15 Tips to Manage Stress

Stress

“Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” —Ziggy Marley

Here are the top tips to manage and release stress:

1. Your Job: Find meaning in your work. Your job should be your passion and interest. What you do is useful to others and you get satisfaction out of it.

2. Face the world as it is: Do not be unduly disturbed by what is happening to you. React calmly to negative encounters in life.

3. Hopeful: Look forward to the future with high hope and expectations. Great hope provides energy for you to carry on living every day.

4. Appreciate yourself: Forget about what you have lost or what you don’t have. Instead, enjoy what you have now.

5. The way to look at failures: Failures are your stepping stone to success. With each failure, there is a lesson learnt and a step closer to success. Look at failures positively.

6. Be healthy and fit: A healthy body and a healthy mind is the best way to manage stress effectively.

7. Do your best: Do not look for perfection in whatever you do. Just do it and do your best.

8. Turn a crisis into an opportunity: Every cloud has a silver lining. Be positive and look for opportunities in adversity.

9. Emotions: Be alert to your own emotions and act accordingly. When you are not in a positive mood don’t take action. Do it when you feel at ease.

10. Exercise: Regular exercise is one of the effective ways to release stress.

11. Self-Management: Self-management is time management. Plan your work and work you plan to allow you to do your tasks smoothly and thereby avoid stress,

12. Resilient and bounce-back ability: Promote your ability to face setbacks squarely and positively. The idea is not to allow failures to hinder your progress in life.

13. Review your goals: Perhaps you have set too high a goal that it is beyond your reach. Revise your goals to a level that is achievable and life will not be so stressful.

14. Mindfulness: When you concentrate fully on the task at hand you forget about thoughts that are stressful.

15. Ways to relax: Choose and incorporate one or more methods to relax: meditation, yoga. Tai Chi, music, gardening, video games, deep breathing, autosuggestion…

I find that the best way to release stress and relax is to be in tune with nature. Be at a quiet place outside and for a moment think of nothing but to commune with nature. Do it daily and the best time to do it is early morning. You can experience your alignment with nature by doing Tai Chi. The outcome is a relaxed, peaceful, and calm mind.

Dates

Dates

We are now in the holy month of Ramadhan and Muslims all over the world, including Malaysia, break their fast with dates (kurma). Dates are considered to be blessed fruits, especially when consumed during the holy month of Ramadhan. Dates provide energy, nutrients, and fiber. The date is referred to as the crown of sweets. Dates are considered a complete diet and a very important source of food. One date is a minimum of a balanced and healthy diet. They are sweet and nutritious. They are rich in manganese and calcium which helps strengthen the bones. It is also a good source of vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, and iron. Dates have 25 percent more potassium than bananas 

 Some health benefits of dates: 

 • It is beneficial for the health of our eyes. 

• Modern medicine has shown that they are effective in preventing abdominal cancer.

 • Dates are laxative food. There are good for those suffering from constipation 

• Dates are an effective remedy for weak hearts.

 • Dates are known to contain some stimulants that strengthen the muscles of the uterus in the last months of pregnancy. These stimulants help to dilate the uterus at the time of delivery and reduce bleeding. 

Chinese believe that dates are the best food for women in confinement. Recently I was happy to receive a box of dates of Tunisia origin from my Muslim boss. It’s yummy as a snack food.

12 Tips to Take Care of Your Digestive System

Digestive System

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
-- Desmond Tutu

A healthy body needs to be nourished by nutrients. A healthy digestive system will digest and absorb nutrients effectively. How do you take care of your digestive system? Here are the top tips:


1. Have each meal at the same time: Have each meal more or less at a fixed time; your digestive system will follow the timing to receive food and burn up calories. Do not eat more than enough and do not get yourself under hunger pangs.

2. Chew your food: Sit down and eat slowly to chew each mouthful. It is to assist digestion and absorption of the food.

3. Avoid spicy food: Eating too much sour and spicy food will hurt your digestive system. Avoid taking food that is too hot

4. Hygiene: Make sure that the food is clean so as to avoid food poisoning. Check and avoid consumption of expired items.

5. Oily food: Too much fried food will slow down the digestive process.

6. A healthy eating habit: Eat less sugar, salt. Eat sufficient protein and high fiber. Consume a lot of fruits and vegetables.

7. Too much medication: When you are on medication you harm the digestive glands in the stomach lining.

8. Oral health: Brush your teeth in the morning and before you go to bed. A proper set of teeth helps to chew food well and allows the stomach to do a proper job

9. Bowel movements: Avoid constipation and ensure regular bowel movement every day. This is my secret. I eat bananas to keep my system moving daily.

10. Manage your emotions: Your negative emotions such as stress will cause you to overeat or eat less. Learn to relax.

11. Exercise: Regular physical activities will enhance the working mechanism of the digestive system.

12. Eat less but more frequently: When you distribute your food consumption evenly, your body gets a boost of energy every two to three hours. You are actually training your body to burn up calories at regular intervals all day long. In this way, you stay healthy and slim even though you are eating all the time


Look after your digestive system well in order to look after your health

7 Tips for Family Life during Recession

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. – Bo Bennett

The negative impact of the recession has caused financial worries among parents of many households. Consequently, their children in the family are also affected. What do you do during such a trying time so that the family unit stays together? Here are the 7 tips:

1. Parents to take care of themselves: Continue to take good care of your health and eat a balanced diet. Replace all negative emotions with positive emotions such as cheerfulness and confidence. On the other hand, your anxiety will affect the emotions of your children negatively.

2. Watch less TV: The more you watch TV the more depressed you will get. The bad news is good news for the mass media. How often do you get yourself cheer up by watching TV? The best thing to do is to motivate yourself by reading inspirational books while your children are doing their homework.

3. Speak positively to your children: Clearly explain the situation to your children and tell them why certain expenses need to be curtailed, at least temporarily

4. Meet the needs of your children: Each of your children has special requirements. If it can’t be met, talk about ways to remedy the situation and make them understand the current predicament

5. A crisis is also an opportunity: During this difficult time, family members will talk more often together brainstorming and discussing ways to solve financial issues. In a way, it brings a family unit closer than before

6. Learn from other parents: It is a good idea to visit other families and find out how other people are coping with it and at the same you share your insight with them. It is a win-win situation.

7. Look into the future with high expectations: Be hopeful about the future. Every cloud has a silver lining. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Your positive mental mindset will make it easier for you to get over this critical period. Just remember the delightful words from Dr. Joyce Brothers,” When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family hapinesses”

4 Types of Mentality

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

Stephen Covey

There are 4 types of mentality.

1. You are fine and I am too: This group of people is courageous to affirm the strengths of others and themselves. They are happy and willing to corporate with others to take advantage of each other‘s strengths for mutual benefits.

2. I am fine and you are not: This type of person is very proud of themselves and they look down on others. They lack humanity and respect for others. When they face setbacks they will blame others. They despise others and others do not like them too. Their heart is filled with hatred and anger and they are very unhappy in life.

3. You are fine and I am not: The people of this group have very low self-esteem. They always think that they are no better than others. They are never able to discover their good points so they feel that life is meaningless and they don’t feel like living. Life for them is miserable.

4. You are not fine and I am not too: For them, there are no good people in this world. Life is no fun and there is no hope in life. They live in total misery.


You know by now which type is healthy and acceptable. Live life with the right mentality for growth and success.

10 Psychological Secrets about Human Relationships

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie

There are many ways to apply psychology to better human relationships. Here are the top secrets:

1. Positive body language: The first impression is about your body language. Your smart personal packaging, your smiling face, and your alertness will be a welcome sign to others.

2. Understand the psychological needs of the other person: Try to find out more of the person so that you can have a better understanding of his needs. The person that you are dealing with will be delighted to note that you are such an understanding person.

3. An interesting topic: Do you know the interests and passion of the other person? When the topic of conversation is of interest to the other person, you will have a better connection with him.

4. Make the other person feel important: Remember his name, his work, and his interests. When you know more about the other person you send a signal that you care about him and you make yourself likable.

5. Compliment more: Talk less about yourself and compliment more of the other person. In this way, you boost his self-esteem and his self-confidence. Treat him like a guest. Make him feel important.

6. Show you care: Make a call just to say hello or make other gestures to show you are concerned. Do it sincerely.

7. Beware of what you say: Say what you mean clearly and do not allow others to interpret differently what you have said. Avoid misunderstanding.

8. Be humorous: A harmless joke will neutralize, otherwise, an embarrassing situation.

9. Follow social etiquette: Do not be overly friendly. Treat the other person with respect in all dealings

10. Pay attention: When another is talking to you, pay full attention. It tells the other person that you are interested in. When you are focused, you will have a better understanding of the other person. He will be very pleased with you because of your attentiveness.

You will get things done through others easily and smoothly when you are effective in people skills.

5 Tips to Recover from Setbacks in Life

Setback

"How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities." Zig Ziglar

You may not get what you want in life or you may have lost what you have. You may face obstacles hindering you from reaching your objectives or you are unable to achieve your goals in life. How do you deal with these situations? Here are the 5 tips: 

 1. Look at setbacks and failures positively: When you don’t take action you don’t stand a chance to succeed. When you do it, you may fail. Failures are valuable lessons to be learnt so that we are closer to success by avoiding the same mistakes. 

 2. Review the situation: Analyze and identify the reasons for the failures and make adjustments. When you are able to spot the failing you will be more likely to succeed the next time. 

 3. Modify your goals: The reason why you are unable to attain your objective is that you may have set your goals too high. Revise your goals so that they are achievable and once you have achieved your goals, then you set a higher goal. In this way, you build up your confidence and enthusiasm. 

 4. Wrong tactics: You may have done it the wrong way. Try a different approach but focus on your goals.  

5. Be resilient: Do not be discouraged by failures and setbacks. Bounce back from each setback to build up your resiliency. A journey in life is not smooth sailing, encountering failures and setbacks are inevitable. Instead of getting away from it, deal with it, and learn from the mistakes. It helps to build your confidence and move forward courageously.

The World’s Healthiest Foods

According to the website http://www.whfoods.com, in order for a certain food to be listed as the World’s Healthiest foods it has to meet the following criteria:

1. The world’s healthiest foods are the most nutrient-dense.
2. The world’s healthiest foods are whole foods.
3. The world’s healthiest foods are familiar foods.
4. The world’s healthiest foods are readily available
5. The world’s healthiest foods are affordable
6. The world’s healthiest foods taste good

Here is a partial list of foods listed:

Vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumbers, garlic, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes

Seafood: cod, salmon, shrimp, tuna

Fruits: bananas, grapes, kiwifruit, papaya, pineapple, prunes, raisins, watermelon, strawberries

Beans & legumes: kidney beans, soybeans

Eggs & low-fat dairy: low-fat cheese, cow’s milk, yogurt

Poultry & lean meats: chicken, lamb

Nuts & seeds: peanuts, pumpkin seeds, almonds, sunflower seeds

Grains: barley, brown rice, corn, whole wheat

Spices & herbs: black pepper, dried chili pepper, ginger, parsley

Natural sweeteners: cane juice, honey

Other: green tea, water

Go to the site to check out the full list of the World’ Healthiest Foods.

10 Secrets of Mental Health

Mental Health

When you are mentally healthy, you are able to adapt yourself to the harsh environment and promote a healthy relationship with others and lead a stress-free life. Here are the ten secrets of mental health:


1. Positive self-image: A positive self- image means high self-esteem. You are able to accept your own strengths and weaknesses. You change what can be changed and accept what cannot be changed. You express yourself freely about your feelings and opinions. You may not agree but you respect the views of others. Most important of all you are able to face negative encounters with positive emotions and live happily.

2. Learn from the past, plan for the future and live the moment: You are able to learn from your past mistakes and without dwelling too much on them and plan carefully to meet the challenges of the future. However, you have also mastered the art of living in the present which you have full control of.

3. Able to control your emotions: A person with high EQ is able to understand and control his own emotions so that he does not behave in such a way that is harmful to himself or irritating to others.

4. Be socially connected: Make friends and be connected with others in society. The interaction with people is a source of satisfaction and happiness. Involve in community projects and help others. You should also find that your job is enjoyable, interesting, and meaningful.

5. Avoid negative psychological factors: Whenever your mind is filled with negative thoughts replace them quickly with positive emotions. Eradicate such negative emotions like anxiety, stress, suspicion, fear, and worries. Negative emotions are detrimental to psychological health.

6. Early treatment and recovery from mental sickness: When you are not well you seek treatment early and be cured sooner. It is the same thing with mental illnesses. Do not allow the situation to deteriorate. Get professional help early to be healed and maintain your psychological health.

7. Resilience: It means you are able to bounce back from setbacks without losing your confidence and optimism and also your sense of perspective.

8. Personal money: Manage your finance well. When you live within your means you have no money problems and it means a carefree life.

9. Physically active, a balanced diet and sleep well: Eat your breakfast, exercise every day and sleep soundly for about 8 hours are all important routines for mental health and stress management.

10. Relaxation: Relaxation is a good way to maintain your mental health. Unwind yourself after a hard day’s work. What do you like to do – meditation, Tai Chi, Yoga, massage, deep breathing, music or gardening?


Mental health is just as important as physical health. Promote mental and physical fitness for your happiness and well-being.

10 Danger Signs in Your Marriage

The Danger of Marriage

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Your marriage is a time bomb. It is ticking away. Identify the following explosive signs and defuse them as soon as possible:

1. Rumors: There is no doubt that you trust each other, but in a marriage, it is necessary to clarify the situation as soon as possible whenever a rumor surfaces. When you think it is a small matter and let it simmer, you allow the time bomb to activate.

2. A boring life: It is essential to bring excitement into the marriage. Once in a while have fun together to get away from the daily monotonous life. Living every day the same way will allow attraction beyond your marriage to interfere with your peaceful life. Have enjoyment and laughter every now and then to brighten your marriage.

3. Serious illnesses: Look after your health well. You cannot guarantee your partner to stay with you and look after you when you are seriously ill for a prolonged period.

4. Bad habits: Your bad habits can be detrimental to your marriage. When you indulge in such bad habits like gambling and womanizing, your marriage will end sooner or later.

5. Different thinking: Before you got married you treated the differences in character, cultural and educational backgrounds as small issues. Now that you are living together the differences in looking at things are glaring and irritating to such an extent that it is unbearable.

6. Poverty: How long do you think your partner can withstand and endure the suffering with you when you cannot lead a normal life because of financial difficulties? Very soon your spouse will file for a divorce.

7. Your physical appearance: Do you look after yourself to stay attractive or you allow your body to develop in the wrong place after marriage? Get your partner interested in you and not a third party.

8. Children: Children may not be a problem in a normal marriage. However, when a marriage does not work out the custody of the children is a major issue and a bitter tussle.

9. Work: Your job can interfere with your marriage, especially when you are a workaholic. You take your partner for granted and ignore her.

10. Living separately: He may get a promotion and a transfer out of town. How sure for both of you that you can discipline yourselves not to involve in an affair after living separately for a long period of time?

No experts can disconnect the ticking time bomb. You have to help yourself to extinguish the fuse.

H1N1, Obesity and Weight Management

Obesity

“It’s not just about losing the weight; it’s about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there.” – Steve Maraboli

H1N1

According to the latest report in the newspaper, the death toll from influenza A H1N1 is 67 as of August 18, 2009. The Health Ministry of Malaysia is concerned that the obese may be in the high-risk category.


Obesity

In a 2006 national survey showed that 43 percent of Malaysians were overweight or obese – excess body weight in the form of fat – with the number growing rapidly because of the increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

“The obese may find themselves in the high-risk group for all viruses, including H1N1. Obesity is also the road to diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses which reduces immunity,” Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said when opening the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity Scientific Conference on August 13, 2009. MASO advocates a healthy lifestyle as part of a comprehensive approach to weight management programs.


Weight Management

There are two approaches to control your weight. One is to exercise and the other is to eat the right way.


Exercise: While aerobic exercise such as jogging, walking, or swimming can boost your metabolism and weight loss, you need to do resistance training in the gym or at home to increase muscle strength and density, which in turn allows you to burn more calories faster. To see results you need to do at least three to four sessions a week.

Eating: Eating less but more frequently at a fixed time for each meal is the right way to have your meals. When you are eating at a regular interval you are training your body to expect food and burn calories every three to four hours. You boost your metabolism this way and you don’t gain weight. When you are eating irregularly or eat at a longer interval, your body does not know when to expect food and your metabolism drops to conserve energy. Your body responds to what it thinks is a period of malnutrition. Now you know why some people keep eating all day long but never gain weight.


Change your sedentary lifestyle and change your health for the better. Change your eating habits and change yourself to a slimmer body.

Hopefulness –The Most Powerful Positive Emotion

Hope

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. 

Christopher Reeve

Hopelessness

When you think life is hopeless, then there is nothing to look forward to in life. There is no incentive to carry on living. There is no energy and no interest in your daily life. According to Martin Luther King, Jr.,” If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

Hopefulness

On the other hand, when you are hopeful, you have high expectations in life. Every day your life is filled with zest. You look forward to each new day with tremendous energy. Hopefulness means life is meaningful and worthwhile.

Hopefulness is one of these things in life and more:

• To be graduated with flying colors
• A rewarding career upon graduation
• A happy marriage
• A happy and healthy child
• A child grows up to be successful in life
• A carefree retirement

What are the things that spur you to look forward to each new day with high hope?

As for me, I look forward to each new day with great excitement. The thing that sparks me is blogging. I look forward to having more readers reading my articles and receive more earnings from AdSense and these can only be achieved by writing more articles that the readers are interested to read.

I know every one of us has something to look forward to in life because of our hope. Hope is the only thing that keeps us going on in life. Dale Carnegie says,’ Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

Do not give up hope. Let hopefulness fills your life.

Getting Creative – 7 Tips

Be Creative

Creativity is obscured by the conscious mind.

Naval Ravikant

Creativity needs to be nurtured in a conducive environment. Here are the conditions that stimulate the flow of creative juice:

1. Positive emotions and mental attitude: Be happy and be self-assured. A positive mindset promotes imagination and creativity.

2. Self-confidence: People with creativity are those who firmly believe in their capabilities to get things done.

3. Accept criticism: Most creative people welcome constructive criticism. They will learn from the comments of others to make progress and improvement.

4. About success: Success is not wealth, power, reputation, or attachment to material things. It is the satisfaction of a job well done. When you do what is important and useful to others and you are happy about it, you have achieved success. Creativity is one such thing that gives you a sense of success.

5. Allocate time to be creative: When you are too busy and working under stress there is no time to do creative thinking. Find a quiet place and a time just for you to promote creativity.

6. Remove obstacles: Some of the things that hinder creativity are living in the same environment, taking no initiative to do things, thinking of the past, and doing things the same old way. You are also a loner, stubborn, without foresight. You don’t do enough research and hesitate to take action.

7. Creativity is hard work: You can’t be creative with nothing to work on. You need to have knowledge of the subject and you also need to talk to people who know the subject well. With the knowledge you have gained and mix with your imagination, you create.

According to Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

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Copygator

About Copygator

This is a very useful and cool site. It notifies you when your content is duplicated. The Copygator service aggregates data from over two million blog feeds, and parses over a half million new blog posts a day. Their servers then crunch all of this date and evaluate every post against each other to determine if any two are roughly, nearly, or exactly alike. They are able to show you exactly where your content is being duplicated, quoted or plagiarized. Best of all, this is done automatically and free of charge.


How does it work?

In order to make it work for your blog, there are two options. One of them is to provide a valid RSS FEED and Copygator will do the rest. The other option is more interesting. You simply copy and paste a badge onto your blog and Copygator will find feeds on your side and watch your content automatically. Just watch for the badge to change to red if it detects your content has been duplicated elsewhere in the blogosphere.


How do they notify you when they find duplicated content?

They will notify you by e-mail, RSS or you can just watch the badge at your site to change to red. You can also use the “Who’s using your feed content” search bar at the top of their website.


Install the badge on your site and watch it change to red to identify the copycat.



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18 Secrets to Acquire Instant and Effortless People Skills

People Skills

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino

Building a lasting relationship with another person does not require effort. When you do things sincerely you will act naturally. There is nothing for you to hide from the other person. When you have ulterior motives your actions will not be genuine and it will show sooner or later. Here are the secrets to make you likable:

1. Be trusted: Do it on the day and at the time as promised. Allow others to build trust in you especially for the first time. The first impression is vitally important.

2. Be Sensitive: Be alert and always ready to take action on opportunities to do things for others. People will be pleased and surprised to notice your responsiveness.

3. Be courteous: Courtesy is a way of life. When you are polite it means you respect others.

4. Be humble: Don’t be boastful and try to show others that you are better. Just remember that in life there are always people out there better than you are.

5. Be friendly: There is no other way to be a friend but be a friend.

6. Be sincere: Sincerity is honesty and honesty is the best policy. You don’t want to be acquainted with someone that you are doubtful about

7. Be empathetic Be considerate of other people in whatever you do. Your actions will be supported and respected by others

8. Send a gift: When you visit someone take a gift with you. It will be a delightful surprise for the person that you are visiting.

9. Be kind: When you do good to others, they will return to you more of the same gesture. Most people are just as kind.

10. Be caring; Find out more about the family of the other person that you are talking to. Check out their interests and get to know more of their background.

11. Be appreciative: Always remember the kind deeds that others have done for you. Express your appreciation as soon as possible.

12. Be attentive: Pay attention while you are talking to another person. When you are attentive it tells the other person that you are interested

13. Provide service: When you do more for others you will get even more in return. It is a “karma” effect.

14. Praise more and criticize less: Be generous with praise and cautious with criticism. If you have to do it, do it in private.

15. Wear a smile: Happiness is contagious. When you meet people with a smile you make them happy too. It is such a wonderful way to start a conversation.

16. Accept people as they are: Do not judge a book by its cover. Just accept people as they are. You never know you may be able to learn a lot from another person that you meet.

17. Be enthusiastic: Display your energy and show yourself that you are active. Your enthusiasm will inspire others to be close to you.

18. Be flexible: Be open-minded and willing to accept what is the best course of action from other people. Do not be stubborn

Connecting the right way with people will propel you to greater success in life.

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10 Tips to be a Good Employer

An employer-employee relationship is about looking after the interest of each other for mutual benefits. It is wise for the employer to start the ball rolling by treating them fairly, adequately, and as fellow human beings. Here are the top 10 tips to be a great employer:

1. Compensate your employees fairly and adequately: Pay According to the market rate or better. It is prudent to retain good staff by adequately compensating him rather than incurring the additional hiring costs and the inconvenience of training a new staff every now and then.

2. Fringe benefits to suit the needs of the employees: Find out the requirements of the staff and offer the kind of benefits that are valued and appreciated by the staff. The package should also reflect the prevailing practice.

3. A safe and conducive working environment: A safe working place means you have the intention of taking care of the staff. A conducive environment translates into better productivity from the staff. It works both ways.

4. Job security: Employees want to work in a place that offers them long-term employment. Job security means they can just concentrate on the job and not to worry about their future,

5. Personal development and career advancement: Clearly outline the career path of your employees and assist them by offering further education and in-house training to improve their skills and equip them for future promotion

6. A feeling of being a part of the establishment. Always keep your employers posted about the development of the company. Employees want to be treated as members of the family. Communicate regularly with your employees and listen carefully about what they have to say about the company and their jobs.

7. Solicit ideas from the employees: One effective way to be close to your employees is to seek their views. When you take the trouble to ask for suggestions and implement their ideas you will receive more feedback from them. The staff is happy and they are motivated because their employer valued their input.

8. Hire and fire: Engage excellent employees and be courageous to weed out those undesirable employers. Do not allow a bad apple to spoil the working spirits of the team. Promote good working relations by treating all staff equally. Don’t play favoritism.

9. Motivate the employers: Be alert to show your appreciation for a job done well. Your appreciation indicates that you pay attention to your employees and you do notice their good performance. It is important to do it consistently so as to boost the morale, confidence, and self-esteem of the staff.

10. Effective supervision: Give clear and precise instructions to the staff so that they know exactly what they are expected to do. Set a good example for the staff. They are observing you to see whether you are really doing what you have preached to them.

It is a win-win situation when you look after your employees well because they will, in turn, respect you and be loyal to the company. The bottom line is better productivity among the staff and higher revenue and more profit for the company.

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