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4 Tips to a Happy New You for 2011

Guest post by: Sylvia Lafair

Article Overview: Ideas and tips to help you prepare for the New Year.

4 Tips to a Happy New You for 2011

Here are a few ideas to help you prepare for this new decade. These leadership development tips and techniques are to give you some innovative ideas on how to manage your company. In case you haven't paid attention, the speed of change is swirling faster and faster and it truly is hard to keep up.

However, there are some human universals that are not going to change in the near future and those who have a handle on the core issues around conflict are going to be the ones who can work quicker and smarter moving forward.

1. All businesses are similar. I'm not talking about product or service, I'm talking about structure. Each business is similar to the original organization we all joined, the family. There are people who make the rules and others that abbey them.

2. Conflict hits the high note when stress is strong. We can all behave in proper adult ways when stress is low. However, when it hits the hot button we all revert to the patterns of behavior we learned in our families to help us survive and keep us safe.

3. Helping people feel better about themselves is only half the game. Too much focus on good feelings you lose the business edge. Helping employees uncover issues that keep production or creativity at the low end is a better use of your time.

4. Everyone has to juggle professional and personal perspectives all the time, every day. If you give people the skills to understand what pushes their buttons and tools for communicating around the "F" word, how they feel, conflicts will get handled in less time with less intensity.

Give yourself a gift as we head into the New Year. Go to sylvialafair.com and take the pattern aware quiz. You will find new understanding of how you behave with others, especially in stress times and be able to move into a more positive relationship without the tugs and barbs that are usually there.

Then suggest the quiz to your staff , your customers, your family. Good news is, it's free and doesn't take much time. You will be seen as a hero for pointing them in this direction. After all, who wants to spend time on the "you said/he said/she said" tread mill when you can be engaged in marketing, selling, and having fun at work instead.

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