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What Is Happening Now!
Take Our 2009 Job Satisfaction Survey.
Are you happy at work? We are trying to measure
how the current economic situation has affected
people and their jobs. Please take five minutes to
complete our survey. The results will be posted in a
future edition of the Navigator Newsletter.
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Upcoming Teleseminar
Proven Ways to Attract, Engage, and Retain Your Workforce
Thursday ~ May 21, 2009
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (EST)
$99 per person
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Personal Note from the Captain of the Ship
"We do not need magic to transform our world; we
carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
We have the power to imagine better."
--J.K. Rowling
Our trip to Ireland last month was fantastic. We
visited some of the most beautiful places on the
West Coast. We traveled from Adair to Dingle
and everywhere in between. We enjoyed some
outstanding pubs and friendly people, and made
some wonderful memories.
For those of you interested in seeing some photos
of the trip, please click on this link.
http://www.chartcourse.com/photos-ireland.html
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Worth Reading
"The Hidden Costs of Overbearing Bosses" by
Gary Hamel
http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2009/04/28/the-hidden-costs-of-overbearing-bosses/
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"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to
be what we know we can be."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Training: Leadership Beyond the Recession
When he stated the quote above, Ralph Waldo
Emerson was describing extraordinary leadership.
What he said then is exactly what we need today.
Organizations are obviously suffering from the
economic fallout. The dynamics of business
are in a state of change. Workers and
managers alike are struggling to make sense
of what they must do to survive the recession...
This year, some organizations may consider
reducing or eliminating training as a way to lower
expenses; but in reality, training is the last
thing organizations should cut. It is the one
thing that can help current and future leaders
adapt so they can emerge from the recession
healthy and sound. Training is about leveraging
the present in order to build a future. The
recession may be the best time to focus on
leadership training.
Positioning for the Recovery
Organizations should be positioning themselves
for recovery. Studies reveal firms that come
out of the recession in a more advantageous
position will be more likely retain that position
far into the period of recovery.
Strategies for building leadership talent should
be embedded throughout your organization.
Train your managers and supervisors to help
employees understand where the company is
going and how they fit in with the company goals.
Employees then are more likely to apply the
proper decisions and skills in their day-to-day jobs.
Leading employees effectively helps avoid
economic distractions and keeps them engaged
in the business of serving customers, remaining
proactive, and performing as a productive
member of the team.
Leadership to Recession-Proof the Culture
Another theme on which employers must
focus is communication. When times are
tough, leaders should openly discuss the
issues and challenges employees face. They
should do this often and in many ways to
reduce anxiety, stabilize the environment,
and support positive morale. Communication
becomes the glue that binds together the
culture of the organization, making it more
resistant to the pressures of recession, such
as unwanted turnover, the ability to achieve
more with less, disenfranchised teams, and
loss of productivity.
Check out our Essential Skills of
Communicating and Essential Skills
of Leadership for excellent programs to train your employees.
http://www.chartcourse.com/supervisory_training.html
Contributor: Melodae Morris, M.A., APR, SPHR
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Inspirational Video of J.K. Rowling
We have placed a video on our website of J.K. Rowling
(author of the Harry Potter Series) giving the
commencement address at Harvard University last year.
Ms. Rowling is an amazing author who struggled from
poverty to fame.
Regardless of whether you like the Harry Potter books
and movies, you can't argue with a person who
overcame obstacles and achieved her dream.
http://www.chartcourse.com/video_jkrowling.html
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Will They Lie, Cheat, and Steal?
The CBI is a valid, contemporary integrity test—a cost-effective
screening procedure for identifying job applicants whose
behavior, attitudes, and work-related values are likely
to interfere with their success as employees. The CBI
consists of an objective questionnaire with 140 true/false
questions that can be completed by the job applicant in
about 15 minutes.
There are two forms available. One is administered,
scored, and interpreted by computer. It yields an
objectively generated report addressing the degree of
potential concern about the six major areas identified,
a measure of overall or total concern, and an
assessment of self-serving response bias.
The other form is a paper-and-pencil version in which
applicants answer the questions on an answer sheet. It is then
hand-scored and profiled by the test administrator,
yielding the same information as the computer-based
version. The cost of each report is $19.
For more information go to:
http://www.chartcourse.com/ttiassessments_prehire.html
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Daily Cartoon
For those of you needing a little laugh, we invite you to
visit the Daily Cartoon page on our website. The cartoons
are provided by Ted Goff.
http://www.chartcourse.com/dailycartoon.html
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