In business a pivot means fundamentally changing the direction of a business when you realize the current products or services aren’t meeting the needs of the market. Winston Churchill said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

Individuals can pivot, too. We all know people who have left one job for another, or someone who went back to school to pursue a new career. When we are dissatisfied with a situation, we make a change.

The new community will provide an effective way for court reporters to connect with hiring firms. Court reporters will join for free and take the pre-screening survey, which will be loaded to the AWS cloud. Hiring agencies will pay a subscription fee for access. Identimap will provide the SaaS platform for the new national community that will be owned, marketed and managed by Outfluence.

Are you going to blow up or are you going to blow through when you get back to working full-time after the virus?

You’ll blow right through if you practice TIC, TIC. Tenacity, Integrity and Creativity. Everything I read is telling me that the workplace is going to thin out for a while.  To keep yourself employed you’ll want to put a lot of TIC into your work. 

People who see the world as it will be tomorrow and who understand its needs are visionaries. They possess education, expertise, imagination and experience. As we get ready to enter a work-world filled with uncertainties that were unthinkable just a couple of months ago, we NEED visionaries.

1969. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a branch of the Defense Department, formed the first computer network. It was formed in response to the 1957 Sputnik launch by the Russians. A computer scientist named Leonard Kleinrock led a group of scientists in that year to develop what later became known as the Internet.

Studies reveal something surprising: Soft skills based in writing, listening and communicating are actually greater predictors of long-term success – even in tech jobs and skilled labor markets.

How do we gain influence in the workplace? Generally speaking, people with exceptional skills, people who work in powerful jobs, people who possess a significant title, or people of wealth are thought to have influence. But that's only half the story.

What's Next After Hugging, Kissing and Touching? Spread of the Coronavirus, and frankly flu season, are causing us to re-think how we greet people. No more hugging, no more kissing, no more touching. So, what are our options?

Meet our new look and logo. Inspired by the four pillars of our programs, the rings represent bringing understanding to the scattered state of communications in life and business.