A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand
by Dmitry
One of the key elements of building a strong brand is color selection. Every color has a different feel and various associations. By choosing a color or a combination of colors for your brand identity, you will take on those associations. Colors will evoke certain emotions and feelings towards your brand so it is vital to choose a color that will represent your identity effectively.
The Implicit PrejudiceMahzarin Banaji can show how we connect "good" and "bad" with biased attitudes we hold, even if we say we don't. Especially when we say we don't
In one video clip, a team passed around a basketball. Of the 45 executives watching, just one noticed the woman who walked slowly right through the game, carrying an open white umbrella. After a few more examples, Banaji had convinced the audience that these kinds of mistakes in perception, or "mind bugs," operate all the time, especially in our unconscious responses to other people.
Decision Making Suffers from Unconscious Prejudices
When making complex decisions, legitimate factors sometimes mask choices influenced by prejudice—so bias is hard to detect. Recent research untangled some of these complex scenarios revealing that people are willing to sacrifice quite a lot to fulfill their subconscious biases.
Loss of learned skills is messing with our heads, but John Gilbey wonders who needs to know
Phil Zimbardo's 1971 prisoner/guard experiment at Stanford, and goes on to look at the potential consequences of group-thinking in such events as the two Nasa shuttle disasters.
Page 1Prevention & Treatment, Volume 3, Article 0001a, posted March 7, 2000 Copyright 2000 by the American Psychological AssociationCultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being
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
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
inancial Stress and Absenteeism: An Empirically Derived Model
Author: Jinhee Kim and E. Thomas Garman
This paper examines the relationship between financial stress and absenteeism. A conceptual model was derived from a Health Promotion Model and empirically tested to investigate relationships among determinants (individual characteristics), stress (financial stress), physical and psychological responses (organizational commitment and health), and absenteeism. Using data from white-collar workers at an insurance company in three midwestern states, this research determined that financial stress was negatively related to organizational commitment and was positively associated with absenteeism. Employers might consider offering workplace financial education programs to reduce absenteeism. Key words: financial stress, absenteeism, Work
Channel 4's three minute wonders are televised compelling films that are bite-sized. Just three minute for the whole lot!
Why not prepare the groundwork? and see what audience responds to b4 approaching channel 4? you could get your stories televised - work with Bunny ;o)
spread your message for free on three ;o) and use feedback to position your stories for the 4 mintue wonder ;o)
short video upload to bbc3. fab opportunity to tell stories. If you polish these like mini 3minute movies, then you can build an audience. Perhaps giving you evidence and confidence to get in touch ith Channel 4's three minute wonders: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/3-minute-wonder
Spread your message for free on three ;o)
Can we pimp our work environment to get more creative and fulfilled? take inspiration from google offices ;o) let's find and share a way of doing it on the cheap ;o) enjoy
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
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)
A fab half-doze reasearch papers looking at the relationship of laughter, humour and health. This supports our emotional intellgience outlook, and social intelligence. You could call it social lubrication that expands our human horizons for possibility and social bonding ;o) Enjoy ;o)
Very passionate about the power of energized individuals to transform communities, and how linking up with newmedia and printing-on-demand can facilitate life skills. These platforms can be used as a stepping stone and a way of translating project skills into work skills