A Newsletter for the Friends and Clients of Turning Point, Inc. Jan. 2007, Vol.2


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This issue's featured item is by Margaret Martin, a professional development specialist and founder of Martin & Associates. She is dedicated to helping organizations maximize their effectiveness by assisting in the development of the individuals within the organization.

"The Benefits of the DiSC Profiling"
By Margaret Martin


DiSC
Professional - Business Owner - Executive
 
Would you like to help your people understand themselves and others - and plant new seed for organizational success?
 
Would you like to have Trust, Cooperation, Understanding, Acceptance as part of your organizational success?  Without these positive attitudes about differing behavior, your organization can be brought to its knees by internal conflict.  With them, your organization can be more competitive and productive than ever before.
 
DiSC Dimensions of Behavior can provide a nonjudgmental language for exploring behavioral  and communication issues across four primary dimensions:  Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness.  It is a multilevel learning instrument that provides detailed, personalized information to help individuals and teams apply DiSC immediately. 
 
By utilizing the Personal Profile System, your organization will improve their interpersonal communications and teamwork.   It is an easy to understand, complete, and interpret instrument. 
 
DiSC can help bring out the best in your employees from all levels:
·       Understand their own behavior
·       Learn how and when to adapt their behavior
·       Improve communication
·       Promote appreciation of differences
·       Enhance individual and team performance
·       Reduce conflict
 
Experts agree that people can significantly enhance personal effectiveness by honestly evaluating their behavior and selecting self-management strategies that maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses. 
 
For organizations with a customer/client base where your employees are meeting and working with these people directly, you will want your sales staff to recognize what motivates the customer, what the customer is really saying, and how to adapt to the customer’s behavioral style.  DiSC is proven to help sales and customer service professionals:
·       Create and maintain relationship-based sales
·       Identify their customers’ DiSC styles and adapt their selling or support styles accordingly
·       Stay focused on customer needs
·       Manage difficult customer service situations
 
The result will be: higher sales and greater client retention, a more confident sales staff, and lower turnover.
 
With 30 years of proven reliability and over 40 million users, Inscape Publishing’s DiSC Personal Profile remains the most trusted learning instrument in the industry.  It is used worldwide in dozens of training and coaching applications, including organizational development and performance improvement.  Designed to complement and supplement existing training programs DiSC can help improve communication, ease frustration and conflict, and develop effective managers and teams.
 
For more information on how this program can benefit your business, please contact:
Margaret Martin at Martin & Associates 727-725-3370 or via email:  margaret@margaretmartin.com  and be sure to visit our website at www.margaretmartin.com.


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Here's the Latest News from Turning Point, Inc...


Turning Point's
CEO, Mitch Vigeveno, is now on the Board of the newly formed Wealth Advisor Institute (www.wealthadvisorinstitute.com ).  The Wealth Advisor Institute (WAI) is an association of financial professionals comprising Investment Advisors, Insurance Agents, Attorneys, and Accountants who are committed to serving the affluent and high net worth client by adhering to the highest professional standards, conduct and ethics, with knowledge and objectivity in the delivery of advice, products and services.

 

As an independent organization, the WAI mission is to provide its membership with unique and beneficial industry and practice education, knowledge and expertise via disciplined curriculums and forums to best enable them to serve the distinctive needs and goals of their end clients. If you are interested in sponsorship or membership – both significant opportunities - please contact Mitch at 727-725-8876.


A NEW ASSOCIATE AT TURNING POINT, INC!
Turning Point, Inc. is proud to announce that Bob Matthews has joined the firm as a Vice President. Bob joins us after after fifteen years as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager with Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg, Florida. At one point, Bob was responsible for all the Raymond James & Associates offices outside the state of Florida.

Prior to joining Raymond James, Bob served in top management positions with J.C. Bradford and Johnson Lane in the Atlanta area, and was a top producer at Robinson-Humphrey Co. Inc.   Bob holds a B.S. Degree in Business from Clemson University where he was on a football scholarship and was a Distinguished Military Graduate.

An experienced recruiter in the industry, Bob will largely be focusing on Branch Manager and Registered Representative recruitment in addition to executive placements at broker-dealers.

EMPLOYMENT NEWS:
PAYROLL CHANGES: Past Month Change, Month-over-Month Change and Year-over-Year Change
(The first number is the actual change in December from November, the second is the percentage change from November 2006 to December 2006 and the third number is the percentage change from December 2005 to December 2006. All are seasonally adjusted.)
• Financial activities: 9,000, 0.1%, 1.9%
 - Finance and insurance: 9,700, 0.2%, 2.1%
  - Real estate and rental and leasing: -700, 0.0%, 1.3%
Staffing Industry Employment Bulletin, Jan. 5, 2007

CANDIDATES:
Looking for some great people?  We have placed quality professionals in all the positions listed below as well as many others. Call us at 800-598-3366 and let us help you find exactly the right professional for that critical position with your company!

Salaried / Sample Positions
  • President
  • Vice President
  • CEO
  • CFO
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Regional Sales Director
  • Wholesaler
  • Customer Service Manager
  • Not-for-Profit Executive Director
  • COO/Operations Manager
  • CCO/Compliance Officer
  • Chief Lending/Loan Officer
  • Branch Manager
  • Recruiter/Business Development
  • Portfolio Manager
  • Financial Consultant/Advisor
  • Registered Representative
  • Director of Development/Advancement

Contracting Services
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Quote of the day:
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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