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Monday, July 24, 2006
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VOLUME 3
ISSUE 118
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July WorldWIT Website Columns
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Invite a Friend
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Visit the WorldWIT Chapters Page and click on 'Invite Friends' on the left navigation bar. You'll be able to enter your colleagues' and friends' email addresses and invite them to join their nearest WorldWIT discussion group. You can use our pre-written message or write your own. Spread the word!
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Network Weaving
Strategies for Work-Life Integration
by Mindy Fried and Mindy Gewirtz
Despite a powerful social movement to create family-friendly workplaces, many businesses have cultures that do not support work-life integration. While women are increasingly represented in high level professions, the culture of most workplaces still equates long hours with loyalty and commitment, which impedes the use of policies aimed at integrating work and personal spheres. How can we ensure that there are policies in place that support employees’ work-life integration and create organizational capability to support their use?
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Creating the Market AND Keeping It
Selling Skills for Non-Salespeople
by Janet Ryan
 We looked last week at some issues around carving out a new market position. But it would be incomplete and unwise to think about opening up a new market without considering how to keep as much as possible for yourself. No point growing a market for the followers bound to jump in once you do the hard work! Read on for more on competitive immunity.
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Ask Liz
How do I address an unwelcome conversation-joiner?
Dear Liz,
I could use help with an awkward situation. I manage a team of inside sales reps who work in a bullpen-type area of low-wall cubicles. I sit in the same area and my boss, the VP of Sales, sits in another low-wall-cube just outside the bullpen area. Frequently I go and sit near my boss to discuss some issue. Very often, one of my inside sales reps comes over to join in the conversation. I hate to say, "This is a private conversation," but I don't want to say, "Don't you have work to do?" Any suggestions?
Celine
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Warning! Creep Alert
Pinch Me...Or Don't
While my office was being renovated, my desk and workstation were moved to the server room, a large, sterile, air controlled, but NOISY environment. Surrounded by whirring fans, servers, network stacks and machinery noises, I was working at my desk when the terminal display next to me suddenly flashed Warning! Warning! A loud beep chirped periodically, and I felt I should alert someone. Finding the Network admin in the next aisle, I told him that the display next to me gave a warning, and he said with a raised eyebrow, "Did you mean that?" "What?" I wondered aloud. And he said, "I thought you said 'Me so horny,'" with an equally creepy laugh following. I was dumbstruck. Pinch me...or don't. I just want to pretend I didn't hear THAT!
- Amy
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In the News
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Turn Up the AC
Examining the Arts & Culture Factor in the Workplace
A recent article explores the relationship between arts and cultural programs in organizations and increased employee engagement and productivity. "Employers that incorporate arts and culture into their business, either by offering theater tickets or engaging employees in volunteer activities, reap the rewards of heightened creativity and innovation." This report contains information on studies and tips on how companies can incorporate arts and culture to the benefit of employees and organizations.
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Contact Info
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Questions? Comments? Write to info@worldwit.org. To submit an article, a question for "Ask Liz" or a story for "Pinch Me...or Don't", send an e-mail to Anne Jennings.
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