Mission: Military 2 Manufacturing, one of the largest efforts to help veterans gain a foothold in the manufacturing sector kicks off in Schaumburg on Tuesday, December 18th, the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) announced today. “The manufacturing sector in Illinois is in dire need of thousands of trained workers, and military veterans are in a unique position to meet this demand,” said IDVA Assistant Director Rodrigo Garcia. “Illinois manufacturers are specifically looking for veterans who can bring soft skills and technical experience to their workplaces.”

The “Mission: Military 2 Manufacturing” event, which is different from a traditional hiring fair, will serve to educate veterans and members of the National Guard and the Reserve on available jobs, salaries and career paths available in advanced manufacturing and logistics. Participants will have a free, one-of-a-kind opportunity to network with training experts and like-minded business professionals, as well as meet other veterans who have already made the transition to civilian positions in the manufacturing field. They will also meet employers and agency experts, who will host in-depth breakout sessions on specific training and career opportunities. Each attendee will leave the event with a detailed, personalized plan for the transition into a manufacturing or logistics position.

Numerous other key organizations are supporting and taking part in the event, including the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), Illinois Joining Forces (IJF), Harper College, Daley College, Medusa Consulting Group, the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA), Business and Career Services, Inc. (BCS), Illinois workNet, the Tooling & Manufacturing Association (TMA) and APICS, the Association for Operations Management.

The Mission: Military 2 Manufacturing program will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18, 2012, at the Mazak Corporation Building, located at 300 East Commerce Drive in Schaumburg, Illinois, 60173. To register, please visit www.military2manufacturing.eventbrite.com, or contact Max Dulberger at IDVA at Max.Dulberger@illinois.gov or (312) 814-5538.

For more information about IDVA and other veteran initiatives, visit www.veterans.illinois.gov

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Chart A New Course!

We’re a day away from deciding the future for the United States of American.  So, with your indulgence I  would like to express my deep feelings on the topic, and I won’t mince my words…..

Issue 1.  I believe that Barack Obama is a highly incompetent public employee and has done a miserable job attempting to lift our economy out of the doldrums.  But more importantly I believe he is not the least bit patriotic and processes a deep hatred for non-supporters or those with a  differing view.  When attempting to address our failing economy, he clearly make decisions based simply to fulfill a personal agenda and political gain.  I recognized this the first time I heard him speak and have witnessed nothing but supporting evidence to this claim since then.  These are strong feelings I know, and they are extreme.  But Mr. Barack Obama has shown himself to me as a very unsettled, thin skinned, self-absorbed, child-like person, and a huge detriment to the advance of this country.

Issue 2.   On a seemingly unrelated topic, I believe the moral, ethical and spiritual fabric of our society is tattered. There a forces present in America today that are aggressively attempting to mute or negate our personal relationship with the living God. The effects of these influences are taking a heavy toll on us individually, and collectively  as a country. Everywhere you look, you’ll see the constant lowering of acceptable standards of conduct, including the treatment of woman, the desolation of the family, the use of vulgarity and sexually in our entertainment, and the basic definitions of right and wrong being shredded before our eyes.  The truth is we’re sinking.  We’re sinking economically and we’re sinking as a christian society. I believe this to be factual.

Now, I would love to elaborate on these two very different topics when time permits.  (And I most certainly will do so in the future.)  But I’m bringing them up together for one simple reason.  It’s time for us to vote on Tuesday. And I’m not foolish enough to think that a President can fix our economy while attempting to cure our individual or societal ills of this nation at the same time.  But I will tell you, that I believe Mitt Romney is an infinitely more qualified candidate to tackle the first, and is also qualified to create an atmosphere for us as citizens to address the second.  See you at the election box.

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We find ourselves challenged to support the strengths and needs of veterans as they transition from a military life to pursuing higher education. This challenge finds its home well within the framework of Schlossberg’s transition model, which was developed to assist with a broad range of life transitions. Many institutions of higher education have developed detailed service programs to boost veteran success in higher education. 

What’s missing, and perhaps a barrier for success, is that the key to these programs lies in understanding the student-veteran mindset, which is becoming critical as more student-veterans seek to use their military education benefits.

The 2011 NACADA Journal article “Applying Schlossberg’s Model to Transitioning American Veterans” reports that an increasing number of student-veterans start the higher education journey with unseen injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health issues. These unseen injuries increase the likelihood of lower retention and graduation rates. Student-veterans returning to colleges and universities typically have a higher level of education and a higher level of maturity than the traditional high school graduate because they have a more diverse experience base. This experience base can be an additional barrier that adds to the difficulty of understanding the student-veteran mindset.

Dr. Schlossberg’s study identified the means to overcome such a difficulty by a process that encourages an understanding of the student-veteran’s strengths, needs and challenges as they transition from the military life to the higher education journey.

We Speak A Different Language

Student-veterans are different. We take on life’s tasks as if they represent a mission. We are regimented, task-oriented and focused on the goals. We speak a different language that is easily distinguishable from one veteran to another. We communicate with experience gained from places and events that are both amazing and impossible to describe.

It’s a language that cannot be learned; it can only be earned. It defines our history and the level of trust granted.

Schlossberg’s Transition Model

Schlossberg’s transition model focuses on a series of human interactions that produce a desired result as a means to promote higher education success.

Schlossberg model promote dynamic change that influences the sense of competency which becomes a clear connection between a student-veteran and an institution of higher education. A connection when applied, results in higher retention, degree completion rates and a productive, transitioning American veteran.

About Dr. Nancy K. Schlossberg

Dr. Nancy K. Schlossberg established the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council of Education, and she has served on the faculties of Wayne State University, Howard University and Pratt University. Her published books include: Getting the Most out of College (2001); Going to Plan B: How You Can Cope, Regroup and Start Your Life on a New Path (1996); Improving Higher Education Environments for Adults (1989); Counseling Adults in Transition (1984); and Perspectives on Counseling Adults (1978).

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Many small manufacturing businesses today resemble what I call an upside-down pyramid. Can you envision such a pyramid attempting to balance on its point? What you have is an impossible balancing act of monumental proportions; near impossible regardless how much money you throw at it! Many manufacturing businesses today, reside in a world managed by tyrannical leadership, with no experienced balanced leadership approaches to speak of at all.

Businesses that grow without investing in a balanced leadership infrastructure result in one person making all the decisions. A manufacturing environment with one person making all the decisions is easy to spot. Walk around the business, you will see people standing around pretending to be busy. The difficult to balance, such as an upside-down pyramid can still work and lead to manufacturing business success. For example, a two to four million-dollar revenue manufacturing business with about 20 employees is manageable with one strong leader. The balancer is physically and emotionally unable to manage every key element of that business with efficiency, such as responding to the business’s needs in a timely manner. The huge “but” here; is this type of leader, does not make decisions based on sound business data? Instead, decisions strictly emotionally based using non-factual data. This is where the term “Pie in Sky” came from a one sided skewed reality. His or her leadership reality rules that day, lending to many looks of bewilderment from their employees.

Emotional base decision making instead of fact-based decision making, results in employees reacting to change by always seeing the glass being half-empty, instead of as being half full. The negative aspect becomes the governing force, the performance influencer promoting counterproductive morale. What you have is the same people standing around waiting for someone to make a decision, now gossiping as well. Gossip is the natural by-product of working inside a tyrannical manufacturing company. Gossip is just as destructive as a tyrannical leader.

The solution is very simple, develop, and implement an evenly balanced business, by allowing your employees to help you do it. Occasionally, you will end up where you don’t want to be, that is acceptable as long as the new business direction results in some sort of positive balanced between business performance and leadership growth. Tyrannical leadership practices can end, by encouraging others to lead; make decisions, and yes occasionally these new people now involved in the decision process, can make mistakes. Mistakes are a positive aspect of change, when you learn from mistakes, and embrace mistakes as gained knowledge, you can now share them with others. The future is looking brighter; the manufacturing leadership business fix has a few essential parts called the Smart-Process:

1. The smart-process begins with a comprehensive assessment of the business in the current state, exposing its strengths, and exposing its weaknesses. During the assessment phase, the weaknesses of what is perceived to be problems are studied, and targeted, for elimination.
2. The next component is the change moment, the business as a whole accepts that it must change. The change phase is the cultural aspect of the processes that are going through a makeover of transforming a business from weakness to strength. In the mind of the employees, the change quickly becomes part of the solution.
3. Next, make sure you have realistic, honest measuring systems in place to determine if the changes are actually creating value for the business, improving that business, and creating sustainable satisfaction for both internal and external customers.
4. Finally, the full circle, share the leadership responsibilities, invest in many balanced leadership talents; “Leader’s number one responsibility is to make other leaders.” Having many leaders forces the pyramid to stop balancing on its pinnacle, and landing on a pyramid’s widest base, its foundation of strength. For that, reason pyramids can remain standing for eons of time, regardless where they are built.

If a business’s desires to stay in business, this business cannot reside in a world managed by tyrannical leadership, with no balanced leadership approaches to speak of at all. Team based leadership is adaptive, responsive to business market changes; and this team base ability is mandatory for manufacturing survival today.

by AMERICAN WRITER Dr. Pietro Savo Tradition Books Publication © 2011

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“STEM Fields” Talent Shortage; How the United States can regain its competitiveness in math- and science-related fields. Career College Central Magazine, September 2012

For the past 100 years, technological innovations in science and engineering have fueled the U.S. economy, produced good jobs and an extraordinary standard of living, and established the United States as an international economic leader. Our nation’s international segment of industries focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), though, is in profound decline, as documented in the “Science and Engineering Indicators: 2012″ study by the National Science Board. The study concludes that STEM education and entrepreneurial thinking has taken a back seat to empirical learning, resulting in a decline in good jobs. “We do not have nearly enough people who are capable in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math,” said Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009.

The U.S. economy relies heavily on jobs resulting from innovation. This makes selecting the means How the United States can regain its competitiveness in math- and science-related fields to ensure the sustained growth of the U.S. economy and job creating industries paramount. Job-creating industries are dependent on the nation’s college graduates being trained to decipher, understand, and identify industry solutions from historical case studies. Case studies correlating to present-day educational obstacles can provide a heads-up display for market changes, diversity of markets, and the ability to adapt to markets with a historical perspective. Having a strong focus on STEM fields reduces the talent shortage and increases learning from past education mistakes.

In the last 20 years, the skills needed for employment have become more technology related. This requires workers to have stronger backgrounds in science and engineering. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the number of workers in science and engineering occupations grew by nearly 800 percent between 1950 and 2000. Our nation has a thirst for STEM occupations, which is revealed in the lower unemployment statistics of STEM graduates.

Here is the big problem: The cost of waiting for old ideas to catch up with modern job-creation practices obstructs new market opportunities. Such obstructions represent a stream of wasteful practices, making it difficult to be competitive in today’s volatile markets. The loss of competitiveness results in lost work and higher unemployment statistics. According to U.S. Department of Labor information cited in the 2012 CNN Money article “The 86 Million Invisible Unemployed,” 86 million people without jobs have simply given up looking for a job. How do we bring together our combined academic experiences and industry expertise to reverse this serious educational trend? The talent solutions will come from colleges and universities that move quickly to embrace STEM education concepts, neither tolerating nor accepting limits set by bureaucratic regulations. Teachers are ready to make such change. With quick changes to curricula that encourage and promote STEM fields, the value of such an education can inspire students in K-12.

“By taking on teaching and school counselor roles, STEM educated graduates from our nation’s teaching colleges and universities become the compulsory inspiration for our young people.”

New K-12 teachers and school counselors become the natural first line of observation. STEM practitioners become vital to identifying students with a gift for the sciences. The secret sauce is in stimulating learning in students who do not know they have the ability to excel in STEM fields. These students have the strongest probability for success and become future job creators and industry leaders.

Educated teachers and school counselors in STEM can help students develop their own learning experiences and science skill sets. New experiences and skill sets become the bedrock of goal setting early in a student’s educational journey. In the pyramid design, we begin with the foundation of knowledge experienced through the empirical learning of teachers and school counselors.

The modern-day assessment tool that can easily be adapted to test the necessities of K-12 is called the Prior Learning Assessment. PLA is an important strategy for helping students progress toward higher education. Understanding a student’s prior learning is similar to adding a turbine supercharger to a four-cylinder education engine. After reviewing data collected from 62,475 students at 48 postsecondary institutions in a PLA study, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) shows that PLA students have better academic outcomes.

Climbing higher up the pyramid is a next-level opportunity to stimulate K-12 learning by concentrating on the combined strengths of parent involvement (PI) and interactive methodology (IM). A Need for More Role Models?” in the Journal of College Science Teaching, PI is the ultimate role model.

Students will enjoy learning and be motivated to learn if they are taught by a motivated role model who is of great influence to the student, such as a parent. Teachers and school counselors who encourage PI are more likely to receive the respect of both the student and parents. PI is significant because, as the education process continues, students gain confidence in discussing science with others long after school dismissal in the best learning environment – their homes. The final pyramid step is technology or IM – the ultimate evolutionary process. IM combines every level of technology that is available to the student in the school and home environments. Advancing a student’s sensory ability by using methodology fueled by technology stimulates levels of importance associated with STEM learning. IM becomes the natural byproduct and lowest common denominator linking STEM educators, researchers and students, establishing unlimited inspirational learning. Each level of learning becomes more exciting than the previous.

As seen above, the pyramid design has a foundation in STEM educated teachers and school counselors, who are trained with a robust student assessment process that aims for understanding a student’s prior learning. Including PI and adapting to IM are also vital. Using this model, we have a fighting chance with the benefits of STEM education and entrepreneurial thinking, resulting in a culture prepared to create good jobs.

Read the entire article featured in Career College Central Magazine, September 2012 addition page 50, and the entire article can be download by clicking (STEM WITH DR. PETE LINK).

by AMERICAN WRITER Dr. Pietro Savo Tradition Books Publication © 2012

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“STEM Fields” Talent Shortage.

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Join Dr. Pete, Friday, 10/05 at 11:30 am, as he discusses “STEM Fields” Talent Shortage; How the    United States can regain its competitiveness in math- and science-related fields.

For the past 100 years,  technological innovations in science and engineering have fueled the U.S. economy, produced good jobs and an extraordinary standard of living, and established the United States as an international economic leader.

Our nation’s international segment of industries focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), though, is in profound decline. STEM education and entrepreneurial thinking has taken a back seat to empirical learning, resulting in a decline in good jobs, and here we are.

Here is the big problem: The cost of waiting for old ideas to catch up with modern job-creation practices obstructs new market opportunities. Such obstructions represent a stream of wasteful practices, making it difficult to be competitive in today’s volatile markets. The loss of competitiveness results in lost work and higher unemployment statistics.

Dr. Pete shares with you the pyramid designed STEM education solutions, tune in and learn more!

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The Road to Recovery

By Mike Boehler

Step 6 – Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

This is a show to help everyone and anyone that feels as though they have an addiction of sorts.

Thanks for the calls and emails on last week’s show, Step 5 – Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs on “The Road to Recovery”.

Your Host’s: Dan Czuba and Deni Weigel Eads are looking forward to discussing the issues that affect anyone.

It’s not an easy walk to handle, but that is why this show was formed. It’s there to assist you, and to become an aid of some kind, to let you know that YOU aren’t out there in the world alone.

There are so many avenues out there to explore that many of us are unfamiliar with. This show is there to help you and to support you on your way to a successful recovery and to ensure that you are able to stay focused.

God Bless you for listening and we do hope you will join our discussion each and every Sunday from 7 PM – 9 PM.

There is someone that cares for you. I hope you will join us and be encouraged as we hope to reach millions to minister and to support you on “The Road to Recovery”.

With in-depth topics and discussions, listeners are encouraged to Call-In, Email & Ask Questions or share personal experiences, as we all work together to “Make It a Better Day” for everyone!!

Please join  our discussion every week, call   323-580-5755 and also write to us at denidanradio@yahoo.com or   Daniel@daare.com so we may be able to successfully assist you in any way that we can.

Daniel M. Czuba has lived a FULL life. Some would say, fuller than most, yet perhaps not as much as some…regardless – you may find Dan’s Life’s journey somewhat fascinating/entertaining, while unbelievably relatable.

Having come from a family of 13 siblings (15 counting parents), Dan’s Down to Earth delivery will help anyone understand the difficulties and challenges of personal addictions and how to grow beyond their death grips.

Having found sobriety from alcohol in 1995, Dan’s life journey has taken him – well let’s say – to some incredibly exciting, challenging and rewarding places.

Deni Weigel Eads is an Encourager. I do my best to make sure that I help others. I am YOUR biggest cheerleader.

I spent a great deal of time as a Talk show host, Radio Announcer and a Columnist for a local newspaper. My biggest project that I hope to embark on is to become a standup comedian.

A mother of three sons; married for 33 years leaves me a lot of experience in dealing with all sorts of adversity and situations.

My motto in life is very basic and simple, “NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR.”

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Please join Citibank September 27th from 5:30-7:30 as we sponsor a seminar discussing “Social Media as a Tool to Grow your Business”. The event will include a panel of speakers discussing social media tools including LinkedIn, video marketing, and networking followed by a Q&A session. The event will be held at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago.  Space is limited. Please contact Jennifer Sheehan for more information jennifer.e.sheehan@citi.com or 312.980.8997

Chicago, IL – September 24, 2012 – The Technology Innovation Summit (TI Summit) will return to Chicago this October to highlight today’s best practices for deploying technology in the government sector and provide insight into how improving government technology can spur economic growth. The summit is a collaboration between the Illinois Institute of Technology and local technology professionals.

After seeing strong attendance for the inaugural event in 2011, the Technology Innovation Summit is again bringing together government technology executives, technology leaders and business innovation experts to discuss how IT and other technologies can be adopted by governments and how their utilization can spur economic development.

“This summit is designed to spur discussion among the main stakeholders in local government tech. It came about because of the challenges that several municipal technology managers shared with me. Our goal is to connect governments and vendors and help them design effective projects by highlighting best practices.”

This year’s event will include discussions of mobility, data consolidation, data security and cloud computing. The already confirmed speakers include international technology experts and business executives.

“Many local governments are starting to look at technology implementation as a way of saving money, but they also need to realize that technology infrastructure can improve their communities and make them more adaptable to the changing demographics of the region. The 25-point plan published in 2010 by Vivek Kundra, then the U.S. CTO, has really helped drive attention to government technology initiatives,” said Poonam G. Krishnan, Chairperson of the Technology Innovation Summit.

The Technology Innovation Summit (TI Summit), based in Chicago, IL, is a technology event geared toward local government. It draws attendees and participants from across Illinois and is anchored by close collaboration with the Illinois Institute of Technology. More information about Technology Innovation Summit is available at http://www.technologyinnovationsummit.com. Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TechnologyInnovationSummit) and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/tisummit2012).

It’s difficult to talk much about today’s economy without considering globalization.  No industry is more affected than technology.  By now we’ve read dozens of stories about Apple developing products in the US while building them in China and selling them in virtually every county.  Virtually every technology company located anywhere in the world has to have a strategy that contemplates globalization.  We are fortunate to have with us today two of the worlds experts on globalization in technology.  Hans Peter Bech, based in Denmark, is the founder and CEO of TBK Consult (www.tbkconsult.com), which assists ambitious software-driven companies with the planning and execution of international penetration strategies in order to become global market leaders.  Jim Yates, the CEO and Founder of Network Magic Corporation, has more than 30 years of progressively responsible experience leading multi-national teams in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, directing businesses with revenues in excess of $250 million.  Jim is Australian by birth and is based in Orlando, Florida.

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