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Elizabeth Borg

Family Learning Festival - 34 views

I especially enjoyed the Mosaic Report - as research for our FLF funding application.....and it's also an inspiration to CLP of how using data etc can be soooo effective in making your case... will...

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william doust

AFCPE | Journal Articles - 0 views

  • This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity.
  • The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers
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      some UK figures are banded as higher!
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    The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers Author: E. Thomas Garman, Irene E. Leech and John E. Grable This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity. The proportion of workers experiencing financial problems that negatively impact productivity for a single employer could range as high as 40 to 50% depending upon certain factors. The costs of reduced employee productivity because of poor personal financial behaviors are substantial. The full extent of the costs to employers is unknown. Key Words: absenteeism, employee assistance program, employee productivity, personal financial behavior, stress, substance abuse
william doust

Emerald: Article Request - Funky offices: Reflections on office design in the 'new econ... - 0 views

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    Funky offices: Reflections on office design in the 'new economy' Explores how & whether there is a sufficiently quantitative impact of the new economy work culture and new economy organisation's perspective on fun work environments. Paid for though. £13.00
william doust

Learning Revolution: Festivals, Libraries & Interesting responses ;-D - 7 views

Digital Britain Report... http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm76/7650/7650.asp main interest...From informal adult learning.... >Fun digital related activities build confidence & invis...

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Elizabeth Borg

GSK IMPACT Awards - The King's Fund - 0 views

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    GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards - cash awards for charities working to improve people's health in the UK
william doust

Free Theatre Tickets! For under 26s: A Night Less Ordinary - Arts Council England in as... - 0 views

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    Free tickets for under 26s for some performances in selected theatres and some as low as £5. Good for those communities you work with, for them to see the impact of the creative industries ;-) Enjoy
william doust

The Foundation for Social Improvement - What we do - 0 views

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    FSI's principle objective is to work in partnership to learn, share learning and help build long-term sustainability and capacity in the Third Sector. We do so by delivering or creating the resources small not-for-profit organisations need to develop to have a greater impact on those they are set up to support.
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ICA Home | ICA/AIGA Design Series: Design as Social Agent - 0 views

  • Through a full day of presentations, interviews, gallery tours, author talks, and more, this program considers the place of Shepard Fairey's work in a powerful design history of civic empowerment and resistance, seeks to understand how images resonate and gain momentum, examines the latest trends in communication and messaging, and discusses the implicit challenges of social agency in design.
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    impact of design and images in social change, politics, marketing...bit of interesting blurb
william doust

Hearing Voices - The Seeds of Fear, Doubt and Mistrust - 0 views

  • The single most important building block of successful relationships at work (and at home and play) is trust. Without trust, relationships are put in jeopardy and people disengage, pull back, and resist connecting. Without trust, people feel unsafe - physically, emotionally, mentally, or psychologically.
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      The impact of trust! - in everything
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    impact of trust!
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces - 0 views

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    Fab website to do with workplaces and productivity - links nicely to May's edition of mind magazine. Research pointed to design and workplaces, hospitals, etc - and impact on wellbeing. Enjoy ;o) nicking some of this for my presentation ;o)so check out his article on 12ways to pimp up your office.
william doust

Press releases - 2006 - Money Sickness Syndrome could affect almost half the UK population - 0 views

  • Money worries are a significant cause of worry, anxiety and stress according to GP and leading mental health expert, Dr Roger Henderson, who today publishes a paper identifying the condition Money Sickness Syndrome (MSS). Almost half (43%) of the UK adult population is affected by money worries and have experienced MSS symptoms,
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      This nicely links to some of the fab work Campaign for Learning has done with the BBC Raw Money: http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/money/ I was privileged to form part of a team at Campaign for Learning in developing some recent workshops for the trainers. What fab work does campaign for learning do? http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/cfl/index.asp
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    money stress and impact on relationship. I've annotated page to include BBC Raw
william doust

Best practice in rehabilitating employees following absence due to work-related stress - 0 views

shared by william doust on 29 May 09 - Cached
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      Fab one here! best practice to re-habilitate stressed out employees - back to work! ;-)
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The effect on ambulatory blood pressure of working under favourably and unfavourably pe... - 0 views

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  • The experimental group showed significantly higher SBP (15 mm Hg) and DBP (7 mm Hg) when working under a less favoured compared to a favoured supervisor. The degree of divergence in perceptions of supervisors shows a significant positive relation with the difference in blood pressure between the two workdays. Divergence in perceptions of interpersonal fairness is the strongest predictor of difference in blood pressure.
  • An unfavourably perceived supervisor is a potent workplace stressor, which might have a clinically significant impact on supervisees’ cardiovascular functioning.
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    toxic people are bad for your blood pressure - research!
william doust

Microsoft Word - CRI0001.doc - Powered by Google Docs - 0 views

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    Eliz - this is another research bit from Tooting Kitchen...
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Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : More Bang for the Buck (March 10, 2008) - 0 views

  • productivity could be a powerful way for nonprofit organizationsto multiply the impact of their work, the authors explore how three nonprofits succeeded in reducing costs without sacrificing the quality of their services
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    productivity in credit crunch: reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of nonprofit services.
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