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		<title>Job Stress Costs U.S. Businesses 10 Times More Than Strikes</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/06/27/job-stress-costs-u-s-businesses-10-times-more-than-strikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Dyme</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Institute of Stress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress costs U.S. businesses “more than $300 billion annually due to increased absenteeism, employee turnover, diminished productivity, medical, legal and insurance expenses and Workers&#8217; Compensation payments.”
That’s ten times the cost of all strikes combined, the organization says.
Even if, as an employer, you didn’t care about a ‘warm [...]]]></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[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston College Center for Work & Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dad survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Assistance Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathi Blaszkiewicz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stay at home dad]]></category>
		<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[Work Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/?p=1292</guid>
		<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>Reducing the Risk of Workplace Violence</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/03/31/reducing-the-risk-of-workplace-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2011/03/31/reducing-the-risk-of-workplace-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Kronberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[destroying property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional distress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[workplace shooting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, every manager gets a terrible feeling in their gut: We have an employee that could ‘snap.’ 
It’s a legitimate concern for every organization. 
Homicide is the second leading cause of workplace deaths and there are nearly 2 million assaults and threats of violence in U.S. workplaces every year.
To add insult to injury, workplace violence [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss Manners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organizational development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P.M. Forni]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[workplace]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Bullock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[While You Were Sleeping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/?p=1197</guid>
		<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>How To Avoid Firing Employees ‘Because Of Facebook’</title>
		<link>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/11/12/how-to-avoid-firing-employees-%e2%80%98because-of-facebook%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.perspectivesltd.com/2010/11/12/how-to-avoid-firing-employees-%e2%80%98because-of-facebook%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Dyme</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Dyme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Assistance Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fired]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supervisors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, it was all over the news: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is suing a Connecticut company that terminated an employee for posting negative remarks about her supervisor on her Facebook... but the root cause of this is really an employee relations issue.

]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Assistance Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employees]]></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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