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February 2013
Julie Lentner
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"Minnesota factories that make goods for the home are humming with activity as hiring accelerates...Marvin Windows and Doors and Honeywell International are seeing notable jumps in sales. Area manufacturers are benefiting from an unprecedented 17 percent increase in home sales from 2011 to 2012. Honeywell has seen consistent growth across their residential business. Select Comfort, Cambria and Anderson Windows are also seeing profits climb due in part to the increase in home merchandise activity and companies like Anderson Windows are in a hiring mode." 

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

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   "You can eliminate chemicals from your laundry by using

"eco-balls or "laundry balls" instead of detergent. These Saturn-shaped spheres contain magnetic pellets, which produce ionized oxygen, enabling the water in your machine to penetrate deep into your washing and draw out dirt, while softening fabrics at the same time. Fans claim that the only things eco-balls won't do that detergent and fabric conditioner can are provide an artificial fragrance for your clothes, irritate your skin, fill up your cabinets, and empty your wallet."   

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By Joanna Yarrow  

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"Wait. If the time is not right, the way not clear, the answer or decision not consistent, wait. But I want it now, anything now, but now is not in my best interest. Waiting is an action, a positive forceful action." 

 

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February is Heart Health Month. Your heart is the key to your health now and in the future. Today, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; about "600,000 people die of heart disease every year" according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To maintain a healthy heart you should get 30-60 minutes of exercise most days of the week, eat a healthy heart diet, maintain a healthy weight and get regular health screenings; blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and diabetes screening. It's never too late to get started to do what you need to do to keep a healthy ticker. 

 

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Do Happy Employees Bring Higher Profits?

       

According to a recent article in USA Today, treating employees well appears to pay off. "If you treat your employees well, the business should prosper and that should show up in the stock price said Jerome Dodson, manager of Parnassus Fund. One employer in particular is Google. Its stock soared about "700% since its public debut in August of 2004." Offices at Google promote interaction and in some locations the company offers a bowling alley and a pub lounge to their employees. The company also offers a great health plan, a college reimbursement plan, legal aid, travel assistance and 50% of the deceased's salary to his or her family for a decade. Marriott offers employee discounts at thousands of hotels worldwide. After 25 years of service you can stay for free at hotels and timeshares. As a result, "Marriott has gained an average 11.3% a year for the past decade." 


"Organizations who focus on the engagement of their employees deliver stronger performance," says Julie Gebauer, Managing Director for Talent and Rewards for Towers Watson. Per Julie, it's not just about keep employees happy it's about making employees feel engaged. Employees who are engaged are more motivated and productive, tend to put in more hours and stay with the company longer.   

 

Companies on Fortune's List of 100 Best Companies to Work For tend to have less employee turnover than average. "In Information Technology, voluntary turnover is 5.9% at the companies on the list versus 14.4% industry wide. Turnover for professional services in best places to work is 11.3% versus 24.7% industry wide."  

 

"Many of the publicly traded companies named as Best Companies to Work For in 2013 saw their stocks perform much better last year. Whole Foods soared 31% versus 13% for the S&P 500. Marriott gained 28%. American Express advanced 22%." "Costco pays their employees well and has good benefits. They want people who are professional, not just quitting and going on to the next job", says Dodson. The company gained 30.5% in the past 12 months." Morningstar, the mutual fund tracker, gives employees a six-week paid sabbatical every four years. Employees are also allowed to take as much vacation time as they need. Bevin Desmond, Global Human Resources at Morningstar says, "We hire people who are smart, motivated, aggressive, and ambitious, and they put everything they can into the job."  

 

Employee treatment means more than great benefits. Little things that don't cost anything can have a significant impact for employees to be happy at work. "How expensive is it for a senior leader to give an employee a pat on the back or the opportunity to work from home for a day or two?", says Gebauer.


For more information each year, Fortune rates the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The list is out for 2013, so check the others out. And if you need help finding the right company for you, email

[email protected] and we can help you get started.

 

Visualize the Job of Your Dreams

 

Dream JobSome people put together vision boards with pictures of the office they want to be part of, the number of employees who work for the company, a list of benefits they feel they need to have, a picture of potentially how their new boss looks etc. But another way is to just visualize the job of your dreams. Here's a few steps that you can take:  

  1. Begin by determining your strengths, skills and abilities and writing them down on a piece of paper. Match your skills and abilities to those jobs by putting in your skills and abilities in the search bar of various job sites to get specific job titles. Review the job responsibilities, qualifications and ask yourself if you would enjoy this job. Once you have completed this exercise, you can begin to visualize yourself in these jobs.    
  2. Imagine your dream job. Picture yourself getting ready for work and driving to the new job. Review the tasks that you would perform, thinking about them and what your boss and co-workers would be like. You are visualizing this picture as real as possible.   
  3. Act as those you have your dream job. Write down on a piece of paper: "I am a Sales Representative and I love my new job." Review the piece of paper throughout the day and think about it. 
  4. Think about the benefits that you will receive from your new dream job. Maybe it's putting you in a better financial position so you can buy a home, take a vacation etc.   
  5. Write these benefits on small cards and visualize your new home, on vacation etc.  
  6. Continue to visualize your dream job in am and the pm. Take the necessary steps to obtain your dream job such as getting the right education, certification or network with an individual who is working in the job and learn how that person got his/her job.

Recently, Harvey Mackay wrote in his column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he "believes that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals. Many people have discovered the amazing power of visualization and have used it to enhance their careers and achieve their goals and dreams...They visualize that they are not quitters. If seeing is believing, visualizing is achieving." 

 

If you need assistance visualizing your dream job, email [email protected] or call 763.559.0977 and we can help. 

  

Many thanks to all of you who continue to make Core Management Search a success.  

Sincerely,


Julie Lentner
Core Management Search, LLC

 


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