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Goal Setting for Kids: Empowering Future Achievers to Reach Limitless Goals

Success

A recent Gallup survey found that seven in 10 adults are inclined to set specific goals, and nearly 48% of those plan to write them down. Setting goals can boost kids’ self-esteem. Kids who learn to set effective goals gain self-esteem as they discover tangible proof of their own abilities.

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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

Success

Oxytocin helps us connect, feel empathy and trust; serotonin regulates anxiety, happiness and well-being ; and endorphins reduce pain and stress while boosting mood and self-esteem. Dopamine helps us feel pleasure, and it makes us feel rewarded and motivated.

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How To Strengthen Your Workforce: Cultivate Growth Opportunities For Women

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Such biases can occur in every possible process and function of the workplace, from internal communications and team meetings to company training, and often result in women or minorities lacking self-esteem at work, motivation, or even ambition for development and career progression.

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4 Things Employees Need From Any Boss

On The Job

They consider quitting, finds a new survey. Further, the survey finds that a quarter of all young workers doubt whether their contributions are valued -- and that should be another area of great concern according to researchers writing in the Harvard Business Review. If they feel they can't succeed, what's the point in trying?

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Knowledge workers have a particularly unhealthy relationship with work

Workplace Insight

The study analysed over fifty aspects of people’s relationships with work, including the role of work in their lives, their skills, abilities, tools and workspaces, and their expectations of leadership. Fifty percent surveyed noted their expectations of how they are treated at work and in the workplace also have increased.

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Most people now at risk of poor mental health as a result of social exclusion

Workplace Insight

Bupa’s survey also claims that 30 per cent of people have felt a negative impact on their general mental health due to their experience of social exclusion, with many left feeling isolated (41 percent), sad (41 percent) and anxious (33 percent).

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. Like the rest of job hunters, Generation Y has found jobs can be tough to come by, even with their skills. But do they (GenY) have less of an attitude?

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