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Effective Ingredients That Should Be Present in Your Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatment Products

The best way to find a product which can help you fight off the signs of aging is to be critical about the information regarding ingredients present in the product. You have to know the role that each ingredient plays in the product and whether each ingredient can be beneficial to you or it can do more harm than good to your skin. You should also ascertain quantity of each ingredient in order to know whether these are present in desirable amounts which can prove beneficial to your skin.

Understanding why aging happens and why there are premature appearance of the signs of aging, will help you pick the right anti aging product for your skin. The loss of collagen and elastin, which are important structural proteins of the body responsible for keeping the skin young and elastic, lowered levels of Hyaluronic Acid, exposure to free radicals and poor moisture balance are major prerequisites to hastening the appearance of visible signs of aging.

Now that you already know the causes of premature aging, you can easily find a product which can effectively address each of them so that you will have the best anti-aging skin treatment. This may sound so simple, yet, with so many skin products flooding the market, you will surely have a hard time knowing what is best for you and what is not.

Once you know what each ingredient will contribute to the efficacy of the product, you will find that most products contain ingredients of no value such as fillers and preservatives. There are also ingredients which have short term favorable effects while promoting long term damage.

Watch out for products that contain mineral oil. This is the most common moisturizer being used in many skin creams but do you know that mineral oil actually causes your skin to dry out? Mineral oil do not rehydrate your skin, instead it draws up existing moisture from the deep layers of the skin which, in the long run can cause skin dryness.

The skin care products that should be present in your beauty kit should contain natural products that will nourish and rejuvenate your skin to keep you younger looking for quite a longer period of time.

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Unique Way of Presenting Corporate Christmas Gifts to Your Employees

Christmas is a time when you exchange or present Christmas gifts to everyone who is near and dear to you and who plays an important role in your life. These gifts represent your warm wishes, to send across your feelings and for motivating and inspiring. Thus, this is the best time to present gifts to your employees, partners and bosses.
 

If you do not want to spend time in engaging yourself in selecting and placing a bulk order for a personalised or corporate Xmas gift and do not want to spend much money on them either, then there are few great and simple ideas for you in store. Without spending much time and money on ordering a bulk of personalised gift items, you can still find amazing options and methods to convert affordable yet useful gift items into personalised gift items which show your gratitude and warm wishes towards your employees and co-workers on this Christmas.
 

Corporate Christmas Gifts Ideas:
 

Employee Gifts: Christmas shows your appreciation towards the hard work and efforts put by your employees throughout the year. Thus, in a sense it’s a payback time, therefore the gifts should be special. However, mostly the gifts handed out by corporate are usually predictable and non-exciting. Therefore, select an innovative and fun way of presenting creative yet practical gift items.
 

Corporate Party: organise a corporate Christmas party for your employees and co-workers. These parties do not necessarily need to be a grand and an expensive affair. However, it does not even needs to be dull and boring like a conservative buffet style dinner parties and a sit down gossip session after dinner.
 

Include seasonal music, decide some theme or arrange a fancy dress competition and award the winner. You can also arrange a Santa Claus Fancy dress competition where the contestant who looks and acts the best like a Santa gets the prize! Select a good array of food that goes along with the festive mood.
 

Gift Distribution: try an innovative way of gifting Christmas gifts this year around.Make different gift baskets and hampers like yummy gourmet hampers containing scrumptious cookies, or selection of dark chocolates, Christmas cakes of different flavours, etc. You can also get some wine baskets, book baskets containing, most selective bunch of books, a collection of DVDs, Music, gardening tools, sport gears, etc.
 

Arrange these kits on a display and allow your employees to take a pick from them according to their own preferences and taste! Make sure you get a good number of each type of gift baskets. Or, if it is possible for you, try to find out the hobbies of each of your employee and gift them a gift basket accordingly.
 

Personalise the Gifts: To personalise these gifts add a certificate to them to give them an intimate feel.
 

Every company hands out Christmas gifts to their employees, however, the way and the manner in which they are presented makes all the difference. 

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Presentation Strategy – Not Tactics – 3 Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them!

Recently, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback about our monthly newsletter and how it focuses on providing presenters with strategic advice on how to produce winning presentations, rather than on vague, unclear tactics. That’s because very few people ever learn the basics of presentations, and executives with the potential to produce brilliant presentations commit severe strategic errors. Three of the most common mistakes are:

  1. Misconceptions about the focus (it’s not the presenter – but your audience’s need to know),
  2. Giving too much information to the audience, instead of structuring it to guide decision-making
  3. Violating the presenter’s own gut feelings about what to present.

The most frequent reason executives “resist” calls for public speaking, is lack of self-confidence in the ability to deliver a message powerfully. It’s usually NOT because the person isn’t able to speak clearly in public; most executives are fine conversationalists, and a great presentation is no more than a focused-conversation. Public Speaking jitters arise because speakers try to conform to other’s standard of what material should be presented and how to present it – and they aren’t comfortable with those decisions.

This results in a lack of authenticity and self-doubts which erodes one’s comfort level. Worse, when a speaker starts focusing on his/her own internal cues of discomfort in front of a group, this creates a domino effect and downward spiral of self-doubts, leading to making strategic errors, such as focusing on the presentation slides rather than relating to the audience with a persuasive story.

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