Block '5' Breakthrough Outplacement and Career Transition Program - The 4 Principles to a Successful Career Transition Balancing Career/Life Issues - To Excel at Both! Power Writing - Business Profiles, Individual Bios, Website Text, Speeches, Resumes Attitude - Aptitude Without "Attitude" Leads to Ineptitude Performance '5' for Individual and Team Achievement - Holding Individuals and Teams to Higher Standards Developing World Class Business Talent - Innovation, Discipline, and Mastery

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"You're Fired!" Career Assistance for Employees Being Let Go

Downsize with Dignity
(At a Fraction of the Cost of Conventional Outplacement)

Terminating employees is never easy. The two greatest crises people face are loss of a loved one and loss of a job. The Block '5' Breakthrough Career Transition Program is a ground breaking program to assist your employees to "leave" your employ with their heads up, with confidence in their future, and with sincere respect for your company.

Targeted Audience

This program is for any company that wants to improve their image and reputation while assisting soon-to-be terminated / downsized employees transition to a new opportunity - at a fraction of the cost of conventional outplacement programs.

$$ How You Profit

Downsizing is a fact of life in business today. It's too costly to be overstaffed and keep underproductive employees. So when it comes time to reorganize your business, this program will coach your employees in securing new opportunities once they become former employees. This program will enhance your company's reputation and image by showing employees and your marketplace that you are a compassionate and caring employer, values which are highly respected today throughout the global market

Program Outline

• Career / life assessment; skills identification
• Strategic, value-based resume development
• Cover letter and reference portfolio
• Career mapping - the 8 ways to secure a job
• Interviewing and salary negotiating
• Maintaining a positive attitude

* Customized for each organization

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To Excel at Both!

A recent study of more than 50,000 employees from diverse industries spanning the US found that more than 40% are dissatisfied with the balance between their work and their personal lives. The lack of balance is due to long work hours, changing demographics, commuting time, the deterioration of boundaries between work and home, and increased work pressure. One of the greatest challenges in life today is finding a comfortable balance between work and personal life. And if this balance is not found, career issues will have a negative impact on personal life, and personal life will have a negative impact on the job.

Targeted Audience

This program is for any organization seeking to help its employees excel on the job while finding happiness, reward, and tranquility off the job. This program helps employees balance life's complexities, manage time, and prioritize tasks in order to be productive and happy on and off the job.

$$ How You Profit

A balanced employee brings innovation, creativity, enthusiasm, passion, loyalty, and productivity to the job every day. Current surveys indicate the positive association between organizational job satisfaction and innovation and a balanced personal life. And here's the KEY benefit. It has been found that organizations that promote career life balance have a "healthier" work force and thus, save a significant amount of money on medical and health costs, sick days, and Worker's Compensation.

Program Outline

• Defining and aligning career and life values
• Time management and the art of prioritization
• Emotional channeling techniques™ to reduce stress
• The art of delegating and partnering to save time
• How to eliminate procrastination
• Optimizing available resources (labor and non labor)
• 10 ways to increase energy and enhance productivity

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What's in it for me? What's in it for you? What's in it for your customers? It's obvious - it's BENEFITS!! When you are writing marketing materials, resumes, television ads, or anything where you are seeking extraordinary results - what is the primary message you want to convey? What actions are you trying to induce ?

Jay Block developed the Organizational Message Chart® (Featured in two of his best-selling books published by McGraw-Hill), and has worked with thousands of people and organizations around the world to dramatically improve their "written words." If the messages are not clear, it will cost you dearly. However, if your messages are crisp, eloquent, and precise - you'll make a fortune.

Targeted Audience

This program is for any company or organization that wants to optimize their resources and performance through the written word.

$$ How You Profit

When your messages touch the emotions of your audience – you’ll make a fortune. Emotion sells. Jay Block works closely with you to identity and communicate words that create emotion that initiate action. It’s not the money you spend on getting the word out that matters most. It’s getting the ‘right’ word out – messages that compel people to take action to meet your sales, growth, and organizational objectives.

Program Outline

• Target your audience with laser precision
• Hot button, triggers, and emotions
• Competitive / communicative analysis
• The Organizational Message Chart®
• Test marketing quickly and accurately
• Measuring results and "tweaking"

* Customized for each organization

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Aptitude Without "Attitude" Leads to Ineptitude

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - Clement Stone

Introducing groundbreaking techniques to improve attitude and significantly enhance performance.

A positive attitude is the ability to use the right, honest, constructive thought, action, or reaction to any person, situation, or circumstance. A positive attitude allows one to build on hope and overcome the attitudes of despair and discouragement. An empowering attitude results in a feeling of confidence to achieve anything at any time - no matter what the obstacles.

Targeted Audience

Everyone!! A training arm of the US Dept. of Labor conducted a survey on "Skill Gaps in America." Companies and organizations overwhelmingly agreed that 'attitude' was one of the most important skill sets sorely missing in today's labor market. This program teaches specific techniques to continually improve one's attitude - even if you have a great one already!

$$ How You Profit

Your company benefits by increased profits as a result of increased sales and customer service standards; as a result of increased quality and productivity; as a result of increased performance and teamwork; as a result of enhancing employee's attitudes. The organization that has a peak performing labor force fueled by a positive attitude, has a distinct competitive edge in today's global market.

Program Outline

• Philosophy first - then attitude
• Character versus reputation
• Teamwork - no one wins alone
• 5 specific techniques to maintain a great attitude
• How to manage stress and negative emotions
• A good attitude - how to make it addictive

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Holding Individuals and Teams to Higher Standards

The sign at the reception desk read: First Impression Manager.

The sign in the Admissions Department of the hospital said, We will assist you with your paper work, will keep you here no longer than 10 minutes, and escort you to wherever you are going - with a smile !!.

Performance '5' for Individual and Team Achievement is an offshoot of the system created by Harry / Schroeder. This program is designed for individual and team achievement to 'raise the bar of individual and team performance' in a measurable way by using IPM's (Individual Performance Measurements).

Individuals and teams will analyze, develop, and measure peak performance standards that will improve profits and individual achievement.

Targeted Audience

Performance '5' for any organization and / or individual seeking to attain and maintain outstanding productivity, output, service, quality, and teamwork - to improve bottom line performance.

$$ How You Profit

What good is a customer service department if customers can't get them on the phone? What good is a strong sales force if operations are weak? This program helps "break down" the major functions of each employee and team to set high performance standards (measurable) that must be met. It empowers employees and empowers every aspect of your business.

Program Outline

• Awareness is power - what will it take to be "the best?"
• Teamwork: Everything affects everything else
• Measurement standard development - IPM's
• Testing and incorporating IPM's
• Coordinating the 'parts' to work in harmony for the whole
• Performance measurement analysis
• Managing breakdowns to improve performance
• CPI: Continual Process Improvement

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Innovation, Discipline, and Mastery

Success means doing the things you don't want to do to get the results you want. Success means hanging in there long after everyone has given up. Success means NOT wishing things were easier; rather wishing you were better.

Discipline is the bridge between the desire for success and success achievement. Discipline is the foundation upon which all abundance is attained. An abundance of discipline leads to an abundance in the free enterprise system as well as in life!

You have one of two key choices to make in business / life: To employ discipline to do all that you have to do to achieve your goals, or neglect to employ discipline at the expense of your goals. Discipline leads to reward and neglect leads to regret.

Targeted Audience

This program is for any organization seeking to attract and maintain world class talent to successfully compete and prosper in a world class manner.

$$ How You Profit

Attract and maintain the best labor force in your industry. Empower them to grow, expand, and bring added value to your organization. In the end, discipline defines performance. It means making the extra sales call, calling the customer before the customer calls you, and going the extra mile rather than seeking disastrous shortcuts. Discipline means focusing on the few things that make the most difference rather than majoring in minor things. To optimize growth and profits, you must optimize organizational discipline.

Program Outline

• Discomfort cures dis-ease
• The 68-90 Rule - to focus on the major disciplines
• The miracle piece - mastery of the fundamentals
• Techniques for overcoming procrastination and fear
• Distinguishing creative struggle from outright pain
• "Chunking it down" - avoiding overwhelm
• Success breeds success - the rewards of discipline

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