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  • Friday, June 28, 2013

    Timing is All Important


    Have you ever had a perfect day or party or event planned, but it went off horribly because it was just the wrong time to do it? This can apply to many different areas, such as things which are interrupted by or are enhanced by our circadian rhythms, someone else’s plans, or just how things seem to move along fluidly and smoothly or with many difficulties and many forced movements.

    Timing is all important. The best laid plans with the best people and the best set of circumstances are all laid waste when the time is not right. And yet, when the time is correct, even bad employees, makeshift patch jobs and underestimated scenarios can suddenly swing into full bloom and all of a sudden there is a fluidity and flow. There is genuine candor and relationship building. Rather than having to manage people, people are easily talked to and dealt with. Things like weather and public attitudes and general mayhem or calm in the air can all contribute to this so called “good” or “bad timing.” Whatever the case, you have a very real case for being flexible with your plans when you understand how important and how awesome correct timing really is.

    Drug and alcohol testing is brought in when employees are being tested for illicit behavior either on or near the workplace environment. Even showing up to work under the influence is really harmful and can still lead to injuries, fatalities, broken client relationships and lowered morale on the whole. Workplace drug testing laws only exist in high hazard industries, so companies which are not under these laws must look ahead to their own specific needs and see if employee drug screening is a good idea. In many cases, it is a great idea!

    Mediscreen provides onsite drug and alcohol screening to business in every part of Australia. Onsite testing guarantees that your worker screening is done right at your place of business and is done quickly and efficiently.

    Now that is what we call good timing. Any form of saved time to the benefit of all is good timing. Call Mediscreen about this today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Wednesday, June 26, 2013

    Staying With Your First Love


    Your first love is an archetypal representation of first romances, business arrangements, original agreements, old clients and associates, and other original interactions with people. Staying with your first love can represent any form of loyalty, from marriage to old business commitments to sticking by former acquaintances. Staying with your first love is a form of loyalty to your original partnerships.

    Now, in business, loyalty is important and relationship maintenance is crucial. When doing business with new people and with former clients, it is always, no matter what, important to show them how important they are to you and what their business would mean to your professional relationship with them. This means treating them with priority and courtesy.

    There’s only one thing wrong with this.

    If an employee decides on this particular day to abuse drugs or alcohol, the effect upon the client may be irreversibly bad. No one will want to do business with a team of so-called professionals who are unreliable and can make crucial billing, product, and privacy related mistakes while under the influence of their drugs. Every form of alcohol and drug is a drug, since anything can be abused.

    Workplace drug testing eliminates the need to worry and make sure that everyone is up to date on client visiting day. Alcohol and drug testing is a crucial part of the employee maintenance process. Onsite drug and alcohol testing is even more important, since it both saves time and cost, as well as giving you peace of mind concerning the professional behavior of your workforce.

    Staying with your first love means showing loyalty not only to your clientele, but to your staff, as well. This is really important, since it means that your devotion to your employees will be returned tenfold in the course of their professional relationship with you.Onsite drug & alcohol testing can be provided by Mediscreen for any company in Australia, and this can become a regular process in your business operations. Just sign up with us, and we will make sure that your workers are testing on your business site on the schedule that you set up with us. Call Mediscreen today to do this: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Tuesday, June 25, 2013

    Staying Still


    Stillness is a learned art. For some people who are introverted and quiet, stillness comes easily, but it is still a learned art. To still your mind requires concentration, deliberation, and tons of self discipline. It means that you must relax, allow your thoughts to leave you, and to feel a feeling in the pit of your stomach similar to heartache. It is depth of insight. It is beautiful.

    Staying still is especially difficult for people who are naturally outgoing and often feed off of the energy of other people being around them. Staying still seems to be impossible for them, because they thrive in crowds, not alone.

    Stillness can take that lonely feeling away, though. It can help you see things so clearly. It can bring peace to your universe.

    When employees lack an appropriate amount of stillness, they become easily distracted, emotionally drained, and similar to zombies which are performing their tasks like automatons. Stillness is required for the soul and the mind to regenerate themselves. Stillness regulates the emotions. Stillness brings physical function back to life.

    When your workers lack stillness in their personal lives, they attempt to regain it through just about any number of methods. Humans cannot live without this quiet, and the predictability of stillness being present. If the methods they try don’t work, they may resort to drugs and alcohol to quiet their nerves. This does not bring stillness, but it brings numbness, and for many people, that feels good enough.

    Alcohol testing is great for actively drunk employees who are on or near the jobsite. Drug screening must be done on a regular basis, since it is not always clear when someone is high. Onsite drug and alcohol testing is available for employees and businesses which need to exercise a little more stillness and quiet over their worksites.Drug & alcohol testing is part of bringing peace and quiet to your job and to your workers’ jobs. It is part of maintaining safety, which is a form of stillness. Safety is regulated in some industries, but some companies in other industries must take the initiative to implement workplace drug testing. Call Mediscreen today to implement testing methods: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Return to the Flow of Work with Onsite Drug Screening


    When a business does its day to day operations, it is like a machine. Somebody inputs something, like paper or wood chips or water, and the machine is turned on and processes the material until the paper becomes newspaper, the wood chips become particle board, and the water is sanitised. Finally, in the final part of the process, the end result or the finished product exits the machine ready to be shipped or delivered as needed.

    As you can see, there are so many things which can go wrong with a machine, and when it comes to business, one of the most unpredictable aspects of a company is the people who work at it. Nobody can predict just how a human will work, and in fact, a part of professionalism is the ability to trust someone to act in a steady, predictable manner. This does not mean “acting fake” or being a robot. It means smoothing human interaction between professional grade silicon, so that everyone is treated well and pleasantly, without too much emotional friction or abnormalities.

    Of course, abnormalities are easily found in people who cannot handle their own lives. Their pain is evident in their extreme desire to escape from this pain and become distracted in the absorption of alcohol or illicit drugs. 

    Return to the flow of work with onsite drug screening. Return to the sanity of day to day business operations. Continue feeding the machine work to do, and watch the results come out.

    Alcohol and drug testing is necessary to stabilize your environment. You need it to make sure that people are not slipping through the cracks, leaving empty shells of people behind them. You need workplace drug testing to make sure that your people are healthy, safe, fresh, wanted, helpful and helped, and that they are well provided for while on the jobsite. Humans were not meant to act like animals nor to be treated like animals. Use drug screening to make sure that this never happens to your own business. Call Mediscreen today to see what you can do for your own future: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Monday, June 24, 2013

    Reach Out for Richer Friends

    There is a very true statement concerning how people interact with each other. It is said that your income equals the average income of your five closest friends. This is not only true, but many self improvement books encourage people to make new friends with people who are richer and therefore inspire them to increase their own level of income while also, at some level, being trained by being in the company of these people.

    Reaching out for richer friends applies to companies, as well. When looking around at the businesses with which you associate or perform business-to-business transactions, you will notice that these companies are basically on the same level as yours. It is necessary, therefore, to help your own growth by following the example of and using as inspiration companies which are larger and more successful than yours. Now, do not bite off more than you can chew. Start with businesses which are only one or two levels above yours. Then, when you have become accustomed to that level of growth, you graduate higher. All of this is meant to inspire you, not demoralize you, and setting your goals too high in the beginning can be more depressing than exhilarating. Keep some perspective and try to arrange goals which you and your employees can reasonably achieve in a few months time. Then, stay at that level for a few months or a year or two, and then graduate to the next size up. There is so much to consider when making sure that your business is properly but steadily growing. There must be times when your company adjusts to the new level and is allowed to simply maintain that level of growth. If there is always a push in the upward direction, you may find yourself losing more ground than you are making. Even weightlifters have to give their muscles time to rest and rebuild in between workouts.

    Part of the strategy for maintaining a level of growth is using alcohol testing and drug screening. Onsite drug and alcohol screening is available through Mediscreen, and our process of accurate workplace drug testing combined with reasonable prices makes testing something to enjoy rather than discourage. Get in touch with richer friends by increasing your own business standards today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Thursday, June 20, 2013

    Perseverance and Rewards


    Perseverance is one of the most important parts of doing business, improving your career, maintaining self discipline, and just about everything else having to do with money and relationships.

    Perseverance is all very well and good, but you must have a reason to persevere. If you do not, then you are looking at becoming mired in an unhealthy cycle of financial rat race combined with relationships with friends and coworkers in which you are not your best and your attention is barely held. Onsite drug and alcohol testing contributes a great deal toward the efforts to increase perseverance and interest in self improvement in employees within a business. 
     
    When workplace drug testing is implemented, it sets a standard by which every employee is expected to act. There is not only the small and somewhat insidious consequences and rewards of what drug screening brings to the company environment. There are also the improvements in the atmosphere and professionalism of the business. Employees feel as if they are working for a company, rather than a warehouse or a disorganized construction site. Workers feel as if their jobs are safe if they keep improving themselves, rather than the unpleasant competition between coworkers to curry favor with their immediate boss. There is some attention to individual, self motivated improvement.
    Perseverance is one of these rewards and it is also one of greatest things which any of your employees can possess. They will do a good job, they will do at just about any cost, they will respect themselves and others in the business marketplace, and they will get the goals of the company accomplished to the benefit of your business, and not just themselves. Perseverance means stick-to-it-iveness. It means follow through and a commitment to quality work.

    Alcohol and drug testing can help you on the way toward these goals. It can breed an atmosphere of happy people contributing to the good of the company and the good of the city and civilization in which they live. 
     
    It is a community atmosphere.

    Bring alcohol testing and drug screening to your workplace and see what a difference it makes. Onsite drug & alcohol testing is provided by Mediscreen. Call us for more information: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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    Acceptance is the Ultimate Form of Love


    Accepting someone exactly as they are is the ultimate form of loving them. It is kind, it shows that you love them no matter what, and it is a lot less stressful than trying to make them into someone they are not. 
     
    But, wait a minute.

    In a business setting, this acceptance can only go so far. After all, you must be able to discern which workers are actually hard workers and which are lazy. You must be able to tell who takes their job seriously and who is only showing up to collect their paycheck at the end of the day and otherwise be lazy the rest of the time.

    There is a lot of difference between accepting someone in your family and accepting shoddy work behavior at your business. You’ve got to be able to be particular about who you hire and what you do with them once they enter your company’s employment. You really can’t afford to accept them with equal blindness and lack of conditions as you would a healthy relationship with one of your family members.

    In order to keep things professional and to find out who is fit for duty, use drug test equipment from CMM Technology in order to implement your employee drug testing program. There are many ways you can do this and many ways in which you can time, order, and regulate your screening tests. The choice is up to you. You’re the boss. In order to make sure that the products you order are up to par, get them from CMM Technology. We specialize in drug and alcohol screening tests. We deliver all over Australia. We distribute to both tiny, small businesses and large, international companies. 

    Accepting your employees just as they are means putting up with their personality quirks and keeping long term teams together in the future. In these scenarios, everyone knows each other and is already used to working together. Get used to working with us. We know that each business is very different and specific in their needs for drug test equipment. Make use of our recalibration service. Don’t worry about anything. We’re here to help: (+61) 1300 79 70 30.

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