Work Smart Live Smart with Beverly Beuermann-King

Are you good at recognizing others?  Recognition works best when it acknowledges the Attitudes, Behaviors, and/or Contributions of the person or the team to the success of the organization. Companies with a solid strategy to recognize team members enjoy stronger engagement, increased employee morale, better customer service, and lower turnover. However, recognizing others in a meaningful way is not as easy as you think. True recognition has to be meaningful and not superficial. It needs to make the employee feel valued, respected, and special.

Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Extraordinary Work Team Recognition Day.

Just over 25 years ago the first text message was sent. Like most inventions, it wasn’t thought that it would really catch on. Who knew that billions of text messages each month would be sent and that it would be a major influencer in the way we communicate. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Business Texting while Celebrating the Anniversary of the First Text Message.

I know that it is not pleasant, but think of yourself as a human petri-dish that grows all kind of icky bacteria and is the warm and cozy home for all kinds of viruses. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and Celebrating Handwashing Awareness Week.

We take for granted our health and the health of our children.  But what if you are a family that has a child who is facing special challenges? Special Kids Day was put together to help families cope during the extra stress of the holidays. Here are today's Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Special Kids Day by showing your support for these special families.

It is something that we all know that we should do. But often it is not until something goes wrong or we’ve had a close call that we actually do do it.

What is it?

Backing up our computer files and taking care of our computer.

Here are Today's Hot Tips For Building Resilience and Celebrating Computer Security Day.

The weather is changing and for some of us, so does our skin. Our skin is often a reflection of our overall health. It can show signs of stress, lack of sleep and poor diet. Here are today's Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Awareness During National Healthy Skin Month. 

“I know how we’d get out of the house mommy if we had a fire.” This was the start of a conversation I had with my 7 year old after a school fire drill.

Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating National Home Fire Safety Week.

We have a day for giving thanks. We have a day for getting deals. Today is #GivingTuesday and the day we can celebrate giving back and encouraging global generosity. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating World Day of Giving.

Sadly, one in 10 suffers from some type of substance use disorder. That could mean your colleague, your neighbour or someone in your own family. Addiction does not discriminate—it affects all walks of life.​ Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating National Addiction Awareness Week.

Originally this day was initiated to encourage people to interview a loved one, friend or member of your community and to share this story with others. The feeling was that every story matters and they need to be shared. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating National Day of Listening.

We are all remarkable. However, many of us have talents that we don’t share, as we believe that we are unremarkable, plain, or ordinary. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating Your Unique Talent Day.

Have you seen any zombies walking around the mall? These zombies want you to Forget Black Friday and instead celebrate Buy Nothing Day. Today is the day to consider if you are on the road of over-consumption. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating Buy Nothing Day.

It is easy just to plunk on the couch and watch TV. Especially when you have been overwhelmed by deadlines, projects and family responsibilities. But this does little to build our family bonds. So what can?  Researchers have studied the impact that gaming can have on cognitive abilities, interpersonal relationships and stress levels. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating National Game and Puzzle Week.

The United Nations declared November 21 as World Television Day in 1996 as part of its recognition that Television was one of the most influential forms of media for communication and information dissemination. Unfortunately, One day you are a necessity…the next, you may be a relic. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and celebrating World TV Day.

They are Shapers. Solution lovers. Grabbers of Opportunity. They are a special stock of a person. The one who wants to carve their own way in life. Thanks to their vision, dedication, sacrifice and drive, these entrepreneurs are driving our countries forward. 

Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building your resiliency and Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Day.

Everyone Has Bad Days! We all have a day that is off, but sometimes we feel pressure to pretend that all is good and that we are happy. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and celebrating Have A Bad Day Day.

One minute you’re changing diapers and wiping noses, the next minute they have moved out and on. “Empty nest,” does not need to mean an empty life. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and celebrating Empty Nester Month.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we’ve stopped playing. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and celebrating National Day of Play.

I think as adults we sometimes forget to be thankful.  We often focus on the difficulties and on the things that are not going right and sometimes we lose sight of the things that are going well and the blessings that we have received. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and celebrating I Am So Thankful Month.

Is Your Stuff Starting To Take Over? Now is a good time to look and see how you can use less stuff or get rid of the stuff that you have. Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and celebrating Use Less Stuff Day.