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Beautiful fall foliage around the world
It?s tough to leave barbecues and the beach behind, but that crispness in the air means we get to exchange summer greens for the fiery oranges, yellows and reds of autumn. As fall foliage season gets into high gear, now?s the time to head out to the leaf-strewn countryside on a road trip or an apple-picking adventure with your camera in tow.
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Good guidance for great business negotiations
The most difficult aspect of business negotiations is the actual conduct of the face-to-face meeting. Assuming that the best representatives have been chosen, and assuming that those representatives are well prepared, and the situational factors have been manipulated in one?s favour, things can still go sour at the negotiation table. Obviously, if these preliminaries have not been managed properly, things will definitely go wrong during meetings. Even with great care and attention to preliminary details, managing the dynamics of the negotiation process is almost always the greatest challenge facing companies which seek to do business with other organisations or countries. Going into a business negotiation, most people have expectations about the ?proper? or normal process of such a meeting. It is on these expectations that the way forward is planned out and assessed and the most suitable bargaining strategies are chosen. It is quite often that the conduct and mood of the negotiation differs to a considerable extent on how things are done in the latter stages, from the earlier stages of introduction. It is during the conclusion of the negotiations that higher risks are observed and dealt with. But all decisions about strategy are made relative to the perceptions of progress through an expected course of events.
It is a common practice all over the world to proceed though negotiations, following the four important stages:
Non-task sounding
This the first and significantly crucial stage where both parties have to make a positive effort to establish a rapport between each other, and get to know each other to the extent possible. In this stage there is no reference about the actual ?business? of the meeting. Usually topics such as the weather, family, sports, politics and business conditions in general are discussed, but not for long. Usually the discussion is moved to the specific business on hand after five to ten minutes. Such preliminary talk helps negotiators to learn how the other side is feeling on that particular day. One can determine whether the client?s attention is focussed on business or distracted by other matters, personal or professional. During these initial stages of conversation, judgements too are made about the kind of person with whom one is dealing- can this person be trusted? Would he be reliable? How much power does he/she have in the organisation? All these judgements are made before the business discussions actually begin.
Task Related Information Exchange
The information exchanged in the second stage of business negotiations concerns the parties? needs and preferences. It is only after a trusting personal relationship is established should business talks commence. In this stage of task-related information exchange, a two way communication process is put into action, when each of the parties present their opinions, their needs and their preferences. The information flow should be balanced between both parties, using multiple communication channels during presentations ? writing, exhibits, speaking, repetition etc, to minimize errors and misunderstandings.
Persuasion
Persuasion, which is the third stage, is indeed an art and it is here that the parties? endeavour to adjust and adapt one another?s needs and preferences by employing various modes and methods of persuasion. Asking more and more questions is, in fact, the most powerful tactic of persuasion. Questions are a potent, yet, a seemingly passive persuasive device. In case the other party or the potential business partners, come up with good suggestions, then compromising on the issue is the best option. It has been seen that very often, questions elicit answers that when subjected to close scrutiny, do not appear to be all that good. It is here when the weakness of their position is exposed, that the other party will be ready to oblige and concede.
Concessions and Agreement
The final stage of business negotiations involves the consummation of an agreement, which is often the summation of a series of concessions or smaller agreements. It is essential and of great importance that concession-making strategies and agreements are written down. Both the parties should have a healthy respect and concern for the mutual benefits of the relationship and therefore should take into consideration, the interests of each other, when reaching or drawing up an agreement.
Finally, once the agreement or contract is signed, follow up communications are an important part of the business negotiations. Senior level executives who have participated in the negotiations should keep in touch through letters, pictures, and mutual visits as they are important long after the contracts are signed. Warm relationships among the key personnel, often prove to be the best solution for any problems that may arise in the future.
Entrepreneurial Learning
The article talks of the difficult aspects of business negotiations which take place before the actual conduct of the face-to-face meeting. The author tells us that even though the representatives are well prepared, and the situational factors have been manipulated in one?s favour, things can still go sour at the negotiation table. And, if these preliminaries are not managed properly, things will definitely go wrong during meetings.
Source: http://www.kuzabiashara.co.ke/good-guidance-for-great-business-negotiations-21595/
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Employee engagement at Physicians Regional | Coastal Breeze News
TO YOUR?HEALTH
C. Scott Campbell?
[email?protected]
Our people?physicians and staff?drive organizational performance. This is the reality for all health care organizations who provide services 24/7, 365 days a year.
At Physicians Regional-Collier Boulevard, performance at our hospital begins and ends with our people?our Associates in conjunction with our medical staff.
Consider this, day in and day out it is ?people? who take care of patients, administer medications, perform life enhancing and lifesaving procedures, complete examinations and tests, respond to codes and deliver compassionate care to patients and their families.
At Physicians Regional, we are committed to delivering the absolute best patient experience to everyone we serve. We also know that to accomplish this we need talented people who are highly engaged in their work. In fact, a key focus in our Getting2Great initiative is to develop a culture where our Associates feel they are part of something special, are valued and appreciated.
Getting2Great (G2G) refers to a very important company-wide cultural transformation effort to fulfill our mission of enabling America?s best local health care.
?Employee engagement is vitally important to our organization because there is a direct relationship between how engaged an employee is to the performance they deliver,? says Brad Pollins, System Director of Performance Improvement at Physicians Regional Healthcare System. More specifically, highly engaged employees are committed, both emotionally and intellectually, to the purpose and vision of Physicians Regional Healthcare System. Engagement can be seen as a heightened level of ownership where each employee wants to do whatever they can for the benefit of our patients and for the success of the organization as a whole.
To that end, in 2013 we will be launching the Physicians Regional Healthcare System Leadership Academy to enable our exceptional leaders to build their capability and capacity to implement practices that create even more loyal and engaged employees.
Why focus on leaders? Because the number one factor that influences employee engagement is the quality?of their direct supervision. Plus, the number one factor that influences our patients? experience is their personal engagement with our all our associates.
The end result: we have talented people who are dedicated to our patients? experience and care at each of our locations including our soon-to-open Marco Island location at the Shops of Marco at the corner of Barfield Drive and San Marco Road.
But the most essential insight into this topic can be found in the most definitive of places, the dictionary. Though ?engagement? is defined as ?a promise or agreement to be at a particular place at a particular time,? it is also accurately described as ?a pledge.? As the CEO of Physicians Regional-Collier Boulevard, I pledge our continued 100% commitment to our associates and the people they serve. Furthermore, as a 365/24/7 service organization, we promise to be there for you whenever you need us?to be leaders in providing exceptional patient care.
No matter how you choose to define or describe it, it truly is all about compassionate people helping people.
C. Scott Campbell is CEO, Physicians Regional Healthcare System-Collier Boulevard. You may reach him by contacting [email?protected]
Post Published: 01 November 2012Author: Mint Design Co.
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Greenlee Gazette: Crazy Creationists: Dinosaurs Fled the Flood!
Last night I posted a piece about Mitt Romney' literal belief in his wacky religion. And, I noted that as an atheist, I find 'em all wacky, so I'm not so much singling Mormonism out, as I am saying it's just extra special goofy. But Mitt's not alone in his belief in unbelievable things.
Somehow, I got on the Creation Ministries International mailing list. And these folks are literal believers in the book of Genesis. Just FYI, that's the book that set me on the road to atheism, because it was taught to me at the same time as freshman Earth science. Guess which book won? Anyway, Genesis is chock full of ridiculous things that only the deeply deluded could believe are literal. From the "firmament" to the items set into it, from the cleanliness rules to the list of sacrificial requirements, from the conflicting dual creation stories to there being light before there was a light source? All of it is frankly unbelievable.
But nothing is more ridiculous than the flood story. Forget that there are (again) two conflicting Noah's Ark stories, and different numbers of animals in each. There are problems with the size of the boat. There are problems with the technology of building such a boat. There's the problem of how every kind of animal got to the middle east, and then re-dispersed themselves back to from whence they came. There are the uncomfortable facts about feeding and housing these animals for such an extended period, and what they would do about the waste. How did they keep the animals from eating each other, or the humans? How did they transport the bacteria, viruses, insects, arachnids and amoeba? How did the sealife and freshwater animals survive in the stirred up, seawater/rainwater/sediment-filled water? How did plantlife and fungi survive submerged for 100 days? And we're not even talking about where the water came from, and where it went! Why would an "all-loving" god murder his "children," no matter how disobedient they were?
On top of this is the question of dinosaurs. Why doesn't the Bible mention dinosaurs? Well, some try to parlay allusions of "dragons" and whatnot into dinosaurs, but it's a stretch. It actually makes the bible sound more like a bunch of fables to me. So, the question is, if man coexisted with dinosaurs, why do they get such scant coverage in the Bible? Why weren't they on the Ark? Did Noah take dinosaur eggs, rather than full-grown T-Rexes and Stegosauri? Why isn't it mentioned?Obviously, it isn't mentioned, because the writer(s) of Genesis never heard of dinosaurs, and thus couldn't write about them. They didn't realize that the sun is the source of our light, so they could say it was created after light. They didn't know how clouds, the atmosphere, the orbits of the moon and planets, or stars in the universe worked, so they made crap up about the celestial bodies being placed in a bowl that separated the waters of heaven and earth. There are so many, countless, obvious problems with Genesis, an irreligious person like me just stands with my mouth agape. How can any adult take these fairy tales seriously?
And then I get my latest installment of further attempts at devising a narative that makes sense out of a book that really doesn't.? You know what I liken groups like Christian Ministries International to? I liken them to Rankin-Bass. You know, the studio that made such holiday classics as, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without a Santa Claus. In those holiday specials, they took all of the implausibilities in the Santa Claus story, and explained them in such a way as to keep kids believing it just a little while longer. And as kids, we wanted to believe. That's all this foolishness is.
If you are interested (and I hope it's only for amusement value), you can find this group here: Christian Ministries International.
Source: http://greenleegazette.blogspot.com/2012/11/crazy-creationists-dinosaurs-fled-flood.html
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Fierce finish: Romney, Obama sharpen closing lines
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures as he campaigns at Screen Machine Industries, in Etna, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures as he campaigns at Screen Machine Industries, in Etna, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at Springfield High School, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Springfield News-Sun, Bill Lackey)
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at Springfield High School, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Springfield News-Sun, Bill Lackey)
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) ? Down to a fierce finish, President Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of scaring voters with lies on Friday, while the Republican challenger warned grimly of political paralysis and another recession if Obama reclaims the White House. Heading into the final weekend, the race's last big report on the economy showed hiring picking up but millions still out of work.
"Four more days!" Romney supporters bellowed at a rally in Wisconsin. "Four more years!" Obama backers shouted as the president campaigned in Ohio.
With Ohio at the center of it all, the candidates sharpened their closing lines, both clutching to the mainstream middle while lashing out at one another. Virtually all of the nine homestretch battleground states were getting personal attention from the contenders or top members of their teams, and Romney was pressing hard to add Pennsylvania to the last-minute mix.
Romney drew the largest crowd of his years-long quest for the presidency at an Ohio rally attended by 18,000 people on a cold Friday night.
"We're almost home," a confident Romney, surrounded by family and more than a dozen Republican officials, told a sea of supporters. "One final push will get us there."
Urgency could be felt all across the campaign, from the big and boisterous crowds to the running count that roughly 24 million people already have voted. Outside the White House, workers were setting the foundation for the inaugural viewing stand for Jan. 20. Lawyers from both camps girded for a fight should the election end up too close to call.
Obama, for the first time, personally assailed Romney over ads suggesting that automakers General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of auto-industry dependent Ohio. Both companies have called the ads untrue. The matter is sensitive in Ohio, perhaps the linchpin state of the election.
"I know we're close to an election, but this isn't a game," Obama said from Hilliard, Ohio, a heavily Republican suburb of the capital city of Columbus. "These are people's jobs. These are people's lives. ... You don't scare hardworking Americans just to scare up some votes."
For once, the intensely scrutinized monthly jobs report seemed overshadowed by the pace of the presidential race. It was unlikely to affect the outcome.
Employers added a better-than-expected 171,000 jobs in October, underscoring that the economy is improving. But the rate is still short of what will be needed to seriously shrink unemployment. The jobless rate ticked up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent ? mainly because more people jumped back into the search for work.
No issue matters more to voters than the economy, the centerpiece of a Romney message called the closing case of his campaign.
He said an Obama presidency would mean more broken relations with Congress, showdowns over government shutdowns, a chilling effect on the economy and perhaps "another recession."
"He has never led, never worked across the aisle, never truly understood how jobs are created in the economy," said Romney, a former private equity firm executive, in a campaign stop in Wisconsin.
Later in Ohio, he declared: "I will not represent one party. I will represent one nation."
Democrats sought to kick the legs out of Romney's late-campaign theme of bipartisanship.
"Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Obama claimed he loved working with Republicans ? when they agreed with him. His tone was scrappy.
"I don't get tired," he said in the longest days of the campaign. When Romney's name drew boos, Obama blurted out: "Vote! Voting is the best revenge."
While the politics intensified, real-life misery played out in the Northeast.
The death toll and anger kept climbing in the aftermath of the massive storm Sandy. Millions were without power, and many drivers could find no gasoline.
Obama noted at the top of his campaign speeches that he was still commanding the federal storm response. He also managed to tie it to the theme of his political bid. "We rise or fall as one nation and as one people," he said, before launching directly to the economic recovery under his watch.
Polling shows the race remains a legitimate toss-up heading into the final days. But Romney still has the tougher path to victory because he must win more of the nine most-contested states to reach 270 electoral votes: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Hampshire.
The dash for cash continued to the end. A fundraising email under Romney's name asked for money to expand operations into other states and "redefine the landscape of this election." An Obama fundraising pitch said final decisions were being made Saturday on where to direct the last campaign money. "It's not too late," it said.
Romney was making a late, concerted push into Pennsylvania, drawing jeers from Obama aides who called it desperation. Obama won the state comfortably in 2008. Romney appeared intent on another path to the presidency should he lose Ohio.
His foray into Pennsylvania is not folly. Unlike states that emphasize early voting, Pennsylvania will see most votes cast on Election Day. The state has not been saturated with political advertising, giving Romney and his supporting groups ? still flush with cash ? an opportunity to sway last-minute voters with a barrage of commercials. Obama is countering by buying commercial time in the state as well and is sending former President Bill Clinton to campaign Monday in Pittsburgh, Scranton and the Philadelphia area.
The candidates' wives and running mates fanned out to the South, Midwest and West to cover more ground.
"Here's what it comes down to: We can't afford to wait four more years for real change to get us on the right track," said the Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, rallying for votes in Montrose, Colo. "We only need to wait four more days."
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden drew roaring support in Beloit, Wis., in a middle school near Ryan's hometown.
Obama reached beyond the big cities of Ohio before heading back to the White House. Romney was headed into the weekend with a kickoff event for the finish, joining up with his running mate and their wives.
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AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Ken Thomas, Julie Pace and Julie Carr Smyth in Hilliard, Ohio, Steve Peoples in Pataskala, Ohio, Daniel Sewell in Cincinnati, Ann Sanner in Springfield, Ohio, Matthew Daly in Beloit, Wis., Philip Elliott in Montrose, Colo., and Jim Kuhnhenn and Mark S. Smith in Washington contributed to this report.
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