Advanced Management Motivation, Strategic Planning & Creative Problem Solving

Participants attending this programme will: - Consider methods for improving management performance. - Gain insights into the successful implementation of teams. - Study the techniques of strategic planning. - Develop their skills in the area of negotiating. - Analyze the Baldrige award criteria for excellence. - Examine the application of management best practices. .



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VIEWPOINT ~~ Cancer (here we go again) - celebrate life

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13I felt a lump on the right side of my breast while rubbing lotion on my body after a shower in January 1995. I thought it probably was my imagination, but just in case, I took a cold shower, then another hot one and even did a 30-minute aerobic workout, but that lump simply did not go away. I sat on the side of my bed for a while, took a deep breath and somehow found the courage to telephone my doctor's office and start the processes that would save my life. Dressed and went to work.It seemed overnight I was recovering, barely healed, from one surgery to another. The chemo and radiation therapies were scheduled back to back. I trusted my health care providers, the prescribed treatment and my own resilience, but I hurt a lot and did not like this at all.At the time, I worked, maintained a large home, underwent therapies and managed cancer-related billing, health records and insurance matters since my husband worked out of town four days a week.


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Homewood gains revenge with soccer upset of Hoover

Homewood 5, Hoover 1: Homewood used revenge as motivation and a second-half explosion to pull off a girls high school soccer upset of Class 6A 10th-ranked Hoover.

"Last time we played them they beat us 3-2 so it was nice to come back home and beat them here," Homewood coach Nathan Carlson said.

Homewood got a hat trick from Katie Frierson and a pair of goals from Kirsten Robinson to pull off the victory.

"Katie is a ridiculously (talented) player and when she's out there it's a different game," Carlson said.

Both teams played an even first half with the score tied at 1-1 but Homewood dominated possession in the final 40 minutes of play as it scored four unanswered goals.

Robinson broke the tie by getting a breakaway goal that beat the goalie on the top left-hand side.


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Parent workshop set at middle school

Author and speaker Rick Lavoie will speak April 10 during a parent workshop on student motivation.

The workshop will run from 7 to 9 p.m. and be held at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School, 279 Burlington Road.

The workshop will explore common misconceptions about student motivation and discuss approaches and strategies to effectively motivate children.

To attend, RSVP to btruscinski@freeholdtwp.k12.nj.us.

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Kim Predham

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Experts to give tips on starting new businesses

Staff Reporter
THE Tanmia Center, a subsidiary of Qatar's Social Development Center (SDC), will run six self-employment workshops beginning from April 6 to 29 for Qataris who want to start their own businesses.
The series of workshop will begin with a 3-day seminar titled ‘How to Prepare a Financial Statement for your Business' and ‘How do you Conceptualize your Business' from April 6–8.
Others subjects including ‘How to Market your Business' (April 13-15), ‘How Do You Plan a Business' (April 20-22) and ‘Human Resources Management and Production Improvement' will also be discussed.
The final 10-day workshop, ‘How to Prepare a Feasibility Study' will begin on April 30. Each workshop will run from 4:30 to 9pm,
“Aided by the UN International Labor Organisation (ILO), each self-employment workshop is under the tuition of highly experienced ILO business experts to ensure that Qatari businessmen and women gain a firm understanding of the challenges they will face when starting their own business," said a spokesperson.


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Perpetual chief came under fire over attitude to women

THE chief executive of the company being sued in a $1.2 million sexual harassment case has previously been criticised for his attitude to women in the male-dominated finance industry, with one senior businesswoman saying she was "lucky" that she had worked with men "who don't sound like David".

The remark was a reference to David Deverall, who heads Perpetual, the funds management firm that is being sued in the Federal Court by former senior employee Fiona Dunn.

Ms Dunn was earning $672,000 a year before she went on maternity leave last year. She claims to have been bullied and the subject of "blatant and unashamed discrimination".

In her claim to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Ms Dunn included a claim against Mr Deverall personally but her claim in the Federal Court is only against Perpetual.


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Rays' Newcomers Help Bring Team Effort In Win

The Rays have chatted all spring about their positive new attitude. There is a new and much improved level of talent. Let's not forget the new uniforms, either. They look pretty good. It has made for a new outlook that is unlike anything we've seen around these parts in, like, forever.

So, with so much spanking newness everywhere you looked, there was only one way to write the script on the first day of the new season for a team with so much newness it even needed a new name (sans Devil).

It wasn't just the 6-2 win against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday on a drab, rainy day at Camden Yards that had a fresh feel for a team looking to prove, as owner Stu Sternberg said before the game, "We're no laughingstock any longer." Not that anyone is taking wins for granted around here.


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