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Self-Management for Leaders

Are you fully aware of your own leadership capability? Self-insight and awareness can be informed by taking validated leadership assessments such as the CPI 260 Coaching Report for Leaders.

Most of my executive coaching engagements incorporate instrumented assessments. They can help you create a leadership development action plan enabling you to self-manage your career.

Have you taken the Myers Briggs MBTI, FIRO-B or CPI 260? You may find these assessments extremely helpful in guiding your leadership development.

Leaders (especially those who believe they have undiscovered high potential) should take charge of their own learning and development. Leaders should be aware of their specific talents and whether they are being fully utilized and developed. If companies are under-utilizing them, they should actively seek environments where their talents can be used, recognized, encouraged and developed.

Identifying your potential requires introspection and brutal honesty. Functional expertise becomes less important than other leadership capabilities as you rise higher in a company.

This work is best done with an experienced executive coach who can help you find the optimal developmental opportunities and mentors within your organization.

Are you working with an executive coach to help develop your leadership potential?

Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become a more energetic, focused and inspiring leader. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence and social intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of the company.

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The majority of motorcycle injuries often include some type of head injury, it is so important that you be wearing a good quality helmet when you are riding your motorcycle. However, with so many brand names out there today, how do you choose which one has the highest standards for crashes? All motorcycle helmets, by law must pass a Department of Transportation or DOT test and that sticker can be found on all motorcycle helmets, if it’s not there, don’t purchase it. Going above and beyond the DOT testing is the Snell Company.

Snell Memorial Foundation or SMF approved motorcycle helmets are tested in the Untied States only - Europe has there own brand of testing - and Snell require a higher standard of safety issues such as impact tolerance. Operating since 1957, Snell has been independently testing other manufacturer’s helmets for safety concerns. Snell does not manufacture helmets themselves, only tests them. And they are a non-for-profit organization whose soul purpose is ‘research, testing, education and development of helmet safety standards.’ The SMF standards deal with the structural impacts and very high energy distribution centers upon impact.

Helmets must pass all four categories, quality control, retention system, environmental resistance and energy management in order to receive the Snell seal of approval. It is said that a Snell helmet is able to ’shrug off’ all the things most probable to happen to the motorcycle helmet before it crashes and just after a crash. Leading to a wide inconsistency in performances is the fact that many manufacturers will test their own helmets which already have received a DOT certification, which could be the lowest possible rating.

There are four reasons to have the Snell certifications:

1. The riding of motorcycles can pose the risk of death or other permanent impairments due to head injuries.
2. The protective capacity of a motorcycle helmet is hard to measure.
3. The proper use of motorcycle helmets can reduce the risk of permanent impairments and death.
4. Snell certifications, backed by random sample testing identifies and maintains the highest levels of head protection available.

Snell currently purchases and test motorcycle helmets from the abundant supply available, in order to continually test and monitor the quality of the helmets available today. Testing is performed in a Snell research facility and only by trained Snell researchers. The following are Snell’s standard testing procedures - Impact management, how well does the motorcycle helmet do with a collision against a large object; Extent of protection, the area of the head protected by the helmet; Retention system strength, are the chin straps satisfactorily strong enough to hold the helmet through a head impact, and finally, Helmet position stability, is the helmet going to stay in place - on the head - when it’s needed?

Snell’s standards are some of the most stringent in the world. They exceed DOT, The Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC), the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). They only test one thing and that is motorcycle helmets and they do it well.

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Is it really true that cars can run on water? How is it done? I remember back when I first discovered that cars can be powered by water, none of the people I spoke to believed me. I had found out about this water car technology after purchasing a guide from the internet.

Most people are not convinced that cars can get enough energy from water to run. This article will explain how this water fuel technology works, and how you can have own car running on water too.

1. Can A Car Really Run On Water?

Yes it is certainly possible, but you will need to build a system that can allow your car to do this. But it is impossible yet to run your car on water only, but it is doable with a mixture of water and gasoline.

This system can be built easily at home, and will only require a few easy-to-find parts that you probably already have or can find in any hardware store.

2. How Does This Technology Work?

To run your car on water, your car needs to be able to separate water molecules. With a process called electrolysis, water is split and a gas called Brown Gas can be obtained from it. This is the gas that is then combusted to produce energy to run your vehicle.

3. What Are The Benefits Of Using Water Instead Of Gasoline?

The biggest benefit is that we can all stop being slaves to gasoline. When we can run our automobiles on a mixture of water of gasoline, we can go to the gas pump less frequently and save up tremendously on fuel costs.

Brown Gas extracted from water will wear down your vehicle mechanics slower than gasoline does. With gasoline combustion, your engine parts and mechanics can wear down very quickly. HHO gas also burns more cleanly than gasoline, thus it is also more environmentally friendly.

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It is conventional wisdom that the motorcycle industry is worried about the demographic shift of the oldest baby boomers (born in 1946) hitting the United States legal retirement age of 65. As boomers or boomies retire, their older children called Generation X (born 1965 to 1980) and younger ones called Generation Y (born 1980 to 1995) are or will take major roles in our society. So, what’s our industry is doing to tap this vast potential market? Sadly, almost nothing.

Do you know of any motorcycle manufacturer, print magazine, motorcycle TV show or motorcycle rally making real efforts to adjust to these 2 new generations whose taste, language and entertainment is quite different from the one of the baby boomers. Xers and Yers have their own specificities, but both were raised front of television, playing Atari 2600 or World Of Warcraft, doing their homework on a computer and socializing through internet social networks like MySpace. In addition to have raised 2 boys belonging 1 to the Xers and 1 to the Yers, I have a lot of interactions with the new generations and I know for sure that they spend more time surfing the web than watching TV, and more time enjoying HD movies than they will ever reading paper magazines.

We cannot expect that all children born in a biker family are going to be bikers. And even if it would be the case, it will never be enough to support our industry. I have no doubt that the baby boomers children can acquire our taste and love for the sport of motorcycling. But they are not exposed to it because our industry exclusively “talks” to us, never to them, and never in a place or media where we would get a chance that they listen and fall in love with bikes like I did when I was 18. Let’s take Internet, the meeting place of these 2 new generations.

Motorcycle print magazines limit their online presence to a “giant business card” with a few titles and pictures. But in no way they are full and complete interactive online magazines. Consequently their traffic is extremely low and much lower than any improvised website whose author is a biker dude sitting in his kitchen and publishing aggregated motorcycle news copied from other websites. I am an Internet publisher and I believe in the “word of mouse” to extend my passion for motorcycles to others, I don’t understand why my friends and fellow print publishers still don’t recognize it. Major newspapers and magazines were able to have both a successful and profitable simultaneous print and online presence. Why not us?

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Summer GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) Programs

Students from Atlanta Schools have been very busy this summer. The GRAD projects and programs aim to insure that Atlanta school students make to graduation and then on to university. Several GRAD programs are designed to spark students’ interest in science, mathematics and arts. This summer rising sophomores, juniors and seniors from South Atlanta, Washington and the New Schools at Carver high schools took part in 2006 Project GRAD Summer Institute. The Atlanta Schools 2006 Project GRAD Summer Institute involved students attending a four week session held at several Atlanta colleges and universities, including Clark Atlanta, Emory, Georgia State, Morehouse, Oglethorpe and Atlanta Technical College. The idea was to give students a taste of college life. Students attended classes, meet school administrators, and spoke with current students. More than five hundred students were allowed to take part in this year’s project. The students and their parents attended an awards ceremony held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel at Morehouse College honoring the students’ achievements. Each of participating universities presented awards to the Atlanta Schools 2006 Project GRAD Summer Institute students for the categories of most outstanding, most improved, citizenship and best all around student.

Project GRAD asks students to promise three things: “that you will seek assistance and support from counselors whenever you get stuck, add the word ‘can’t’ to the list of four-letter words you’ve been told not to say, and to continue to reach back and help other students long after you graduate from college.” Project GRAD is a school-community partnership program that aims to improve the academic performance, high school graduation and college attendance of inner-city students from low-income backgrounds. Currently Project GRAD operates in approximately one-third of Atlanta Schools and in 211 schools nationwide. Students who complete two summer institutes, maintain the required grade point average in core college prep or technical school courses and graduate on time with their class are awarded $4,000 scholarships to college or technical school.

Atlanta Schools Holds First Teach For America Summer Institute

The Teach For America Summer Institute, hosted this year by Atlanta Schools, is an intensive five week designed to aid new college graduates in pursuing a career in teaching. Teach For America Summer Institute is a national organization that seeks to enlist recent college graduates in teaching in urban or rural school districts for at least two years after graduation. The Atlanta Schools Teach For America Summer Institute will be housed at Georgia Tech. More than 530 newly graduated teachers willed be prepared to provided education to all students no matter what their economic or social background. The Atlanta Schools Teach For America Summer Institute is the most recent location to host an institute

Stacy Andell is a staff writer for Schools K-12, Which provides free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. Stacy has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues.

The life expectancy of your RV batteries depends on you. How they???re used, how well they???re maintained, how they???re discharged, how they???re re-charged, and how they are stored all contribute to a batteries life span. A battery cycle is one complete discharge from 100% down to about 50% and then re-charged back to 100%.

One important factor to battery life is how deep the battery is cycled each time. If the battery is discharged to 50% everyday it will last twice as long as it would if it???s cycled to 80%. Keep this in mind when you consider a battery???s amp hour rating. The amp hour rating is really cut in half because you don???t want to completely discharge the battery before recharging it. The life expectancy depends on how soon a discharged battery is recharged. The sooner it is recharged the better.

What does all of this mean to you? That depends on how you use your RV. If most of your camping is done where you???re plugged into an electrical source then your main concern is just too properly maintain your deep cycle batteries. But if you really like to get away from it all and you do some serious dry-camping you???ll want the highest amp hour capacities you can fit on your RV.

Deep cycle batteries come in all different sizes. Some are designated by group size, like Group 24, 27 and 31. Basically the larger the battery the more amp hours you get. Depending on your needs and the amount of space you have available, there are several options when it comes to batteries. You can use one 12-volt Group 24 deep cycle battery that provides 70 to 85 amp hours or you can use two or more 12-volt batteries wired in parallel. Parallel wiring increases amp hours but not voltage.

If you have the room you can do what a lot of RVers do and switch from the standard 12-volt batteries to two of the larger 6-volt golf cart batteries. These pairs of 6-volt batteries need to be wired in series to produce the required 12-volts. Series wiring increases voltage but not amp hours. If this still doesn???t satisfy your requirements you can build larger battery banks using four 6-volt batteries wired in series/parallel that will give you 12-volts and double your AH capacity.

Happy Camping,
Mark

Copyright 2006 by Mark J. Polk owner of RV Education 101

RV Expert Mark Polk, seen on TV, is the producer & host of America’s most highly regarded series of DVD’s, videos, books, and e-books. http://www.rveducation101.com/

Mark Polk is a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Three, specializing in wheeled and track vehicle fleet maintenance operations. In addition to owning and operating RV Education 101, (based in North Carolina) since 1999, Polk also has a very extensive RV background working in RV service, sales and management. Polk has a degree in Industrial Management Technology and his 30 plus years of experience in maintenance includes working as an RV technician, a wheeled vehicle and power generation mechanic, an automotive maintenance technician, Battalion and Brigade level Maintenance Officer, an RV sales manager and also in the RV financing department as the Finance & Insurance manager. http://www.rveducation101.com/

Ever thought about starting your own car dealership? Are you curious to know how you can build up a new business with only a couple hundred dollars to start? I am about to teach you a few tips that can make you very rich with your own business.

Used car dealerships seem to be everywhere and they are always coming and going. There always seems to be just a few that stick around, while the rest come and go. Why are they able to stay in business while others fail?

The dealerships that stay in business don’t grow too fast and, in most cases don’t have large loan payments from start up costs. You can be one of these. All you need is a few hundred dollars to start.

Once you have a few hundred dollars you will need to find a place that has seized cars for sale. This will give you a supplier that will always be there with great prices on cars for you. Now you will probably have to pay a fee of $50-$100 for the information or membership to be able to purchase at the seized auctions.

This is minor compared to what you are going to profit. Now you will purchase your first car. Before you do this make sure you have a good idea of a few popular makes and models of cars that you are looking for. You will want to consult the Kelly blue book website to get a value on some specific cars that you are after.

Then, you will purchase one of these. Once you have the vehicle you are going to take it to a local mechanic to get a diagnostic check done. This will give you a good idea of what is wrong with the car and will only cost you about $50.

Now you are going to place a classified for this car in your local paper. You will get a number of calls and you will sell the car for a good profit. Make sure to be honest with your ad and when you talk to the people that are interested. Even if the car has issues there is always someone looking for a car they can fix up.

Now you take your profits and go buy another car or two and repeat the process. You can easily build up to 5-7 cars a week within a couple months. At that point you will want to lease or buy a lot.

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Any monetary help for urgency must come instantly or its very purpose gets defeated. Salaried people have this option of taking out cheap payday loans online, which are meant especially for them to offer instant money within hours.

Under these loans, the borrowers get the money within 24 hours in their bank account. So, they can pay off a medical bill or meet any urgency without delay the same day.

These are considered as easier loans for salaried people as they get it without many enquiries, even if they have a bad credit history. Such borrowers also are instantly approved without any credit checks.

The only condition is that you must be employed for at least past six month and get fixed monthly salary. You must also be a USA resident with an active bank checking account.

There are host of online lenders who are providing cheap payday loans. You have to fill details of loan and some personal information like you residence address, employment and salary details etc on an online application. All the processing and verifying of the details is done through online, resulting in instant approval of the loan.

You can borrow anywhere from $100 to $1500 against you next paycheqe for two weeks. You will repay the loan from next payceque.

Usually payday loans carry lenders’ very high fee on each $100 borrowed. But the advantage of borrowing the instant money through online is that you can compare as many lenders as you can. Thus you can find out a suitable deal that has a lower fee.

Another advantage is that online lenders do not charge many additional fees on processing the loan application, which lowers the costs for the borrowers.

Make sure that you have first compared cheap payday loans online providers in order to find a suitable deal. Repay the loan on time so that you do not incur debts and your credit rating improves.

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My former employment includes over 20 years at a Ford auto dealership. I have ordered over 30,000 vehicles from the factory. Almost all customers select a new vehicle from the dealer???s lot. However there are several advantages to special ordering a vehicle. With a special order you get exactly what you want. The price of the vehicle will probably be lower because there will be no options that you don???t want. You may also be able to negotiate a lower price for an order than an in stock vehicle. You may also be able to avoid paying for extras that dealers frequently add to their stock vehicles; for example window tint, paint sealer, pin stripes, alarm systems etc, etc. Also an ordered vehicle is less likely to have a scratch or nick than a vehicle that has been on the dealer???s lot for months.

If you decide to order a vehicle the first step is to choose exactly what model, color, and options you want. Note that some vehicles have packages of options that are a better value than buying individual options. Next get a printout with your selections and the dealer???s price. (Larger dealers may have a fleet department with staff that is knowledgeable about special orders.) (Most retail salespeople are not skilled for special orders) It is best if the print-out for your proposed order has the list price and the dealers invoice amount. If it doesn???t they will probably provide a list/invoice print-out if you request it. For many domestic models you will be able to negotiate a price near the dealers invoice cost. (The dealer will typically make 3% to 4% if they sell the vehicle at the invoice amount.) Negotiate with multiple dealers if necessary to get a good price. A small deposit should be acceptable unless you are ordering a very unusual vehicle. The dealer you order from should explain your rebate or low financing options to your satisfaction. The vehicle will usually arrive in about 6 weeks. You can check out your financing options a couple weeks before the vehicle arrives. If you have a trade-in you can get a bid from the ordering dealer and possibly see if another dealer would buy your old car outright for a larger amount. Or you can sell your trade yourself.

It really is not hard to special order a vehicle. If you want to do it I hope this info helps!

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Advertisers are always on the look out of something outrageous and different from the routine stuff to make your product stand out. Vinyl as a material has opened doors to let your imagination run wild. From large format banners to vehicle wraps and stickers, you can just about pick something that suits your business need.

The most innovative advertising feature that has recently bagged the most coveted means of gaining exposure is vehicle wraps. Yes! You must have often seen colorful cars or trucks, plying on the roads with interesting contents and most attractive product graphics display. These vehicles have got vinyl wraps on them and make exciting billboards on the roll. Vehicle wrap is a method of applying adhesive vinyl material that is printed on with UV protected inks and wraps around the contours of the vehicle. The vehicle used can be bikes, trucks or even your own car!

Apart from adding jazz to your vehicle, vinyl vehicle wraps fulfill a more practical function of advertising the products or businesses. Just get a custom made vehicle wrap made for your business and apply it over the vehicle of your choice- cars, trucks, bikes or maybe airplanes and hot air balloons and see the target audience increase automatically.

When the vehicle goes on the road, people will stop to look at the colorful display and read the slogans on the vehicle. Spreading the information word of mouth also catches on over a period of time. Till recent years, the general methods of advertising were restricted to pamphlets, newspaper advertisements and announcements over the television and radios. If you were more ambitious, you would have got a billboard sign made for your product promotion. However, in front of mobile vehicle wraps, all these conventional advertising methods fade as the ingenuity of the marketing company shows in custom made advertisements.

The major advantage of vehicle wraps is that these are easy to apply and remove without harming the paint or the finish of the vehicle. Advancements in adhesive technology have yielded good results and now the adhesives used for vehicle wraps do not require heat applications or complex methods. Just peel it off when the promotion is done or maybe apply another different custom made vinyl vehicle wrap for more exposure and targeting audiences of other areas!

Fast, economical and effective, vehicle wraps are here to stay for a long time to come!

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