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Tuesday 29 January 2013

Better People Skills

According to Daniel Goleman, a renowned author on emotional intelligence in the workplace, businesses are starting to hire more and more on the basis of people skills than on hardly any other qualification. There is something to this, since the ability to manage and work with people is by far of more monetary value to the company as a whole than the technical skills alone.

Better people skills in today’s world mean not only getting along with everyone and encouraging employees when necessary, but it also means being able to mediate between people, knowing when and how to lead, and knowing when and how to take cues from other people. Temper control and actual dedication to bringing value to the company play large parts, as well.

At CMM Technology, we want to bring you the best employees through the use of regularly implemented employee drug testing. The workers who are fit for duty are the ones who take their job, and the people at their workplace, seriously. Therefore you must be able to go purchase drug test equipment and that is where we come in. Our alcohol test and our drug test kits are available for purchase from our website or over the phone. We ship all over Australia and to select countries. We are particularly proud of our Medix integrated pro-split cup 6+6, and we would like to invite you to order and try it out. Some of our drug test kits come specialised with adulterant tests so that you can get an even better reading of your employee drug testing results. This clues you in on the possibility of an employee attempting to cheat the system. Drug testing is a great way to learn how to make an impact in your employees’ people skills. Without it, you would be unable to see who is pretending to be well behaved when the boss is around, and who is actually fit for duty at all times of the working day. After all, such information is necessary to run a proper business. Call us today for more information regarding our drug test kits. 

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3137

Monday 28 January 2013

Working Successfully into the Night

When working into the night, your defenses are naturally lowered from the stresses of the day, your tolerance is also a little lower, and your desire to take shortcuts can increase exponentially with every hour.

It is important to remember that working successfully into the night requires self discipline, proper care of self at other times of the day, and a clear mind. This clearheaded requirement is not one which can be taken lightly. If an employee seeks to numb the effects of a hard day’s work, they can hardly do better than a nice glass of alcohol. However, if they are still on the job, this “break” can easily take them away from their duties and put them in a more festive state of mind.

Even when implementing drug tests, it is important to remember that adulterants are often added to these tests which negate or effectively displace the results. Our urine drug test have adulterant test built in, so they automatically protect against most adulterants. This is a safety which can save lives, since many employees who are under the influence and do not get caught easily are also cocky enough to believe that they are untouchable and may choose to lower their reservations even further.

To work successfully into the night, it is necessary for your employees to have total control over their senses so that their reflexes and reasoning is not affected any more than it may be from the lack of recreation or rest. Drug testing in Western Australia is taking off due to the high quality drug test equipment and breathalyser devices distributed by CMM Technology. You will know if your staff is fit for duty through regular screening tests, and will be able to stay on top of your recalibration needs through our breathalyser recalibration service. Employee drug testing is necessary for the safety of your staff, your customers and clientele, and even for you! Drug testing is one of the most steadying aspects of doing business, especially when you have several hundred employees, which is a lot of responsibility. Call CMM Technology today.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3124

Friday 25 January 2013

Well Organized Managerial Systems

Managerial systems are structures which uphold the company. They are able to organize managers in an productive workflow, and these managers are able to work over their employees in an effective manner. A good manager is a hard thing to find and a whole system of good managers almost can make a company untouchable. Let me tell you about a good manager I know. This guy knew high quality work when he saw it, and he was so adept at handling people and helping to manage their work that his employees and contractors were more loyal to him than they were to his company as a whole. This is a good manager, and his people skills and organizational behavior and high quality of workmanship were well known and well sought after.

So, you do not have to be a top executive or a master tradesman to be well sought after.

A well organized managerial system will help you with your drug testing efforts. It will support the employees AND support your desire to keep your workplace safe. Alcohol tests and urine drug tests and saliva drug tests can all be administered in an effective manner, because the employees look to their manager to set a behavioral and mindset precedent for them. A good leader will always lead his troops to better health and a better rounded life. Make sure that your employees are fit for duty, and that your employee drug testing program has the right equipment. Drug test equipment, the really good kind, can be expensive, but CMM Technology offers it for a very reasonable price.

We are a business to business operation, and we supply many businesses through Australia, especially in the Perth region, where we are based. Our recalibration service is high quality, and we can recalibrate all your current breathalyser devices. Drug testing has never been so simple and easy to do, and our well organized managerial system will make it enjoyable, or at least favorably tolerated, by your other employees. For more information about drug testing in Western Australia, give us a call and find out more today.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3121

Friday 11 January 2013

Time Crunches and the Availability of Personal Calming

Personal calming can really come in handy when the pressure is on and you feel like you may not be able to hold out much longer for a break or some stress relief. Personal calming is where you calm yourself and take care of yourself through self praise and self talking. There is a wonderful approach to dealing with stress, and that is talking to yourself as if you were encouraging and calming a child or a loved one. Use your name and be specific. It may sound funny, but that is because talking to yourself is kind of the stereotype applied to crazy people. In reality, it is a very soothing and very real technique to calm yourself down and to give you the ability to organize your thoughts effectively.

Some techniques for personal calming not only include talking to yourself encouragingly (in private, of course), but also watching inspirational and uplifting videos which motivate you. You can even create your own inspirational movies fairly easily with five extra hours. Some people call these Mind Movies, because of the software brand which specifically creates movies for just that purpose and really helps people make them all by themselves.

Time crunches easily raise stress levels and can target the emotionally weak. We are not saying that anyone is mentally or physically weak. The emotionally weak are people who are unable to handle the lives which they have, even if they are easy and safe lives. This has to do with internal growth and how much life they were taught how to manage before there were on their own as adults.

Make sure that your team is strong by identifying any members which may use drugs or alcohol to calm themselves. Use urine drug test from CMM Technology, which have adulterant tests built right in to catch anyone who is trying to get away with a dishonest urine sample. Our breathalysers and our breathalyser recalibration service are awesome. We love the work that we do, because it makes businesses safer. Try our Medix integrated pro-split cup 6+6. Call us today.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3117

Thursday 10 January 2013

The Importance of Communication

Communication is so important that it cannot be understated. Communication allows people to stop assuming what is going on in the other person’s mind, often making up things which may or may not be there and actually find out how the other person feels and what they are thinking and what is going on with them. Communication allows people who have brilliant ideas to bring them out in the open so that a team of other people can start working on bringing them into reality!

In business, communication is the cornerstone to making and keeping money. Unfortunately, some employees are less than avid with communication, and this could be for several reasons. They could have poorly developed social skills. They could be shy and withdrawn. They could simply have a quiet spirit and do not usually do most of the talking, but instead listen and allow other people to talk. However, one of the reasons can be that someone continually takes things personally because they have low emotional maturity, and they are abusing drugs or alcohol at the same time. At any point, tempers can flare up, and there is never a good way to know if someone is going to be fit for duty, as you may say it.

At CMM Technology, our drug test equipment is top quality. We provide breathalyser and urine drug test, not to mention the oral fluid drug tests which we give out. Screening tests are necessary in order to keep employees in a healthy state, communication-wise. If they are allowed to abuse substance unchecked, their workplace environment will only become poorer and poorer quality over time. We recommend our LifeLoc series, like our LifeLoc FC10. Communication would help to keep employees from stressing so much, but often the damage is too late when they begin exhibiting this abusive behavior at work. Use drug testing to determine who is able to handle the pressures of daily responsibilities, and who is not. CMM Technology provides high quality results and we even have a recalibration service. 

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3114

Wednesday 9 January 2013

The Background Music of Your Brain

Everyone has some background music playing in their brain, whether it is destructive or constructive. It really is impossible to eliminate all internal dialogues altogether. You must have something inside of you which is playing constructive tunes, rather than a destructive internal song.

Unfortunately, many employees find that their jobs are so stressful and so above their emotional competency that they begin abusing drugs or alcohol. Now, taking preventative action against their stress would not be a problem in other circumstances, but this is actually one of the more self annihilating things that they can do! When they begin abusing drugs or alcohol, their emotional intelligence drops…further and further…until even their everyday home life is out of their control. And, they are aware of this.

Something must be wrong with them, they think. Get yourself together, you’re being weak. This does not sound like very harsh internal thoughts, but when they do not work, the language and the level of attack becomes harsher. It degenerates to some pretty nasty stuff while the abuser spirals out of control, seeking to numb their pain more and more with drugs and alcohol.

At CMM Technology, we provide drug test equipment for businesses all over Australia, and we are based in Perth, WA. Drug testing is especially effective for people who find that their employees are off the wall or behaving in an erratic or careless manner, or whose behavior is inconsistent.

Try our urine drug test, which have adulterant tests built right in. Very few urine drug tests have that feature, and we carry high quality alcohol test, such as our LifeLoc FC10 breathalyser device. We also have a breathalyser recalibration service if you already have equipment which you need to have recalibrated. At CMM Technology, you get the whole package. Make sure that your employees are fit for duty. Make sure that the people you hire have a fairly tolerable internal song running through their brains. Anything less is just not professional, and can become too obvious for business practices.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3111

Sunday 6 January 2013

Staying Strong under Pressure

The trick with staying strong under pressure is that you must see that the pressure itself is not physical and that even really obnoxious superiors cannot take that fact away from you. With that in mind, you must allow yourself to see the situation in an emotionless state of mind. This is like a doctor not becoming too attached to his patient’s pain or like a nurse doing what is necessary to heal her patient, even when the feedback is strongly negative.

To get the job done, no matter what, under pressure, you must be willing to turn off your emotional reactions and see the situation for what it really is, in the light of the truth.

That is not to say that you must avoid positive thinking, and indeed spinning for a positive turn is much better than allowing the reality of it, should it be a really bad reality, to get to you. However, before you can be hopeful, you must see it with honest eyes. Then, no matter how bad it is, you can look forward to progress upward, rather than being unrealistic about the matter and hiding your head in the sand, like an ostrich.
Urine drug test and saliva drug tests are great for determining who is truly able to stay strong under pressure. Someone who is working mechanically or who suddenly becomes alternately amiable and obnoxious when the pressure hits may be drugging themselves in order to deal with the pressure. Neither drugs nor alcohol can truly deal with this fact fully, and they cannot suddenly make your employees fit for duty. They must have a clear head.

Onsite drug testing is done by our sister company, Mediscreen, but we provide drug test equipment, breathalyser devices and other equipment in order to make sure that your jobsite is safe and truly under control. Employee drug testing is the safest way that you can ensure your worksite is steady, rather than being chaotic. CMM Technology also offers a recalibration service for your current drug test equipment. For more information about oral fluid drug tests, call CMM Technology today. 

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3105

Thursday 3 January 2013

How to Handle the Yelling and the High Tension Jobsite

There are some jobsites, such as stagehand work at your local civic center, which involves a lot of yelling and a lot of tension in getting things done right and getting them done quickly.

One of the best ways to effectively handle yelling and high tension is to not become excited yourself. If you remain calm, then your thoughts are calm, and you can quickly and easily assess a situation. If, however, an employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, then their effectiveness can go out the window, because they are not so easily able to control their own emotions.

Some employees use the excuse of drugs or alcohol to say that they are keeping themselves from being too excited. They are taking downer drugs, which includes alcohol. However, the truth is that these drugs also make them more uninhibited, so their natural self restraint is stripped away, and they are likely to offend coworkers, cause accidents, have slowed or weirdly functioning reflexes and can in general put everyone in more danger, not to mention the fact that they are causing everyone else to have to work harder.

Employee drug testing is so effective for this type of predicament. You are eliminating bosses who are domineering or who abuse their own power, and you are eliminating employees who are not emotionally competent to keep themselves together, even during the easy times. It is therefore essential to the happiness of your company that you find some saliva drug tests and some breathalyser devices, and put them to use. We can help with that. We not only distribute drug test equipment, but we also provide a recalibration service for your company. We can fulfill any of the employee drug testing needs which you may have. Try our oral fluid drug test, like our ToxSure saliva drug test, and see how easy and cost effective it can be to make sure that all of your employees are fit for duty and fitting properly into their employee roles. For more information about Urine Drug Test in Western Australia, call us today. 

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3102