer Service Advocacy Gone Insane: Propaganda For Your Childen

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Latest News Oct 20, 2011 Career Planning Checklist | College of Communication For students, a must read, because this checklist starts you off thinking about what you'll be doing after graduation from the time you enter college or university (or high school), ... Read more...   Career Branding Tutorial: Take Your Career to the Next Level Insights, Tips, and Tools to Assist You in the Creation or Refinement of Your Career Brand -- a Free Tutorial This tutorial is all about honesty and soul-searchingÂ… of taking inventory of your career. You must be committed to completing a lot of work as you go through this tutorial -- and the good news is when the tutorial is complete, you should be giant steps ahead of where you are right now. This is a tutorial that ties a valuable business skill -- perhaps the most valuable business skill -- to your careerÂ… MARKETING!! Where to begin? We suggest you go through all the steps of the tutorial, but feel free to just jump in wherever you feel you need helpful advice and resources. ... Read more...   Overcoming a Lack of Qualifications - Career Development Imagine this scenario: You're doing a great job in your current role, but you've recently become interested in a completely different line of work. This is something you feel passionate about, and it could advance your career to exciting new levels. The only problem is that this new type of work requires qualifications or experience that you currently don't have. Sure, you've got some useful skills, and you're so inspired by the new role that you know you would quickly gain the necessary knowledge. But you fear you may not get the opportunity. ... Read more...   Featured Free Resource Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves Learn how small companies can achieve growth and productivity goals and ultimately transform themselves. Customer service in the medical office. The importance of customer service has recently become more of a focus and priority for medical practices. Numerous articles have been written on the topic, including one that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. At our recent Physician Practice Conferences, the session led by Certified Etiquette and Protocol Consultant, Pam Harvit, "Office Protocol and Etiquette," has become one of the highest rated sessions. Why all this emphasis on medical etiquette and good customer service? Why should practices be concerned about the etiquette involved in treating patients? Better yet, how does your practice measure up customer service ... Read more...   Medical Ethics | Difficult Patients In theory, physicians and patients are free to choose the healthcare relationships they wan. In practice, however, many physicians and patients come into relationships because of the way in which they are employed and insured. Medical students, especially, are not free to pick and choose the patients they will interact with during the course of their education. Patients can be demanding, vindictive, dependent, slow, and so on down the list of human weaknesses and vice. It should also be remembered that patients can see these same faults in physicians. It is important that physicians develop effective strategies for dealing with a broad range of people in ways that protect core values in the humane treatment of ... Read more...   Dealing with Difficult Patients and Difficult Families While Nursing | MyNursingUniforms Blog Basic stuff on difficult patients for nurses, most notable for its mention of issues related to altered or mentally challenged patients Read more...   Featured Free Resource Data Storage in the Cloud - Can you Afford Not To? Learn where capital and operational costs can be eliminated or avoided by deploying Whitewater™. How To Get Something Useful From Your Performance Reviews (for employees) Everything you need to become an active player in your own performance appraisal. Isn't it about time, you stopped going through the motions, and actually getting something from the review? On sale for ... Read more...   The Busy Learner's Kit For Making Performance Management and Appraisal VALUABLE Rather crawl across broken glass than do performance appraisals? You have lots of company! Learn to manage performance, from goal setting to performance reviews, so everybody wins, AND remove the discomfort. Finally, an approach that does away with outmoded confrontation based appraisals, and considers employee reviews in a systems thinking context. Remove the pain and the dread, AND supercharge performance. Everyone wins, employee, manager and organization. This kit is built for busy learners -- people who haven't the time to read long tedious books on the subject. Tightly written ESSENTIALS, plus tools you can reproduce for your own use. Learn to plan performance and set goals, diagnose root causes of problems, conduct the appraisal meeting, and use progressive discipline techniques. Learn to work together so everyone ... Read more...   Women in the Boardroom: Should the U.S. Have Quotas? | Business Ethics Columnist Gael OÂ’Brien says the U.S. has failed to show leadership in gender diversity on corporate boards, raising questions about what it can learn from other countries that have imposed quotas for women directors. While quotas can stir up discomfort, she writes, thereÂ’s a “complacency, even smugness” about boardroom diversity in the U.S. that argues in favor of requiring companies to take action. ... Read more...   You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from Bacal & Associates. 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