January 22, 2003
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-- You can't have your cake and eat it too.
-- Easier said than done.
-- How ready is your management and leadership team to face new challenges? How strong is your next in line?
-- Three Discovery Steps To Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
-- Manage to Excel by registering today for Managing to Excel -
-- FREE Tele-Conference: How to Build A Highly Effective Workforce
-- FREE audio tape from WJJZ interview.
-- Featured Books
-- HRD Press Outsources Training and Support to Success Performance Solutions
-- "There was not one minute that was not useful" - Rescheduled for March 14-15, 2003

Greetings!

How vulnerable is your organization to inadequate leadership and management skills?

Just when organizations need leadership the most, senior and middle managers have shown their vulnerability. Considered to be superstars and promising successors during prosperous times, these managers are now under extreme pressure to remain competitive, retain market share, motivate employees and show profitability.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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When business was good, senior managers as well as salesperson were rewarded for demonstrating confidence, maintaining focus, taking initiative, adaptability and balancing work with their personal lives.

Today, in much more complex and difficult economic conditions, these same individuals are being derided for their arrogance, narrow-mindedness, independence, wishy-washy behavior and poor work ethic. Could it be that these stars of tomorrow were only mere mortals with average abilities or did you hire the right person for the job - but the job changed?

Attention CEOs, Presidents, HR Managers, Sales Managers: Do you have an employee that sees himself as confident, while other cringe at his arrogance? Or do you work with a manager who prides himself in getting results while he enjoy riding herd over employees? To request a FREE Managing for Success Report, type FREE MFS report in the comment box.

Easier said than done.
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Today the business landscape is now littered with every imaginable obstacle and challenge. Many of the individuals in key roles have never even seen tough business conditions and therefore have never developed the competence to thrive, no less survive, an economic downturn. Recessions were something they only read about in the history books.

Organizations need leaders and managers who can make effective decisions in complex situations in a timely manner even when all the information they need is not available. That's a mouthful to say - and harder to do.

How ready is your management and leadership team to face new challenges? How strong is your next in line?
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Success Performance Solutions is pleased to introduce the Janus Performance Management System. an extensive performance management support system for organizations to ensure that individuals and teams are focused and assisted in achieving personal and enterprise wide goals and objectives.

Janus is a fully integrated suite of materials-paper- based or on-line-that will help individuals, teams, and whole organizations set effective performance goals, build competency standards, and conduct an effective appraisal.

Janus is designed around a core set of thirty-six generic competencies that apply to all job roles. To schedule a free consultation to learn about Janus, type Janus in the comment box.

Three Discovery Steps To Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
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1. Discover your ideal self. Who do you want to become?

2. Assess what you are really like - how you act, how others see you act, and what beliefs drive you to do what you do.

And #3 - Equip your management team with the skills they need. Click here for information about CoachView and Insights for Success.

Manage to Excel by registering today for Managing to Excel -
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- but you need to act fast. Don't miss what nearly 200 different supervisors from over 40 companies learned during 2002 at The Lancaster Chamber.

It's not too late to register for Managing to Excel 2003 beginning February 19, 2003 at The Lancaster Chamber. Call us today at 717.656.4632 to register or receive the complete schedule.

Send me a brochure and registration form for Managing to Excel.

FREE Tele-Conference: How to Build A Highly Effective Workforce
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Have you ever hired an employee who didn't meet your expectations? Is he or she still working for you? Would it be helpful to know if things will ever change?

Success Performance Solutions has a solution for you. Join Ira Wolfe, the developer of CriteriaOne:The Whole Person Approach, for a 45 minutes Tele-Conference at 11 AM EST on February 5, 2003. Free attendance is limited to the first 20 participants.

Sign up today by completing the contact form and in the comment box: Tele-conference - February 5, 2003

FREE audio tape from WJJZ interview.
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Ira Wolfe, founder of Success Performance Solutions, was the guest on Philadelphia Focus with host Bill Brosey on December 29 and broadcast on WJJZ-FM, 106.1 in the Philadelphia area. To receive a free audio tape of the show, email us at iwolfe@super-solutions.com for a free tape of the show.

Ira will also be speaking at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas this Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 1:30 PM and the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce on March 7. This will be Ira's second consecutive presentation at the International Builders' Show. His presentation is sponsored by Commercial Builders.

Click here for a free audio tape!

Featured Books
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Right Person-Right Job: Guess or Know by Chuck Russell. Only $12.95.

Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers by Sarah J. Ennis. Only $9.95. Free Shipping during January.

Order here. Include the title and number of copies in the comments box.

HRD Press Outsources Training and Support to Success Performance Solutions
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HRD Press/Training House announced this week that Ira Wolfe and his Success Performance Solutions team will provide training and support their selection tools to HRD associates and client. Wolfe will be responsible for recruiting associates, TotalView certification for associates and clients, job analysis training, and client support for TotalView, FirstView and Janus Performance Management Systems in the Eastern United States and for all SPS private clients.

Click here to register for training to be held in Lancaster (PA) and Atlanta during Spring 2003.

"There was not one minute that was not useful" - Rescheduled for March 14-15, 2003
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Everything you need to know to build a "whole person approach" for selection AND development of employees. Ever wonder if you should be using personality tests? How do you know which ones to use? Are personality tests legal to use?

First time in 2003! CriteriaOne is a two-day workshop that has been described as "outstanding". Consultants, owners and HR specialists from PA to CA attended this program in 2002. There's still time for you to register for the March 14-15, 2003 workshop to be held in Lancaster, PA. Register early and save $150!

To register or receive more information, click here.