[MNASIS-L] Are you interested in the August 11th SLA Virtual Seminar on Work/Life Balance?

[Janet M. Arth]

If you are interested in attending this seminar, please let Jim Tchobanoff 
know by Friday, July 30th.  Based on the level of interest, we will offer 
the seminar at one or more locations.  Information about the seminar is at 
the end of this note.

Anticipated costs are $10 for SLA/ASIST members and $15 for non-members.

Once we know the level of interest and availability of meeting facilities, 
a second note will be sent out with registration information.

Jim Tchobanoff
jtchobanoff at bigfoot.com

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Work/Life Balance: Common Pressures & Coping Strategies

August 11, 2004
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CDT

Christopher Bauer is a licensed psychologist with over twenty-five years of 
experience as a business coach, trainer, and speaker. His specialty is 
helping clients achieve their business and life goals while relying on the 
resources they already have. Between coaching and speaking, he has worked 
with front-line workers to senior executives and everyone in-between. 
Clients of Dr. Bauer have run the gamut from small and medium sized 
businesses and organizations, to every level of staff and management at 
such large corporations as Xerox, Mobil, Kodak, and IBM.

In addition to personal and business coaching, Dr. Bauer speaks and trains 
on goal setting, stress management, ethics in business, and maximizing both 
personal and business achievement. Information on his corporate keynotes, 
seminars and workshops programs can be found at 
<http://www.bauercoaching.com/>http://www.bauercoaching.com/ and 
information on his public seminars can be found at 
<http://www.bauerseminars.com/>http://www.bauerseminars.com/.

Stress Management: The Basics & Beyond! Dealing with the everyday maze of 
job performance demands, staff, programmatic issue, and conflicting agendas 
- not to speak of managerial and/or interpersonal pressures - can be highly 
stressful. When that happens our comfort and effectiveness both plummet. 
Stress and its many symptoms can insidiously take a significant, direct 
toll on individuals, families, and businesses. The costs to ourselves, our 
families, and our businesses are high in both dollars and human distress. 
Regardless of one's job or type of organization, managing stress in an 
effective manner can make all the difference in not only health and 
comfort, but in professional success as well. There is a clear, inverse 
relationship between most types of stress and personal performance.

Stress not only reduces the quality of individual's performance but also 
creates a real 'dollars and cents' liability due to increased accidents, 
illnesses, injuries, absences, and employee turnover. Conservative 
estimates are of $150 billion per year lost due to stress-related problems. 
Improved stress management skills will not only reduce this financial 
liability but will directly lead to improved job performance via increased 
comfort, concentration, and overall health, safety, comfort, and stability. 
This program will 'jump-start' participants' stress management skills so 
that they can immediately begin to enjoy all the benefits described above - 
both on and off the job. The tone of the presentation is conversational and 
the presentation style is engaging and fun!

Participants in this lively seminar can expect to take away:

1.) Basic knowledge of the financial, emotional, and organizational costs 
associated with stress-related difficulties in the workplace.

2.) A minimum of six practical but easily learned 'foundation concepts' for 
the development and maintenance of effective stress management and life 
balance skills.

3.) An understanding of a minimum of five 'early warning signs' of high 
stress and what to do to effectively combat them both quickly and effectively.

4.) A minimum of two immediately applicable 'quick induction' relaxation 
techniques.