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Applying TQM to Recruitment Convergence
The application of total quality management tools and philosophies (6 Sigma) to areas such as airline safety (takeoffs/landings)has reduced the defect rate to 3.4 per million. In contrast the defect rate in typical employment, selection and deployment runs at around 45 per 100. This article explores how the application of TQM thinking and the use of "best of breed" tools and systems bring dramatic improvements in the following areas: - - reducing unwanted turnover - weak succession planning - losing top talent - matching the right people to the wrong jobs - training the wrong personnel

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Your Voice of Choice
I am a voice specialist. I am a voice specialist because I believe the world needs to hear from all of us. Due to stage fright and confidence issues- some of us are not getting our message heard! I just professionally audited an acting class in Los Angeles by a colleague who is one of the world’s most famous acting teachers. His clients win Academy Awards. Today he was teaching a class of future stars in the making. The students were exciting actors with top notch talents and abilities, they chose challenging material, and had given lots of committed thought to their acting intentions and character development.

Is Your Sales Team a Winner or on the Way Out?
Think your sales team is in good shape because your customers rank them either good or very good? Think again. Nearly 80 percent of all supplier deserters rate their previous supplier as "good" to "very good," so the outlook for anything less than world-class excellence is not only disappointing but potentially career threatening. A 15-year study on world-class sales by The HR Chally Group determined that only 21 of 7,300 sales forces evaluated by 80,000 customer decision-makers were categorized as “world-class” by their customers. Benchmarking research within these same 17 "world-class" sales organizations, found that they all shared at least six of the following eight best practices: see article

Class – The Elusive Quality in Today’s Society
The four basic elements of class are how you look, how you behave, what you say and how you say it! What you do is the substance of class and the way you do it is the style of class.

Manufacturing productivity tool belt
To improve manufacturing productivity, to cut cost and add output, many tools and practices are useful for specific applications. Use this checklist to review your own manufacturing operations; follow them to the more significant opportunities

Sticking to his Dreams: Wrigley Jr. Makes a Go of His Gum
When Wrigley Jr. was expelled from school at the age of 13, his parents were worried about what would become of him. But, once the rebellious young boy started devoting himself to his father’s soap manufacturing business, they saw a new potential. Little did they know that he would go on to become one of the richest men in the world, with an accompanying world famous name to boot. How did he do it?
Sales Assessment Completion Times May Impact the Validity of the Assessments
How would you like to influence the development of our never-ending quest for improvement in our suite of world-class assessment tools? We constantly seek ways to expand our world-class insights, legendary accuracy, and real-world relevance. I just reviewed some new data that Jim Sasena, our Operations/Technical Director, dug up for me. This particular data set shows the percentage of Sales Candidate Assessments that are completed in a particular amount of time.

Commodity Value Proposition - An Oxymoron?
How do you find your value proposition when everything you do and everything you sell seems to border on being a commodity because everybody is trying to do the same thing to create competitive advantage? “Oh, but we’re different. We sell our World Class Service.” Right ………………………. How many companies do you know that don’t say they have world class service. Many say that servicing the customer is their core competency. If they truly do have world class service, service is not their core competency it’s what they are doing to create and maintain that level of service that is their true core competency.
Is It Time to Rebuild America's Middle Class
While the Ford Motor Company is certainly associated with Detroit, Ford also cranked out cars in Pittsburgh, PA, reports Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post as it will explain how Pittsburgh’s Ford plant illustrates that America’s complex manufacturing backbone was created over many decades yet was wiped out in 10 years. In order to rebuild its middle class, America must make a conscious and collective national decision to be friendlier to capital investment in order to create opportunities associated with energy, mining, manufacturing, distributing, and selling goods and services.

When First Class Flights Make Sense!
Traveling in first class flights may not sound all logical especially when cheaper premium class seats get you to the same place in same time, however for selected few flying first class is more than just high life. It is their need. Find out why.
World Class Airports at Denver
Denver International Airport is one of the best airports of the entire world with world class facilities and unmatched comfort for the travelers.
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