I am writing this story to help you make decisions for a family member with cardiovascular heart disease or even cardiovascular heart disease and diabetes.

My story starts with my father, Abraham Kuhn, may he RIP - April 26, 1926 - April 4, 2007. I love you DAD.

My father had diabetes and heart disease. His diabetes was pretty much controlled. His heart was the problem. He had 2 bypass surgeries over the past 28 years.

He was having chest pains over the past 4 months and I kept sending him to his doctor and his cardiologist. He had EKG’s done which only show the electrical activity occurring in my father’s heart.
As the chest pain and shortness of breath starting occurring more and more, he was put on a nitroglycerin patch. First during the day, but then having chest pains at night and then switching the patch to the night and then removing for at least 8 hours during the day.

Nothing seemed to be working. We kept calling the cardiologist and told us “there is nothing more we can do” except if he wants a procedure called Extracorporeal cardiac shock wave therapy or ECS. Not knowing too much about it and my father having to travel down to Elizabeth for the treatment, discussion was just about dismissed. To my knowledge, the cardiologist didn’t even order an echocardiogram which would have showed some problems with his heart valves, possibly.

My father and I just had enough and went to the ER at Robert Wood Johnson. He told me that the hospital will do more in depth tests to see what was wrong. He was upbeat about the whole visit to the ER and trusted the doctors at Robert Wood Johnson. They did some blood work that showed he had a small heart attack. He had a Standard Echocardiogram done but he did
not order a TEE or TransEsophageal Echocardiogram.

A standard echocardiogram or Echo beam travels through the chest wall (skin, muscle, bone, tissue) and lungs to reach the heart.. At times, closely positioned ribs, obesity and emphysema may create technical difficulties by limiting the transmission of the ultrasound beams to and from the heart. In my father’s case he was slightly obese.

In such cases, your doctor may select to get a transesophageal echo or TEE. Since the esophagus sits behind the heart, the echo beam does not have to travel through the front of the chest, avoiding many of the obstacles described above. Giving a much clearer image of the heart, particularly, the back structures, such as the left atrium, which may not be seen as well by a standard echo taken from the front of the heart. This is also invasive and would need a consent.

His new cardiologist from Robert Wood Johnson decided, based on his blood work and echocardiogram, to do a cardiac catheterization to possibly open a possible artery that may be blocked. If he had done a TEE, most likely he would not have done a cardiac catheterization because the TEE would have shown moderate problems with his arterial valve and his mitral valve.

When the cardiologist did the cardiac catheterization, it put him in cardiogenic shock. His heart was failing and now they had to insert a balloon pump to help his heart pump the blood. My father was now on full support-respirator, foley catheter and all these IVs and invasive lines going into his body.

After 4 days on full life support, he started spiking a temperature. All those invasive lines in my father was now giving my father septic shock. Eventually he had too much bacteria in his blood and died.

I know it was my father’s time to go but to all of the significant others and people that have heart disease, please do not accept a simple echocardiogram if you are having any kind of invasive surgery before they do a more in depth TEE and other appropriate tests. They did do a TEE after the fact that showed what was really wrong with the heart - mostly problems with the heart valves.

Dad, you will always be in my heart.

To Learn More About the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, please go to
http://www.heartnewscenter.com It just might save your life or the life of someone you love.

What is anger? According to the dictionary is a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism.

When we feel anger we feel like invaded, betrayed, hopeless. We feel like something is bigger than us and that we cannot do anything about it. Anger can be caused by external events such as a coworker , a canceled appointment, or can be cause by an internal problem or a memory about the past

I was raised to believe that to get angry was bad, so I have repressed a lot of anger through out my life until I finally understood that like any other emotion, anger is not good nor bad. We can experience a healthy anger or a toxic anger.

Bradshaw say, “Without anger, you have no boundaries. Anger serves to maintain a decent sense of your self as an autonomous human being that can say “no” when necessary”. If somebody is taking advantage we can express our anger in a positive way, this would be a sign of a healthy self-esteem because we can stand up for ourselves.
On the other hand, if we cannot express our anger because we are afraid of rejection this is a sign of low self esteem. If we cannot express our anger , we will either repress it or we will get mad to somebody else or try to release it by yelling or hitting things.

What is the best way to manage anger?

* The first thing is to recognize that you are angry through awareness. “Yes, I am aware that I am feeling anger”. In order to identify the feeling you have to recognize it.

* Take responsibility for your own anger, some people or situation may contribute with this feeling but you have chosen to feel anger over other emotions.

* Think about the real causes of your anger. I have learned that sometimes when I feel anger there are other unresolved issues. The other day I got really angry with a person and then I realized that my anger was not about her questions. My anger was that I felt rejected. Sometimes anger is a mask for fear, that is because is important to ask questions.

* For me the best way to release anger is to solve my internal issue. Depending on the event. If I have to be assertive and tell the other person about my anger, I will do it. Always when I express my anger I use “I” instead of “you”. ” I feel really angry about ………… “..

If there is an underlying issue hiding, I will solve it by asking questions. Yelling and hitting things, and running 10 miles will not help to release the cause of anger.
Anger provide us with opportunities to express ourselves. By embracing and transforming our anger and working with the underlying issues or our difficulties to assert ourselves, we are creating a healthy self-esteem.

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha

c) 2006 Carla Valencia. All rights reserved.

Carla’s professional background includes 15 years working as a Software Developer and Technical Writer with import-export and manufacture companies. Her passion about self-esteem issues had leaded her to write about her personal experiences.

Since she was very young she spent a lot of time researching and interviewing close friends and family on this subject. She has been examining alternative ways of dealing with life on many different levels.

She studied Metaphysic, Buddhism, and participated in several workshops to work inside herself. She’s been using several techniques since the last 10 years like Ho’oponopono,Emotional Freedom Techniques,Rebirthing , Shadow Work and Meditation.

She published her first book when she was 23, “Let’s love ourselves as we are”. She is the author of the e-book The Boost your self-esteem Workbook .

Her passion: “Give her personal experience to others”, her expression: “My life is my teaching”.

http://www.selfesteemawareness.com

With the NHL regular season finishing up this weekend die hard poolies will be looking for the best sites and bargains to create their own NHL playoff hockey pools and office pools alike. There are a few companies that offer more for less, it is these companies that people are starting to take notice of.

Our first review is a company called Mobilized Entertainment and their free hockey pools can be accessed at http://www.smsofficepools.com.

This is one of our favorites for a number of reasons. First and foremost the creators of this pool have worked with large carriers and large companies providing custom hockey pools for a number of years. Experience plays a big role in ensuring players can expect the best when registering their hockey pools with a specific company.

Functionality is the next thing that people require when registering for nhl playoff pools or office pools and SMSOfficePools’ technology goes beyond the norm. Their pools can be accessed not only from any pc/html device but also from any mobile device making it incredibly easy to always check your standings and receive valuable stats on ones pool players.

The mobile site can be accesed by following the mobile url, mobilent.mobi on your mobile device.

Visit mobilent.mobi on your mobile phone browser, and select the first item on the main menu entitled “Playoff Pool”. Login as you would on the HTML site, and view your team stats.

Lastly how much do you want to pay a site for managing your players and pools? Well with smsofficepools.com everything is Free including the mobile component, stats, player updates and your pools rankings.

Our second review is a site called HockeyDraft which can be accessed at http://www.hockeydraft.ca

Hockey Draft is another well known great service that usually charges money but is not for the 2007 NHL Playoffs is HockeyDraft.ca , it is a great service for allowing quick updates and multifunctions. This service is Free for the 2007 NHL Playoffs.

http://hockeydraft.ca is a great service but without the mobile component and ease of use that comes with go anywhere entertainment it falls second on our list but well worth checking out as well.

There are also a number of very decent sites that charge users to compete in these office pools, however the point in this article is to provide a few of the top sites that anyone, anywhere can get registered, keep track of their pools, get stats, and stay one step ahead with the best features all for free.

Lastly if you are still wanting to pay the bucks for pools and you don’t care about being able to check stats and pool updates on your mobile device or cellphone, we recommend checking out Pool Expert, the site is used by TSN.ca for their subscribers and Pool Expert offers an exceptional service but you will have to pay for it.

PoolExpert can be accessed through the following link: http://www.poolexpert.com

Good luck during the 2007 Nhl Playoffs with your pools no matter what company you choose, this article just sets forth a few tidbits of information for pool fans to consider before jumping into the first pools they see online.

For those of you that don’t know Redfield scopes have been manufactured for almost 100 years now. This is a long time for any company to exist - regardless of what they actually produce. Originally the scopes from Redfield were produced in Colorado; however, a few years ago the company was bought out by Blount and the line was actually discontinued for a time.

While Redfield had enjoyed a popular history and was at one time known as one of the best known and most popular brands in the industry by the 1990’s Redfield was finding it hard to keep up with the competition in the industry. Companies like Leupold were putting increasingly intense pressure on others in the market and Redfield was finding it difficult to stay afloat. There seemed to be no other choice but to pull the Redfield scopes line from the market altogether and lick their own wounds.

This all changed, almost at he last moment, when Meade stepped into the picture and took over Redfield. Meade themselves have become well known for their excellent quality telescopes over the years and moving into rifle optics made perfect sense. Several other companies were acquired by Meade at the same time and Redfield now has its home in Georgia; where the 4 Redfield lines of scopes are now produced. They are Golden Five Star, the Tracker, the Widefield and the Illuminator.

Some of the current Redfield scopes are actually nothing truly “new”. The Widefield scope, for example, was in production long before Redfield found themselves in difficulty. This particular scope features an oval ocular as well as objective lens that allows you to mount the scope lower on your rifle while providing a much wider view that you would normally be able to obtain.

While the design itself certainly looks a bit strange and is a step away from the normal design of many scopes, there is no denying the fact that this unique design delivers perfectly. When hunting in close range, you can’t ask for a better image delivery. In tests, the Widefield produces images that are some 30% larger than similar scopes. In addition to a design that truly does deliver, Redfield is continuing to produce high quality pieces built with a rugged aluminum alloy tube that can withstand some fairly rough terrain and treatment.

With Meade now running the show Redfield will not now honor warranties on older Redfield scope models. The company does, however, offer a lifetime warranty on all new scopes manufactured and sold under the direction of Meade themselves.

Redfield riflescopes are some of the finest scopes on the market today. If you want to learn more about them and other cost effective rifle scopes pay a vist to ScopesGuide dot com.

Big printing companies used to dictate to their clients how they would do their print job and how long it would take. You can forget this, printing like most products are now consumer driven. Not even 10 years ago huge printing companies controlled the market. Big flyer runs that would be distributed to every household was the favourite device used by marketing departments. These companies were few in number due to large capital investment needed and were very arrogant in nature. A two week delivery time would be considered standard and rush jobs were 10 days. Pricing was never discounted and customer service was not a high priority to these companies.

The world has changed and for the better. Today printing is one of the most competitive industries. Technological advancements have reduced capital investments in machines and have provided alternative to mass produced print runs. Marketing research now tells us that directed marketing campaigns are much more effective uses for your marketing budget. Spending 10 times as much per piece but producing two percent of the quantity will net you a greater return. The days of throwing something out to the public and hoping to hit your target market are gone. Information is key to any effective marketing campaign. Digital presses have captured the market from short run print shops. Sheet fed presses have captured a sizeable portion of the web business. One major change to the market has been the web. With the web and uploading of files, location is no longer an obstacle. If location is no longer an obstacle the amount of competitors for any market has dramatically exploded. This has caused margins to shrink and unproductive print shops to close. Even competitors like the orient are now considerable competition. At one time the delay factor was a help to North American printers. today delays can be three weeks or less for delivery. Their are ships that print and do bindery for print jobs as they sail from the Orient to North America.

Another factor affecting print is a variety of options, At one time people printed flyers with weekly specials of different products. Today most national retailers promote their gift cards. Promoting one item cuts down on print and production costs. Gift cards have many benefits for retailers aside from cutting their advertising expenditures.

Lastly print companies used to sell one type of print. The successful companies today are the print brokers who deal with all types of print and maintain several relationships in each category and in each geographic location. Companies like Solutions Ink or numerous others that can be found at the DMIA (Document management Industry Association) are the future for this industry. These companies not only handle business cards, letterheads, forms, envelopes, brochures, magazines, gift cards, loyalty cards, scratch off game cards, invitations, promotional products, and labels but are really a service based company. They realize that customers have choices and they try to match the proper printing company with their clients needs. Due to their varied services they are best equipped to service the end users for the next 10 years.

Steven Schneidman has an MBA, taught finance at a major University, Worked for the second largest bank in Canada and runs a successful print and promotional products company with offices in Montreal, Toronto and the United States.

http://www.solutionsink4u.com

If you have any questions, please email me at steve@solutionsink4u.com and I would be happy to help you out for your next print or promotional project needs.

These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating.

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” General George S. Patton

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Benjamin Spock

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” Chinese Proverb

“My God has an abundance and He wants me to be a part of His Kingdom.” George Van Valkenburg

“To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.” Samuel Johnson

“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” W. Earl Hall

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiving,
selfishness, and fears.” Glenn Clark

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” Orison Swett Marden

“The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom.” Frank Whitmore

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.” Mark Twain

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, “101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.” Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery. As an inspirational leader, Dr. Neddermeyer empowers people to view life’s challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. http://www.drdorothy.net

“Every great romance and each big business deal begins with small talk. The key to successful small talk is learning how to connect with others, not just communicate with them.” Dr. Bernardo J. Carducci, author of The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk: How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere About Anything

I recently read about a study of MBAs 10 years after they graduated. Researchers at Stanford School of Business found that Grade Point averages had no bearing on their success. Surprisingly, a major deciding factor was their ability to converse with others.

The skill of connecting in short, casual conversations can make or break careers. Through these interactions we gather information and, hopefully, make a favourable impression. I’ll confess that I am an introvert in extrovert’s clothing. I can yammer away to people I know at gatherings such as conventions or training sessions, but I find it difficult to break the ice with new people. In my discomfort, I can forget of the three golden rules for small talk:

1. Shut up and listen.

2. When in doubt, repeat Rule 1.

3. People, even the really shy ones, like to talk about themselves and will do so if you know how to draw them out. You have to be genuinely interested, and let go of your need to talk and take over the conversation. .

Only then will you make a good impression.

To listen intently takes both great skill and great discipline, which is why mere mortals such as myself fall short. It is so easy to respond to a casual comment by unwittingly turning the spotlight back on yourself: “You’re selling office equipment to hospitals? I called on General Hospital . . .” Your small talk might be helpful, witty and even relevant, but you’re nonetheless talking instead of listening. You n’ever learn anything while talking, except that you talk too much.

Rule 1 can take a life’time to learn, especially for certain introverts masquerading as extroverts. Below are a few other tricks that can help while mastering Rule 1.

1. Watch your body language. People who look ill at ease make others uncomfortable. Act confident even when you’re not, looking people in the eye instead of at the floor (my personal challenge). If you are uncomfortable smiling at strangers, learn the art of the subtle smile, which is smiling with your lips closed. Now you’re starting to look friendly and approachable. After you feel more at ease with someone, you can show a little tooth.

2. Be the first to say “Hello.”

3. Introduce yourself by name , even if you think they know it. “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Queen Elizabeth II.” It’s very awkward when someone starts a conversation with “remember me?” and the other person doesn’t.

4. Take your time during introductions. Make an extra effort to remember names and use them frequently.

5. Open with simple probes.

- ‘Hi, I’m Nicki. What do you think of the party, conference, cheese puffs?”

- “Hi, I’m Nicki. I sell cemetery plots. What do you do?”

- “Hi, I’m Nicki. Isn’t the food delicious?”

They are neutral qu’estions that invite the other person to talk. After you ask your qu’estion, listen. When you run into a casual acquaintance, ask what she’s been doing lately. Then listen.

6. Learn some qu’estions that will keep the conversation going. Ask folks for their opinions or comments, with follow-up qu’estions based on their answers.

- Did you see that movie?

- What was it about?

- What did you think of it?

- What other new movies have you enjoyed?

If you are genuinely interested in their answers, most people will be surprised and flattered. Resist the temptation to display your own special brand of brilliance, and when you catch yourself doing so, switch the focus back to the other person. Later on, when the relationship has evolved beyond small talk, you can strut your fabulousness.

7. If you want to join a group involved in an ongoing conversation , research shows that the best entry line is to ask a question about the topic under discussion. Don’t shift to a new topic, a tactic that can make the group feel threatened.

8. Focus on the speaker . There’s nothing worse than chatting with a person who keeps scanning the room looking for someone more important. Give your current conversation partner your full and real attention, facing him directly and looking in his eyes.

9. Have a few exit lines ready so that you can both gracefully move on. For example,

- “I need to talk with that client over there.”

- “I skipped lunch today, so I need to visit the buffet.”

- “Can I refresh your drink?”

- “Is the bathroom over there? Thanks.”

When should you exit a conversation? According to Susan RoAne, an author and speaker known as the “Mingling Maven,” your objective in all encounters should be to make a good impression and leave people wanting more. To do that, she advises: “Be bright. Be brief. Be gone.”

10. Practice gratitude . If you are the one who is ‘brushed off’, say something short and sweet:

- “I enjoyed our chat.”

- “I enjoyed meeting you.”

The key to being a successful schmoozer is simple: you don’t have to be brilliant but you do have to be kind. Show willingness to converse, and support the efforts of others who are trying to do the same.

Talk Back : Please write to me with your small talk strategies. Anything and everything helps!

The following are some other resources you might want to read:

Put Your Best Foot Forward: Making a Great Impression by Taking Control of How Others See You by Jo-Ellen Dimitrias and Mark Mazzarella.

How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends by Don Gabor.

Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness by Alan Garner.

The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk: How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere About Anything by Bernardo J. Carducci

Nicki Weiss is an internationally recognized Certified Professional Coach, Master Trainer, and workshop leader. She brings to her work 25 years of experience with corporate sa1es executives, small to medium size entrepreneurial business leaders, and sa1es teams of all shapes and sizes.

Sign up for her award winning ezine - Sa1esWise - for great tips on finding, retaining, and developing ideal clients and sales teams at http://www.saleswise.ca

Network Marketing is also known as Multi-Level Marketing or MLM for short. If you are just starting out or thinking about getting into network marketing then this article is for you. There are certain things to look for in a network marketing home business that will help keep you from choosing a bad opportunity and certain failure. Let’s get some bad news out of the way right now… Most businesses, both online and offline, fail within their first five years and the same holds true for network marketing home businesses. But if you find a good network marketing opportunity and know how to work your business the right way, it can be best business in the world!

Below I have given some tips for you to help in finding a good network marketing business so you can get a head start on your home business success:

A good network marketing opportunity will allow you to start with little cost. You should avoid programs that have high sign-up fees and expensive frontloading where you have to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars just to get started. Do not get involved in a network marketing business where you have to buy your way to the top of the pay plan, purchase large volumes of product to qualify for your check, or have to stock inventory yourself. Stay away from any opportunity requiring you to do those things.

Do not be lured in by outrageous claims such as, “get rich quick” or “easy money” or “make money with no work” or any other ridiculous hype. In network marketing it is possible to have people placed below you without having to do much, as long as your upline is doing a lot of work and your compensation plan is a forced matrix or power leg binary. This is called spillover, but you can’t count on getting rich, or even making any money at all, from spillover. Anyone joining with that expectation will be very disappointed. Even worse, don’t ever get involved with a network marketing company that is offering a business opportunity with no product or service to sell other than the opportunity. These are called pyramid schemes and you need to stay far away from them! Always, thoroughly research any company before you join.

Marketing, sales and distribution are the backbone of business. Most of us are more familiar with direct sales. This is where the products of a company are promoted by a salesperson who receives a percentage of the money made from each sale as commission. That is the basic traditional sales approach. The salesperson may also be paid an hourly wage or a salary, or even paid per lead as long as they meet a certain sales quota, but the source of income for the business is always sales driven.

Network marketing has proven to be a much better way in most cases, both for the companies and their product distributors or salespeople. You are still selling a product or service for the company but you also are looking for people who want to do what you are doing, which is selling the company’s products and making money doing it. You are building a team and that helps the company’s sales and earnings because they get more and more people selling for them. The company gains many new distributors and in return you get paid not only on your own sales, but also on the new distributor’s sales as well.

That is why it’s called, “Multi-Level Marketing” or MLM. Because when the distributor you brought in on your first level brings in another new distributor for the company, you also get paid from the work of that new person. If that new seller on your second level brings in someone else, then you have a third level, and so on. You can have a team building under you, making sales for you, making money for you, and it can all be happening without any extra effort on your part! The payment plans in MLM typically include binary, breakaway, matrix, stair-step, and unilevel.

Network marketing is about referring and soft selling. You shouldn’t have to give people the hard sell to be successful. You simply use the company’s product or service and recommend it to others. It helps a lot if you are passionate about it and truly believe in it. Most company’s will provide marketing resources such as; websites, sales letters, ebook, brochures, recruiting calls, recorded messages, flash movie presentations, DVDs, CD’s, free samples, magazines, etc… They should be persuasive materials that put forth the benefits of the product or service to the prospect without having too much hype, and should also include plenty of testimonials.

The company should have a valuable and desired product or service that people will really want to purchase. It should be good enough that people would buy it even if there wasn’t a compensation plan attached to it. It’s also better if the product is unique and manufactured by the company itself. You want the service to be a continuing monthly service or the product to be a consumable one, so that you get recurring purchases every month and a residual income from each customer.

As a network marketer you will not just be making one-time sales, you will be building a residual income that keeps coming in month after month, year after year. After enough time and effort you should be able to work less and earn more. It is the perfect way to build a retirement income. And the company you join up with should ideally be debt free and have been in business for at least 5 years, so that you know it is solid and will be around for the long haul.

After you have found a network marketing opportunity possessing the qualities listed above, you then present the business opportunity and the product to as many people as possible. You can do this a number of ways, including: article marketing, ezines, blogs, websites, joint ventures, coops, classifieds, advertising online and offline, buying leads, talking to your warm market, forums, PPC’s, word of mouth, fliers, and pretty much any other way you can think of to get your business opportunity and product in front of interested people.

There you go! Now it’s time to get out there and find a solid network marketing opportunity for you and spend your time getting it in front of as many targeted prospects as you can. Treat it like the real business it is and you will go far. In a couple years you should be working much less but still enjoying a full-time residual income that grows all the time.

Trent Brownrigg is a successful network marketer and the author of Residual Income Secrets Exposed (RISE), which was written to help you “RISE” up to your income potential. You can find it at http://r-i-s-e.com and be sure to visit http://www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com for his recommended home business opportunities.

How would you like to have two top internet marketers helping you and answering your questions for about 98 cents a day?

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Membership in the Wealthy Affiliate community will give you access to alot of valuable resources such as recommended products, weekly updated keyword lists, video tutorials, and excellent support.

So did I think Wealthy Affiliate was worth the money? Read on…

Wealthy Affiliate contains some great tutorials for those new to affiliate marketing and experts also including case studies, keywords,recommended products, keyword search tools.

For me that’s all nice but what is really the true value here is you can PM Carson and Kyle and they will assist you in your campaigns or answer any questions in a manner that is results oriented. This is truly incredible some of the members have recorded amazing results just by Kyle or Carson helping them with there insights and experience. I noticed a big difference in my understanding of how adwords works just by this saving me time, money and frustration.

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Has one of your salespeople recently made you angry or frustrated?

The answer is probably yes. Friction frequently arises when people depend on one another to get work accomplished. If co-workers don’t get something done on time, or somehow drop the ball, you feel “something” - anger, disappointment, frustration - and you may feel that “something” very strongly. Of course, the first step is to talk about what happened and to try and resolve the issue. However, if you are finding that the work of one employee in particular frequently raises your emotional temperature, you might want to consider that he or she may be having troubles outside the job. Those troubles may be marital, financial, alcohol- or drug-related, or perhaps the employee has suffered a loss or is dealing with a sick relative.

In the past few weeks I have learned about these situations:

Cynthia, Lisa and Steve lost their fathers recently, and all three find they can’t focus on their jobs. Cynthia is often weepy.

A long-time salesperson in Robert’s team is having tremendous difficulty working because his spouse is ill with breast cancer.

Debra is coping with a clinically depressed husband.

Sonya holds a full-time job and is also the primary caregiver for her ill and disabled mother.

David’s 18-year-old child recently died of leukemia.
These personal heartaches are not uncommon in any organization. While you may not know the details of your sales team’s lives, you may have noticed a decline in one employee’s work that does not improve, even though you’ve tried to address it. This decline may be a tip-off that you’re dealing with someone who is struggling.

What you can do:
Don’t go it alone

Most of us can’t sort out difficult situations by ourselves. We need help. (And many of us forget that asking for help is a powerful leadership quality.) Consult with someone who knows how to compassionately untangle messiness, perhaps an employee assistance counselor, an HR specialist or a coach.

Helpful hint: Before diving into the nuts and bolts of how to work with the issue, talk with your helper about what an ideal relationship with this salesperson would look like:

Imagine your best hope for the situation. For example, Robert’s best hope was that his salesperson trusted Robert enough to open up about the kind of help he needed, and that this salesperson would be an active contributing member of the team.

Then look at what already exists that could make that hope a reality, for instance, you usually like the salesperson’s work and you mutually respect each other.

Then talk about your worst nightmare. In Robert’s example, his worst nightmare would be that his salesperson would drain the energy out of the team, that Robert would feel helpless, and that he would have to fire this salesperson. The conditions that could lead to that scenario coming true might be: Robert is getting pressure from above for results, he is uncomfortable giving balanced feedback about poor work, the salesperson is unapproachable and there is no improvement in behavior.

You are in a good position to talk about next steps. Some possible next steps that could arise might be: role playing the conversation beforehand, acknowledging the salesperson’s struggle and their accomplishments, asking them about what is possible for them given their difficulties, and alerting senior management about how you are handling the situation.

Don’t ignore a developing problem

Ignoring a problem doesn’t solve it. In fact, doing nothing just might make the situation worse. Pick up the telephone and get help at the first signs of trouble. Early action will frequently eliminate the need for discipline.

Be a role model

Support the individual who is struggling, while continuing to promote office morale and productivity. It may be helpful to ask your employee what the office can do to relieve some of the work stress during this difficult time.

Knowing the “right thing” to say to someone who is struggling or grieving is not critical, but a few guidelines are helpful. Saying nothing is worse than saying the wrong thing. Appropriate words are: “I am sorry to hear about your loss/difficulties;” “You are (or have been) in my thoughts;” “How are you doing?” or “I don’t know what to say, but if I can be of any help, I’m here.”

Offering time to listen can be helpful, or temporarily taking over some burdensome tasks. Managers also can show appreciation to team members who may be carrying an extra load due to the situation.

Most employees can and will resolve their problems, given time and support.

Talk Back: I’d love to hear your tips about working with troubled employees. Please contact me at nicki@saleswise.ca

Nicki Weiss is an internationally recognized Certified Professional Coach, Master Trainer, and workshop leader. She brings to her work 25 years of experience with corporate sa1es executives, small to medium size entrepreneurial business leaders, and sa1es teams of all shapes and sizes.

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