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Differentiators
Have you given much thought to the impact that differentiators have in your business or your daily life? Those are the sometimes subtle, or sometimes ‘in-your face’ things, that help each of us to make decisions through-out the days and weeks ahead. A differentiator might be the color of a dress or the pattern on a…
Read MoreChanges in Attitude…
Many things can happen to drive changes in attitude. Life just doesn’t seem fair all the time. We go along just fine for a while and then something happens. We lose our job, or we get sick, or we get hit by another car as we’re driving home. All sorts of things can and sometimes…
Read MoreNow Hiring: Where Are All the People?
Where are all the people coming from to fill the needs of employers in this market today? Truth be told, there are difficulties even for us professionals to find the right people for the open positions our client employers have available. That is no secret. There are more openings than qualified applicants. We’ve been through…
Read MoreFresh Start for a New Year
A new year has begun, 2017 at that, and we are already hurry-scurrying through the first weeks. For some, this is a time of reflection on the year just past and on the things we’d have done differently had we the opportunity for a ‘do-over’. For others the new year is simply that time when we…
Read MoreThe Power of Optimism
Optimistic people fare better in interviews all other things being equal. That is the simple truth. Most people like people who have optimism, so long as it isn’t exaggerated and overblown simply for effect. Optimism and smiles tend to go together. (See our recent entry http://wfastaffing.com/smile/ ) So there is a double-whammy in the package of…
Read MoreSMILE!
Want to have a better today…SMILE! There is evidence that when we smile, even if we aren’t feeling it at that moment, we begin to feel better. We can actually make ourselves feel better by smiling at others. Now, wasn’t that easy? When I receive a smile, I tend to automatically to return it. If I…
Read MoreHabits – Are they good or bad?
Habits come in all varieties, but we tend to think of ‘bad’ habits whenever the word ‘habit’ is mentioned. Maybe that is natural from childhood on through adulthood. Maybe we were admonished so often as youngsters that we see the word as having a bad connotation. Habits are defined as: a settled or regular tendency…
Read MoreExciting Management Changes at WFA Staffing
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity…” There truly is a time for everything and that includes the passing of the title of President from one person to another. The time for that to happen is when it does not need to be done, when there is not some pressing…
Read MoreFuture 50
The latest edition of the Milwaukee BizTimes (Sep. 7 – 20, 2015) features this years’ Future 50, the fifty select growing companies in SE Wisconsin according to the rankings of BizTimes. They’ve been at this for quite a while, and we admittedly are partial since we were selected for this prestigious group three years in a…
Read MoreSupporting our veterans…
This past Friday we at WFA were blessed to be able to support Stars and Stripes Honor Flight. Stars and Stripes Honor Flight honors all veterans by flying WWII, Korean War and terminally ill veterans from other conflicts to Washington, DC to visit their memorials. They actively promote educational aspects of this mission in our schools and…
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