January in WorkLife Essentials

We're preparing for a new year here at WorkLife Essentials and we'd like to start it off by thanking you for your business during the past year.  2011 was full of activities, accomplishments and expansion including launching our Blog and our new branding, exhibiting at conferences, charitable giving and development of our website with ever more countries on offer in the Global Village and advanced reporting features. And, in 2012, we have even more planned!  Stay tuned right here for all the updates every month, and visit our Blog for the very latest information and discussions on up to the minute topics.  If you have any questions about any new features or our activities from last year and any suggestions for 2012, please contact our Support Team or use the Suggestion Box feature inside WLE.com.  We wish you all the best for the start of the new year and look forward to meeting your expectations for 2012. As our first promotional topic for next year, we are talking about relationships, in all their forms.  The workplace is an important place to foster healthy respectful relationships, which you can read about in "Age Differences, Work Differences: Understanding Older and Younger Co-Workers".  The same thing applies to our home relationships.  We cover all of this, from the simple every day challenges like household responsibilities, with "Sharing Household Responsibilities", to building relationships with your children as they age and eventually leave the house, with "When the Children leave home", to relationships with friends and members of your community, discussed in "Friends, Relationships, and Building a Community". These relationships form the bedrock of your life and are support when you need it and a source of fun and companionship when you need those.  You and your employees can read our promotional articles this month, including those highlighted below, to help build the relationships that will make work-life more rewarding.  You can read more details, as well as find a downloadable version of this email teaser, at our Blog, or by logging in to your WorkLife Essentials homepage and clicking the "Relationships" link in the promotion box.  As always, if you are having trouble viewing our Blog, you can still access the latest What's New features and Teasers at our "What's New" page. Your Young Adolescent's Social Life Adolescents develop socially on their own timetable. Healthy adolescents are committed to becoming their own person, independent from their parents. In their social lives, they are trying on new behaviors that help develop this independence. Everything from dating, to communication via Facebook, requires them to make decisions and choices on their own... Read more…* Building a Good Relationship With Your Teenager Adolescence is essentially a voyage of discovery. On this journey a teenager must deal with a body that’s developing in new ways, strong (and sometimes scary) feelings about sex, and an innate sense of rebellion against authority -- yours included. At the end of this odyssey, they will have become someone who knows and lives by their own values... Read more…* Connecting With Your Child During Stressful Times at Work During times of workplace change, such as a new manager or a work relocation, we often bring our worries home with us. Children pick up on our feelings, and can tell when we are anxious, worried, or under stress. Connecting with your child during times like these can help reduce stress at home. Your child will feel better, and you will, too... Read more…* *must be logged in to WorkLifeEssentials.com to read more Copyright© 2011 WorkLife Essentials®, All rights reserved. Download the latest Teaser here.