The CLO program offers a comprehensive approach to validating the knowledge pertaining to hotel ownership, and provides strategies for:

• maximizing assets
• developing effective, timely, and realistic operating budgets
• differentiating challenges and opportunities
• increasing and improving leadership and management skills
• maximizing assets
• developing effective, timely, and realistic operating budgets
• differentiating challenges and opportunities
• increasing and improving leadership and management skills

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CHECKLISTS FOR 50+ GOOD HEALTH
Use the following checklists to help you stay healthy at 50+. The checklists help answer your questions about what daily steps you can take for good health, whether you need medicines to prevent disease, and which screening tests you need and when to get them.

Women: Stay Healthy at 50+
Men: Stay Healthy at 50+
Staying Healthy at 50+

Premier Members of Ecolab enjoy a beautiful day at Silverstone Golf Club.

BUILD AND RIDE YOUR COMPANY WAVE
Momentum. Most businesses get it at some point -- the impres­sion that everything they undertake succeeds effortlessly, as if they're being carried along by a tailwind that increases their efficiency and propels them on to exceptional growth.

Some hold on to it. Most don't. Slowly, imperceptibly, the tailwind turns around and the momentum disappears, without anyone quite realizing what has happened. The company is still growing, but not as strongly as before, not as efficiently. Everyone's maxing out, but it seems like there's molasses in the works. Sound familiar?

MOBILE PHONE FOR EFFECTIVE RECRUITING
Today’s modern smart phones pack more computing power than most computers did just a few short years ago. They can not only handle your basic person-to-person and conference voice calls, they can also interact with websites, publish blog posts, aggregate RSS feeds, send text messages, send multimedia messages, record/transmit video, record/transmit audio, send email from multiple accounts, take/send pictures, send and receive faxes, edit office documents, and interact with social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.

With technology advancing at its current pace, there truly are few limits as to how the smart phone can be used to power a modern strategic recruiting function.

Left to Right: Gary Thompson, Director of Sports & Entertainment for Harrah's Entertainment, Brad Schulz, Principle for JMA Architects, Jim McCarthy, Director of Business Development for Martin-Harris Construction, and Kris Brenard, Vice President of National Accounts for Gilchrist & Soames.

GET HAPPYTACTICS FROM THE UK'S CHEERIEST COMPANY
As a business coach, I've noticed that more and more managers and leaders are expecting to derive more happiness and satisfaction from their work. They are often young, talented and successful people who view their jobs as routes to self-actualization. Yet this shift in the purpose of work raises many questions: how much satisfaction are we entitled to derive from work? And should employers be expected to provide meaning and happiness as well as a job and salary?

Far from being a pipe dream, companies are now beginning to take the concept of happiness at work very seriously, and for sound business reasons. A recent research paper by Alex Edmans, a finance professor at Wharton, found that US corporations with the happiest employees have a financial performance notably better than lower-ranked companies.

JAPAN'S EMPLOYEE DORMS MAKE A COMEBACK

Some of Japan's biggest companies, experiencing a modest rebound in profits and a longing for team spirit, are reviving some of the traditions they cut during the slump that began in the 1990s. One change is hitting young workers where they live: the expansion of corporate dormitories for unmarried new hires.

Mitsui & Co., Japan's No. 2 trading firm by market capitalization after Mitsubishi Corp., has eight dorms -- six for men, two for women -- for about 430 unmarried hires in Tokyo. They can live there for their first several years at the company.

Now, more companies say they feel such shifts hurt the communication and sense of unity that strengthened Japanese companies in the past. And decent cash flow over the past few years has enabled some companies to remodel dorms. Companies now also say they need to do more to appeal to young workers as employees in their aging work force retire.

Rick DiMartino, Regional Sales Manager for Protect-A-Bed, takes time to spend a relaxing day of golf. We invite you and your colleagues to join us on October 16th for a day of golf followed by dinner and a live auction!