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  • 5 Best Actions Leaders Use for Active Listening

    How To Actively Engage In Listening: Five actions leaders can take Posted on 10-01-2017, by: Blake Beus There are clear differences between listening to someone and just hearing what they say. Listening is an active process that facilitates the conversations necessary to building a solid relationship. When a leader listens to a team member, they are…

  • Working With Other’s Insecurities

    A bad boss can make the workplace miserable. And sometimes this person is a woman. Given how much time people spend in this office, life itself can become wretched…

  • Why We Collect Clutter and How to Clear It

    An excerpt from  Why We Collect Clutter, and How to Clear It By Therese Borchard In our modern society, when we get lambasted with information — dozens of pieces of junk mail in our physical mailbox and more in our email, not to mention social media — it’s an awesome task to stay on top of the clutter,…

  • Your Health Matters: How Losing Your Temper Puts You At High Risk

    Excerpt from: Lose Your Temper and Risk Your Heart Health By T. Jared Bunch, MD …Can losing your temper cause heart problems? Anger and Heart Disease: The Evidence Is In Just like high blood pressure and cholesterol, exposure to emotional and psychological stress can cause heart problems.  For example, after the September 11 terrorist attacks on…

  • How Music Therapy Can Relieve Depression

    By Therese Borchard Growing up, I had three primary therapists: Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. My hour or two a day at the upright piano in the family room of my childhood home became a sanctuary of sorts for me. I practiced scales, cadences, and arpeggios until they were perfect, because rhythm–that sweet pattern between sound and…