“Where is the peace?” while being reminiscent of the funny burger commercial depicting a little old lady yelling “Where’s The Beef?” isn’t so amusing when we consider (more…)

No one wants to hear that he or she has made a wrong word choice, turned an awkward phrase, or allowed a grammatical faux pas, particularly in this age of “text, text, and more text.”  Worse is (more…)

The virtual side of individual worth centers on that fact that now we all have “movie star” exposure. We can be (more…)

I was participating in a group study and the subject of “difficult” people came up.  Every one agreed that the problem seemed to have few real, long-term answers, that no matter what you tried with these annoying behaviors, the “fix”  renders itself temporary at best. The group leader was a former thug (more…)

Whether personal or positional, when leadership in a nation, company, or a family turns wrong, the cacophony of disillusionment begins.  If not (more…)

If going to work separates you totally from the rest of life and coming home again brings separation from the you you have been all day, Aye, there’s the rub! (more…)

In this day of negative publicity about corporate leaders and falling GNP (Gross National Product), we need a little positive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the headlines. An enduring, community involvement CSR strategy exists, i.e., Employee Volunteer Program that allows employees to volunteer mentor during high school advisory periods.  Not only does the strategy show the encouraging human, American resilience connection to private enterprise but also gains greater workplace engagement; it is uplifting for employees to know they work for the company with a reputation for contributing to the greater good.

Curriculum-based mentoring creates a focused, engaged-in-working-for-a-living pool of new hires rather than a pool of graduates looking for a government handout. If the latter seems a stretch, you have not heard the current thinking in the halls of your local high school.  During a high school advisory http://www.talkgroups-mentors.org last fall when asked each one’s vision, what each has always seen as his or her future, answers came back:
“I am going to get on welfare and enjoy myself.”
“I (immigrant from France) am going to stay in America so I can take advantage of the welfare system and never have to work.”
“I am going to work for the government where I can’t be fired.…”
The responses were thought provoking.  Today’s students are absorbing knowledge in an environment moving other than by tradition for these United States of America, perhaps not all bad if the sole intent is to be sure every child gets a chance to go to school, but once you let the fox into the henhouse for a snack, …  One landmark statute to note: Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/184196/Elementary-and-Secondary-Education-Act.  We are remiss to assume that magically upon public high school graduation, young adults will reach for the stars, struggle to achieve and live out each ones’ calling while ultimately contributing to the GNP as each embraces free enterprise http://www.investorwords.com/2085/free_enterprise.html and the satisfaction of participating in capitalism http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism! What are we thinking?

We can step up an Employee Volunteer Program for a CSR stellar, that is, that will mentor the future workforce to the truth about the engines that “Let Freedom Ring,” includes individual excellence, the latter (StrengthBank® http://www.talkgroups-mentors.org )is the key that moves us to the others.

3 key things a business can do now to begin strengthening the future workforce:
Schedule a company professional growth seminar to experience the mentoring program and benefit from the program’s tenets that enhance productivity and service capacity building for the company itself.
Connect to local chamber of commerce, high school, or business network and host events to educate to the CSR possibilities inherent in curriculum-based mentoring during high school advisories.
Contact StrengthBank Inc. for the how-to’s and support: 817 230 4523 – sandra@strengthbankinc.org – www.talkgroups-mentors.org
You, as a member or retired member of private enterprise can “Be A StrengthBank® Mentor” beginning next fall. During StrengthBank® Talk Groups you can watch tomorrow’s workforce reach out to each one’s potential to contribute.

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Paine

“You know it took us 80 years to get to where we are today and it’s going to take us 80 years to contain it and start to unravel it. It’s not going to all happen tomorrow and if people think it’s going to happen tomorrow, then they tend to give up and don’t take the little steps that they need to take today. We need to start with the little steps. We need to start chipping away and that is how we get back in the game.” — Mark Levin (Beginning in 1981, Mark R. Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior. He has practiced law in the private sector, and is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation in Leesburg, Virginia. He holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, as well as a J.D. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.)

Self-Published Success Is Not Do-It-Yourself or One-Stop, Do-It-All-For-You
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If you do not live in a free country and do not understand the self-healing workings of capitalism, you could easily mistake counterfeit leadership for the real thing.  To recognize what one (more…)

There is little CSR or Sustainability in an organization with continual turnover and where management (more…)