Group starts standing in a circle.  One person starts by beginning to act out an activity, for example, pretending to hoola-hoop.  The next person in the circle asks, “(the first person’s name) what are you doing?”  The first person says something that is completely different from what they are actually doing, for example, “I’m climbing a mountain.”  The second person begins acting out whatever the first person says.  In this example, the second person would begin acting like they are climbing a mountain.  The third person says “(second person’s name) what are you doing.”  The second person says something different than what they are doing.  Again in this example, the second person says, “chasing a lighting bug” (something entirely different from climbing a mountain.)  Continue in this way around the circle.

Tips:

The more outrageous the spoken activity the better.  For example, “chasing lighting bugs in a bouncy castle” better than “chasing lighting bugs.”

Description:

Participants write their fears related with the training course on balloons and pop them when they the fears are overcome.

Step by step:

1. At the session distribute one balloon to each participant and tell them to inflate them up and sail them.
2. Distribute also markers to each participant and tell them to write on the balloons their biggest fear that they have related with the session.
3. Tell participants to put the balloons in a corner of the training room on the string.
4. At the end of each session, create a moment  for participants to stand-up and pop the balloons when they consider that the fear is overcome.
5. Invite them to express their fears and why they consider of letting go of the fear. Underline any learning points you think are important.

Two years ago, who would have thought Coke and Energizer could ever be cast aside by retailers?

Well – it’s happening.

Costco recently announced it was no longer selling Coca-Cola products as a result of a price battle.  CVS is dropping most Energizer products and will only carry Duracell and its private label.     Following this trend, Wal-Mart continues to move towards its product mix goal of one top brand, one value brand and its private label.

Costco is betting people will continue to come to Costco and buy alternatives to Coke.  CVS has used its customer shopping data to predict a minimal sales drop if they no longer sell Energizer.

What should all businesses take away from this?

Few brands are indispensable to the customer. In fact, you know your customers could find a pretty good alternative if you were no longer in business.

So what can you do to become as close to indispensable as possible?

Know your customers

• Why do they choose to buy your product/service?
• What do you offer them that they can’t get anywhere else?
• Why do they buy from your competitors if you aren’t available?
• What do your competitors offer that you don’t?
• How are they using your product or service?
• How do they use your competitor’s product or service?

(These questions can be easily answered through one-on-one interviews and quantified through online research.)

Know your competition

• What are they offering that you don’t?
• What makes them unique in the market?
• Do they partner with other companies?

Upon learning about your customers, develop service offerings that they can only get from your company.  Some ideas could be:

• Guarantees
• Special hours
• Rewards programs
• Loyal customer specials
• Packaged service offering
• Something extra every time they do business with you (for example, a local Chinese restaurant gives you an extra appetizer as their way of saying thank you)

Why no mention of lowering prices on these lists? Making your brand indispensable is not about price; it is about creating value that your audience can not receive anywhere else.

How are you creating value to make your brand indispensable?

Post your comments so others can learn from what you are doing.

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With his Energizer bunny Megyn Kelly away on maternity leave, Roger Ailes seems to have picked Alisyn Camerota to fill in the void. Not only did Aly perform her duties on Fox & Friends Weekend last weekend but she also guest-hosted on American’s Newsroom this week and subbed as a Cultural Warrior on the O’Reilly Factor last night. According to her AN co-anchor Bill Hemmer, Aly will be on F&F as usual this weekend. Ailes has definitely upped her profile.

Today one began to wonder if FNC was trying to put a too serious newsperson spin on Aly. Instead of AN’s customary full-figure views as the show begins each hour, the cameraperson cropped Ms. Camerota from the waist up basically. Apparently, someone called the offending producer to account toward the end of the show: After 100 minutes without any real stem shots, the camera captured three in the last twenty minutes.

Aly: a real FNC journalist and a busy Ailes bunny to boot.

Register with A Full Cup to access the Target Coupon Generator. Currently, the Target Toys Coupon Book printable coupons are available, including:

• $10 off both Blu-Ray Up and Monsters Inc
  • Can be stacked with: $8 off Monsters Inc Blu-Ray and $10 off UP Blu-Ray combo pack
• $10 off Fisher Price Handy Manny Workshop
• $1 off Energizer batteries or flashlight
  • Can be stacked with: Save $1 on any one (1) Energizer product (This is a good time to stock up on batteries for all those Christmas toys!)
• $20 off Fisher Price Little People Discovery Airport
• $20 off Lifestyle New Traditions Kitchen
• $5 off Nerf N-Strike Raider
• 20% off Scooter or Pocket Rocket Hot Wheels Folding
• And many more!!!

Dalam sebuah organisasi arau institusi komunikasi merupakan hal utama yang harus dijakankan dengan baik. Kesuksesan suatu program akan sangat tergantung dari komunikasi yang efektif dan lancar yang dilakukan oleh para pihak yang tergabung dalam organisasi itu.

Berikut ini adalah sebuah game sekaligus memberikan analogi bagaimana pengaruh komunikasi terhadap pencapaian tujuan organisasi/ institusi. Adapun langkah-langkah game-nya adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Bentuklah peserta pelatihan menjadi kelompok-kelompok.
2. Peserta diminta untuk memilih 1 orang yang paling pandai menggambar dan satu orang yang paling cerdas.
3. Setiap orang yang ditunjuk sebagai ahli menggambar, dipersilahkan maju untuk menggambar sesuatu yang menunjukkan visi atau motivasi kelompok, misalnya menggambar matahari sebagai gambaran bahwa kelompok tersebut akan memberikan pencerahan kepada semua orang yang ada di dunia ini.
4. Setelah selesai menggambar,  separoh ahli lukis dipersilahkan keluar ruangan. Sedangkan separoh yang lainnya dipersilahkan kembali kekelompok untuk menjelaskan apa makna gambar yang telah mereka buat tersebut.
5. Bagi anggota kelompok yang ahli lukisnya keluar dimohon untuk memberikan penjelasan apa makna gambar yang telah dibuat oleh ahli lukisnya yang telah keluar ruangan. Orang yang paling cerdas bisa mewakili kelompok untuk menjelaskan gambar tersebut.
6. Setelah selesai ahli lukis yang berada di luar diminta masuk kembali untuk memberikan penjelasan gambar yang sudah ia buat. Peserta lain dimohon untuk memperhatikan apakah ada kesamaan atau atau perbedaan penjelasan antara ahli lukis dan anggota kelompoknya.
7. Tiba giliran anggota kelompok yang ahli lukisnya tidak keluar ruangan dan memberikan penjelasan kepada anggota kelompok untuk menunjuk 1 orang mewakili menjelaskan makna gambar yang telah dibuat olah ahli lukisnya.
8. Setelah itu ahli lukis dimohon juga untuk memberikan penjelasan serupa tentang gambar tersebut.
9. Peserta lain diminta memperhatikan apakah perbedaan dan kesamaannya.

Pembelajaran:

1. Bagi kelompok yang sebelumnya tidak ada komunikasi antara anggota kelompok dengan ahli lukis sangat dimungkinkan akan terjadi perbedaan persepsi tentang gambar yang telah dibuat, sekalipun yang menjelaskan adalah oarang yang paling cerdas di dalam kelompok tersebut. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bawah sebagus apapun hasil karya/ prestasi  seseorang kalau tidak dikomunikasikan dengan baik, maka tidak akan bisa dipahami oleh orang lain atau bahkan tidak akan diketahui oleh orang lain.
2. Bagi kelompok yang sebelumnya telah mendiskusikan/ mengkomunikasikan  terlebih dahulu tentang gambar yang dibuat, bisa dipastikan penjelasan yang diberikan oleh anggota kelompok akan sama atau hampir sama dengan makna gambar yang dimaksud oleh si pembuatnya yaitu si-ahli lukis. Ini menunjukkan bahwa segala sesuatu yang dikomunikasikan akan bisa dipahami oleh orang lain, sehingga makna dan tujuan dari kegiatan tersebut bisa dipahami dan dijalankan oleh semua orang yang ada dalam organisasi tersebut.

Selamat Mencoba !!

Didn’t they used to be HeavenlyHam? That shit was the bomb. Cost about as much as a gold watch, but definitely Get-in-my-mouth kinda good. If you feel like trying out this Honey Baked business get a $10 coupon for a Honey Baked Ham 8 lbs or larger.  Thanks, Stretching A Buck

More from MommySnacks, I don’t think any of these are duplicates:

$.75 Half Gallon Soy Milk.  There ar also several stacks of $2 soymilk coupons on ebay without expiration dates.
$1 Skinny Cow Novelties
$2 Theraflu. Supposedly there is a great RR deal at Walgreens next week. More info tomorrow.
$3 ANY Neutrogena Cosmetics at RedPlum
$1 Energizer Battery
Great Right at Home Coupons: $3 on 2 Glade Fragrance Collection and $4 Glade Sense & Spray! (Watch for Wal Mart’s $5 sales on the Sense and Spray to get these for $1)
$2 Bare Naked Coupon (and several others too). Click on the Coupons tab.
$2 ANY Ester-C Product at RedPlum.  Hold out for next week’s Walgreen’s sale on this, too.
$1 Venom Energy Drink
$5 Clorox Toilet Wands
$1 Muir Glenn
$1 on 2 Trident Layers Gum. These are FREE at Walgreens this week

I remember Breast Cancer Awareness month last year all too well. Someone incredibly close to me had just been diagnosed with it and within weeks had had a mastectomy. Whilst cancer has featured many times in the years I have lived, each time the news breaks the shock remains as great as the first time – and so does the sense of helplessness, personally.

However, such an extraordinary amount has been done to enhance awareness of this dreadful killer that day in, day out, women are identifying a potential risk and addressing it so speedily that lives are being saved - your mother, your sister, your daughter, your best friend, maybe you.

Frankly this year I’ve been a bit useless in addressing this and doing anything to actively help – until now. I’ve long known that the easiest way to do things is to incorporate it into your regular routine. It requires little to no extra effort and yet if it can save a life it’s almost impossible to discount.

Energizer and ASDA also recognise this and have applied this principle directly. Energizer has issued a limited edition “Tickled Pink” (and boy are they pink!) batteries, of which 10p per packet will be donated to the “Tickled Pink” campaign launched way back in 1996 by ASDA and endorsed by the Breast Cancer Campaign and Breast Cancer Care.

Now, I don’t know about you but I have various devices around my home that require batteries – and if there’s one thing I seem always to be running out of… it’s batteries! Therein, if you have a similar issue would you please join me in popping into your local ASDAs (or George, if there’s one nearby) and having a little stock-up for the winter.
How simple can it be?

Better still, I’ve no idea which life our small effort will go towards helping; which family might escape the devastation of losing a loved one but it strikes me that helping is both humanity and womanhood at its best.

My heartfelt thanks in advance.

Alex xx

Information on Breast Cancer Campaign here

Information on Breast Cancer Care here

Information about Energizer Tickled Pink Campaign here

Well I’m glad that I can’t list having found a critter in an unusual spot. However, I did find a giveaway for Lysol.

I’m going blog hop a little, and see what I find tonight. Check back to this blog entry, and be sure to refresh. I’ll update as I go. You know the dance by now. Right?

Momma In Flip Flops is giving away Lysol! Ends 10/7

One lucky Momma In Flip Flops2 reader will win The Baby Lua in whatever style you would like. Ends 10/7

Check out the Calm Cool Collected at Resourceful Mommy.

BLOG and enter to win with a purpose! Valerie over Sweeps4Bloggers, has a giveaway up for Energizer, and Susan G. Komen for the cure. Visit her to read more. And become a fan of  Energizer FB page

SilverHartGirl over at Helping Mommy’s Win has a few reviews and giveaways of her own. Check them out, and leave her some comment love!

SilverHartGirl has a list of a few other bloggers giving away alight.com shirt. We have our giveaway listed here going until 12/30/09.

Win A Happy Halloween counting book 10/11 From SilverHartGirl.

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The serious health challenges facing many of us today are growing at an exponential rate as a direct result of our diet and lifestyle.

While the four main killer lifestyle diseases, (Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Obesity), were all classed as uncommon two hundred years ago, they have all reached epidemic status today.

Worldwide scientific research has shown that the “fresh” foods we consume today are seriously deficient in many essential nutrients, due to the ongoing degradation of the soil these foods are grown in. The Vitamins, Minerals and Enzymes our bodies rely on for essential maintenance and repair are simply no longer present in sufficient quantities in many fruits and vegetables to be effective.

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Tin toy is great gift to granny as it is an old fashion toy. Although it can be for a child, adults will appreciate these items far more, and so adults are the ones whom these toys are really for. They are no impact-proof, wear resisting items like the modern plastic toys; instead they are made of metal sheet, and operate by a delicate wind up mechanism.  Just as some of us might remember them from our childhood, these items don’t stand up too well to use and abuse, and better belong to the display case, where they serve as reminder of our childhood.