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When I was 16, I wanted to be 18. At 18, I wanted to be 21. To me each age meant I was grown; what I never considered was the growth I needed between them - because maturing is a process that brings along two friends: responsibility and challenges.

Every professional or personal challenge I experienced and every lesson I learned was typically about me recognizing and managing the lines in my life: learning when to cross them, when to draw them and when to read between them.

 During my professional growth, I learned:
• The line between independent and ..

Little experiment with the @YAPstar Twitter account.  I've set it up so the RSS feeds from the YAP calendar and also from the Recent Activity stream go to the Twitter account (the blog already did).  It's set up to ping hourly at the most so you definitely will not be deluged with tweets, but of course if it's annoying or if you have feedback of any kind please let me know and I'll adjust.  I think it's pretty cool already though, as it pings when someone new joins or when a discussion thread is replied to and I swear there's already ..

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Beverly Flaxington, Young Professionals Improving Communication with Peers

DanaWoods

Date / Time: 8/8/2010 9:00 PM

Category: Self Help

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How can young professionals in Corporate America improve their communication with older peers? Our guest, Beverly Flaxington is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA) and Certified Professional Values Analyst (CPVA) will share strategies on how to deal with difficult people. Beverly is the author of "The Five Secrets to Human Behavior". (available on Amazon.com.)

Recently, my heart was broken, AGAIN, as I sat mesmerized by the story of Yeardly Love, a 22 year old University of Virginia lacrosse player, who was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend George Huguely, also 22, who admitted having had a "violent fight" with her. My heart literally squeezed shut at the thought of Yeardly's mother who, I imagine, was traumatized by the horrific news and details of her daughter whose body was found in a pool of blood.

Yeardly is amongst countless young women whom are trapped in the never ending cycle of dating violence-a pandemic that is striking our ..

Networking is touted as the best resource for professional success and personal growth. Whether you are looking for a job, professional development, business opportunities or shared-interest socializing, networking is said to be the key. But like any other key, it doesn't work unless it clicks.

 What clicks for an intellectually curious introvert like me are organized interactions that engage through knowledge (real problem solving) and sincerity. In other words, if you want to engage me, your pitch must make sense. You can't sell me dog food if I don't have a dog.

When I first ventured into business networking, I ..

I was made aware of the fact that some of the CAE study information in the form of the following scenarios were distributed illegally. the Michigan Society of Association Executives offers a CAE prep class in which these scenarios are used exclusively and are copyrighted. I know that no one wants to infringe on copyright and none of us would want any of our proprietary information distributed, so we should all be very careful of what we use, who we got it from and what we post.

Scenarios

1. Office Lease

2. Fingers in the Pie

3. Board ..

When a friend asked me to write about workplace bullying, I remembered the first time I was bullied by a senior manager. She told me I was doing a great job but needed to learn how to "kiss her a#$" (her words) for a promotion. Her boldness took me off guard and I blurted, "that aint NEVER going to happen!" My response ignited a one-year battle of wills over boundaries.

For most of us, defining boundaries is an ongoing, complex journey that typically starts in childhood. I was eight when bullied by teenagers while walking home from school with my cousin. ..

Greetings, young association professionals!

Just thought you all should know that the awesome SocialFish team that is Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant, have taken me on as their intern for the summer. As their #3, I have taken upon myself the duty of protecting all of you YAPstars from spam and will be working from behind the scenes for their blog and newsletter. In addition to all that, I'll be helping out with the event Buzz2010 that they are co-hosting with SmartBrief.

Lindy has definitely infected me with her excitement for Buzz2010. She loaned me her copy of Groundswell by Charlene ..

Trying to find the ideal job is like trying to find the ideal mate. Mr. Right may sound good on paper but off of it, his issues coupled with yours may overflow a newsstand. So what do you do?

1)Decide quickly based on the first few meetings that "he's just not that into you" or vice versa and keep looking OR
2)Date him to determine if the good outweighs the bad. If it does, make the most of it. If it doesn't, leave a bit wiser OR
3)Settle into an unsatisfying relationship because you feel it is safer than searching for ..

Whoo hoo!  We've come a very long way since we started as a group of ten friends on Facebook committed to making the world a better, cooler, more fun place for association peeps on Facebook.  Thanks SO much to everyone for being here with us.  

If you haven't already, please take a minute to tell your story and who you are, as a good reminder to everyone (especially newer peeps) about who we're are and what we're all about here in this thread.

Congrats to us!!  xxx