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Joined EzineArticles on May 21, 2008 Introducing Technological Change Through History With Mike Mulligan
Book Reviews: Home School Curriculum • Published: September 8, 2010
If you had ever wondered how to introduce the topic of changes in technology over time then you can let Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel show the way for you. This book opens a door to many topics and has been a great starter for examining history as we looked closer to the industrial age right through to the development and history of computing technology. This article tells you why!
Getting Into the Physical Body With Young Children
Book Reviews: Home School Curriculum • Published: May 25, 2010
When introducing the world of Science to young people it can be easiest to start with what they know already. This is one reason why looking at the human body can get your Home Schooling curriculum kicked off to a great start.
Top Tips For Effective Slow Cooking
Food and Drink: Cooking Tips • Published: January 25, 2010
Slow cookers have come into their own in recent years and developing a knack for how to use them only comes, for most, with trial, error and time. I've had my slow cooker for upwards of two years now and as a family that regularly feeds six (plus friends and relatives) it has been a blessing and a learning curve rolled into one. To help you with your learning curve, I hope you enjoy the read as I share with you my top tips to help you use your slow cooker.
Taking the Chore Out of Allocating Chores
Kids and Teens • Published: December 14, 2009
Almost one year has past since we last sat down and discussed household chores with our children. It has passed very quickly and I admire the effort my children have put into living up to the expectations that have been made of them. I have been staggered by how easily they have taken to their tasks with very few complaints over that time. For that reason alone I thought it worth sharing with other parents how we went about taking the chore out of allocating chores for the year and ensuring that they were completed.
Self-Employment Opportunities For Your Teenager
Kids and Teens • Published: December 14, 2009
Holidays breaks can be filled with opportunities for our young people to develop themselves in preparation for adult life. For many of us, we would like to see our young people develop skills that can not be built as just a seasonal employee. Skills such as resource and skills planning, negotiation skills, expense management, time management and establishing work/life balance are just some that we can expect teenagers to be able to learn by establishing themselves a holiday business - which, of course, could be extended to part time work should the industry and study commitments allow for it. This article looks at just some of the opportunities for work and the skills they can develop from this.
Home Educating and Working From Home
Reference and Education: Home Schooling • Published: September 12, 2009
So many people have turned to me over the past year and suggested that it is not possible to home school and work from home. Those nay-sayers have had me question every systems engineering and business analysis skill that I had developed in the past decade as I looked to make the best of both being a home educator for my children as well as remain the leader of my business interests. This article provides some practical tools and advice for others who are interested in making a go of both but are not sure how to make it work.
The Case For Home Schooling - Parental Resourcefulness
Reference and Education: Home Schooling • Published: September 2, 2009
Recently we featured in our city's newspaper in an article on home schooling. The article detailed the increase in home schooling families and children in our state over the past year and had a range of people quoted from a psychiatrist, a teacher who chose to remain unnamed, home schooling pioneer Beverley Paine, and myself as a home educator of my children. The article I present today addresses one of the arguments against home education that were presented in that article - resourcing for educational needs.
Business Intelligence - Where the Web Meets Human Resources
Business: Human Resources • Published: August 25, 2009
Data mining and business intelligence through gather information over the internet has become a major administrative task for the majority of businesses in most industries. Researching the competition, sourcing detailed information on potential suppliers and customers as well as watching the political announcements have all been added to the work loads of staff - but what about gaining business intelligence on both current and potential staff?
Are You Responding to New Customer Demands?
Business: Marketing • Published: August 25, 2009
With a change in market conditions from stability and comfort to uncertainty and dissatisfaction, how is your business responding to the desire for change that customers are feeling? Yes, when politicians bandy around words and phrases such as 'recession', 'downturn' and 'global economic crisis' we as marketers need to adapt our branding message to meet the changing demands that purchasers are armed with.
Does Your Web Site Give You Flexibility, Control and Freedom?
Internet and Businesses Online: Web Design • Published: August 24, 2009
Flexibility, control and freedom are three of the biggest business needs for web sites, yet, so many senior managers do not know how to achieve this unless they design their own web site with the expertise of their own web development team. If your organisation is not in a position to hire it's own design team then be sure to read on find out how you can retain these important business needs when selecting a designer for your web site.
Qualities of Successful Business Owners - Strategically Focused
Business: Small Business • Published: August 24, 2009
We all have days when we wonder if what we are dreaming of for our business or potential business are achievable. There are days when I find myself wondering if we will ever reach the heights I am inspired to take my businesses to. However, I know that I am strategically focussed to make those dreams a reality and I have put in place the things that are needed to make the imagined achievable. These are the things that can make the difference and produce a successful business owner. When no-one else can determine the future of your business it is important to have the strategic focus that will determine what is required to be a successful business owner.
Knock Off on Time For a Change!
Self Improvement: Stress Management • Published: August 24, 2009
Why is it that so many specialist staff, junior and middle managers, and even many executives vocally proclaim the level of stress they feeling in their life? And how is it that the same stress levels are felt by so many stay at home parents - particularly those who work at home? For most it is a lack of techniques for managing the stress they are under. This article features just one of the tricks to reducing stress - leaving the 'office' on time.
Striving For a Goal? Plan For the Small Stuff
Self Improvement: Goal Setting • Published: June 15, 2009
Sometimes achieving major goals requires intense focus. This article explores how this can be achieved without sweating over the small stuff. This article explores known keys to successfully implementing solutions to managing the minor to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Cleaning Gems - Stainless Steel
Home Improvement: Cleaning Tips and Tools • Published: June 9, 2009
Stainless steel is one of the hardest surfaces in existence to keep looking clean. The problem with stainless steel is that it isn't stainless - it is simply that when it came into existence it was found to stain less than steel in a non-compounded form. Stainless steel surfaces will, no matter how hard you try, gain water-marks, streak and start having the cloudy 'used' look. So how do you clean these poor suckers to make them look their best?
Qualities of Successful Business Owners - Drive
Business: Small Business • Published: June 4, 2009
We all have days when we don't want to get out of bed and certainly have no interest in doing anything meaningful or productive. Running two businesses that are based in Australia that has dealings in North America and South-east Asia which calls for extended hours of morning and evening occasionally leaves me in a situation there I am sure I am the hardest person in the world to rouse from sleep at 4:00 am to make an important phone call. However, that phone call is important and when no-one else can make that call for me I need to find the drive or motivation to simply do what is required.
Take a Page Out of My Book
Self Improvement: Stress Management • Published: June 4, 2009
Settling into a good book is my biggest tip for friends enduring stress. It is rare to see people who are feeling stressed reading for pleasure in Western society and perhaps part of the reason is that reading takes focus and an environment free of distractions. Taking the time to focus on just one thing allows you to unwind over other issues that may be simmering away in your head so a book is an easy choice - because there is something for everybody out there!
Preparing Your Home to Sell? Where to Start
Real Estate: Moving Relocating • Published: June 4, 2009
Both moving house and preparing a house for sale is a big deal. It takes a lot of hard work and additional effort to get the best price on your property. At the end of the day, it is all about having a house that is attractive to potential buyers and this includes giving a clean, clear and cluttered appearance. This article discusses the first step in this process.
The Ultimate Work Life Balance
Self Improvement • Published: May 15, 2009
You probably read the title or an introduction to this article and expect something revolutionary, right? Something that is new, dynamic and 'out there'. Please let me dash those hopes now! 99% of anything that I write about, I am sure has been written about before. The concept that I am about to propose is in no way new, in fact, if you wind the clock back just over a century then I am certain my suggestion was what was considered 'normal' in that day.
Practicalities of Working at Home - The Home Office
Home Based Business • Published: March 23, 2009
Whether you are deciding to work at home as an employee or to go into business for yourself there are many practicalities of business that you need to consider. One of these considerations is the establishment of a home office. Thought should be put into how and where that office will be set up and, for this, there is no fixed answer as to which way is best. The information provided to you addresses the elements that will influence how you set up a home office environment will help you determine what will, most likely, work best for you.
10 Lessons Learned From Being in Business
Business: Top7 or 10 Tips • Published: February 25, 2009
10 lessons learned in just over 10 years in business. From the experience of a business consultant who works with a large number of industry-diverse businesses what are the biggest 'gotchas' that business owners looking to grow their business should be aware of? Read as I share my own Top 10.
Do You Want to Change?
Self Improvement: Coaching • Published: February 17, 2009
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? None, the light bulb needs to want to change. Yes, it is a corny old joke but it is, in many respects true. In our management mentoring program at MIB Business Solutions, though, we see the point of the joke. Entrusting us with your business leaders can make a huge change to the leadership, productivity and attitude of your staff members as well as padding out the bottom line but effectiveness from one individual to another does largely depend upon how keen they are to modify or relieve themselves of old habits and adopt new ones.
The Power to Move Mountains in Business
Business: Productivity • Published: February 10, 2009
Anger, stress and frustration are emotions that we all experience at times. In business we all work in competitive environments and have to constantly be on the ball in all aspects of operations as well as strategically focusing on the next move to be a step ahead of the competition. So when emotional pressure hits us either from our business or personal lives we must consider the best way to manage it to advantage rather than let it simmer until we explode or perpetually weep out of us in a constant pity party.
Organising Home Education Association (HEA) Events
Reference and Education: Home Schooling • Published: December 23, 2008
There is much to consider when organising an event for a community of home educating families - too much to document in just one article! That said, this article will present a basic time line for organising an event that is registered and insured with Home Education Australia (HEA).
Identifying Part Time Roles Using the Role & Team Structure Model
Business: Human Resources • Published: December 16, 2008
Many employers spend hours contemplating what roles within their organisation could be offered on a part time basis. Some would even consider it to take too much of their time! It is from this need to expedience in business operations management that I developed the Role & Team Structure model (RTS model) which is an excellent tool for identifying part-time roles within your organisation leaving you time to interview and fill the role.
So You Have Decided to Homeschool - Now What?
Reference and Education: Home Schooling • Published: May 23, 2008
Once a person has decided that they are going to home school their family what should they do next? The very first consideration is to put together a home schooling philosophy. This is the statement that explains why you educate your family the way that you do and will be an underpinning document that guide many of your homeschooling choices. From your facilitation style or styles, curriculum and supplementary materials through to outings and activities this philosophical statement will aid you determining the importance of various choices that will present themselves across the length of your home schooling career.
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