Alliance Press Newsletter – January 2007 – Athena Training and Consulting

Alliance Press Newsletter – January 2007

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January 1, 2007

Happy New Year 2007

January 2007

In this Issue

Welcome New Partners
Robin Lee Kennedy
Andrew Burnham

New Programs
Appreciative Inquiry
Being in the Moment

Art of Effective Email

CPR Update & Avian Flu

Creating a Dynamic Speech

Book Report
How Full is Your Bucket?

The “Perfect Fit” for all your soft skills trainging needs.

Welcome New Partners

Robin Lee Kennedy

Robin’s background includes a senior management role at Communicare, a training and development organization specializing in communications, leadership, sales and interpersonal effectiveness. She is a coach, facilitator and dynamic public speaker.

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Andrew Burnham

Andrew is the Founder/Principal of two corporate training and development firms providing experiential workshops to organizations in Canada, USA and urope. He brings 8 years experience in leadership and team development content design and delivery to all his programs.
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New Programs

Appreciative Inquiry

To uncover hidden resources, draw on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) – a strength-based whole system approach to change. Appreciative Inquiry is more than some abstract theory. It leads to tangible results and enhanced performance. Products that hit the mark. Satisfied clients. A productive and motivated workforce. Easy enough to talk about, but how to get there? Appreciative nquiry is the hub through which everything revolves.

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Being in the Moment

Being in the moment is a mode where instead of reacting to events and pople, we choose how we direct our attention and awareness of them, and espond. This saves time and energy and brings other business benefits.

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Art of Effective Email

Email is now considered the primary cause of stress in the workplace. The America Management Association recently found employees spend an average .1 hours a day dealing with email and 10% spend more than four hours a ay. DoubleClicks’s 2005 email study found the 32% of individuals report constantly checking their email.

Email fuels stress – Seven out of ten managers find dealing with email stressful according to the Australian Psychological Society.

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CPR Update & Avian Flu

CPR Update – New emergency care guidelines are due to come into effect during the next 2 months of this year. They include dramatic changes to CPR and an emphasis on chest compressions, according to the Heart and Stroke oundation of Canada.

Avian Flu – Recent news reports about an outbreak of avian influenza in several countries have generated questions about the possibility of a flu pandemic in Canada.

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Creating a Dynamic Speech

First in a series of 3 articles about designing, staging and delivering a dynamite speech.

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Book Report – How Full is Your Bucket?

Donald Clifton was a well-known psychologist and the Chairman of Gallup, Inc. and Tom Rath is a Global Practise Leader at The Gallup Organization and Donald Clifton’s grandson. Together they have written a book on a subject they feel very passionate about, one that would be easy to shrug off as “light weight”. Don’t do that, this is a book well worth reading.