The WoodProductGroup

As a Strategic Business Partner I will provide the human resource tools you need to solve your employee related challenges by giving managers a better understanding of the core characteristics of employees. With this knowledge, managers are empowered to make better decisions when it comes to hiring, employee coaching and development, employee management and team building. Profiles International also helps managers assess and develop their own leadership skills so that they can become better managers. Whether you are looking to increase employee performance, improve employee communication, provide leadership training and development, reduce turnover, improve employee motivation, or increase sales, we have the performance management and leadership development solutions to help you succeed. As a Strategic Business Partner I will focus on understanding and objectively measuring core competencies, behaviors and interests of employees in companies and industries, to insure applicants fit the job the first time. This critical Job Match or Job Fit is designed into all of our solutions and will help you avoid costly mistakes, identify and develop leadership skills of supervisors, managers, and executives and ultimately increase employee retention of top performing employees.

“Jeff is the best wood products recruiter I've ever worked with. His industry insight and market intelligence bring significant value to the relationship, as does Jeff's warm and engaging personality. If you have talent acquisition needs in the wood industry, call Jeff Flowers! I highly recommend him.” August 31, 2007

Heaven’s calendar has seven Sundays a week. God sanctifies each day. He conducts holy business at all hours and in all places. He uncommons the common by turning kitchen sinks into shrines, cafés into convents, and nine-to-five workdays into spiritual adventures.

Workdays? Yes, workdays. He ordained your work as something good. Before he gave Adam a wife or a child, even before he gave Adam britches, God gave Adam a job. “Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it” (Gen. 2:15 NASB). Innocence, not indolence, characterized the first family.

God views work worthy of its own engraved commandment: “You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest” (Exod. 34:21 NASB). We like the second half of that verse. But emphasis on the day of rest might cause us to miss the command to work: “You shall work six days.” Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God.

And your work matters to society. We need you! Cities need plumbers. Nations need soldiers. Stoplights break. Bones break. We need people to repair the first and set the second. Someone has to raise kids, raise cane, and manage the kids who raise Cain.

Whether you log on or lace up for the day, you imitate God. Jehovah himself worked for the first six days of creation. Jesus said, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too” (John 5:17 NCV). Your career consumes half of your lifetime. Shouldn’t it broadcast God? Don’t those forty to sixty hours a week belong to him as well?

The Bible never promotes workaholism or an addiction to employment as pain medication. But God unilaterally calls all the physically able to till the gardens he gives. God honors work. So honor God in your work. “There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good” (Eccles. 2:24 NASB).

Here is the big idea:

Use your uniqueness (what you do)
to make a big deal out of God (why you do it)
every day of your life (where you do it).

At the convergence of all three, you’ll find the cure for the common life: your sweet spot.
by Max Lucado