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The Business of Kindness™ is a leading-edge approach aimed at enhancing wellness and sustainability for employees throughout the organization as well as for the organization itself.
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This book stresses the importance of focusing on "strengths," whether a job seeker, employee, or manager. Explains why focusing on weaknesses, and thus trying to repair flaws, can be self-defeating for individuals and organizations. Includes a questionnaire for discovering one's top-five inborn tal…
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All managers get saddled with "problem" employees from time to time; what sets great managers apart is how they deal with them. Drawing from real-life stories, this helpful and humorous guide provides readers with practical advice for handling a wide range of difficult types, including:; The Imposs…
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What You Accept is What You Teach offers practical advice to managers on how to hold employees accountable for a strong work ethic, intrinsic motivation, a positive attitude and constructive conduct toward customers and co-workers. It describes a leader's rights and responsibilities relative to mai…
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Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today's generation of Aboriginal people carry. They m…
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The health disparities affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada might well be understood as a national epidemic. Although progress has been made in the last decade towards both understanding and ameliorating Indigenous health inequalities, very little research or writing has expanded a social determi…
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The book is divided into four sections: an overview of the mental health of indigenous peoples; origins and representations of social suffering; transformations of identity and community; and traditional healing and mental health services. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, se…
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Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community offers a selection of the papers presented at Fostering Biimaadiziwin, a national research conference held in Toronto in 2011. The conference grew out of a desire to add a new perspective to research concerning Aboriginal peoples living in urban environm…
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