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• 7 tips to help your ministry team prevent burnout

  Deborah Ike Religious Community

  As leaders, sometimes we need to protect our team members from themselves. The individuals who regularly stay late to wrap up a few tasks, who take on the toughest assignments, and practically live at the church need your help. While their dedication and work ethic is admirable, ministry is a marathon…not a sprint. Running at a sprinter’s pace will keep team members from being able to stay healthy and strong over the long haul. Here are seven tips to help your staff avoid burnout.

• Let go, and live your best life in the new year

  Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  As the year comes to an end, many of us are thinking about what we’ve accomplished during the last 12 months and setting goals for next year. Organizations are looking at bottom- and top-line profits and measuring success and milestones. A recent conversation with the CEO of a midsized company reinforced how crucial it is for leaders to take care of themselves and encourage their employees to do the same. When Andre contacted me for my advice, he was feeling overwhelmed and anxious about the future of his organization.

• A stock market survival course: Part 5

  Patrick Gleeson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  This is the final article of a five-part investor’s survival course designed to give you essential information you need to succeed as an investor in the stock market. None of it is mere opinion. The previous articles summarized the research indicating that while individual investors underperform the market by more than 60 percent, only about 5 percent of professional investors beat the market in a given year. In this last article I’ll summarize current research on the relationship between risk and return and, finally, will suggest a slight modification of the investment program advocated here that takes advantage of the market cycle.

• Travel2020: What’s luxury got to do with it? Just ask Ted Teng

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Ted Teng, president and CEO of Leading Hotels of the World, has been at the helm of the luxury hotel branding organization since 2008 and oversees the management of this branding through its more than 430 hotels. The properties all bring unique histories and their own styles of architecture. Some 88 percent are family-owned and nearly all are independently managed. We talked with Teng in a roundtable discussion last month held at the annual Signature Travel Network conference in Las Vegas.

• Are you a workaholic? Easier ways to get more accomplished

  Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  If you're a workaholic — meaning you're on the job 50 or more hours per week — your physical and emotional health can easily suffer without you even realizing it. Poor sleep, weight gain, stress at home, and multiplying mistakes as you start to burn out won't lead to a good outcome for you or your company. No worries, though: science has several easy and effective solutions to help you treat yourself better — and do your best work. Try these tips.

• How is the ‘new NAFTA’ different?

  Michelle R. Matisons Manufacturing

  The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was very controversial when first proposed during the Clinton administration and signed in 1994. It was the first North American trilateral trade bloc representing Mexico, Canada and the United States. NAFTA’s successor, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was signed by all three participating countries’ leaders at the G20 Summit on Nov. 30. The legislatures of all three countries must ratify the agreement before it goes into effect. We know USMCA is intended to make up for NAFTA’s shortcomings. But will it?

• How to improve Instagram Story ads in 2019

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  As a social media marketer, you must be adaptable. Think back to last year at about this time. No doubt, you had carefully pinpointed all the tactics that worked best for your brand on social media that year. This year, you hoped to do more of the same! But the leaders of social media platforms had a different idea. Facebook rolled out one of its most substantial algorithm updates in January, which completely derailed brands’ social media plans. With each algorithm update, we find ourselves scrambling to keep up and discover the new "secret sauce." In 2019, don’t let the hunt drive you crazy. Instead, go with the constant.

• America’s dozen daffiest New Year’s Eve drops

  Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  It was way back in 1907 that the now-famous New Year's Eve ball made its maiden descent from the flagpole atop One Times Square in New York City. Since then the seemingly wacky process of dropping objects to celebrate the beginning of a new year has spread across the country. Here's a selection of the dozen daffiest drops.

• How to fire kids up to be excited for their core subjects

  Brian Stack Education

  I spent years as a high school math teacher unsuccessfully trying to find an answer to this question: Why didn’t my students have as much passion and enthusiasm for math as they did for their extracurricular activities, and what could I do as a teacher to change that? The closest I had ever come to reaching an answer actually came two years after I left the classroom to become a school administrator. That year (over a decade ago), my school tried an experiment. We paired a math teacher with a woodshop teacher to offer a class entitled "Geometry in the Woodshop."

• December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  It is a message that needs to repeatedly loudly and often: do not drive impaired. The holiday season is a time where there are frequent preventable tragedies due to impaired driving. For that reason, December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. On average, 29 people in the United States die each day in motor vehicle crashes that involve the use of alcohol. Every year, more than 10,000 lives are lost to drunk driving at a cost of $44 billion.

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