Naturally Savvy: Throw a Green Kids’ Birthday Party
Using real plates and cutlery instead of disposable ones sends the message that protecting the environment is worth the extra work involved.
Interpersonal EDGE: Identifying Workplace Superstars
By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
Q. Our company started hiring again, and we brought in a number of supervisors that looked like rising stars. However, our management team isn’t seeing the performance we expected, and we have to hire another wave of supervisors. How do you screen an employee who might be great at the talk but not deliver the walk on the job?
Retire Smart: Recession Darkens the Retirement Outlook for Women
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
Janice Johnson left her job as a managing director at a major New York financial services company at age 49 to start her own executive training business. Almost immediately, that plan was sidetracked when her mother became seriously ill with the West Nile virus. Traveling to Mississippi-where her mother lived-to provide care became Johnson’s main occupation for the next two years.
Michigan is on The Right “Trac”: Helping Small Businesses
Roundtable Discussion on Small Businesses at Lansing Community College: (Scott Guernsey, HR Component; Brent Knight, President of Lansing Community College; Linda Hundt, Sweetie-licious Bakery Cafe; Dave Adams, Michigan Credit Union League CEO; George Wood, Home Energy Audits; Governor Jennifer M. Granholm; Andy Otteman, Parnunu, LLC; Rina Risper, President & Publisher of The New Citizens Press; Nancy Boese, Michigan Small Business Technology Development Center Region 7 regional director and Greg Main, President and Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO. Photo by Adam DeLong
2010 Most Influential & Interesting
During the entire year prior to this edition, we are looking for people who are doing great things in our community. They may or may not be on your radar but to The New Citizens Press they provide value to our community. We also realize that there are others who you think belong in “The Most Influential and Interesting” column. We are willing to consider anyone regardless of race, affiliations, education or socioeconomic background.
2010 Most Influential & Interesting: Willye Bryan
Willye Bryan, Research Technician with the Department of Entomology, Pesticide Alternatives Laboratory, Michigan State University and President of The Lansing Area African American Genealogy Society (LAAAGS)
2010 Most Influential & Interesting : Robert E. Proctor
Robert E. Proctor, Attorney and Lansing Community College Board of Trustee
2010 Most Influential & Interesting: Dr. Margaret Aguwa
Dr. Margaret Aguwa, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM)
2010 Most Influential & Interesting: Tim Skubick
Tim Skubick
Anchor and Producer of Off the Record
2010 Most Influential & Interesting: Dr. Jerome L. Reide
Dr. Jerome L. Reide Attorney and Field Organizer, NAACP