Posts Tagged ‘perspectives’

• Useful Stress

  • April 30th, 2024
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  Stress!  It beats us down or propels us to another plane. A well-known phenomenon we all experience, stress, occurs daily, even hourly. But: stress can be healthy. Anxiety or stress affects our mood, but we are the ones in control even… Read More

• Learn to Live!

  • April 2nd, 2024
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  Education is emphasized in today’s society as an empowering avenue one must take to advance their career, and consequently their life. Statistics equate education and income to career success, albeit less often to happiness. Many influential experiences occur outside of… Read More

• Emotions in Control

  • February 6th, 2024
  • Posted in Blog, Market Research, Perspectives, Self Improvement, The Research Group, Uncategorized
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  Emotions govern our lives. How we feel contributes to every decision, act, interaction, and outcome. Experiences are more complex than merely positive or negative. The game changer: we all possess emotive choice and research indicates those choices greatly affect physical… Read More

• Formal Listening

  • November 7th, 2023
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  As opportunities for discovery are continually overflowing, a continuous reminder of our fundamental task is: Listening! Whether focus groups or IDIs, surveys or bulletin boards, ethnographies or shop-alongs, mobile or social media research, insights emerge through listening.  Effective listening skills are as important for… Read More

• Outcome By Design

  • October 3rd, 2023
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  Personal goals: Think back to the last time personal goals were top of mind. Remember how quickly those goals became irrelevant once life’s commitments distract us? Thinking about future accomplishments may be easy. However, once we set our goals, following-through can be the… Read More

• AI Mania

  • September 5th, 2023
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  The addiction du jour is artificial intelligence, or AI. If you have not used it, artificial ‘intelligence’ has certainly entered your sphere.   Through an algorithmic process, AI is machine-learning that has the capacity to integrate information, analyze data and… improve decision-making at… Read More

• Manners EVERYONE Should Know!

  • August 1st, 2023
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  Manners: a socially acceptable way of behaving. (Collin Dictionary or Mirriam-Webster)   Emily Post (an etiquette guru) must cringe at the way some people behave in today’s world! These rules serve a reminder to those who care about manners. To those… Read More

• Essentialism- Life on Your Terms

  • July 11th, 2023
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  What is Essentialism? Essentialism is a concept popularized by Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. To put it short, being an Essentialist is like being a minimalist on a mental level. This hyper-focused state of being produces more freedom in… Read More

• Failure: NOT an Option!

  • May 2nd, 2023
  • Posted in Blog, Market Research, Perspectives, Productivity, Self Improvement, The Research Group, Uncategorized
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  This environment is testing emotions, significantly changing behavior, and generating authentic fear in the fiercest of people!  Many of us need to be reminded: We are human!  However dark the world appears, we can choose to embrace the changes ahead!  Joyce… Read More

• A Peek Into Non-Verbal Communication

  • April 4th, 2023
  • Posted in Market Research, Perspectives, The Research Group
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  The media, HR professionals, law enforcement agents, and of course qualitative market research moderators use non-verbal communication to discover the underlying feelings of human beings. Understanding body language is complex and often undervalued in mainstream communication.    Learning to use nonverbal communication… Read More