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- Communication
Developing effective communication skills can significantly improve your chances of understanding and being understood.
- Communication Triangles - Do They Work?
Discover how open and direct communication is key to preventing the negative communication technique called triangulation .
- Dont Sabotage Your Relationship with Negative Assumptions
Negative assumptions close off the possibility of exchanging information that can lead to healthy, meaningful communication.
- Expanding Your Social Network Through Volunteerism
Volunteering can provide opportunities to meet new people, explore new interests, and provide you with a sense of fulfillment
- Friendship - A Priceless Investment
Research shows that those who have established close friendships with at least 10 people are more satisfied with their retirement years.
- Gender Differences
Becoming aware of the differences between men and women’s communication styles can promote patience and understanding between the genders.
- Growing 'The Village' into a Thriving Town
Before entire industries began contracting in wave after wave of business consolidations, companies had a significant “local” presence. Executives were often homegrown entrepreneurs, founding companies in their own backyards.
- I Took the Road Less Traveled
Are you one of the millions of Baby Boomers who are thinking about what to do with the rest of your life? This article offers a number of diverse resources to assist you in choosing which road to travel.
- Listening
Learn about the skill of active listening and how it can enhance our relationships and our sense of connectedness.
- Making and Keeping Friends After Retirement
Studies show that retirees who interact with other people are happier, healthier, and live longer lives. Get some tips on how to establish friendships.
- Marriage After 50
Marriage after 50 has its own unique set of unique circumstances that requires adjustment and preparation.
- Media Mirror
Do the media and advertisers shape or reflect our culture? Read this article and let us know what you think!
- My Significant Other Doesn't Like My Friends
Acceptance and encouragement of a partner’s friendships, separate from the primary relationship, is one of the crucial aspects of a healthy relationship.
- Reconnecting After Relocating
It takes a plan to meet new people but, using your resourcefulness, new friendships and activities can be found to enrich your life after 50.
- Relocating, Establishing New Relationships and Maintaining Old Ones
Establishing yourself in a new place can be a great way to begin a satisfying and contented phase of your life after 50.
- Sex and the Single Boomer
Our capacity for sexual intimacy will be with us our entire lives. It is up to us individually to determine how to fulfill this desire within our own desires and limitations.
- So How Did That Make You Feel?
Look at the cultural stereotypes that are visible in advertising and the effect that negative ads have on the older adult.
- Strengthening Your Social Network
The strength of your social support system is a greater predictor of life satisfaction than either wealth or health.
- The Glass Ceiling
The ‘glass ceiling’ as a metaphor for women was first coined in an article for ADWEEK by Gay Bryant in 1984. It captured and labeled the frustration women had in climbing the corporate ladder beyond middle management. Since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, there have been laws and employment practices protecting women and people of color from discrimination but there is still something invisible that is a barrier to top executive levels.
- The Time Is Now
On September 11, 2008, Rick Stengel and Judy Woodruff facilitated the Service Nation Summit and Presidential Candidate Forum and posed a thought-provoking question of the candidates: “What are the obligations of citizenship in a democracy?”
- Two Sides of the Same Coin
Popular literature tends to stereotype older generations as being set in their ways and younger generations as highly flexible. Despite their learned orientations, all generations value and respond productively to flexible work environments and older generations aren’t any more resistant to change than their younger co-workers. It can be easy to buy into these published stereotypes because we often don’t have the appropriate context with which to interpret the behaviors we observe.
- Types of Communicators
This article outlines 3 major communication styles and suggests when each could be most appropriately used.
- Volunteerism
Thoughtful preplanning can make volunteering a positive part of your vibrant life after 50 plan.
- What Am I Going To Do When I Grow Up
Does that sound like something you’ve heard or thought to yourself when contemplating your career? Are you frustrated to realize that, as you approach the age to begin collecting Social Security, you’re still questioning what to do with your life?
- Who Gets the Friends?
Discover positive ways to work though the difficult decisions that must be made when a long term relationship is dissolved.
- Why Plan for Life After 50
By taking time to do some advance planning the 30+ years of retirement can become a time of joy and meaning instead of fear and depression.
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