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		<title>Facilitation Skills at Meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Groups often experience difficulty working through issues, and that&#8217;s where facilitation skills come in handy. Often this difficulty is related to group members’ inexperience with structuring a conversation: The needed information needs to surface and productive conversation must move through a logical sequence, resulting in a conclusion that is clear, actionable and supported. Many years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reduce Your Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog I talked about mindfulness and the benefits of cultivating the practice of being in the present moment. April is National Stress Awareness Month and a perfect time to start to look at the effects of mindfulness on stress. A recent study by the American Psychological Association revealed 75 percent of adults [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/04/reduce-your-stress/</link>
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		<title>Can You Challenge and Still Be Collaborative?? (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently an esteemed colleague of mind asked me a very insightful question. Can you challenge someone and still be collaborative? (Hence the title of this post.) There are a number of ways to answer this question. The short answer is yes! In this post I will give you some tips on what to do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/04/can-you-challenge-and-still-be-collaborative-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Three Secrets to Making the Right Hire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Losing good people—and onboarding their replacements—are very expensive and potentially disruptive events, so you want to make good hiring choices and keep those good employees. Following some simple steps will facilitate good hiring practices and avoid conflicts and difficulties down the road. Here are some surefire ways to choose well: 1. Clarify expectations during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/04/three-secrets-to-making-the-right-hire/</link>
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		<title>How to Use Praise Effectively in Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was coaching an executive who told me that she makes a habit of thanking people effusively. She said that many of her assignments require the cooperation of a team of people, and she wanted some tips on how to engage people in better ways to get the work done. This executive was using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-use-praise-effectively-in-business/</link>
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		<title>Mindfulness in Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who are coaches, consultants, and facilitators have been taught the importance of being aware of who we are and how we impact a room. We have been told about the difference between “being” and “doing.” The notion of “use of self” has been a central tenant of our respective professions. Though we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/03/mindfulness-in-practice/</link>
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		<title>The Secret to Resolving Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article entitled “Playing the Blame Game,” Ralfee Finn wrote that “…opposites can also be seen as complements, especially when we are willing to synthesize what separates and divides through understanding and reconciliation.” This is a wonderful notion and one to which I subscribe. I see many conflicts created when people frame a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/03/the-secret-to-resolving-conflict/</link>
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		<title>Who Else Wants Good Relationships With Colleagues?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s in a Word? Recently I was working with two colleagues, Joe and Daniel. They had been friendly and had worked well together for close to two years, but their relationship had suddenly turned sour and was affecting the entire office. Their boss called me to ask if I might help. I embarked on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/03/who-else-wants-good-relationships-with-colleagues/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Facilitation: When Less is More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I have learned as a facilitator is that the less I do in the room, the better a meeting goes. Seems odd, right? But when my partner, Tom Kornbluh, and I teach our seminar “Standing in the Eye of the Storm,” we ask our participants what their greatest fear is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/03/meeting-facilitation-when-less-is-more/</link>
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		<title>Communication 101: Getting the Work Done Vs. People Liking You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another title for this article could be: &#8220;I Don’t Care if They Like Me, I Have to Get the Work Done.&#8221; Really?? You have probably heard the refrain: It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it. Many a manager I have met has told me, “My job is not to have people like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulwork.com/blog/2010/03/communication-101-getting-the-work-done-vs-people-liking-you/</link>
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