>Bend, Oregon (PRWEB) February 22, 2012 TIGERS® Success Series is launching web-based training for Project Managers and Human Resource professionals on how to use the http://www.corevalues.com/tigers-team-wheel-game TIGERS Team Wheel™ Game and Team Development Tool Kit for building highly cohesive, cooperative, and successful teams. Used over the past 23 years for significant corporate change efforts requiring high levels of employee engagement to improve workplace cooperation and trust, training begins on March 8, 2012 with three additional courses scheduled for the year. TIGERS Success Series Founder, Dianne Crampton, conducted primary research on what employees need to succeed and thrive in the workplace. The findings were straightforward. Employees thrive in a workplace that resonates with respect, trust, cooperation, honest communication, civility, loyalty, and understanding between people. What employees don’t want is backbiting, intolerance, lack of growth opportunity, inconsistency, lack of communication, and confusion over roles and responsibilities. The tools participants acquire when attending the training address all these issues and these tools can be used repeatedly. “Since the economic recovery of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, we learned that change efforts frequently fail if initiated by leaders and then are projected onto employees. This is especially true if employees are disengaged, which according to recent Gallup polls show an alarming number of employees in the disengaged and actively disengaged category, “said Crampton. “Taking what we learned in our merger work with Costco and change efforts with Boeing and Northrop Grumman using our proprietary TIGERS Team Wheel™ team development and facilitation process to launch employee-driven strategies, change occurred remarkably fast. One reason we have identified is that employee driven solutions, which improve how teams work together and communicate was championed by employees. This made it much easier for supervisors to manage.” The TIGERS Team Wheel™ game is a proven leadership and team development facilitation tool for newly forming and existing teams. It structures highly focused employee problem solving conversations that cuts short the stage of team growth called “storming” that is often plagued by confusion, misunderstandings, and conflict. It also teaches behaviors that build strong teams and illuminates behaviors that make teams less productive. The four individual course dates for the TIGERS Team Wheel™ facilitation training that consist of five 1 ½ hour sessions are March 8, May 23, September 5, and November 28.
“The courses are live and recorded for reinforcement and play back. I am closing each course once they reach 15 attendees to ensure maximum discussion opportunity for participants, which seems to be a defect of other on-line trainings,” said Crampton. “We have a commitment to participant engagement, which is inherent in face to face training and we wanted to eliminate travel expenses and days away from work for participants, too.”
The course is appropriate for internal trainers, team leaders, project managers and other HR department personnel. It is also appropriate for founding entrepreneurial teams and for volunteer coordinators of larger nonprofit agencies. Along with training, participants also receive the TIGERS Team Wheel Game and support materials for ongoing use and several bonus gifts that support the team development process. Training courses are now open for enrollment by registering online. The fee for the complete five session training course, TIGERS Team Wheel™ Game and Tool Kit, and bonus gifts is $1497.00. For more information on “Train the Trainer” visit the TIGERS® website at http://www.corevalues.com/tigers-team-wheel-game-with-training . About TIGERS Success Series: TIGERS® Success Series, Inc. is a team development consultancy that has served leaders and their teams since 1989. TIGERS® helps leaders build teams of employees that are as committed and engaged in the success of the organization as the leaders are. TIGERS Success Series offers solutions that include the TIGERS Team Wheel Game and Team Development Tool Kit to correct low employee engagement, trust and cooperation by helping leaders build engaged and committed teams of employees that are cohesive and successful. Dianne Crampton Founded TIGERS Success Series after researching what is necessary to build an ethical, qualify-focused, engaged and successful group of people. After analyzing group dynamic research in the fields of business, education and psychology, the six TIGERS principles emerged. They are Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk, and Success. The six TIGERS principles reinforce an organization’s existing core values, mission, and goals. TIGERS® principles are anchored by measurable behaviors that build high levels of collaboration and success in teams. Crampton is a contributing author to Working Together (Barrett Koehler, 2003), The Pfeiffer 2010 Consulting Annual (An inprint of John Wiley & Sons) and TIGERS Among Us – Winning Business Team Cultures and Why They Thrive (Three Creeks, 2010). ### …

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Company announces new version of its tablet on the same day it posts a profit decline. The new Nook Tablet, with half the memory, shaves $50 off the original’s price. Also: Nook Color e-reader is shedding $30.

The Nook Tablet can now be had for the same price as the Kindle Fire.

Barnes & Noble has Amazon’s Kindle Fire directly in its sights. Its latest ammunition: a $199 Nook Tablet with 8GB of memory.

The new version of the Nook Tablet–$50 cheaper and with half the memory of the original–now matches the Kindle Fire in price and memory specs. The book retailer hopes the lower price will make it more of a rival to Amazon’s tablet, which has established itself as the No. 2 player behind Apple’s iPad. Amazon has attracted customers through a lower-end price and a decent selection in its online store.

Barnes & Noble also announced a $30 price drop for the Nook Color e-reader, which will now cost $169.

The company badly needs a success in the tablet arena to offset maturing sales in its traditional book business. The company, which released quarterly earnings today, saw sales rise 5 percent year over year to $2.44 billion. However, profit fell 14 percent from a year ago to $52 million, or 71 cents a share. The earnings report, which covered the three-month period ending January 28, said that per-share earnings would have been 99 cents excluding one-time items.

Analysts, on average, had forecast earnings of 92 cents a share on revenue of $2.53 billion.

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The company did see a surge in online sales, driven by purchases of its Nook line of e-readers and tablets.

The company expects full-year revenue of $7 billion to $7.2 billion. Its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are expected to be $150 million to $180 million, and its per-share loss is expected to be $1.10 to $1.40. The Nook business is expected to generate $1.5 billion in comparable sales this fiscal year, the company said.

The Nook Tablet promises to figure prominently in Barnes & Noble’s business. While the Kindle Fire has captured much of the buzz that isn’t already surrounding the iPad, the 16GB Nook Tablet at $249 has seen fewer takers. Still, Barnes & Noble could become a stronger competitor with its new 8GB tablet and the large distribution capabilities of its stores.

Like the original Nook Tablet, the new version has a 1GHz dual-core processor and a slot for up to a 32GB microSD card. Both also boast 11.5 hours of reading time and 9 hours of video playback.

The new version of the Nook Tablet and cheaper Nook Color are available at Barnes & Noble’s Web site, starting today. The Nook Tablet will also be available at retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart in the coming weeks.

Correction at 7:10 a.m. PT: The story incorrectly stated the amount of memory in the new Nook Tablet, based on the company’s press release. The new Nook Tablet has 8GB of memory.

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>Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 20, 2012 Clopton Capital, a business loan provider based in Chicago, IL, has just started offering business loans under non-recourse terms for http://poynteronline.org/?p=331.com” onclick=”linkClick(this.href)”>business loans that are equal to or greater than $1,000,000. The firm came to this decision based on prior business loans being fulfilled more reliably than they had expected. The loans being non-recourse means that if and when the business loan were not to be paid as agreed and the original collateral used to secure the loan was seized by the lender and the value of this property did not equal at least what the loan was issued at, there would be no right by the lender to take legal action to recover capital lost by issuing the loan. “The way a non-recourse business loan is structured leaves the borrower a very small amount of exposure to risk. Look at it this way, if I lend you $1,000,000 and you don’t pay the business loan off, then I take your commercial property and can only acquire $900,000 from your collateral, it’s simply my problem. This is the drastic difference between recourse and non-recourse,” said Jake Clopton, the founder of Clopton Capital. The firm currently markets their business loan products through CloptonCapital.com and specifically through the web page CloptonCapital.com/businessloans.html. “With these new abilities to issue larger business loans without recourse it should be easier than ever for us to lend money, and easier than ever for borrowers to utilize our services,” said Matt Reed, an associate of CloptonCapital.com. The firm also issues full recourse loans for more risky purposes or ventures. The firm intends to continue to provi

The award-winning Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA) has been added to the Texas Commissioner’s List of Approved Reading Instruments for Kindergarten through 3rd grade. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 17, 2012 – Children’s Progress today announced that its award-winning early childhood assessment solution, the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA), has been approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) as a reading instrument for use in K-3 instruction in Texas public and charter schools http://melanyor.tumblr.com/post/17762579201/about-our-disaster-logistics-problems. The CPAA’s selection highlights its research-based approach to evaluating individual students’ reading development and comprehension.The inclusion of the CPAA on the TEA’s 2011-2012 Commissioner’s List of Approved Reading Instruments is coupled with Children’s Progress’ continued growth in Texas. A growing number of districts, independent schools and early childhood centers state-wide are using this quick, child-friendly assessment to evaluate strengths and weaknesses, monitor progress and differentiate instruction in the earliest grades. “I’m excited to hear that the CPAA is on the Commissioner’s list. Since 2009 this program has helped us use our performance and progress information to set goals, differentiate instruction and meet the academic needs of our early childhood students,” said Hilda Franks, Early Childhood Coordinator at Georgetown ISD. “It is a great tool that facilitates our ability to understand which topics to focus on with each student to make sure that everyone succeeds.”“We are honored by TEA’s recognition of the CPAA as an approved instrument for Texas schools. We look forward to continuing to work closely with Texas educators to help tailor instruction to individual student needs,” said Kevin Greaney, CEO of Children’s Progress. Texas schools have experienced reductions in Special Education referrals of up to

In the First MGMU them. IM Sechenov launched an educational project “Master of Business Administration in health care” (MBA). In the coming days, the first 50 enrolled in the MBA program will begin their studies. After completion of the training graduates receive a diploma of secondary education with the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration.

According to the Rector for Clinical Work by Sergei Smerdin, today in Russia, according to experts of the Health Ministry of Russia, about 60% of health managers at various levels have no special education to healthcare organizations and nearly 90% have no training in management.

Classes for the MBA program will be based on six core departments: Health Organization, Medical Statistics and Informatics, sociology of medicine, health economics and health insurance, health care management and medication management, public health and public health organizations, and pharmacoeconomics of drug supply, economics and management.

In the nearest future development of this trend in high school – to attract graduates of the MBA program who hold top positions in the pharmaceutical and medical business for expert lectures and master classes, creation-based business school MBA alumni career development center, as well as cooperation with the Center for Educational Innovation program “Health systems management degree”

Now the question is solved, and on international cooperation. According to the press service of the university plans to eventually develop the internship program and the opening of the joint MBA program with a foreign partner – the European Business School, an internationally accredited MBA program in health care.

In JSC “Chelyabenergo” re-established logistics department and we would like to learn in detail about our disaster logistical problems predpriyatiya.Tamozhnya, cargo do not concern us, it’s all produce vendors, but what about all the rest would like to hear from you

Exactly the solution you have a template will not work because you have a company with established infrastructure, entrenched traditions that can not be broken and discarded!
So to you a revolutionary way is unacceptable – it will only sabotage and the collapse of the once working links.
Acceptable only to the introduction of incremental improvements with the introduction of evolutionary innovation in parts of the company, under developed and you have chosen a new strategic business model and logistic enterprise.
Since the work of your company’s special social importance, the primary goal of your logistics department should be to establish and maintain a reliable coordination of the entire “supply chain”, with special emphasis on the quality of services to the consumer.
In order to solve this complex problem of the level in the structure of the enterprise should be the appropriate level of competence of the director of development, ie TOP!
Only the knowledge of logistics man, who heads the department of logistics, not enough! It should be horizmatichny ideological innovator, not just top managers with an MBA education crusts. Start by finding a man, and he too will determine what to do with logistics in the company! Cadres decide everything

Make a prepared weighted statement. The appropriate steps to take in preparing for and implementing short-term in-place sheltering depend entirely on the emergency situation. For instance, during a tornado warning you should go to an underground room, if such a room is available. During a chemical release, on the other hand, you should seek shelter in a room above ground level. Because of these differences, short-term in-place shelter is described in the chapters dealing with specific hazards. See the chapters on “Thunderstorms” and “Hazardous Materials Incidents” for more information.

The basic principle of public disaster communications is not to gloss over the event, and to do all the talk as soon as possible. The remainder of this chapter describes steps you should take to prepare for long-term in-place sheltering and for staying in a mass care shelter if you evacuate. If the process of communication during the crisis is postponed, then control of events is lost. News first release should contain at least the answers to the questions of “When and what had happened?”, “What was the supposed cause?,” and “Who is in charge of dealing with the problem?” Speaker of the company must have a prepared statements for external audiences. In-place sheltering may either be short-term, such as going to a safe room for a fairly short period while a tornado warning is in effect or while a chemical cloud passes.

It may also be longer-term, as when you stay in your home for several days without electricity or water services following a winter storm. We also use the term “shelter” for Mass Care facilities that provide a place to stay along with food and water to people who evacuate following a disaster.

The survey asked new ideas on the importance of having an experience "on the other side" of treatment before and during the professional work of mental health care.

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Log-PR (Press Release) – Aug 25, 2009 – Goodtherapy.org (http://www.goodtherapy.org/) is an international directory of about 5,000 therapists operating in line for about 2 years now. In a recent survey conducted through an electronic questionnaire distributed to approximately 4350 members therapist, he was asked whether respondents favor licensing programs of states that require professionals to participate in psychotherapy as clients. A very high 85% of respondents said they would in fact support such measures, and several of them have expressed their desire to help facilitate and promote an initiative to convince the licensing of State to adopt the idea.On the other hand, 11% of respondents did not agree with this response and negative, while only 3.9% gave a vague answer choosing "it depends". "Although the investigation was not very scientific with only 13% of responses, it was an effort to assess the scope of this positive change in the requirements of state licensure, said Noah Rubinstein, LMFT is the Executive Director to GoodTherapy.org. "One of the basic and much-vaunted principles of psychotherapy in good health, the idea that therapy for professionals in mental health care should be available encouraged and used may be relatively new on the scene, but it can quickly become de rigueur for an increasing number of professionals to show their support. "After the announcement of the results of the investigation, the site has hosted a long discussion the issue, in which the majority of readers warmly welcomed the idea and expressed their interest to help put the issue to a wider audience.Some join the discussion have added their own twists on the possibilities to require that licensed therapists, counselors and other professionals in mental health to receive their therapy, including ideas on the obligation to make a part of the post-graduates, and develop a program to encourage widespread rather than a strict license conditions. In the coming months, further developments in this initiative will undoubtedly arise as more professionals consider the benefits for both therapists and their clients – the proposed requirement and contribute their own thoughts and resources to the project. It should be noted here that GoodTherapy.org is a staunch supporter of non-pathologizing psychotherapy and all members agree with this position before being allowed membership.So this bias could have skewed the results slightly and there is clearly room for further investigations on a wider scale.About GoodTherapy.org: Created in 2007 by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Noah Rubinstein and supported by a network of therapists who offer all collaborative and non-pathologizing therapy, GoodTherapy.org is an online hub for clients, therapists and anyone interested in the positive, effective and meaningful mental health care. The site recently reached a monthly output of more than 120,000 unique visitors….

Source: Survey Reveals 85% of Therapists Advocate Being a Psychotherapy Client as a State Licensure Required

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