If you have recently been engaged, you may be weighing the pros and cons of using a wedding planner. With enough help from family and friends and a lot of forethought and organization, as overwhelming as it may all feel now, it is possible to pull it all together before your big day.
Trick-or-treating is community at its best. Adults, young and old use their resources to buy candy or toys to hand out to local children. A spark of mystery is in the dark air, full moon bright in the sky… wind blowing leaves around the ankles of the little goblins and ghosts wondering if they really could pull off a trick if no treat is offered. Moms and dads catch up over hot chocolate in thermoses waiting at the ends of driveways. Neighbors appear at doors who are seldom seen and surprise you with pure delight at the maturation and appearance of those growing up in view.
Fresh air, good music, and great company—what more do you need? It doesn’t matter what kind of music you like; there’s a festival for you. Whether you’re going to your first music festival or you’re a music-loving pro, this list will help you get the most out of your experience.
Adjusting to the first couple of weeks of school in the Fall can be hectic. Here are six tips to make the transition easier for the whole family.
1. Start practicing bedtime and breakfast roll call the week before school.
This will eliminate the first couple weeks of school morning-tug- of-war. Your children will know what is expected, and their bodies should have adjusted their internal clock by the first day of school, to wake up on time out of habit. Decide what bedtime is appropriate for each of their age groups, and what time everyone must be up by to account for showers, getting dressed, eating and brushing teeth. Practicing the week before allows for trial and error to get it just right.
At GetAssist, we believe that Community is essential. It’s where we connect. It’s how we serve each other best. To us, a community is a group of like-minded people who come together to exchange ideas, information and share their experiences on a regular basis. Read more
In today’s competitive job market, employee turnover is becoming an increasing concern for today’s business owners, especially since high employee turnover hurts a company’s bottom line. Experts estimate it costs upwards of twice an employee’s salary to find and train a replacement. And frequent turnover can damage morale among remaining employees, thereby hurting the corporate culture.
In this article we will discuss how you can safeguard the capital you’ve invested in your employees and their talent.
Although most of us are taught many valuable lessons as well as information during our school years, one extremely important skill that most of are never taught, yet is required for both healthy work and interpersonal relationships, is conflict resolution.
For decades, many have been contemplating the usefulness, as well as benefits of plants indoors, to increase well-being and remove toxins. Well, after 10 years of research, the now the guess-work on the health benefits of plants has been put aside, as Dr Chris Knight from Exeter University and his fellow psychologists, concluded that employees were 15% more productive when offices are filled with just a few houseplants, as employees who actively engage with their surroundings were found to be better workers.
Years ago, to get your content read by the masses, you would take out an ad in the local newspaper, or set up a radio announcement. This would ensure that the vast majority of the population saw your information. Unfortunately, the number of channels we use to communicate has exponentially increased, making it incredibly difficult for this approach to be effective. And if it is effective in the slightest, measuring ROI is absolutely impossible. With so many channels to choose from, users hardly ever get all of their information from the same place.
