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Illuminating Newsletter from
Management and personal skills development hints, tips and special offers focused on developing
better brains for better business®
+44 (0)1753 866633 www.illumine.co.uk info@illumine.co.uk
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Inspirational Motivation...
Engagement and motivation is quite a subject. We're all still hearing bad economic news in the media and we are all working to full capacity to try and keep ourselves and our organisations at the leading edge. In this newsletter we'll look at the 'people' part of the business and how to keep them and you inspired, engaged and motivated...
Enjoy the read...
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Employee engagement! Important for Business?
Employee engagement and motivation are vital for any business to thrive. An engaged employee will be willing to work harder for your company and is less likely to leave. According to Scarlett Surveys, "Employee engagement is a measurable degree of an employee's positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, which profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work." Motivation is also vital for ensuring that your employees are working at their best.
» Read the article...
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Management and Leadership Essentials
Our new range of management and leadership courses are ideal for any organisation looking to develop the effectiveness of their teams, managers and leaders:
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10 practical things you can do to infuse project teams with passion...
This article is written by the developers of the PassionWorks!™ engagement model. It offers practical tips when setting up the team, when meeting as a team and when following up.
» Find out more...
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The 'Illuminating' brain workout...
- What am I: No sooner spoken than broken. What am i?
- What am I: From the jingle of my bell, you know that I am jolly. Children adore me, but do not see me when the halls are decked with holly. My job leaves me frozen, but I do not work in times of sleet or ice or snow. I travel much on business, But don't have a reindeer you know. Who am I?
- Word play: Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship:
Pain - Nil
Routing - Tip
Shot - Teaming
Answers at the bottom of this email...
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Illumine Guide to Learning App for Android
If you've got an Android phone you can now download our mobile app that gives you instant access to advice, idea, practical tips and inspiration on how to learn and absorb information more efficiently and more effectively.
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Team dynamics: try this activity with your team...
Try this activity to open up an interesting conversation with your team and to check-out each person's PassionFlow!™.
» See the instructions here...
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"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
Bo Bennett
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"You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip." Bud Wilkinson
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Get more inspirational quotations at
www.illumine.co.uk/inspirational-quotes
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We're giving our team a well earned rest over the festive season...
...so our offices will close at 2pm on Friday 23rd December 2011. The office will open again at 9am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012...
We hope that all of our customers and readers have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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2012 Central London courses and workshops coming up..
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6 February 2012: Mind Mapping for Business, www.illumine.co.uk/bmap
7 February 2012: Effective Speed Reading™, www.illumine.co.uk/read
8-9 February 2012: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
8-9 March 2012: Advanced Thinking and Learning, www.illumine.co.uk/atlw
20 March 2012: Stress Management, www.illumine.co.uk/stre
22 March 2012: Creativity for Logical Thinkers, www.illumine.co.uk/crlt
22-23 March 2012: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
23 March 2012: RapidConsensus™, www.illumine.co.uk/rapc
29-30 March 2012: Writing Dynamics™, www.illumine.co.uk/wdyn
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'Illuminating' Brain Workout answers:
- I am Silence...
- I am an Ice Cream Man...
- Pin - Nail
Outing - Trip
Hot - Steaming
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The next newsletter: The end of year review...
Our end of year review of the best articles most popular we've published over the last 12 months.
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This newsletter is produced by the Illumine Marketing Team and edited by Richard Evans. The information presented in this newsletter remains the copyright of Illumine Training and its respective writers and authors. You can post these articles to your blog and website as long as it is not for commercial use. You must reference this back to Illumine Training and the Illumine website (www.illumine.co.uk). Images used have been leased and permission should be sought from the image owners.
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