Benefits of Friendship – for Employees & Employers!
April 21, 2011 – 9:29 am
Want to be happy at your job? Make a Friend! Want to have happy employees with high job retention? Encourage friendship at work!
The Journal of Business and Psychology states:
“Results indicate that employees’ perceptions of friendship opportunities in the workplace have direct effects on job involvement and job satisfaction, as well as indirect effects on organizational commitment and intention to turnover.”
Having friends at work is good for businesses (happy employees makes the workplace better, and increases job retention). Friends at work is good for employees too. We like working with people we, well, Read More »
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Male-Female vs. Female-Female Friendships
August 24, 2010 – 1:40 pm
How do your guy-friendships and girl-friendships differ?
Research shows, we need our female friendships. (They make us healthier, happier, less stressed, live longer and feel more beautiful – pretty dang impressive bennie’s, right?) It is our hope at Girlfriendology is to inspire your female friendships, and help you appreciate and celebrate the amazing women in your lives. And, as lofty as it seems, our goal is the make the world a better place, one friendship at a time. Seriously! (Why not?!)
But, what about our friendships with guys? From our partners/husbands who should be our ‘best friends,’ to casual male friends who we connect with over any common interest or situation, can these mixed-gender friendships Read More »
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The Girlfriend Picture Project
August 15, 2008 – 1:55 pm
A picture is worth a thousand words. Touching images of families and friends enjoying memories together. Each captures a moment in time when people connect and acknowledge their bond in a treasured photo.
You and your girlfriends can express and celebrate your friendship in a thousand words (or less!) through a story submitted for THE GIRLFRIEND PICTURE PROJECT Read More »
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Wanting to spend time with girlfriends you’ve never met … but yet you have.
September 26, 2007 – 12:19 am
At our neighborhood women’s book club in August, I recommended the book for September. Knowing that September 16th was National Women’s Friendship Day, I selected a book that I heard was a great read and all about female friendships. Perfect! My friends agreed and we decided to read “The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
,” by Kris Radish.
Well, if you’ve read the blog, you know we lost our sweet dog Stella recently (actually four weeks ago today) so I missed book club since I was lost in a fog of sadness. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the book.
I took it with me to NC for Labor Day and soon fell into it like an Read More »
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