David Anderson - Kelowna - Business Week - Work-Life Balance: How to Get a Life and Do Your Job

Great article in Business Week about Work Life balance that I would like to share with you. David Anderson Okanagan Training Solutions

Work-Life Balance: How to Get a Life and Do Your Job
BusinessWeek readers make it seem possible. Here's how some have succeeded in a balancing act
Edited by Michelle Conlin

There is a species of knowledge worker that seems transcendentally competent when it comes to finessing work-life balance. These are the people of the tidy desks and tidy homes. The work-life super class. They don't skulk in late like the rest of us. They don't wear rumpled clothes, miss deadlines, or weaken before the vending machine. Are these people for real? Is work-life balance achievable? We asked our readers. Some responders groaned that, owing to a hypercompetitive workplace and the race for status, the answer was no. But more disagreed, having found ways to make their lives less chaotic when it comes to juggling what often feels like two full-time jobs. Sanity actually exists, they say. Hallelujah! Now, dear readers, over to you.

Click link below for full article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097036727134.htm?chan=magazine+channel_special+report

David Anderson - Okanagan Training Solutions – Teaching at UBC Okanagan Kelowna

In January and February of 2009 David Anderson of Okanagan Training Solutions will be teaching at the UBC Okanagan in Kelowna.

This course call Business Theatre is in a nut shell based on the company’s place of business being staged and directed like a theater performance. It is based on teaching the students a different form of business and personnel communication skills based on Business Theater.

Participants will learn verbal & non verbal communication management with: clients / customers / co-workers when confronted with, Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) and acquire the skills for managing conflict resolution.

The philosophy behind Business Theater is to teach employee’s and management the art of telling and selling the company story, living and acting the vision, being committed to the story line and have all employee’s playing their part in telling the story before any product or service is ever sold.


David Anderson - President - Okanagan Training Solutions
Priority Management - A Better Way to Work
250 762-5096 / 1-877-762-5096
mailto:prioritymanagement@shaw.ca
http://www.okanagantrainingsolutions.com/
http://okanagantrainingsolutions.blogspot.com/
-
Okanagan Training Solutions workshops are held in the following cities:
Kelowna, Penticton, Kamloops, Veron, Salmon Arm, Prince Rupert, Prince George, Williams Lake, Quesnel, Nelson

David Anderson - Okanagan Training Solutions - Retail Business Training – Retail Theater

Retail Business Training – Retail Theater

Retail Theater is a strategy that addresses the changes in how and where people purchase today.

These changes are based on the changing motives’ that stimulate the purchasing process from today’s internet and gamer savvy consumer”.

Todays consumers are more interested in retailers who are going to “entertain their minds and provides an atmosphere of a true live shopping experience” rather than what the traditional retail has provided for many years.

The internet savvy shopper is looking at the “overall experience which includes entertainment as a key factor when they visit your retail establishment”.

The place to go, The place to be seen and the place to be able to interact with likeminded customers.

To book and assessment contact:
-

David Anderson - President - Okanagan Training Solutions
Priority Management - A Better Way to Work
250 762-5096 / 1-877-762-5096
mailto:prioritymanagement@shaw.ca
http://www.okanagantrainingsolutions.com/
http://okanagantrainingsolutions.blogspot.com/
-
Okanagan Training Solutions workshops are held in the following cities:Kelowna, Penticton, Kamloops, Veron, Salmon Arm, Prince Rupert, Prince George, Williams Lake, Quesnel, Nelson