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Are we really helping them or ourselves?

Government assistance – promotes -  “Why work?”

Unemployment benefits – promotes – I can get by!

Meal trucks – promote – here is a hand out!

Thrift stores – promote – you do not need much money to put clothes on your back.

Church food and clothes drives – promote – community support for those who do not (want) the means to work.

National (WELL KNOWN)  Non profit agencies – fund current basic community needs and not anticipated solutions.

The questions I ask?

When are we going to stop putting the band-aid on and finding root cause solutions?

When are we going to start investing in our education, work ethics and self-respect to get people to want to work?

When are we going to educate our social, human and welfare services and many other “good will” agencies to stop their turf wars and work together to be more effective with the resources they have?

When are we going to redirect unemployment benefits and link them to job creation and work place volunteer programs?

When do we start focusing our attention to work regeneration AS PART of the support all of the above services give?

Lets face it 90% of folks are in work. Lets work on figuring out those who want a hand out instead of a hand up!

We need a plan like any business to move from current state to future state, but what we need is a plan  TO DO SOMETHING THAT BUILDS and a vision to make the change.

If we really cared, as I know we do, we would change the way we do things today and start expecting more of people.

Just because people do not have jobs, does not mean they have no desire or will or heart.

It also means that we must all be more effective in finding solutions to rebuild communities that have a future for our children.

There is no crime in being unemployed or poor or not have the luxuries in life.

The real crime is in not finding solutions and spending time on sticking plasters.

We may care but we do not know how to take care of the problems. Taking care is about solutions!

Source of blog idea:

The unemployment rate in the United States was last reported at 9.1 percent in September of 2011.

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BIOGRAPHY

It is an oft-repeated principle that an organization is only as strong as its people, and this holds true whether the organization is a profit-based multinational or a community-focused non-profit agency. But it is not enough to attract and retain top caliber talent. The organization must have the business fundamentals, the culture, the structure and the leadership to ensure that quantifiable, bottom-line results can be delivered now and over the long term.

That is where I come in. I have helped organizations in a wide range of sectors become more competitive, more productive, more creative, and more client-focused, by building teams that are strategic, value-driven, business-savvy and partnership-modelled. I am a passionate believer that a company that lives and breathes its vision, mission and values is not only stronger and more agile on a business level, but is a place where people and teams are naturally inclined to deliver to their maximum potential. My strength as an HR Executive is my ability to recognize and challenge ingrained assumptions and patterns of operation that aren’t productive, and offer practical, cost-effective and value-based solutions.

I have steered hundreds of organizational changes, from small procedural shifts that immediately improve efficiency, to the complete build-out of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that not only required all new equipment and workflows, but called for a complete re-engineering of employees’ ways of thinking about their work. As such, I know what it takes to rally employees and stakeholders around an innovative concept or vision, and to translate it into a pragmatic, workable on-the-ground solution that makes good business sense.

Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, Has a master degree in Human Resources and a Bachelors in Business Administration and Human Resources.

Peter is working on leadership and engagement projects and is available for relocation.

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His blog : http://hrmexplorer.wordpress.com/

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