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When choosing a holiday gift, there are many options. CHAZ CONSULTANTS will help you find the perfect gifts with the BIGGEST impact. Here are some of the questions to ask yourself: 1 - WHO is receiving the gifts? 2 - WHAT industry are they in? 3 - WHERE will the gifts to be used? 4 – HOW are you distributing the gifts? 4 – WHAT QUANTITY do you need? 5 – WHAT is your budget? 6 – WHAT is your delivery date. CHAZ CONSULTANTS is here to help!!! CONTEST ALERT For the next 12 weeks CHAZ will start ‘THE END OF THE YEAR COUNTDOWN’ We will be giving away Fun and Exciting gifts every week. Simply write in the comments the BEST gift you ever received and we will put your name in the draw and announce the winner the following week. Good luck, and HAPPY COMMENTING…

Did you forget your lunch or don't have time to go out and hunt for something to eat on your break? Don't worry, WOLCS has you covered. We’re excited for the return of School Café. One of the many benefits of working at West Oak Lane charter is our new electronic lunch payment system, designed for the convenience of our staff at WOLCS. School Cafe is a secure online payment service by Cybersoft, where you can now effortlessly pay for your meals electronically. Originally designed for parents to manage their children’s lunch accounts, we’ve extended this service to our staff, making meal payments a breeze! How does it work? Set up your School Café account. Load money onto your account. Purchase food at the point of service by providing your name to the cashier. Receive your personal identification number (PIN) from the cashier for future transactions. Important Information: • A 5% convenience fee will be assessed for each transaction. • The fee will be charged to your credit card or check card at the time of the transaction or funds transfer to WOLCS account. • Account balances will be updated within 24 hours of the transaction. • The minimum amount for deposits is $20.00 Ready to get started? Create your School Café Account today at https://lnkd.in/d86n7jis Don’t forget to select the option to be notified when your account has a low balance. What’s on the menu? Our staff menu, created by Maschio’s, offers a variety of options. Orders must be placed by 8:30 a.m. The school lunch menu is available from 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. You can also find swap out options at the bottom of the monthly school lunch menus. WOLCS menus can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dyPxp7Vk... We hope you enjoy the convenience of electronic lunch payments through School Café. If you have any questions, we’re here to help. And remember, cash payments will always remain an option. #WOLCS #Education #InspireChange #PhillySchools #Philadelphia #lunchtime #workculture #WestOakLaneCharter #eatwell #Philadelphia

🙌 This week, we’re giving a BIG shoutout to our SMALL (but mighty) businesses in honour of Small Business Week! 💪 These local gems are the backbone of our economy, providing jobs and fostering community connections. Let’s look at some meaningful ways to show our appreciation this week and beyond: 🧡 1. Purchase Gift Cards: Support a small business by buying gift cards for yourself or as gifts for friends and clients. 🧡2. Shop Local: Make a commitment to buy from local shops and order from nearby eateries this month. 🧡3. Spread the Word: Share your favourite local businesses on social media to help them reach new customers. 🧡4. Nominate for Awards: Shine a spotlight on exceptional small businesses by nominating them for local business awards. 🧡5. Leave Positive Reviews: Take a moment to write a testimonial or a positive review to boost a small business's visibility and reputation. Let’s celebrate the hard work and creativity of our small businesses—they truly make our communities special! #TYSmallBusiness

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As we enter December it's easy to get caught up in the give, give, giving. But how often do you pay attention to the art of receiving? Receiving a gift, whether you like it or not for the intention that was behind it. Or receiving a compliment without dismissing or belittling it? Instead responding with a simple Thank You and a smile. Give it a try this week. #mindfulmonday #giftofreceiving #compliments

Sometimes overdelivering is the wrong thing to do. I once read that if McDonalds introduced silver cutlery it would be a waste of money. That immediately makes sense right? But I’m not talking about silver cutlery in the wrong setting here. I launched my course and community for parents in February and in addition to gaining access to the library of videos I’d created, there was a monthly live group call. Then I decided to up that to twice weekly calls. I thought it would make joining the community more attractive. And mean that members had more choice and flexibility. But I made a mistake. What ended up happening was that I was often sitting alone in the zoom room. Or one person would join and have a one-on-one with me which was lovely of course, but which somewhat defeated the object of creating the shared solidarity and camaraderie of a community. I reached out to the members and asked them what they thought about the frequency of calls. They all said that because they were so frequent there was no urgency to join one. They didn’t mark their calendars or ringfence the time to attend. Because just like buses, there’d be another one along soon enough. And so I’ve shifted now to twice monthly calls, one in the evening and one at lunchtime. I’ve not hosted a community before. I’m still learning. If you’re creating something new; > Stay humble. > Take feedback. > And don’t assume that you know what your clients want or need. #parenting #parentchildrelationship #thisishowwechangetheworld Thankfully the rest of the feedback has been pretty phenomenal. Here’s what one of the founding members has to say about her experience so far ⬇️ Thanks Ciara 🧡

In the latest episode of my much-loved series - ‘things I haven’t done before’… …I want to talk about the C word in October. Now, regular readers (the lucky ones) will know that I don’t like Christmas and I would usually be saying that it shouldn’t be mentioned until December. However, the activity from Dunelm - at the link below - really caught my eye and left a lump in my throat. The chain of homewares stores has a programme titled ‘Delivering Joy’ which encourages customers to give a gift to someone deserving / less fortunate by picking a tag from their in-store Christmas tree, which will have a local person’s details on it. This serves as a very strong reminder that, as we will be moving into the party season, we may all have team members / people around us that are dreading the next few weeks, and that we shouldn’t presume that ‘one size fits all’. As a HR consultant, I will be sharing a few reminders between now and Christmas about the things we can do - as business owners and employers - to look after our teams and those around us, and how we should be treating everyone as individuals. Kudos to Dunelm for this programme, and it is absolutely something that I will be taking part in. To read more details, and if you wish to get involved too, click here: https://lnkd.in/gjyRwhEK. #ThingsIHaventDoneBefore #ChristmasPlanning #NotATimeOfJoyForEveryone

Promo tip of the day: Thinking beyond the plate! Swapping a work-catered lunch for an online service awards program. That lunch would have been eaten and forgotten. Instead reallocate that lunch budget to funding an awesome gift like a branded t-shirts for your stellar team! This is a true case study, our client was going to cater lunch + give employees a lapel pin. They instead upgraded to a nicer gift and cancelled lunch. Client noted: “A t-shirt is a long-term, low-cost satisfier vs lunch.” #thevipswagsuite #ClientWins #RecognitionMatters #SmarterSpending #brandgifts #promotionalproducts

The Most Interesting Book News Of The Week Was…. https://ift.tt/vjs1Edx Here are the stories from the last week in Today in Books that you all found the most interesting, at least measured by the number of times you clicked through to read the story. In ascending order: Denis Johnson Kept a Huge Commonplace Book. And You Can Download it. Twitter is still good sometimes. I don’t know how else I would have found out that Denis Johnson collected quotes about writing (or that he thought could be applied to writing), and that you can download his commonplace book just as a regular old PDF. No ads or popovers or sign-ins or anything. And what a treasure trove it is. I am going to be thinking about this one from an August Wilson interview in which Wilson cites the Bhagavad Gita (I told you this is a gold mine): “You have the right to the work but not the reward.” A GoFundMe To Bring The Pacific Northwest Its First Romance Bookstore Katherine Morgan is trying to open the Pacific Northwest’s first bookstore dedicated to romance in the most modern way: a crowd-sourcing of $100,000 to get the doors open, the shelves stocked, and the registers ringing. Morgan has a meaningful online presence, and her Grand Gesture store (amazing name) has a digital storefront. But raising the total money needed to open the store, and not just some portion of it, is unusual. Generally, stores don’t try to raise the whole bankroll, but I don’t see why it isn’t worth trying. If you are inclined to donate $25 bucks or whatever towards 20% of a store’s start-up costs, what does it matter if that $25 goes to covering the whole thing. As of right now, just a few hours in, Morgan has raised a few thousand dollars. I would be thrilled for this thing to ping out and go visit it someday. Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round I had heard from a Book Riot reader that they were seeing some weird activity around the books section at their local Costco, so this story about Costco scaling back their stocking of books isn’t a huge surprise. We definitely need as many places for people who don’t go out of their way to find books to have a chance to pick something up at the spur of the moment, and Costco is one of the largest players left like that. Costco is a logistics company more than it is a retailer, so it makes some sense that the physical realities of carrying books (they turn over a lot, have to be placed by hand, etc) were spotlighted as reasons for the change. Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise at Reaping Returns to a Pivotal Moment in Hunger Games Lore There is still money to be made in Panem apparently. After the strength of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (both as a book and movie), Suzanne Collins has written another prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, this time set in the run-up to the 50th Hunger Games. This is after Songbirds but before The Hunger Games. If that is too confusing for you, let me put it this way: someone is going to get to play a young Woo...

🎄 IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 🎁 20th December is our last posting date for Christmas 2024 🎁 If you're gifting to businesses, we recommend you send the week commencing 9th December 🎁 If you're gifting to customers/ clients/ consumers, we recommend sending the week commencing 16th December 🎁 For teacher/ school "thank you" gifts, we re recommend you send the last full week of school 🌟 All our Christmas products have a minimum of 14 days shelf life after opening. 🌟 Looking to send 5 or more parcels, email christmas@brownieandthebean.com and we'll send you our simple spreadsheet to fill out. #supportsmallbusiness #corporategifting