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	<title>Working World Cafe &#187; Work Life</title>
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		<title>Perspectives Ltd. Wins Sloan Award Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/08/09/perspectives-ltd-wins-sloan-award-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Dyme</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry Cahill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve done this but I am going to brag. Perspectives Ltd. is once again a finalist for the 2011 Sloan Award in Workplace Flexibility.  This is the fifth time in five years. Wow!  What an honor.  We have again been honored with the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dads Need WorkLife &amp; Child Care Resources Too</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/06/17/dads-need-worklife-child-care-resources-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathi Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathi Blaszkiewicz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[summer camps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Father’s Day weekend, many moms are getting a nice surprise too:  53% of fathers would consider being a “stay at home dad” if it were financially feasible, according to a new survey by the Boston College Center for Work &#38; Family.
While we often think of moms as bearing the full responsibility for finding child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Want the DEA to Raid Your Medicine Cabinet – This Saturday</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/04/28/why-you-want-the-dea-to-raid-your-medicine-cabinet-%e2%80%93-this-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/04/28/why-you-want-the-dea-to-raid-your-medicine-cabinet-%e2%80%93-this-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Kronberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drug-free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prescription drugs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often think of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as undercover Narcs or SWAT-team-like law enforcement that shows up when bad guys are up to no good.  But their job is to keep us safe from harmful substances and this week they’re doing something really great – raiding your medicine cabinet.
This Saturday, April 30th, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Vacation &#8220;Unplugged&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/04/13/my-vacation-unplugged/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/04/13/my-vacation-unplugged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Dyme</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wellness Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Dyme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wellness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a three week vacation in which I made a concerted effort to disconnect from my office.  Amazingly, I was pretty successful at it. 
Here I am, the owner of a company that has, for the last 30 years, been in the business of providing employee assistance (EAP), worklife and wellness programs that enable employees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment Law Updates: March 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/03/31/employment-law-updates-march-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/03/31/employment-law-updates-march-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Vegosen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Vegosen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who’s Who v Sethi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month, Jon Vegosen discusses two recent Supreme Court opinions (one regarding the “cat’s paw” theory of discrimination liability and one regarding retaliation), as well as important cases involving employee blogs and computer privacy.
Supreme Court Expands Scope of Liability for Discrimination and Retaliation
The United States Supreme Court issued two employee-friendly decisions on discrimination and retaliation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Miss Manners: What’s With All the Workplace Incivility?</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/02/08/dear-miss-manners-what%e2%80%99s-with-all-the-workplace-incivility/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/02/08/dear-miss-manners-what%e2%80%99s-with-all-the-workplace-incivility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Dorgan-Clemens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Choosing Civility"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incivility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Dorgan Clemens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[P.M. Forni]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lately, I’ve been struck by the number of organizational consulting requests coming in as the result of disrespectful and potentially harmful employee behaviors – or, as the esteemed Miss Manners may more charmingly put it, workplace incivility.  
We’re hearing a lot more organizations ask questions like:

Can you help us with a manager who yells and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Mindfulness Can Help Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/01/19/how-mindfulness-can-help-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/01/19/how-mindfulness-can-help-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Valentino</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie Valentino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what is “mindfulness” and how can it help indivually, much less in business?
According to Dr. Pirtle, (creator of the Skillfully Aware programm I referenced in my last post,) mindfulness is the act of watching the process of our actions. Our actions will always produce patterns and patterns from our past have inertia and constantly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Hoarding… And How EAP Can Help</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/01/10/emotional-hoarding%e2%80%a6-and-how-eap-can-help/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/01/10/emotional-hoarding%e2%80%a6-and-how-eap-can-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Valentino</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Pirtle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eap counselor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Assistance Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Katie Valentino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LCPC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Admit it, you are a hoarder.
We are all hoarders. Maybe not in the same manner as the subjects of the A&#38;E television series of the same name, but it cannot be denied – we love to hoard.
We can hoard in the physical sense by collecting things or in the emotional sense by collecting thoughts, feelings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Wonderful Time of The Year… Or Is It?</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/12/23/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year%e2%80%a6-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/12/23/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year%e2%80%a6-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen OBrien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wellness Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colleen O'Brien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus Aurelius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meet the Fockers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Bullock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[While You Were Sleeping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen that 90’s movie “While You Were Sleeping” with Sandra Bullock?
One of the scenes that stands out in my mind is the Christmas dinner Sandra’s character attends when her unconscious “fiancée” is still in the hospital.
Sadly desperate and unquestionably lonely, Sandra’s character walks into a festive family dinner and is immediately enveloped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s To A Healthy Holiday Season</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/11/09/here%e2%80%99s-to-a-healthy-holiday-season/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/11/09/here%e2%80%99s-to-a-healthy-holiday-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathi Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathi Blaszkiewicz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because the demands and expectations of the holidays can be challenging, this is a great time to remind employees that that their employee assistance program (EAP) is available to listen and offer help.]]></description>
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