Santa may be checking his gift list twice, but for millions of individuals who work for a Grinch-like boss, or employers with just as many difficult employees, no day is a holiday. In a new booklet called, “The Business of Forgiveness,” minister, Charlette Manning helps employers boost employee satisfaction and employees to handle challenging bosses during the holiday season and beyond. Through 21 steps that anyone can do by themselves, Manning introduces simple, yet powerful, forgiveness-based strategies into corporate environments and other business settings. As a result, employees feel happier and are more personally empowered, while employers experience an increase in employee retention and productivity, as well as reduced absenteeism on the job. “An employee who is listened to, whose needs are taken seriously, and who is genuinely cared about by his or her boss equals a happier person. Happy people will give their best to an organization. When you do the math, forgiveness always adds up as the best way to create bottom line results,” says Manning, whose booklet helps mitigate the difficult dynamics that occur in business settings where tensions can run high between employees and employers. Others affirm the power of forgiveness in the workplace. After witnessing years of emotional and physical pain as expressed by his clients who could not find peace in their situation, Robert Plath, an attorney in Marin County, California, founded the “International Forgiveness Day,” in which he honors individuals whom he calls, “Heroes of Forgiveness.” Similarly, Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, the author of “Love is Letting Go of Fear,” and creator of The International Center for Attitudinal Healing, has found that forgiveness is one of the most powerful ingredients to finding inner peace in any environment, including the workplace. Although workplace issues may be complex and further intervention may be necessary, here are three quick tips that Manning offers from “The Business of Forgiveness” to help start the holidays off on the right foot: 1. Give up the need to be right. It is not important to engage in disagreements. Give yourself permission to have a good time, during the holidays and beyond, in spite of other people and their opinions. There is no such thing as right or wrong it is just someone’s opinion about what is right or wrong. 2. Hold onto joy. You have a choice to accept what anyone says or does to you. The truth is what you decide it is. You are only rotten if you accept that you are rotten. Rise above any negative thought or feelings directed towards you and smile. 3. Detach from toxicity. Negativity produces negative energy and negative energy is literally toxic. Acid is produced in the body each time you focus on bad things. Anger is toxic, arguments are toxic, and bad inner feelings are toxic. When someone shares their tale of woe, be polite and exit stage right! Go to the other side of the room, go to the restroom, or do whatever you have to, but get away from toxic people as quickly as you can. To download a free mp3 file and learn more about how to practice forgiveness and deal with difficult employees or bosses during the holidays and beyond, visit: www.charlettemanning.com.
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