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“Personal Accountability for a Change” – January 2012 Webinar
January 2012 Webinar – “Personal Accountability for a Change”
January 30th, 2012Lunch with Harry – Free Webinar – January 20th @11:30 pst
January 11th, 2012Join us for another “Lunch with Harry”. We promise the technology will work! This is a great topic for the New Year! Change Management, come learn!
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Disengaged and Out of Balance – December 2011 Webinar – “Lunch with Harry”
January 11th, 2012Don’t F*!K With The Process!
January 5th, 2012Tampering! It is called “tampering”, that’s when you make changes to a system without knowing and understanding the process and system capability. And it is something that is done in most business by people that have great intentions but are sadly making things worse. What “results” from tampering is greater uncertainty, higher unreliability, and usually a more complex system. And, because of all of that, the changes are unsustainable and things will slowly drift back to the way they were before you messed with it.
This is the time of year that we see the most tampering. Not necessarily in our business life but rather in our personal lives. New Year’s Resolutions are the best example of tampering I know of. Rather than taking the time to understand the amount and type of calories that are going into the body and how they are being processes and burned-up or converted to fat, most overweight people will simply vow to “hit the gym”. And hit the gym they do! And then they hit the gym floor (it was not a coincidence that the local paramedics camped-out at our local YMCA on January 2nd). If it’s not the gym they are hitting it will be the food they will suddenly deprive themselves of until they are so hungry or pissed at the world that they will “give up” only to try again next Monday. That cycle will repeat until (and thankfully) they realize they are fatter and have worse metabolic numbers than before.
And when these changes fail they will feel like failures. And the best way to comfort a failure? Yep, hunkerdown with a fat brownie and a bowl of ice-cream. STOP with the resolutions, you are making things worse. Instead, get your ass to an Exercise Physiologist or a Nutritionist or an MD and get a “work-up” to understand what is going on in your chemistry and with their help design a “new process” for living your life. You will find that just small, incremental changes will have a more profound impact on your well being and they will be sustainable.
One last tip …don’t think about what you are giving up, instead think about what you are adding to yourself and to your family.
WA State Minimum Wage Increase! Not again!
December 5th, 2011It is amazing to me that this is happening again, but it is. Starting January 1, 2012 the minimum wage will jump almost 4.3% from $8.67 to $9.04! This will have a direct impact on some of our clients and an indirect impact on all of our clients. Those employers that are currently paying anywhere from $9.00 – $9.50 per hour to differentiate themselves from the $8.67 worker will have lost their advantage starting January 1. And while it is still a “buyers” market that favors employers, we see that margin getting thiner and thiner. It may not have to be done Janaury 1, but we recommend that employers in the $9.00 to $9.50 per hour for entry level also boost their ranges 4.3% to stay out in front. It may not be a big difference, but psychologically to be earning “minimum wage” can be a barrier for good, hard workers.
November 2011 Webinar – “Performance Management and Documentation”
December 1st, 2011QA Supervisor Opening – Food Manufacturing
November 28th, 2011We have a client in the Kent, WA valley in need of an experienced QA Supervisor for their small food manufacturing facility. Great product, great processes, great people. Direct hire position. Salary 55k. Respond to hfranzheim@newerahrsolutions.com. No calls please.
Missing Staffing Operator Found Dead – I am not having such a bad day!
November 22nd, 2011“Lunch with Harry” – I Documented the Crap out of the guy and I still got in trouble with HR! Free Webinar
November 17th, 2011This Friday 11/18/2011 at 11:30 am pst. Join us. We have a few seats left! Click below to register. Or go to our website and our blog to find the post.
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