Dr. Gary Carlson

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Joseph, Exercise is a good practice for stress relief. Each of us must have a balance in our lives. The balance consist in the following areas: Physical Exercise Healthy Living Mental Activity Recreation Spiritual Rejuvenation

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Handling Workplace Stress

Lawrence, I once wrote an article about there are no magic swithches with anything. Your approach is along with the balance technique of facing stress. Everyone needs to balance for stress relief by using exercise, mental activity, relaxation, good health habits and spirituality. If a person can practice best practices in these areas they have a chance of beating off the bad stress.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Dealing with Difficult Interactions

Ralph, It is a very good practice to hear both sides of the story. We often get ourselves into a problem when we draw quick conculsions. Along with meeting with both parties there is a talent by the mediator that will be to have a cooling off period during the conversation.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Handling Workplace Stress

Joshua, We all seem to have our own special stress relievers. Yours is a good one because it is productive in many ways. Keep in mind the balance of your life with mental acitivity, exercise, good health practices and spirituality helps to produce stress relief.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Handling Workplace Stress

Howard, Your descption keeps us from advancing with negatism. Encourage positive talk. Have people ehere a rubberband on their wrist. When someone thinkd you are talking negatively they need to anap themselves.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Identifying Difficult Interactions

Steven, You are correct! No one cares what you know until they know that you care.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Preparing for a Meeting

Michael, In today's world it is difficult to have an ideal time With that said we have at our disposal many technology possibilities. The best way to communicate with our people is to ask them how they would like to be communicated with: email Facebook webcast conference calls chat room These are just a few but you get the idea.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Handling Workplace Stress

Lana, Getting out and refreshing is a very good thing. We all need to step back once in awhile to create more energy for our approach to the challenge.

Dr. Gary Carlson

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Preparing for a Meeting

Crystal Setting ground rules is very important to keep in the time limits. I always assigned one person to give a 10 minute update on product knowledge about what their program was currently doing. All discussion should be kept on topic. Anyone getting off task should be brought back to the topic at hand.

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Preparing for a Meeting

Crystal, After several years of Chairing meetings this is the biggest interupter of a meeting. These often create side bar discussions. My experience can tell you without any reservation that the answer to this problem is to set meeting guidelines up front. Agenda topics will be attained to only. Anyone bringing up something that is not germain to the topic would not be discussed. We can table it until a later meeting or schedule or meet one on one. Anytime this may occur if we have set up the rules of the meeting we can state this is not germain… >>>