www.mondaymover.com 05.05.2008 • Power Call • Tech Tip • Networking Tip Minding my business...reading a book (PR 2.0). The air thickened and I felt a growing lump in my throat. Let me back up. Returning to Baltimore, I’m seated next to an energetic five year old a few miles in the air. He was all over the place - grandmother had little control. Bless her heart! Conversation initiated...Cayden (nice name) asks my name. He didn’t like it. Suggested my name should be George...George the Monkey. I shrugged it off. He was only five! Though I must admit he was not as handsome after that comment. I’m sure this scenario has happened in your workplace at some point over time. Do you snap back? Report the situation to a superior? What if the culprit is a customer...how far should you let them go? Keep those questions in exchange for the one below. At what point do we discontinue making excuses for others poor behavior? Rather than provide a three step guide to handling these situations, think about this: The structure of a healthy and employee conscious workplace demands that everyone be held accountable. If given too much rope, one’s bound to round up a few monkeys. You know the saying...”can’t wait to get this monkey off my back.” I’m not George, but I understand that we can’t keep feeding the monkey....excuse...employing. It’s Monday — let’s keep it moving!   • Power Call Today. Call will begin at 12p sharp and last for 15m! Topic: Network marketing...the common truth! Dial In #: (218) 486-1600 / Pin code: 664392#. Join us next week for another complimentary Power Call guaranteed to stimulate thought on how you approach building a better business and better employees. Our guest will be Hazel Boone of Someday Vacations. Hazel will show each of us how to gain more from our travels - both business and pleasure. Click here to register now for upcoming calls and automatically be entered into the May drawing for an Ipod Nano. Detailed information will be emailed the Friday before the call ONLY to those that express an interest. • Tech Tip - Txt Msg Professionally For most CIOs, IT managers and long time computer specialists, text messaging may seem to be part of the hard-to-fathom under-30 culture and little more than a method of trivial cell-to-cell communication. But CIO Magazine says that texting could be one more tool in the IT productivity arsenal--like email and instant messaging. Read More. • Networking Tip Sometimes people don't network - with you - because they don't know how to network. Help them. Next time you hand someone your business card, jot a quick one or two bullet points on the back that 1) reminds them how you plan to take action on their behalf and 2) triggers their thinking about how they might immediately assist you in making new connections (people, places, or portals). The main calendar is now published within the Collective X platform. Click the Collective X logo above to create your profile and/or add an event. If interested in pushing an event via the newsletter, please give me a call or send a short email. I will contact you within 24hours. Any event deemed inappropriate will immediately be removed. • For aggressive Sales and Sales Management opportunities, please visit our website at www.secondmotive.com. Refer your colleagues, friends, family and receive a 5% referral bonus of $250 - $1000 Nordstrom gift card once they accept an offer of employment.     iZania, LLC More than networking Making the ‘NET WORK for you!   Woman Talk Live Wednesday night from 6-7 pm ET on WVIE 1370 AM in Baltimore   Set Up A Call Web 2.0 Scheduling Softward   True Presence Internet Marketing Tools for Business   G.1440 Getting IT to work   National Sales Network An Association of African-American Sales Professionals