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When Making a Medical Health Decision All Information is Vital

I want to take a moment to draw your attention to a very serious health issue which has turned into a legislative issue. Did you know that if you have a CAT scan you may not even be given the results? I was surprised to hear about what has happened to Classic Rock-n-Roller Craig MacGregor of Foghat (Photo above).

In 2012 he went into a hospital in Pennsylvania for an issue relating to a broken bone. The hospital did a scan. The doctor applied medical treatment for the broken bone, however she neglected to tell him just what showed up on his scan. Recently the famous rocker went in for an exam and his current doctor asked, "what treatment did you receive for your lung cancer back in 2012?" to which MacGregor replied, "What lung cancer?"

Please take a moment and read the following petition on Change.org which details all the legal and legislative information. The petition sites studies from Johns Hopkins, a legislative bill in Pennsylvania and tells Craig's story. https://www.change.org/p/provide-patients-with-critical-test-results-pass-house-bill-1233?recruiter=405737652&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink?recruiter=405737652&utm_source=petition_show&utm_medium=copylink

Here's a link to the wire story. We need your help circulating this information to gain awareness and hopefully change will happen. We should all receive full test results in a timely manner. How can a person make an informed decision with out knowing all the information? http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/05/prweb13404760.htm

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AN 11-year-old schoolboy has joined Mensa after scoring higher than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein in an IQ test.

Ramarni Wilfred started showing signs of genius as a toddler, when his favourite book was an encyclopedia.

He could read and write by the time he started reception at school and last year, at the age of 10 and still in primary school, wrote a philosophy paper on fairness that earned him a 2:1 and a mock Oxford graduation.

When his reception class wanted to move him up a year, mum Anthea objected, wanting him to grow up with other kids his age.

Prof. Hawking, Microsoft founder Gates and Einstein all have 160 IQs. Ramarni scored 162, putting him in the top 1% in the UK.

Anthea, 37, said: “He’s still just a little boy doing normal childhood stuff. While he reads the New Scientist and the Sky at Night, he still plays with his dog, watches the Disney Channel and reads comics.

“Mensa allows him to talk and be with other people as clever as he is for the things that go over my head.

“He doesn’t think it’s a big deal. I love his humility and I love having my own personal walking, talking dictionary/thesaurus/calculator!”

Ramarni, who will be starting Year 8 at secondary school next month, harbours hopes of one day studying at Oxford and becoming an astrophysicist.

The modest youngster, from Romford, Essex, said: “I can’t begin to compare myself to these great men whose hard work clearly proves that they are true geniuses.

“This is a great opportunity and I think it can open a lot of doors for me. But I also believe that having a high IQ isn’t that important unless you do something really special with it.”

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His last line is the key to success.

Five Things We learned When Opening an International Office

Over the past year SahlComm has been expanding our offerings internationally. We are in Frankfurt Germany and are about to launch our UK office in January 2015. It is not as easy as it may sound, but it is worth the effort. We’ve made several mistakes along the way, and we hope by sharing our successful experiences, we might help your business have a smooth international expansion.

FIRST: Pick a country where you have connections, business and the potential to increase partnerships. It’s always easier to pick a place that resonates with your product or service offering. One of our prime market sectors is technology and engineering. We find those sectors can trust us to successfully communicate their product to a specific market in the US. SO we landed in Frankfurt Germany.

SECOND: Find a stateside representative for that country who can assist you. Once SahlComm decided to move forward with business in Germany, we located Hessen-trade and Invest in New York City. The Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH is the economic development company for the State of Hessen in Germany. Their mission is to position and strengthen Hessen as an economic and technology site nationally and internationally. Together with representatives from industry, science and government, they work as a catalyst to develop Hessen further and make it permanently competitive for the future.

Working closely with Kristina Garcia here in the US and Dr. Rainer Waldschmidt has enabled SahlComm to navigate business needs and network with key people both here in the US and in Germany.

THIRD: Inform your local chamber of commerce and congressional representatives of your decision to expand internationally. Once word got out that we were expanding our company internationally, we made two very important meetings. First, to the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce and second we scheduled a visit to speak with Congressman Charlie Dent. Both the Chamber and Congressman Dent’s office were very supportive and immediately started helping us network. They continue to help us with vital connections and assistance as SahlComm continues to grow.

FOURTH: Visit the area. Perhaps this should really be number one, but sometimes, you do not have the luxury of taking a flight while growing a business. For SahlComm, we received business leads and started hosting calls via “Go to Meeting” prior to flying to Germany. However, in March of 2014, we had the opportunity to fly into Frankfurt and spend 5 days conducting business. It was after seeing the city and meeting the wonderful people in the state of Hessen, that we decided that Frankfurt in Hessen would be our first international office.

FIFTH: Network, network, network. It’s pretty basic but very true. Throughout everything we do in SahlComm, we are always networking. We found that connecting with business organizations and joining networking events while we were in Germany really increased our opportunities. We have also connected with German based groups here in the US and have attended events with the great people behind the non-profit GermanyinNYC.org.

Throughout the past year, we found that identifying a country that works with your offerings, connecting state-side with groups designed to help you expand internationally, visiting the country and networking are the key tools to help you get started internationally.

We appreciate all the support we’ve received from the organizations listed in this posting. Keep reading our blog to learn more about our expansion into Germany. In 2015, we are looking into the UK.

Top 4 Ways to Face Business Change as the Seasons Change

As fall approaches, it reminds us that as the weather changes with the seasons, so can your business. Most business are cyclical and those cycles are unique to each business. But surely as the seasons change your business does too. Change is constant and rapid in today’s competitive marketplace.

So How are You Facing Your Company’s Winds of Change?

As you face changes in your business, make sure you’re preparing to handle it with success. Here are 4 ideas we suggest to help you prepare.

Plan Ahead: As you are thinking through a new direction or growth of your business, revisit your communication plans, marketing strategies and over arching company goals. As your business changes those strategies must also change. Always ensure your talk matches your walk.

Have Clear Objectives: A year round focus on objectives is important but as winds shift so will your focus. We suggest having at least a quarterly check in with goals.

Be Creative and Flexible: Sometime looking at an old problem with a new fresh creative approach breathes life back into your company. A breath of fresh air coupled with a new flexible approach to a challenge is just what the company doctor orders.

Keep EVERYONE Informed: Yes everyone! Sometimes CEOs/business owners plan and map out strategies and forget to communicate them fully to their internal staff. Take the time to revamp your internal communications plans to allow for communicating change.

So as we roll into fall, give us a call if you need help reviewing any of your communications, marketing or strategic plans. We at SahlComm are always happy to help you through change, big or small, and help you deliver it with clear concise messages.

Top Five Factors to Consider for Strategic Partnership Success

In order to be successful, it is extremely important for business managers and owners to work in accordance with others and to form partnerships that are capable of flourishing. In a partnership, business objectives and goals can be achieved through mutual understanding and cooperation. Not only are managers and owners supposed to be skilled at negotiating, but they should also be equipped to set up mutually satisfying and positive goals with their partners. This would enable them to build their own, as well as their partners capacity, skills and capabilities.

Top Five Factors that enhance successful business partnerships are:

Understanding the purpose behind the partnership- In the world of business, successful partnerships can be developed and maintained by focusing on mutually beneficial goals and objectives. However, compatibility between the partners is of utmost importance. Compatibility can be predetermined by creating a common value base. This value base must be thoroughly explored in an open and honest manner and it must be understood and documented by the all the parties. Partnerships can be successful if the partners share a common value base and vision.

Creating commitments for the partnership-Commitments and agreements form the basis for any successful alliance or partnership. Agreements should be created by employing a shared or joint effort and to target mutually profitable schemes. Once an understanding has been reached at the initial stage, plans must then be developed to allocate roles, accountability, responsibility and primary objectives. A time frame should be set, for the completion of all the tasks.

Having Realistic expectations- Communication is extremely important in any kind of partnership. Partners, by talking openly and honestly with each other, can manage the relationship in most profitable way. Expectations should be spelt out so that issues could be ironed out in advance, before they disrupt the business operations. By openly sharing skills and knowledge, partners can benefit the interests of each other.

Managing risks- Risk management and business development are two extremely important issues to be considered, when indulging in a partnership venture. There should be an effective dispute resolution process, by which partners can master the art of resolving conflicts and managing risks that are bound to result from the partnership. By recognizing these risks and their probable causes, business partners can prevent them from recurring.

Establishing the partnerships shelf life- It is very important for successful business partners and good leaders to evaluate and review the progress of the partnership. By setting dates for meeting targets and achieving results, the partnership can prove to be very profitable. However, it is very important for partners to know when to withdraw from the partnership and part ways, for mutual benefit. Defining a shelf life for the partnership is crucial. There is no point in being part of a partnership that is no longer beneficial.

Nevertheless, the principle objective needs to focus on managing and sustaining the partnership. A communication and conflict resolution system must be established, along with an efficient decision making mechanism. Successful partnerships are always founded on trust. A trusting relationship is one of the biggest trademarks of a successful partnership management and governance. Developing successful partnerships requires a trained mindset, by both parties.

9 Reasons Why Interim Managers are a Key Solution for Your Workforce

Exploring the reasoning and effectiveness behind interim management solutions

A company crisis can arise at any moment. Whether it’s caused by external issues like a cyber attack, natural disaster or terrorist attack, or by an internal personnel issue, the stability of your company is critical.

When you’re faced with a crisis, personnel change or economic issue, you need to have a strong team in place to weather the storm. The hiring process for senior leadership can take a significant amount of time. What do you do in those days, months or years when your company is searching? You still need to run the day-to-day operations, maintain company image and continue financial stability. Interim management teams serve to resolve these concerns and prevent the company ship from sinking.

What is Interim Management?

A temporary management resource with keys skills

Short-term assignment with a proven executive heavyweight

Transition manager to execute a change in the business

Experienced manager to fill a need that can’t be met in house

Skilled expertise to bring new ideas, perspective and energy to a company

(derived from the Wikipedia article, “Interim management”)

In short, interim management is the hiring of experienced executives for periods of time (typically between three and twelve months) to rapidly address a wide variety of specific business challenges your organization might face.

What are some of the benefits of utilizing interim management?

The benefits of interim management are many. Beware, though: hiring the wrong person into a senior leadership position is one of the most damaging and costly mistakes an organization can make. Yet oftentimes, companies lack the executive bench strength to function at an optimum level of performance with a key position vacant. Anxiety over the length of time that’s often required to find the right candidate can lead to the temptation to “settle” for someone who’s only “almost right” for the position. Using effective interim management can prevent your organization from falling into this dangerous trap and making a costly mistake.

Consider all of these reasons why interim management may be right for you:

Instant access to highly qualified executives. Most interim managers can be brought on board within 10 – 15 days.

Flexibility during periods of change. Available on a contract, as-needed basis.

Bridging a skills gap. Providing coverage until an executive search can be completed, thereby reducing staff stress.

Buying time. To clarify the position specification and genuinely find the right person.

Skilled transition management. Often, the skills you need to make a cultural change in an organization are different from those needed to run the operation on an ongoing basis. These executives closely match the functional and situational knowledge/experience that the assignment calls for.

Focusing on key priorities. Requiring little or no supervision and are focused on achieving agreed-upon results, less likely to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of operations.

Neutrality. A new set of eyes is generally less political, more objective and goal-oriented than longer-term, permanent employees, and can provide a neutral, objective perspective.

Mentorship. For the talent around them, as well as for the future incoming executive.

Outstanding value for the money. Usually more experienced and less expensive than consultants from large consulting firms.

Naturally, there are a variety of situations and circumstances working together that will determine whether or not interim management is useful for you. However, employing an interim executive in the right position at the right time can help your organization move forward in significant ways.

We have seen the successful use of interim management support staff grow in recent years. Nonprofit leaders, in particular, are coming to see the value in using interim executives as an option, particularly during periods of great transition.

How to Bring in an Interim Manager

With the expected number of leadership transitions rising due to upcoming retirement projections of existing leadership and the continued growth of the sector, it very well may be that an interim executive is the solution your organization determines is necessary at a particular time.

SahlComm specializes in interim management, and stands by ready to discuss with you what management solutions are best suited for you today, in order to bring you the greatest level of success. Contact us for a free consultation.

Conceptual ideas to tangible results in communications, interim management, PR, crisis, media relations, reputation management, marketing and development.

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