The Leaves & “Roots” of the Trees

How to Hydrate With Ginger

                I love plants, but I can’t say that I’m the gardening type.  Have you ever seen a wilted plant?  Its leaves are all droopy, sad looking isn’t it?  Now, can you tell when your body is wilted?   Look at the skin, the “leaves” so to speak, and they will tell the story. 

                Wilted by the recent “bug” that has been stinging all in the office; I dragged myself into the doctor’s office to be revived.  You are dehydrated she said, your skin, lips and tongue are dry.  My Tongue I asked? I went back to my maternal grandmother's remedies to snap out of it.

                Do you want to build up your defense against sluggishness, common colds, and see your skin vibrant, and be refreshed inside and out; hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!  If you feel sluggish, if you feel thirsty, if you feel hungry and you recently ate, if you want to fight off the creeping cold symptoms, drink water with a dash of ginger spice. 

©       Grate a piece of ginger the size of your fist. 

©       Put the grated ginger in a pitcher, and pour in about five glasses of water

©       Let it soak for at least three hours or overnight. 

©       Stir the mixture, strain off the grated ginger and drink throughout the day. 

No need to add sugar.  Do this for about seven days and watch your “leaves” perk up with vibrant color and LIFE! 

I’m not saying to be like the story I heard of a man who went to his physician complaining, “Doctor, I tried, but I can’t drink any more water.  I know that they said drink forty eight glasses of water a day but I could only make it to forty five.”  Forty five, the doctor asked, they said four to eight! 

This will be the focus of our May Issue “Healthily Hydrate Without Sugar.”  I wanted us to start looking at ways to communicate this message to our readers.  The effectiveness in which we communicate our message could mean the difference between record sales or barely keeping our head above water.

How the Experts Says it Should be Done & Why

Knowing Who We Are

                Since we are new in this market we would like to take all the right turns so that we could remain in business for many generations to come, thriving, reinventing ourselves, and doing well.  The article, Employment Communication:  Four Important Steps to Building a Personal Brand , written by the authors of our text book, Bovée & Thill, (2010), makes several notable points.  As we look for our own niche, let’s see what we can get from this article to improve our personal as well as corporate image.  Bovée & Thill, made four excellent points: 

1.      Figure out the “story of you”

2.      Clarify your Professional “theme”

3.      Reach out and connect

4.      Deliver on your brand’s promise- every time, all the time.”

After reading this information and applying it to our goals here at Gingerland SpNice we should be better able to market the areas you are responsible for. 

Effectively Communicating What we Stand For

                The article, Why Good Communication Is Good Business by Marty Blalock, is one that has some important points.  Marty states that “Good Communication is good business because

·        Managers spend 75 to 80 percent of their time engaged in some form of written or oral communication.

·        The Changing Environment and Increasing Complexity of the 21st Century Workplace Make Communication Even More Important

·        The World’s Economy is becoming Increasingly Global” (Blalock, M. 2008).

Please take a moment to read this article and be ready to share what you got from it and what pointers we could use to improve communications here at Gingerland SpNice, Inc.

Don’t Spell it like It Is

                I made a common error in my opening paragraph and decided not to leave it but copied it and attached it at the end of this section.  I find that this error is often undetected.  The key to catching these words or grammatical errors is to sight check, have someone else check for content and correctness.  Often what you meant to say isn’t always what’s said.  Make your communication is clear; avoid these mistakes by sight checking over and over again.

 Do You Make These 7 Mistakes When You Write? (Clark, B., Copyblogger, Mar. 2011), Please review the article, especially item number 4.

Can you Find the Errors? I love plants, but I can’t say that I’m the gardening type.  Have you ever seen a wilted plant?  It’s leaves are all droopy and it’s so thirsty it’s drying up?  Sad looking isn’t it?  Give me those plants that just need the basic, water, air, sunlight, periodic pruning, and some talking to.  Those are the plants that will thrive in my care, because I can provide the level of care they need.

References

Annie’s Remedy, (2005-2008), Ginger root health benefits, Retrieved from, http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail27.php?gclid=CPPr4rDWuKcCFYxd5Qodf2JPHA

Blalock, M. (2008), Listen up why good communication is good business. Retrieved from http://www.bus.wisc.edu/update/winter05/business_communication.asp ,

Bovée & Thill. (Nov. 10. 2010), Employment Communication:  Four important steps to building a personal brand, Business communication blog, Retrieved from, http://boveeandthillbusinesscommunicationblog.com/

Clark, Brian, (Copyblogger, Wed. Mar. 2. 2011), Do you make these 7 mistakes when you write? Retrieved from http://www.copyblogger.com/grammar-writing-mistakes/,

HealthDiaries.com, (2006-2011), Health benefits of ginger, Retrieved from http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-ginger.html

Jegtvig, Shereen, Nutrition guide, (2004), How much water should you drink today? Retrieved from http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.html

Mayo Clinic Staff, (July 8, 2010), Water: How much should you drink every day? Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283

This is just an assignment and not a real blog.