Top companies already use detailed performance metrics (Analytics), benchmarks and individual quantitative performance measures.  Yet, accountability continues to invoke fear and trembling in the minds of many managers and staff members.   One reason that performance ratings are so threatening is that internal performance reviews are often done so badly. Managers frequently see them as bureaucratic exercises to check off the boxes for salary purposes. Accountability is often thought of as a way to justify blame, pass the buck or cover your butt (CYA). Phases such as, “Not my job,” and “Good enough for government work” serve to reinforce inaction and continued failure.  Ask people how work is going and you are likely to hear something like “Same shi*, different day” (SSDD).
A lack of accountability has destroyed job fulfillment and pride in work.

A lack of accountability allows individuals to justify entitlement thinking, such as, “I have been here longer than anyone else; I should be next in line for promotion.”  Fear is a major impediment to individual and organizational success.  Howard Lewis, author of Technological Risk, contends that we have become a risk-adverse culture. This is completely understandable when one considers how much we are pelted by frightening media reports, homeland security alerts, economic crises and “lite” wars (similar to lite beer with reduced calories, lite wars have reduced casualties).  Lewis contends that we have become afraid of risk and that fear, more than anything else, impedes a nation’s progress. Nothing weakens an individual’s or an organization’s resolve more, than the rejection of accountability. Accepting accountability empowers us.

Twenty years ago, Intel was the leading manufacturer of memory chips.   Yet, the writing was on the wall.  Intel would lose the chip market to cheaper, more nimble Asian competitors. That business model no longer worked in the new globalized market place. CEO Andy Grove was accountable to shareholders and employees for sustaining Intel’s success. Grove took action and replaced Intel’s old business.  Intel focused all its resources from making memory chips to making microprocessors.  The rest, as they say, is history.  Andy Grove’s decisiveness put Intel on a new trajectory of success that continues today.

A great definition of accountability can be found in the Wall Street Best seller The OZ Principle. The authors Roger Connors, Tom Smith and Craig Hickman define accountability this way, “A personal choice to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results.”  Accountability is the first step to ownership. It is understandable why all high-performing organizations build a culture of achievement by increasing employee accountability and empowerment.

Tabsite joins the list of sponsors for Kay Walten’s Seminar Explore Tourism™ Social Media Boot Camp 2011 to show the importance of a Facebook presence for tourism businesses

For Immediate Release September 6, 2011, Playa del Carmen, Mexico – With only 35 days to the launch of the first Explore Tourism™ Social Media Boot Camp in the Riviera Maya, Tabsite, a Facebook application that enhances fan pages for small businesses secured a sponsorship position with the Kay Walten Group for this seminar and additional webinars.

‘Facebook is a key player in the social media industry and continues to offer great options for small businesses. Tabsite has extended that innovation to include a simple and effective way for small businesses to launch a marketing strategy and online presence without having to be technically savvy. Our initiative to support small to large businesses parallels that of Tabsite, making their sponsorship support a great addition to the Explore Tourism™ seminar,’ stated Kay Walten, speaker and developer of the Explore Tourism Seminar and webinar educational series.

To celebrate this new sponsorship, Kay Walten Group will run a Facebook Contest from September 5 to 11, 2011 with participants eligible to win tickets to the upcoming seminar or a Gold Plan membership from Tabsite. The contest can be reviewed on the Kay Walten Group Facebook fan page facebook.com/kaywaltengroup starting September 5.

With over 90% of tourism businesses being small businesses, the Tabsite application can create a larger fan base for small businesses and supports the need for one-stop social media marketing. Tabsite is powerful, easy and social, important components of a successful social media marketing strategy. The drag and drop features makes customization of this platform and its unique layering components easy for a first time or seasoned user.

Explore Tourism™ Social Media Boot Camp 2011 will be held October 8 and 9, 2011 at the Dreams Riviera Cancun Resort & Spa from 9 am to 2 pm each day with a networking lunch included. Discounted enrollment is $1750mn and available online when attendees sign up prior to September 15, 2011. Sponsors for the event include Dreams Riviera Cancun Resort and Spa, Social Media Examiner and Tabsite. For additional information about the Explore Tourism™ Social Media Boot Camp 2011, review all seminar details at www.kaywalten.com .

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Southfield, Michigan, May 23, 2011: Lachman & Company is a family-owned and operated company, known for producing high-quality customized awards and executive gifts. Their design specialists and artisan create their all products in-house.

Executive gifts are a great means of showing one’s employees that how much they mean to employer and how rewarding their work is. It is a known fact that in a corporate house, their staffs works hard to help the business grow and play important role in the success of the company. Therefore, it is the employer’s duty to reward and recognize their hard work.

There are various ways of recognizing the contribution of employees and employee recognition gifts are one of them. However, recognition does not have to be expensive; one can reward one’s employees with budgeted gifts. Rewards show other employees what they can strive to achieve and what recognition they can win. An employer can build pride and inspire its staff by applying different rewarding ideas.

There are different ways of saying thanks and rewarding employees. Some include distributing recognition gifts on birthdays, corporate luncheons, appreciation weeks, anniversaries etc. Recognize milestones or accomplishments and reward your employees with gifts like employee of the month. A gift keeps on reminding employees that how much they are appreciated. Employees also remain motivated and put their 100% efforts.

Lachman & Company offers trophies and executive gifts, which one can order for customisation. Four generations, the Lachman family have provided customised awards, golf tournament gifts, bronze donor plaques, executive gifts, corporate awards, brass placques and etched crystal to worldwide companies.

It has established its reputation as a trustable company for quality awards and impeccable service. One can browse their online catalogue to check out the variety of products or can also stop by their Southfield, MI, showroom to see thousands of unique items.

About Lachman & Company: This Company has developed a reputation of a reliable and trustable company, since 1893. They offer excellent designs and unsurpassed customer service. They offer a wide range of awards and specialty products in various styles, sizes and materials. Whether you are looking for something classic or contemporary, glass or wood, big or small, Lachman & Co. can create a one-of-a-kind item that impresses the most discriminating customer.

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Michigan, May 25, 2011: Millions of tonnes of metal are recycled every year in USA resulting in billions of dollar transactions. Out of this recycled metal, more than half is exported to other countries and rest is kept in the country to reprocess it to make more metal. Metal being a very versatile material is used in manufacturing a variety of daily usage items starting from cars to cutlery and many other items.

Recycling, therefore, becomes extremely important so that the waste is minimized and useful items are made out of the waste. H&H Metals shoulders the responsibility of full service scrap treatment that includes non-ferrous metal recycling as well.

The company is one of the largest full service scrap metal treatment companies in Southeast Michigan and follows strict quality- control standards to ensure environment-friendly services. The biggest advantage of re-using the same material time and again is that neither the quality deteriorates and nor the possibility of retreating.

Non-ferrous metals like aluminium, copper, nickel, brass and many others are part of day-to-day life of an individual. For example, aluminium touches one’s life in varied forms- drink cans, wrapping foil, baking trays and many other forms. This is not very hard to explain why recycling of these materials can be fruitful for all. This is beneficial for all stakeholders of a business- from the owner to the consumer and the earth as a whole.

The society, where there is an increased awareness about nature and its protection, non-ferrous metal recycling is an important aspect that should be paid careful attention. With a combined effort of all and recycling units of H&H Metals, it is possible to turn this world into a better place to live in. Although, people are aware of it, but quite often, they tend to ignore such important aspects of life. Charity begins at home and if people start treating materials at their home itself, this could be a start of new era of awareness.

About H&H Metals: It was established in the year 1978 and since then the company has travelled a long distance from being a small backyard shop to a fully fledged 28,000 sq foot Detroit processing unit which is capable of handling 100,000 tons of material both ferrous and non- ferrous metals recycling each year.

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England, 13th April 2011: Those who have fancy for luxurious items know the significance of placing leather sofas in their home. The class, style and elegance it brings with it is incomparable. The translucent and luxurious look given by this furniture piece makes it an indispensable part of many homes. A contemporary couch can really change the look and feel of a room. The difference is too prominent to avoid noticing.

If anyone is planning to buy leather couches, this is definitely a right place to be in. Chesterfield Couture is one of the leading suppliers of highly quality couches. Leather as a fabric is known for its rough edge which makes it a favourite even for the ones who are pretty choosy about the furnishing they select for their room.

Low maintenance is another quality that makes it preferred over others. And this is the reason why Chesterfield Couture is among the most favourable location to visit. The best part is the convenience it offers for its clients. The consumer can not only feel the leather by touching a sample of it but also he can see the diverse range by free brochure that is delivered right at the doorstep of an individual.

These couches are versatile entity. Hence, they can be placed into any type of room that demands both the style and new look. The best thing about leather couches is that they are a suitable option for different types of household projects such as a mansion or a studio apartment. As market is flooded with plethora of couches, it is extremely easy to make a choice. Whether an individual is an owner of a bungalow or a middle class family, he will certainly find the couch that is within his budget.  Opting for leather sofas is an ideal option because it not only matches all types of décor but also enhances the current décor of the room. Black as a colour spreads elegance and style in the vicinity.

The store has a long list of satisfied clients and one of the consumers share his view in the following manner:
“Michael I just want to say “my furniture is better than I was expected I would also like to thank you for sourcing the office desk and cabinet with is of the same high quality of your furniture
Marcel Laurenz – Germany”

About Chesterfield Couture: Chesterfield Couture, an England based company offers a wide range of  quality sofas in unique design and makes.

San Jose, CA March 07, 2011: V-Soft, Inc., a Silicon Valley based Mobile Application Development Services provider, announced today that they had delivered a mobile data backup application to their client, a popular provider of online backup services. The smartphone data backup mobile application has been developed for all major platforms including Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, and Symbian using cloud-based mobile data backup computing technology.

The mobile app allows smartphone users to backup all their personal information like contacts, calendar entries, messages, photos, and audio/video files. The application regularly checks for changes to personal data and automatically backs up new or modified data.

“Our client would have needed to hire multiple specifically skilled engineering resources for a limited project duration but V-Soft was able to immediately respond with a large team of expert developers for parallel development and delivery of the app for all target platforms. V-Soft was the obvious solution for the client and working on a cloud-based mobile data backup project is another proud accomplishment to be added to our already impressive development portfolio.” said Neel Vora, Mobile Business Development Manager at V-Soft, Inc.

V-Soft has delivered many complex mobile device management applications for all the major mobile platforms, such as, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, Palm webOS, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, mobile website and JavaME. For more information about V-Soft’s mobile application development services refer to http://www.v-softinc.com/mobile-application-development.html.

About V-Soft, Inc.

V-Soft, Inc. is a Silicon Valley based provider of Product and Mobile Application Development Services across a wide range of technology platforms. V-Soft teams have significant experience in best-in-class methodologies for software and hardware product definition, design, development, quality assurance, implementation, and post deployment support. V-Soft has immense expertise in the mobile application and mobile platform development for different platforms such as iPhone, Android, Windows, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Windows Embedded CE, Embedded Linux, Mac X, and Symbian.

V-Soft helps customers improve functionality, reduce time to market, and improve quality while reducing costs by up to 60%. Highly focused on building long-term relationships with its customers, V-Soft builds teams around its customer’s domain knowledge; these teams work as extensions of customers’ organizations.

Additional information about V-Soft, Inc. can be found at www.v-softinc.com.

For further inquiries, please contact:

Durga Sharma

Marketing Communications Manager

+1 (408) 342-1700

[email protected]

www.v-softinc.com

Most of the business houses are hiring the services of call center in a bid to improve their business and their relationship with the customers. With new technologies coming up, business houses are always looking for better services from their call centers. Customers are very demanding these days. They want that a company’s representative is available 24×7 to them. Thus, business houses expect their call center partners to provide quick, quality and courteous service to all the customers.

Agents are the most important components of call centre, thus, their performance is always monitored. To ensure efficiency and quality, call centers provide them with essential trainings in the fields of order taking, responding to enquiries and troubleshooting. The quest for survival is increasing as the competition in the industry gets fiercer making the task of call centers more important than ever before.

Telemarketing has been negatively associated with various scams and frauds, such as pyramid schemes, and with deceptively overpriced products and services. Fraudulent telemarketing companies are frequently referred to as “telemarketing boiler rooms” or simply “boiler rooms”. Telemarketing is often criticized as an unethical business practice due to the perception of high-pressure sales techniques during unsolicited calls. Telemarketers marketing telephone companies may participate in telephone slamming, the practice of switching a customer’s telephone service without their knowledge or authorization.

A recent trend in Telemarketing is to use robocalls: automated telephone calls that use both computerized autodialers and computer-delivered pre-recorded messages in a sales pitch. These often include intentionally deceptive tactics, with computer recorded messages saying things like “Don’t panic but this is your final notice” or “We have already attempted to contact you through the mail.” These messages are often outright lies, intended to incite concern or fear in the potential customer.

Robocalls are known for failing to add numbers to their do-not-call list and repeatedly interrupting individuals at all hours of the day.

For Immediate Release

Event management and market research company hits the big time

Bristol, United Kingdom, November 15^th, 2010 – Marketing, events and market research company Sector Marketing (www.sectormarketing.co.uk) has hit the big time with its impeccable, organised international event management service. Sector Marketing offers conference management and exhibition management– delivering, in its event management arm alone, conferences; receptions; award ceremonies; trade missions (both inward trade and outward trade); road shows; briefing courses; and seminars. Because Sector Marketing covers such a wide range of all round marketing areas in its whole business plan, the company is uniquely placed to take care of absolutely everything that goes into an international event management project – from market research and initial idea storming all the way through to taking the show down at the end of its running period.

Sector Marketing offers the following bespoke services for all its international events: design and production; registration; security and management; logistics; marketing; PR; sponsorship; filming; multi media event presence creation; stage design; stage building; technical support; venue sourcing; audience recruitment; graphic design; copywriting and script writing; and of course market research. The phenomenal success of the company’s international events, which have spanned conferences, trade fairs, exhibitions and one off events, is entirely due to the fact that its multi national makeup allows it to easily source and run staff, kit, technical apparatus and venues anywhere in the world.

The international event management contracts won by Sector Marketing are multiplying thanks to the company’s combination of effective management skills and second to none market research. The key, as ever, lies in sourcing the right prospects to attend the right events – and when a company has cut its teeth on researching markets, all of that comes as second nature.

Contact Details:

Lower Strode Road,

Clevedon, Bristol,

BS21 6UU

Web site : www.sectormarketing.co.uk

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Singapore viable immigration policy allows qualified shareholders and foreign entrepreneurs the right to setup a Singapore company, according to registration expert AsiaBiz services.

“As long as they meet the requirements for foreign businessmen, shareholders and CEOs, they can still live and personally manage activities in the country as far as they were given the Singapore Employment Pass (EP),” according to the firm.

Although foreign companies can apply for another type of visa, which allows them to register a Singapore company AsiaBiz EP generally recommended because of its lax standards of conduct and paid-up capital.

“Your under no obligation to the holders of a certain amount of annual business plans, reduce costs and meet some of the residents rent their employees. This is not a hall pass holders must comply with strict requirements,” it added.

At the same time, the applicants should meet certain requirements to obtain this visa.

AsiaBiz said that the main requirements of the EP application are the university accredited university. However, the company warned that the limit in this category do not automatically guarantee a successful application, because the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) also considers other factors.

On the other hand, the company said that job seekers can apply them successfully in spite of they have no college education.

“It is important to remember that MOM showed special attention to those applicants whose skills and entrepreneurship is very impressive, even if they do not meet the training criteria,” the company said.

And because the agency essentially entrepreneurial skills of the candidates believe the EP AsiaBiz said that foreign companies must have a diploma in this high-class during the application process.

“Because the MOM gives great importance to entrepreneurship, foreign entrepreneurs an existing business in their home country has a higher success rate in securing their EP, especially if their company’s reputation and the reputation that determine their potential impact on Singapore’s economy,” added AsiaBiz.

The company added that the MOM also believes that the applicants paid up capital to their business.

In addition, foreign firms also gave the EP for professionals, managers and senior staff must be at least monthly wage of S $ 2.500.

More Information:

Asiabizservices is a leading corporate services firm that assists entrepreneurs and investors with the processes required to Start a Singapore company along with a range of other corporate services. The firm provides tailored solutions to meet entrepreneurs business objectives and manages the entire process of Singapore company set up. More information on How to Form a Singapore Company.

For more information:

AsiaBizServices.com

address: 120 Telok Ayer Street Singapore 068589

phone:  +6563034614

website: http://www.asiabizservices.com/

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