Colors of the 4th Quarter

Colors of the Fourth Quarter

Red is glorious,
Green is gorgeous,
Brown is a color of woods,
Blue is color of moods.

Yellow stands for sunshine’s.
Purple came from royal kinds.
Desired colors are for a special day.
Dark green dominates this holiday.

White is pure, clean, and crisp.
Wind is transparent and brisk.
What color is rain? The answer burdens -
Rainwater is clear, colorless, and depends.

Light rain is happy and pink
With a little wink.
Heavy down pouring rain is monotonous
And very tedious.

Do not wish any participation
For nature angry precipitation!
Mondays are black and white.
Tuesdays and Thursdays do not bite.

Wednesdays love half-day followers.
Casual Fridays care the rainbow of colors.
The box of crayons is empty and vacant.
Instead, the words made this weekend.

The colors were used to draw.
The artistic words are not raw.
So, do not forget
The December twenty-eighth of 2008.

2008-2009 © Ida Tomshinsky
December 28, 2008-2009

Continuing Education Programs

Even in a recession, continuing education programs make sense. Colleges and universities ramp up programs for student training. Educational programs reflecting on a changing market. As the economy slows down, vocational training picks up. People are looking for alternative ways to make a living.

Be a Motivator

"The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today" by Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick is a new book that shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and the commitment of people to perform under the pressure.
"The Leadership Pill" provides the answer in an entertaining fashion in competition between two leaders with totally different management styles, and in the end, the story reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.

The books below are also providing serious business tools for serious business professionals:

• "Powerful Proposals" by David G. Pugh and Bacon, Terry R.
• "Heavy Hitter Selling" by Steve W. Martin
• "The First-Time Manager" by Loren B. Belker and Gary S. Topchik

Get the winning edge moving into 2010 business year. After all, we are moving into the second decade of the 21st century!

Lasting Memories

Holidays come and go. What last is the memories. Preparation is always the key element to make my holidays special. In the end of the day, the most important thing is that everyone is able to come together and share special time with one another. Time spent together lasts season to season, unlike the most expensive toy you can find that could break in a few months.

New Manners for New Times

I would like to write about etiquette. Even, "the Queen of Etiquette," Letitia Baldrige, admits that new times request new manners. There are manners in the workplace, with clients and fellow employees and there are business ethics protocol in customer services.
There are traditional commonsense polite business behavior and it is good to know and follow them.
A good team member works on wining respect and loyalty, and this does not happened overnight. This required efforts, and it pays off and a great value to you and the team.
Specially, when you are nineteen, you cannot apply at work the bully rules that you picked up at your high school. Be nice to people on the top and on the bottom job scale in your working environment! Never criticize your boss or "rat" on anyone (unless that person is a drug dealer or steals.) Never profile or talk behind the back. After all, the boss will evaluate your working performance and will give you recommendations for your future professional career.
Keep promises and add value to your personality. Use humor. (If you do not have one, work on one.)

Creative Branch

At the end of 2009, the use of craft increased the context of creativity. The growing number of contemporary artists are using hand craft by incorporated in their work methods and materials traditionally associated by craft. It is both unique and economical. The Creative Branch was born in 1970s and made the emphasis on personal experiences rather than on a collective social message.

Narrative Skills

To tell a story you need good narrative skills. To describe things, happenings, and events are major power points of telling a good story. The best practice is to tell and retell your stories. This is a common way to improve personal literacy skills.
Information literacy overall has many components, and, as usual, brushing up on the narrative skills is one of them.
Narrative skills are important in preparing for descriptive detail writing. To tell a good story is a key element for a successful book from different points of view from reading choices to publishing your own stories.