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Events

Following ongoing demand, ConsultingTools is pleased to announce additional dates for free Facet5-Audition training sessions. The workshops which will run on Friday 19^th October and Tuesday 18^th December 2007 in London are specially designed for recruitment consultants.

If you would like to get further details about the workshops or to book a place, get in touch with us.

Interesting websites

This month, we would like to direct you to The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) website. We thought you might be interested to read the ILM article on how ‘Monday morning blues’ are costing businesses billions of pounds.

Read the article here.

Did you know…?

Sleep plays a vital role in good health and represents the daily process of physiological restitution and recovery. A recent study found that those who cut their sleeping from seven to five hours a night had twice the risk of a fatal cardiovascular problem than those who stuck to the recommended seven hours a night. A lack of sleep had been linked to an increased risk of weight gain, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes.

Curiously, the researchers also found that those individuals who increased their sleep to eight hours or more a night were more than twice as likely to die during the period of the study as those who had not changed their habit.

However, the link between too much sleep and poor health was less clear, although it had been suggested that staying in bed for prolonged periods could be a sign of depression or, in some cases, cancer-related fatigue.

The research concluded that both too much and too little sleep is linked to a doubled risk of fatal cardiovascular disease. Consistently sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal for health.

Sweet dreams!

Just for Fun

Smiling is one of our most underused expressions. Smile at someone else and they invariably smile back. It's an easy way to cheer someone up or even make their day, so why don't you do it more often?

Take this test and check out your smile's impact now!

A give-away awaits the first person to send us his/ her results.

Forthcoming Accreditations

If you want to be accredited in either Thinking Styles or Facet5, we are running accreditations on the following dates:

Facet5                    17-18 October 2007

                             5-6 December 2007

                             30-31 January 2008

Thinking Styles        13-14 November 2007

To book a place, email us.

ConsultingTools Newsletters 

If you missed any of our previous stories, you can now catch up with them on the ConsultingTools website, where back issues are now available. 

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