The Supply Line 2014...October 2014 The Supply Line Page 2 To get to the next level and continue to increase Electric Supply's stock value will require an extra something. As Marshall

October 2014 The Supply Line Page 1

The Supply Line

I hope that you attended one of last month's Electric Shock meetings and you liked what youheard and saw. I am pleased for all of us that Electric Supply's stock value increase broke intodouble digits for the first time since starting the ESOP.

I have a question for our ESOP participates: What can you do to increase the value of yourElectric Supply stock? Better yet, let's change this question to a challenge by substituting "will"for "can."

What will you do to increase the value of your Electric Supply stock?

The things we have been doing were good enough to get us where we are today in terms ofservice levels, customer loyalty, team member satisfaction, sales and profitability. Thesemeasurements factored in with competitive strengths or weaknesses and market potential aresignificant factors in calculating our stock value.

Volume 23Issue 10

October 2014

From The CEO

From the CEOInside this issue:

A CHARTER MEMBER

Continued on page 2

Remembering Mr. Adams 1

From the CEO 1-2

Important Info & Phone #’s 3

Team Member Happenings 3

Monthly Awards 4

Birthdays & Anniversaries 4

Strategic Planning Update 5

Family News 6

High Voltage Tips & Topics 6-8

Tips for Better TimeManagement

12

Halloween Safety Tips 14

Training Calendar 13

Meet the International &Utility Teams

11

Flu Shot Information 9

ESOP Celebration 9

Community Service News 10

Remembering our founder, Mr. A

As many of you may recall, October 25 will mark the five-year anniversary of the passing ofGeorge Adams Sr., Electric Supply’s founder. Regardless of whether you referred to him asGeorge, Mr. Adams, Mr. A, Grandpa, Pops or Dad, those of you who knew him can recall hisfriendly mannerism, endless energy and high integrity. When he asked you a question, you couldbe fairly certain he knew the answer - so bluffing wasn’t a good idea. And if Mr. A relied on yournumbers, you had to be accurate within 1/10th of 1¢!

In 1969, Mr. A was 52 years old, he submitted his resignation to Fife Electric due to an ethicalissue. Over the next six months, he created a business plan and used every asset he owned ascollateral for numerous loans that would fund his startup, Electric Supply of Tampa, Inc. If thestart up failed, Mr. A and his wife Pauline would lose everything they owned.

Along with his faith and family, Electric Supply became one of Mr. A’s passions as he seemed tolove working 12 to 18 hours per workweek day plus almost every Saturday and Sunday (afterchurch). As he grew into his mid 70s and then into his 80s, the hours were scaled back, but notby much, as he was frequently the last person to leave the building. After all, Electric Supply washis baby.

Mr. A strived for Electric Supply “to be all things to a few people” and he cared deeply for ourteam. He was especially fond of closing team member meetings with “I love you and pray for youevery day.”

Five years after he left us, Mr. A is still an inspiration for many of us. And yes, many of us miss

him very much, every day.


To get to the next level and continue to increase Electric Supply's stock value will require an extra something. As MarshallGoldsmith stated in a business best seller, "What got you here won’t get you there." As a team, what got Electric Supply to ourpresent level of success won't get us to the next level of success unless our competition folds. And the last time I checked, ourcompetition was stronger than ever.

Even if we continue to reach higher levels, it is critical that we ascend at a rate faster than our competition; otherwise, we willeventually find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage.

As we are slightly larger than a typical mid-sized distributor, this puts us in a precarious position. Two common growth hazards thatplague many mid-sized companies are becoming too large to provide the personal services of a small business while remaining toosmall to enjoy the economies of scale that large companies enjoy. Some of you probably grow tired of reading or hearing this concernbut all of us must remain keenly aware that each level of growth presents new challenges and if ignored, many of these challenges arecapable of delivering a knockout blow to any organization. As we all know, being a business owner is not for the faint of heart!

This is why we must discipline ourselves to maintain many of the positive attributes that have served us well that are most commonlyfound in smaller companies while embracing some of the adoptable positive attributes most frequently found in larger companies.Put another way, we must remain nimble and very responsive to customer needs while staying abreast of emerging trends and globaleconomic conditions that even though are seemingly a world away, might eventually have a huge impact on our business.Accomplishing this feat is akin to walking a life-long tight rope!

In spite of the challenges, I know that my future is in good hands. Aside from our established veterans who carry much of today'sresponsibilities, we have an emerging group of unsung heroes with tremendous potential.

At the risk of slighting numerous worthy team members who could easily be mentioned, the following individuals came to mind forquietly assuming greater responsibility within Electric Supply. Derrick Alexander's positive attitude and easy smile will serve himwell as he continues to grow his sales capabilities. Bruce Weeks, Sales Counter/Will Call Manager and Mike Cronin, recentlypromoted to Service Manager hung tough in some of the most physical, difficult-to-master and thankless positions at Electric Supply.Mark Owens has settled into a new position in quotations. All of these team members brought a pleasant demeanor, strong workethic to Electric Supply and quickly learned our systems. My projection is within 10 years, each will serve as a mentor to futuregenerations of team members.

It is because of our team, what you have accomplished, the reputation you have established and your capabilities to continue to growthat fuels my optimism.

Let’s go back to my challenge: What will you do to increase the value of your Electric Supply stock? This challenge should speak toall of us; especially those who might stick around for a career. Unless you have a 401k, IRA or other investment, your ESOP alongwith Social Security will probably be your primary sources of income in your retirement.

If you accept my challenge, deciding what you will do to contribute to increasing our stock’s value should evoke nothing less thanyour best critical thinking skills plus much open and honest collaboration. Please share your best ideas with me and your co-workersbecause great ideas should be contagious as we are in this together.

In fact, all of us should be prepared to ask each other to explain how we plan to impact our value. One word of warning: This cannotbe a onetime exercise. It will need to be nothing less than an annual exercise that continues long after my exit from Electric Supply;especially if you plan to rely on the ESOP to fund or help fund your retirement.

I look forward to hearing what you have in mind to contribute to increasing the value of our ESOP stock. Best case, when it is timefor you to start cashing out of the ESOP, your return will exceed your highest expectations. If we can really be effective, maybe wecan substitute “wildest” for “highest”.

But before you pin your hopes on an ESOP payback, we have much difficult work to accomplish. Yes, it will be difficult work butthe good news is you have an opportunity to invest or bet on yourself and your team which should be an excellent bet.

After all, you are the best!

...continued from the CEO


Mission: Take care of our people,customers, & suppliers.

Vision: To be the distributor and employer ofchoice.

Values:Innovation

Provide creative solutions to take care ofour customers

Professional Treat everyone with integrity and

respect Maintain a knowledgeable, reliable, and

disciplined team Continually improve teamwork,

accountability, and communication

Success Commitment Execution Commit to do the right things right, first

time every time

IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)BENSINGER DUPONT

PHONE (866) 757-3271

CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE

HILLSBOROUGH (813) 289-8923OTHERS (800) 388-2227

ETHICSLINE

TO REPORT SUSPECTED ETHICAL

ABUSES & FRAUD

PHONE (800) 500-0333FAX (800) 500-0993

FLORIDA BLUE MEDICAL

MEMBER SERVICES

(800) 583-9072WWW.BCBSFL.COM

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

November 27th - ThanksgivingDecember 25th - Christmas

December 26th - Day after Christmas

Quality Quote

“We know what we are, but not what wemay be”.

- William Shakespeare

Team Member Happenings

Congratulations to Garrett Sharpless and his promotion to the Will Call Counter in mid-October! Garrett has beenwith ESI for one year in a warehouse position. We’re excited to have him join Will Call and to provide exceptionalservice to our customers.

Welcome aboard our newest team members, Tiffiny Torres and JonPierre Velez. Tiffiny joined our Utility Divisionas an inside sales rep and JonPierre joined the warehouse team as an order puller. We’re pleased to have both onboard.

Congratulations to Carlos Gomez for being named to NAED’s LEAD Committee. LEAD stands for LeadershipEnhancement and Development and has been around since1970. It was created for both current and emergingleaders in our industry as a means to further develop their leadership skills. The LEAD Committee is responsible fororganizing and putting on the annual LEAD Conference. To be named to this committee is a wonderful honor.Congratulations Carlos! We are very proud of you.


Thank you for your service and dedication.

Thank you for a job well done. We appreciate you!

Bill Daniels 10/01

Hiram Zamora 10/09

Alex Clark 10/10

Elie Feliciano 10/15

Shannan Fields 10/15

Donte Davis 10/17

Chris Crooks 10/19

:ƵƐƟŶ�, ĂůƐĞŵĂ 10/23

Harry Rinehart 10/23

Mike Melneczyn 10/30

Brent Fulton 10/31

Ralph Kluesner 16 years

David Barral 4 years

:��ůŝŌŽŶ 3 years

' ĂƌƌĞƩ �̂ ŚĂƌƉůĞƐƐ 1 year

Jayson Illas 1 year

Monthly awards & more!

Alex Clark Bill Daniels

Warehouse person of the month Driver of the month


Strategic Planning: Working for a sustainable future

People Team Update

Greetings from the People Team! We want to start by thanking everyone for making our ESOPcelebration cookout a success. The purpose of the celebration was to thank everyone for all ofyour hard work. We also wanted illustrate how important the ESOP is to our continuedsuccess. Almost all of us are owners now and we must treat every decision we make as an owner.

Earlier this month, the department head team met with the Farmington Consulting Group todiscuss Electric Supply Inc.’s plan for continued grow and profitability. The People Team gavepresentations on a variety of topics such as mentoring, internships, and the employee satisfactionsurvey. One thing that we learned from the survey and our strategy meetings was that ESIManagement needs to communicate better to all team members. We are looking into a variety ofways to ensure that all team members have access to vital information like training opportunities,open positions, and safety information.

ESI will be partnering with USF to bring a graduate intern on to our team to complete a variety ofprojects. The intern will focus on researching opportunities of growth for the company andreviewing our current processes to measure productivity.

Please contact any member of the People Team with all questions or concerns: Christy Watts,

Matt Coffey, Rick Atkinson, Melanie Brock, Carlos Gomez, and Mike Cronin.

Growth Team Update

The growth team continues to meet every other week to explore potential acquisitions or newbranch opening opportunities as well as finding new areas to grow sales.

Last month we invested in 25,000 dollars of new Cutler Hammer industrial stock. The list ofmaterial was generated by our industrial sales team along with Cutler Hammer sales staff. Internalsales training via lunch and learn has been completed, happy selling folks .We will host anindustrial trade show in the Spring.

We are working on expanding other product lines, please stay tuned!

Growth Team:Harry Irwin, Shaker Brock, Frank Burgess, David Donavan, Ralph Kluesner, Matt Smith, Shariet-te Jones and Denese McKinney.


High Voltage Tips & Topics

News from the Land of Sales and PurchasingHappy October everyone. First I want to thank each of you for all of your hard work. Because of you our sales are up. If we allkeep pushing we will end the year on a very successful note.

I would like to welcome Tiffany Torres to our Utilities Team. She comes to us with a ton of experience and we are lucky to haveher on our team. When you get a chance walk over to Aubrey and say hi to her. Welcome to Electric Supply, Tiffany. We knowyou are going to do great here.

October 11th is our annual ESI Golf Tournament. We always have a good time and I hope to see many of you out there eitherplaying or volunteering.

Our IMARK numbers are looking better and better every day. It looks like we are going to have another great year with them.Thank you. Also, for those of you who have taken advantage of the IMARK training you have helped us reach some of our goals.You guys ROCK!!!

While we are on the subject of IMARK, later this month Matt Coffey and I will be attending the IMARK Annual Meeting wherewe will meet with many of our suppliers. It should be a worthwhile time.

See you next month,

Shaker

Family News

Happy birthday to Olivia Cronin, daughter of Mike and Heather. Olivia celebrated

her 2nd birthday on September 26th!

Ed Duran is a Grandfather for the second time! Olivia Jackson arrived September23rd, weighing 7 lbs 11oz, 21” long. Congratulations to Ed and the rest of the Duranfamily; enjoy your new bundle of joy!

George Adams Jr. and George Adams III

at the Corvette Museum, Bowling Green,

KY during George and Isabel’s recent visit

to Hartsville, TN to visit George and

Magon Adams. Also pictured is a ZR-1

which was retrieved from the giant sink

hole that opened under the museum in

early 2014.


This month we had 5 Round of Applauses!Nate Bailey – “Nate did a great job tearing down the offices and racking to make space for the new wire room. Heeffectively managed two temporary workers during the process and kept them focused on each phase of theproject. Nate was also very organized and made sure the area was kept as clutter-free as possible throughout. Anoverall job very well done!”– Nominated by Christy WattsLaRonda Coffie – “LaRonda does an awesome job with customers at will call. She has a great attitude toward in-ternal and external customers and is always willing to learn. She pays close attention to her customers’ needs.” –Nominated by Derrick AlexanderHarry Rinehart – “Harry has helped me with lighting from day one and he sends quotes ASAP. I couldn’t askmore of him. He has exceeded my expectations for helping a new hire. Thanks again!” – Nominated by JeffMerdichBruce Weeks – “Bruce always has a pleasant greeting to his team and his external customers. He offers assistancewhenever someone is in need, gladly answers questions, and is a true team player. He is also highly self-motivated, painting, cleaning and training without being tasked. He serves his team and customers withprofessionalism, personality and pride. He has earned this honor.” – Nominated by Jim LeonardBruce Weeks – “Bruce did a fantastic job taking charge of the renovation project in Will Call…Over two week-ends the floors were refinished and the area walls/counter were painted. He, along with the assistance of WillyLopez, stayed until the job was done.” – Nominated by Frank Burgess

Congratulations to Bruce Weeks, Our Standing Ovation Winner!Bruce was nominated by his fellow team members for Round of Applause, which was voted on by departmentmanagers for a Standing Ovation. Congratulations Bruce! You are the Standing Ovation winner for the month!In the Round of applause submissions by his team members, he was recognized for his responsibility,professionalism, quality of work, customer service, and going the extra mile.

As the Standing Ovation winner, he will receive a $50 bonus, the front parking space, his name on the StandingOvation Plaque, and he will be invited to a lunch hosted quarterly by George.

Bruce, thank you for your hard work and dedication to your job.

Round of Applause & Standing Ovation

High Voltage Tips & Topics cont...

October EventsOctober 1st - Burndy Tool Truck on site 7:00 am - 10:00 am

October 3rd - Breast Cancer Cook Out - $5 for a hamburger, hotdog,chips & drink. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

October 12th - Buccaneers Treasure Chests 5K Run/Walk


High Voltage Tips & Topics cont...

“Safety Pays” Winners

Safety Pays paid off with four winners in September. Congratulations to our winners: JonPierre Velez$33; Roger “Masked Man” Burk $26; David Roman $37; and Billy Daniels $27.

Save The Date!

All Team Members are invited to attend our Employee End of the Year Party.Date: Saturday, November 8th

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 PMPlace: Jackson’s Bistro

If you’re 21 or older, you can stay for Jackson’s after-party free of charge!

Electric Supply’s party will be unforgettable. Make plans to join us! Please RSVP to Denese by 10/24.


Employee Stock Ownership Celebration

To all the proud owners of Electric Supply, CONGRATULATIONS! On September 4th, we celebrated our first ESOPDay with a cookout that was enjoyed by all. The main reason behind this first event was to celebrate the increase ofvalue per share with all our team members. We plan to have more ESOP Day events in the future to celebrate ourownership.

The people strategy team would like to thank the Adams/Brock families for creating this awesome opportunity (ESOP)and making us part owners of this company, our chefs, Frank Burgess and Dave Donovan, for their master grilling, andalso each and every one of you that contributed to this increase in value with your hard work and dedication to ourcompany. Let’s buy into the fact that we really are owners. Let’s work together. Let’s give one hundred percent everyday. Let’s do everything in our power to continue to make ESI a success. Yes, we are owners!

Flu Shots Scheduled for October 13th

As the leaves start to fall and the weather turns cooler, our thoughts shift to fall football, apple cider and influenza. Yes,flu season is upon us again. Starting in early October and lasting through the spring, flu season typically peaks inJanuary or February. However, it is never too early to begin planning our flu prevention strategy.

CDC (Centers for Disease Control) recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older as thefirst and most important step in protecting against this serious disease. While there are many different flu viruses, theflu vaccine is designed to protect against the three main flu strains that research indicates will cause the most illnessduring the flu season. Getting the flu vaccine as soon as it becomes available each year is always a good idea, and theprotection you get from vaccination will last throughout the flu season.

Electric Supply has contracted with Walgreen’s to provide on-site flu shots this yearon October 13th starting at 9am in the training room. Flu shots are paid at 100% byFloridaBlue for those team members on our medical plan and will be provided at NOCOST to our team members not covered by FloridaBlue. Thank you, ElectricSupply! More information and a sign-up sheet will be provided prior to the 13th.


Community Service News

Electric Supply is participating in the United Way Day of Caring on October 2nd. Our teammates have volunteered to work 9:00am -1:00 pm at Meals on Wheels delivering hot meals to the homebound and 12:30 pm- 4:30 pm at The Children’s Home forpainting.

Our annual United Way “Kick-Off” event that has traditionally been during the month of October hasbeen rescheduled for February 2015. More details to follow as the kick-off approaches. If you haveany questions, please see Melanie or Shariette.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Soon our trucks will be fitted with some cooldecals to show our support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

A team of Electric Supply employees will be participating in the Buccaneers

Treasure Chests 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, 10/12/14.

On Friday, 10/3/14, we are having a Cook out/Bake sale to raise funds for

Breast Cancer Research. We are looking for bake sale donations and askthat you mark your calendar and join us for lunch. The cost is only $5 for a

burger, hotdog, chips and drink. ESI will match dollar for dollar (Max of

$2,000) what we raise during this fundraiser! We are looking for bakedgoods! Bring your baked good donations on Friday, 10/3 and drop them off

in the conference room (next to Shariette’s office). All proceeds will benefitBreast Cancer Research.

We will also have a raffle (3 tickets for $5!) and you can win:8 hours of PTOAmazon Kindle

$25 Gift Card

We also encourage you to wear pink during the month of October.

Save your Yoplait Lids and Save Life

Drop off your clean Yoplait yogurt lids in the bin in the Receptionist office.

Help us support our community.

Be a helping hand.


Meet the International and Utility Teams

Welcome to our new neighbors, our Utility and International teams! While they’ve only been a few miles away until recently,you may have noticed some new or strange faces wandering the halls and warehouse lately. Let us take this opportunity tointroduce you to your fellow team members via an interview where we received some interesting and fun information:

Star Wars or Star Trek we asked….seems like an easy answer. The vote ended up Star Trek = 3; Star Wars = 1; Starbucks = 1(nice, Narkaly) and “Who really cares” = 6. Next question please.

If our Utility and International teams won $20 million in the lottery, the majority of them would take off on an adventurearound the world. Traveling came in #1 by a landslide as to what they would do with the money. Some would donate aportion and/or invest in real estate. Only Pat Mullis said she’d be sure to show up every day to work if she won. Right, Pat.

If our utility and international teams were stranded on a deserted island and only had the contents of their home refrigerator,this group would definitely not go thirsty. Plenty of water, beer and wine for all! Surprisingly there weren’t many food itemsbesides condiments. A little mustard with that beer perhaps? Ralph would have some healthy tuna and vegetables butprobably not enough to share. Alex wins the MacGyver award for deciding to actually break down the refrigerator itself andmake tools out of its parts.

As for super-powers, our team is quite imaginative. If given one superpower, Ray, Tiffiny, and Jack chose to be invisible;Ralph and Brian chose the ability to see the future; Rick and Norm chose the ability to fly; Pat wants superior intellect; Alexchose immortality, Lisa to be forever young and Narkaly to be able to twitch her nose like Samantha from Bewitched andhave her house clean and dinner on the table.

Our International and Utility teams have average tenure of 13 years so are good team mates to provide advice. Were they togive advice to recent hires at ESI, they would tell them to be flexible, adaptable, and open-minded; be honest, keep a positiveattitude and talk to other team members; and continue learning as much as possible and even finish some higher education.Tiffiny Torres, recent hire in Utilities, said it wonderfully… “This place is for real. I thought it was just rumors, but thiscompany really is like a family!”

Utility Team L-R: Jack Griffin, Rick Atkinson,Pat Mullis, Tiffiny Torres, Brian Gafford, Ray Moham-med, Norman Pananganan (front); Outside sales (notpictured): Tom Ellis, Kevin Gentner, Steve Nau, MarkRowe and Matt Smith

International Team L-R: Alex Vazquez, NarkalyFernandez, Lisa Eckel, and Ralph Kleusner.


20 Quick Tips for Better Time Management

Are you usually punctual or late? Do you finish things within the time you stipulate? Do you hand in your reports/work on time? Areyou able to accomplish what you want to do before deadlines? Are you a good time manager?If your answer is “no” to any of the questions above, that means you’re not managing your time as well as you want. Here are 20 tipson how to be a better time manager:

1. Create a daily plan. Plan your day before it unfolds. Do it in the morning or even better, the night before you sleep. The plan givesyou a good overview of how the day will pan out. That way, you don’t get caught off guard. Your job for the day is to stick to theplan as best as possible.

2. Peg a time limit to each task. Be clear that you need to finish X task by 10am, Y task by 3pm, and Z item by 5:30pm. This pre-vents your work from dragging on and eating into time reserved for other activities.

3. Use a calendar. Having a calendar is the most fundamental step to managing your daily activities. If you use outlook or lotusnotes, calendar come as part of your mailing software.

4. Use an organizer. The organizer helps you to be on top of everything in your life. It’s your central tool to organize information, to-do lists, projects, and other miscellaneous items.

5. Know your deadlines. When do you need to finish your tasks? Mark the deadlines out clearly in your calendar and organizer soyou know when you need to finish them.

6. Learn to say “No”. Don’t take on more than you can handle. For the distractions that come in when you’re doing other things, givea firm no. Or defer it to a later period.

7. Target to be early. When you target to be on time, you’ll either be on time or late. Most of the times you’ll be late. However, ifyou target to be early, you’ll most likely be on time. For appointments, strive to be early. For your deadlines, submit them earlierthan required.

8. Time box your activities. This means restricting your work to X amount of time.9. Have a clock visibly placed before you. Sometimes we are so engrossed in our work that we lose track of time. Having a huge

clock in front of you will keep you aware of the time at the moment.10. Set reminders 15 minutes before. Most calendars have a reminder function. If you’ve an important meeting to attend, set that

alarm 15 minutes before.11. Focus. Are you multi-tasking so much that you’re just not getting anything done? If so, focus on just one key task at one time.

Close off all the applications you aren’t using. Close off the tabs in your browser that are taking away your attention. Focus solelyon what you’re doing. You’ll be more efficient that way.

12. Block out distractions. What’s distracting you in your work? Instant messages? Phone ringing? Text messages popping in? I hard-ly ever use chat nowadays. The only times when I log on is when I’m not intending to do any work. Otherwise it gets very dis-tracting. When I’m doing important work, I also switch off my phone. Calls during this time are recorded and I contact them after-ward if it’s something important. This helps me concentrate better.

13. Track your time spent. Egg Timer is a simple online countdown timer. You key in the amount of time you want it to track(example: “30 minutes”, “1 hour”) and it’ll count down in the background. When the time is up, the timer will beep. Great way tobe aware of your time spent.

14. Don’t fuss about unimportant details you will never get everything done in exactly the way you want. Trying to do so is beingineffective.

15. Prioritize. Since you can’t do everything, learn to prioritize the important and let go of the rest. Apply the 80/20 principle which isa key principle in prioritization.

16. Delegate. If there are things that can be better done by others or things that are not so important, consider delegating. This takes aload off and you can focus on the important tasks.

17. Batch similar tasks together. For related work, batch them together. For example, my work can be categorized into these coregroups: (1) writing (articles, my upcoming book) (2) coaching (3) workshop development (4) business development (5) adminis-trative. I batch all the related tasks together so there’s synergy. If I need to make calls, I allocate a time slot to make all my calls. Itreally streamlines the process.

18. Eliminate your time wasters. What takes your time away your work? Facebook? Twitter? Email checking? Stop checking them sooften. One thing you can do is make it hard to check them – remove them from your browser quick links / bookmarks and stuffthem in a hard to access bookmarks folder. Replace your browser bookmarks with important work-related sites. While you’ll stillcheck FB/Twitter no doubt, you’ll find it’s a lower frequency than before.

19. Cut off when you need to. #1 reason why things overrun is because you don’t cut off when you have to. Don’t be afraid to inter-cept in meetings or draw a line to cut-off. Otherwise, there’s never going to be an end and you’ll just eat into the time for later.

20. Leave buffer time in-between. Don’t pack everything closely together. Leave a 5-10 minute buffer time in between each tasks.This helps you wrap up the previous task and start off on the next one.

BY CELESTINE CHUA


Active Listening (Taught by Chr isty) - This is a 1 hour class in the training room, and satisfies one of your3 required soft-skill classes. If interested please see Christy to sign up, or sign up at the receptiondesk. Classes being offered are:

Tuesday, 10/7 at 9:00 & 3:30 Thursday, 10/9 at 10:15 & 2:00 Wednesday, 10/15 at 3:00 Friday, 10/17 at 10:30

Webinars – All at 2:00pm in the Conference Room 10/09 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 10/10 Microsoft Outlook Tips, Tricks, and Techniques 10/14 Communicating With Tact & Finesse 10/20 Dealing With Bullies in the Workplace 10/23 Building Better Team Communication 10/28 Time-Saving Microsoft Excel Tips & Shortcuts for Every User

EDGE – Thursdays at 9:00 in the Training Room

Product Training – Most Tuesdays at 10:15 and 2:15 in the Training Room

Computer Based Training – There will be 4 EXCEL classes this month. Space is limited to 3 people.Please sign up in advance. Mondays October 6, 13, 20 and 27 at 10:15am in the Training RoomToastmasters – 11:00 in the Training Room. Meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each Month 10/07 and 10/21CDs – Available upon Request

Each CD Pack is 6 training hours. Anyone may check out the CDs. Please see Melanie if you wouldlike to earn training hours listening to CDs.

ESI Library - Read a book! We have several in our library to choose from.Are you are interested in joining the book club? This is a great opportunity to read a great book anddiscuss it with your coworkers. Our next book will be: When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating aVital and Energized Workplace from the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market.

All Team Members MUST attend 3 of the 7 courses listed below: March: Effective Communication (Melanie) June: Customer Service (Melanie) July: Getting Along with Difficult People (George) August: Time Management (Melanie) October: Active Listening (Christy) December: Work/Life Balance (Melanie) January: Effective Leadership (Melanie) – this does count toward your 2014 soft-skills.

Training


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Halloween Safety TipsWalk Safely Cross the street at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks. Look left, right and left again when crossing and keep looking as you cross. Put electronic devices down and keep heads up and walk, don’t run, across the street. Teach children to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. Always walk on sidewalks or paths. If there are no sidewalks, walk facing traffic as far to the left as

possible. Children should walk on direct routes with the fewest street crossings. Watch for cars that are turning or backing up. Teach children to never dart out into the street or cross

between parked cars.

Trick or Treat With an AdultChildren under the age of 12 should not be alone at night without adult supervision. If kids are mature enoughto be out without supervision, they should stick to familiar areas that are well lit and trick-or-treat in groups.

Keep Costumes Both Creative and Safe Decorate costumes and bags with reflective tape or stickers and, if possible, choose light colors. Choose face paint and makeup whenever possible instead of masks, which can obstruct a child’s vision. Have kids carry glow sticks or flashlights to help them see and be seen by drivers. When selecting a costume, make sure it is the right size to prevent trips and falls.

Drive Extra Safely on Halloween Slow down and be especially alert in residential neighborhoods. Children are excited on Halloween and

may move in unpredictable ways. Take extra time to look for kids at intersections, on medians and on curbs. Enter and exit driveways and alleys slowly and carefully. Eliminate any distractions inside your car so you can concentrate on the road and your surroundings. Drive slowly, anticipate heavy pedestrian traffic and turn your headlights on earlier in the day to spot

children from greater distances. Popular trick-or-treating hours are 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. so be especially alert for kids during those hours.

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