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		<title>Manage Your Time Like It Belongs to You (It Does!)</title>
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Disneyland was built in&#160;1955 in Anaheim, California in 366 days, from the first shovel of dirt to the first ticket sold. When Walt Disney was asked, &#34;How did you get all this done in 366 days?&#34; he answered, &#34;We used every one of them.&#34;
Ever notice how some people seem to get so much done? Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Outrageous Ways to Get People to Meetings on Time</title>
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by Mean Josephine
1.&#160; Start your meetings exactly on time. Close the door at start time. Become known for it.
2.&#160;Never insult those present by saying, &#8220;Where is everybody? Is Sarah coming? Call Brad.&#8221;
Start if you have only one other person present (I know, I know, that&#8217;s really hard).
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3.&#160; Publish a concise agenda with internal start-and-end times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/8-outrageous-ways-to-get-people-to-meetings-on-time/</link>
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		<title>Employee of the Month? No, Employees of the Moment.</title>
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by Mike McCarthy
An excited employee said, &#34;I told my boss, &#8216;If I don&#8217;t get Employee of the Month this month, I&#8217;m going to quit,&#8217; so he gave it to me. Yay!&#34;&#160;
What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? Two things. First, we should never reinforce people for unproductive behaviors, negative talk, or threats (this will only get us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/employee-of-the-month-no-employees-of-the-moment-2/</link>
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		<title>Two Tootsie Rolls and a Mint</title>
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The phone rang at 7:30 A.M. Michelle, an anxious student, asked: &#34;Should I come today for the qualifying exam? I only got two Tootsie Rolls and a mint from Rachael!&#34;
Worldwide Interactive Network Instructor Rachael Caldwell had used a simple but powerful feedback system to help her online students achieve high scores on their Career Readiness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.janisallen.com/two-tootsie-rolls-and-a-mint/</link>
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		<title>When Meetings Go Bad</title>
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Remember Gary Larson&#8217;s great cartoon: a jar of mayonnaise in a refrigerator wearing a burglar&#8217;s mask and pointing a gun at the other condiments? Its great caption &#34;When mayonnaise goes bad&#34; still makes me chuckle.
I watched a meeting &#34;go bad&#34; as the leader and the participants&#8217; positions on a controversial issue became farther and farther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tender Mender for a Fender Bender</title>
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Wifey&#160;ran into a light post and crunched&#160;the fender of&#160;her big ol&#8217; sedan. 
More than the&#160;ugly fender or cost and hassle of repair,&#160;she was worried about the reaction&#160;she&#160;might get&#160;
from Hubby.
She started imagining what she wished he would say instead of what she feared he would say. 
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A brilliant idea struck when she backed into&#160;her garage (hiding [...]]]></description>
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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>
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