 Reserve your Print Excellence Event Tickets
The Print Excellence Awards are right around the corner. Have you reserved your tickets yet? The Phoenix event will be held on Thursday, April 23rd at Rustler's Rooste. To reserve your tickets or a discounted table, click on PHOENIX REGISTRATION. The Denver event will be held on Thursday, April 30th at the Downtown Embassy Suites Hotel. To reserve your tickets or a discounted table, click on DENVER REGISTRATION.Detailed information on both events can be found on the WSPA Website.
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Don't Forget Your Peeps!
Everyone enjoys receiving praise for their work and what better way to recognize your key staff than for them to receive a WSPA Employee Recognition Award in front of their peers.
This year in conjunction with WSPA's Print Excellence Award events, held April 23 at Rustler's Rooste in Phoenix and April 30 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Denver deserving employees will be presented beautiful certificates recognizing their contributions.
How can your recognize your key staff? Simply download and complete the fillable PDF form on WSPA's website (www.wsprint.org/emp-recog) and return by email to June Crespo at jcrespo@wsprint.org or FAX (412-259-2016). You can enter as many employees as you would like.
The cost of each certificate is only $25 and you can recognize 5 employees for just $100. Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2015.
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 5 Reliable Sources for FREE Fonts
Fonts are the most fundamental and powerful elements in a designer's arsenal. Luckily, there are variety of places online where you can find free fonts. Some sites provide downloadable font files that you can use on your computer and in printed pieces. Other sites provide what are known as web fonts, snippets of code that you can add to a website. Check out the list below for some sites providing free fonts:
Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel is a popular resource for free, commercial-use fonts. Font Squirrel's collection is easy to search and they frequently update their lists of the most popular fonts.
FontStruct
FontStruct is a free font-building tool sponsored by FontShop. The site lets users build fonts out of geometrical shapes through a graphical editor. FontStruct generates TrueType fonts which can be used in Mac or Windows environments. Users are encouraged to share their creations with other users.
UrbanFonts
UrbanFonts has free fonts, premium fonts, and free dingbats. Most fonts on this site are freeware, while some are shareware. Some fonts provided are trial versions of full versions and may not allow embedding unless a commercial license is purchased or may contain a limited character set.
Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a repository for web fonts that runs on Google's servers. All of the fonts are open ssource. Users can share fonts, customize fonts for personal use, or work with the original creator to modify them. The fonts can be used privately or commercially.
Adobe Edge Web Fonts
Edge Web Fonts provides access to a web font library consisting of contributions from Adobe, Google, and various designers. Users select the fonts they want to use on their websites and copy a line of JavaScript into their sites' HTML code to begin using them in their sites CSS. Edge Web Fonts is powered by Typekit, a commercial web font service from Adobe.
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 When You've Messed Up
The true measure of a great communicator is the ability to clean up the mess when everything goes wrong, whether it's inadvertently sending a sensitive email to the wrong recipients, giving a speech citing incorrect data, or publicly declaring support for a colleague who turns out to be a crook. It is possible to recover from such damaging mistakes. Follow these tips for a rapid recovery. Act PromptlyUnfortunately, people often compound their mistakes by hoping they will go away or waffling about how to handle them. the best course - quickly acknowledge your error and make amends in a way that is equal to the offense. For instance, if you've publicly chastised an employee without cause, you should make a public apology. Be HumblePeople who defiantly refuse to admit their own faults arouse anger and criticism. But when you're humble enough to see forgiveness, you inspire others to put themselves in your shoes and see things from your perspective. Everyone makes mistakes and most people are willing to forgive those who have the character to ask. Move On
Once you've made your apologies and asked to be forgiven, drop the subject and move on. Continuing to flog yourself for your misstep will only serve to keep the issue alive and leave you vulnerable to further criticism. You're not the first to make a mistake, and you won't be the last. People may gossip about your faux pas for a while, but if you get over it yourself, everyone else will too.
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 Is Your HR Up To Snuff?
Need a HR Checkup?
As a member of WSPA (and PIA), why not take advantage of PIA National's HR Department's expertise? Various types of HR audits are available to WSPA members at tremendous pricing. For example:
· Federal/state employee handbook review for just $199;
· Sales comp and incentive plan review and analysis for just $199 per plan,
· Employee communications audits for just $199
· Recruiting/hiring program audit for just $199
Personnel file and Form I-9 audits are available as well, but require an onsite visit by PIA staff. For more information contact Jim Kyger at 1-800-910-4283 (ext. 503) or jkyger@printing.org.
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 Not too late to sign up for CSR Class Would you like to be a top performer? Would you like less professional stress in your life, fewer fire drills and a normal work day? This class will help you get there. You'll learn easy ways to handle difficult customers and situations, control chaos, avoid emergencies, increase accuracy, repair strained relationships and recover when you're the one who "blew it." This fast-paced three hour program will cover: - Professional Problem Solving
- Successfully addressing customer complaints
- Stick-handling irate customers
- Delivering bad news
- How to manage your time like a pro!
WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2015 (9:00 am - Noon) WHERE: Pacific Office Automation (1305 W. 1st Street Tempe) PRICE: Only $39 for WSPA Members REGISTER HERE A similar program is in development for Denver in May.
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Weekly Photo Feature:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Each week E-Connects will share incredible photos on just how lax companies can be when it comes to safety.
The goal - to keep a safe work environment front and center on the minds of all of your employees.
How many idiots does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one!
If you come across a funny safety pic you think should be featured, email Michael Makin at
mmakin@wsprint.org.
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Quote For The Week
"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
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