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How Practicing Mindfulness in the Workplace Can Ease Stress and Improve Productivity

KnowledgeCity

But employees don’t need a quiet room or a lotus position to do it – practical mindfulness programs have been used in businesses since the 1970s. . Stressed employees have lower productivity, more health issues, and a much higher risk of absence, even absences related to accidents and illness. .

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Uma Gopaldass Clears the Way for Intelligent Decision Making

Everwise

Gopaldass’s company, Leading Lotus , guides clients through their choices — picking apart their biases, fears, and interpretations of data to clear the way for intelligent and unbiased decision making. My first came when I was in an internship program in offshore oil drilling. Mentors are key to my success. I’ve had many.

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Online Learning in Education

eLearning 24-7

Popular ones included Lotus Notes, Blackboard and WebCT. 75% of institutions report that the economic downturn has increased the demand of online programs/courses (Sloan Consortium – survey based on 2,500 institutions). By 2015, Marketdata predicts that 37% of all post-secondary enrollments will be in online programs.

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Is Attention Important in Learning?

The Learning Circuits

IBM also is looking at solutions to manage scheduling for the next version of Lotus Workplace, part of IBM's collection of software that rivals Office. Like many issues in collaboration it is the "people and process issues" that are the crux of the problem. But technology may not be the solution.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

speed with no latency issues would be acquired by NetG and shoved into the Raiders of the Ark storage facility, next to the ark itself. Many had zero issue doing this, after all, why pay the middleman, when you can have it all (the sale)? So, if 10 pals take Lotus 1-2-3, you are in luck, it probably is still available for you.

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LMS Administrator Hiring – What you need to know to find the right 1

eLearning 24-7

I’ve had one full-time administrator for 20,000 plus consumer active base, without any issue. Do they know how to use the e-mail program you are using, assuming it is either Gmail or Outlook? If it is like Lotus 1-2-3, forget it – no one is using that unless they are still using floppy discs at your workplace.

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Out with the old LMS in with the new: Part I

eLearning 24-7

Give them the name of your vendor and the person they should contact – so that interoperability issues – can be taken care of, before you start with your new LMS. I prefer 3-4 weeks out, giving them enough time to make tweaks, solve issues, blah blah. Any materials – guides, reference, media files, etc.

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