Well, it’s that time of the year again and our sponsorship continues! As a company (with participation by our employees), GVT has participated in the Adopt A Family program sponsored by Catholic Charities and Knights of Columbus.

I received this “short” feedback email from a client of ours in the DC area and I wanted to share it with you.

The Harvard Business Review recently published the results of a study of 30,000 managers. Over and over again some 300,000 employees cited the same flaws among their bosses. The bad boss, as it turns out, isn't necessarily the tyrant in a business suit yelling, "Do this now or your fired!"

Global Vision Technologies (GVT) will be conducting an update to your FAMCare and/or Clinical PURSUIT system on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - between the hours of 6pm and 3am EDT.  The upgrade will be performed regionally - west coast facilities upgrade after 10pm EDT. Visions Server Upgrade 23, the latest release to our software - introduces new features to the FAMCare system, bug-related fixes and may include a series of routine platform updates to ClinicalPURSUIT system.  A full list of features can be found here.

Some POSITIVE Feedback

Because we are in the problem-solving business, we often talk too much about problems here in our blog and don't spend enough time-sharing inspiring success stories with our readers. We are going to correct that error starting right now.

Top 10 Principles of Organization 

Early in my career - in the ancient days of paperwork, I was working for a large mortgage company. To say that the office was a mess of paper piled high in "in and out" boxes and on every available surface, would be a polite understatement. Early one Monday morning we were introduced to a new CFO. He walked around our massive office peering over mountains of paper to greet each loan processor warmly. Then he went to the front of the room, asked for attention, and announced a new efficiency plan he called..."No Carry-Overs". 

There's always one in the crowd; the caseworker who shows up smiling every morning.

In 1995 Daniel Goleman, a New York Times writer, published Emotional Intelligence - Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, and the entire business world, including non-profit, was introduced to the concept of emotional intelligence.