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United Way would like to show our appreciation for our company sponsors, donors, employee campaign managers, volunteers, and advocates. As a thank you for their support, below are articles from Through Eagles Eyes, written by Diane Winn and Tom Searcy, which will be posted monthly. These inspirational articles will discuss today's management and leadership hot topics.

Eagles EyesDiane Winn and Thomas Searcy co-founded Through Eagles Eyes, Inc. in 2006. Through Eagles Eyes, Inc. is a talent management organization. It works with medium sized companies to drive profit growth through their people development. Improved productivity throughout an organization is its goal. Both Diane and Tom have extensive background in the financial consulting field (over 50 years combined) which gave them extensive experience in understanding the challenges business leaders face, as well as gaining expertise in coaching them through those challenges.  Diane is a Professional Certified Coach, one of only a few in Indiana, and Tom is certified in neuro-linguistic programming, the basic science of communication that forms the basis for coaching practice. Also, Eagle Eyes' ability to support performance excellence for its clients took a giant step forward with its alliance with Kerry Garman, SPHR, a highly skilled professional in training, coaching and organizational development.

 Visit www.througheagleseyes.com to learn more about how Eagles Eyes can help your organization.

We have been reading articles since the first of 2013 about the rush by central bankers around the world to monetize (inflate) away their trade problems.  By inflating their own currency, they weaken their currency and thus make their exportable goods more competitive to would-be foreign buyers.

That has worked in many cases. (Korea destroyed Japan’s trade advantage doing exactly this from the late 1980’s to present)  The fly in the ointment shows up when ALL major international competitors attempt the same strategy at the same time.  Then it begins to look like Russian roulette with all the chambers full of live ammo.

What results is the lucky few close to the action - printing the money – gain dramatically while everyone else ends up holding the bag.  Last year, Forbes List of the 50 richest Americans included “eleven investors, financiers and hedge fund managers”. In 1982 there were none in this category.

 

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January 2013

In our previous article regarding the power of coaching we discussed the importance of developing leaders and developing talent.

We feel it will be helpful to delve more deeply into the role coaching plays in helping responsible leaders make large strides in their abilities quickly.

To make our case, we should give a little background into the exciting research about our personal development. Two of the pioneers in the study of human consciousness and its medical foundation are Dr. Candace Pert and Dr. David Hawkins.

They tell us that from the moment we are born, we automatically are "programmed" through interactions with parents, siblings, peers, religion, schools, and society. The programming goes unconscious and filters develop in every one of our senses that turn the raw data of any experience into an altered perception. What we feel is our reality in actuality is only our story of what happened.

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September 2012

In this newsletter, we continue with our discussion of building or rebuilding a great organization.

We discussed last time how antecedents and consequences affect the behaviors that determine the level of productivity and profits in an organization.

Let us emphasize from the start that to build an exceptional organization, the one thing executives, managers and supervisors should know the most about is human behavior, specifically the behavior of their employees.  Lack of knowledge of human behavior is the root cause of mediocrity and failure in our business environment today.

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June 2012

Last month we wrote about the spotty success businesses often experience with training and development programs, and we explained the major reasons this occurs. Poor quality, lack of follow-through and bungled implementation are among the most common reasons training and development efforts fail to produce results.

In this article we examine the basics of how to make employee training and development efforts, as well as employee engagement strategies, effective the first and every time. What we present has proven successful for organizations over the last forty years. The research behind the principles we present here, as laid out in detail by Aubrey Daniels, in his opinion is incontrovertible. Steps to implementation are clear and results are measureable consistently. Wouldn't you just know... hard work is involved in the process.

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