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		<title>Gifts That Keep On Giving – Symbolic Awards That Tell a Story</title>
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By Michael McCarthy
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Once upon a time, Performance Improvement Consultant Russell Justice wisely said: &#34;The best positive reinforcement is anything that gives us a story to tell.&#34;
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People go home from work with stories to tell every day.&#160;Most of the stories are not very positive.&#160;We want to give people good stories to tell.&#160; Good reinforcement &#8220;creates&#8221; a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/gifts-that-keep-on-giving-%e2%80%93-symbolic-awards-that-tell-a-story/</link>
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		<title>We Affect Other People With Almost Everything We Do</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; When I was 11,&#160; I cut the grass in my family&#8217;s yard all by myself for the first time. Tired and sweaty, I was&#160;so proud. A family friend drove into the driveway just as I was finishing. His first words out of the car were &#8220;You missed a spot behind the shrubs.&#8221; I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/we-affect-other-people-with-almost-everything-we-do/</link>
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		<title>From &#8220;Burned&#8221; to &#8220;Juiced&#8221;</title>
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A manufacturer had hired 24 employees from a company which had laid them off.
Most had been with that company for a long time and had trained newer co-workers (who weren&#8217;t laid off).
These 24 people were still feeling &#8220;burned&#8221; from their experience when their new boss asked them to cross-train each other.&#160;The goal was to become&#160;more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/from-burned-to-juiced/</link>
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		<title>Start the New Year &#8220;Bright&#8221;</title>
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Start your department&#8217;s new year off with a book club.&#160;Learn something new and fun, and make your workplace more positive in the process.
May I suggest You Made My Day: Creating Co-worker Recognition &#38; Relationships, by Michael McCarthy and Janis Allen, available&#160;on&#160;www.janisallen.com&#160;- just click on &#34;bookstore.&#34;&#160;
Here&#8217;s an exerpt from the book:
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Recognition and relationships are intertwined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/start-the-new-year-bright/</link>
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		<title>Simon Says Beware</title>
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Jan, the owner of Simon the Jack Russell Terrier, trained Simon to touch a bell with his paw when he wanted to go outside.
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One evening, Simon waited till she sat down to dinner, then rang the bell. When&#160;Jan left her plate of warm, delicious food to open the door, Simon ran past her, jumped onto [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/simon-says-beware/</link>
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		<title>Empowerment &amp; The Hallelujah Chorus</title>
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The manager of a retail store told employees that their responsibility was to make transactions easy and quick for customers. However, if an item&#160;had no&#160;price or bar code, the&#160;cashier&#160;was required to call a manager.&#160;
What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? &#160;
We&#160;can do two things to make it easy and non-threatening for our team members to make decisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/empowerment-the-hallelujah-chorus/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;What Do You Want to Be?&#8221;</title>
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&#34;What do you want to be?&#34;&#160; That&#8217;s what I ask people who are looking for a job, seemingly don&#8217;t have a goal, and need something to work toward,&#34; says Sheree Sorrells, an employment counselor at a North Carolina JobLink Center.
&#34;It may be the first time anyone has asked&#160;the person&#160;that question in many years. Often, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/what-do-you-want-to-be/</link>
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		<title>Your Fingers</title>
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&#34;Everybody&#8217;s behavior makes sense to them at the time,&#34; says Dr. Aubrey Daniels, founder of the consulting company bearing his name.
We can remove the mystery and superstition for why people do the &#34;crazy&#34; things they do (translation: things we don&#8217;t agree with).
It&#8217;s not voodoo. It&#8217;s the consequences.
&#34;I just don&#8217;t understand why he won&#8217;t pick up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/theres-always-a-non-voodoo-explanation-for-peoples-actions/</link>
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		<title>Be a Great Boss In a Tough Economy</title>
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Can&#8217;t offer more money?
Can&#8217;t guarantee job security?
Can&#8217;t give promotions now?
What can a boss do during a tough economy to show how she values people?
1.&#160; Ask their opinions. Close mouth and listen. Take notes. You don&#8217;t have to use all the ideas. Just save them. This demonstrates to that person that you take his ideas seriously. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/be-a-great-boss-in-a-tough-economy/</link>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Have to Be Crazy to Work Here &#8211; We&#8217;ll Train You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;When&#160;Vickie started working&#160;here,&#160;she went out of her way to serve her customers&#160;quickly, and with a smile. Now she takes much longer,&#160;and often just tells them why something can&#8217;t be&#160;done.
What happened to Vickie? In her first week when Vickie checked&#160;with another department in order&#160;to give fast answers to customers, her co-workers coldly informed her &#34;That&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/you-dont-have-to-be-crazy-to-work-here-well-train-you/</link>
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