Shout Out Wednesdays: "Everyone Stepped Up And Juggled Multiple Crazy Requests With Enthusiasm."

"Every day, people search for something that motivates them. Things to get them out of bed, things to get them pumped up, things to help them make it through the day and so much more! What a great thing to say about your job!"

Good Morning Folks,

We've built and grown his business with an emphasis on people – the hardworking, dedicated employees who care about doing a great job for our clients. 

As I am now traveling around this wonderful FSO Nation, the employee and client Lovefest could not be stronger and I could not be more fired up! 

Without your passion, energy and care, we would not be the company that we are today. This is our market to own. Our Future Leaders Program is in full force and we need your help to find talent just like YOU. We are only going up from here, and to ensure an unmatched Client Hospitality and Employee Experience, we are keen to having the proper folks open new accounts to support our growth, mission and vision across the US.

But right now, let's see who's on the deck. Here are the great things are clients are telling us about the employees who personify our leaders of the future. 

Skidmore Team

"Mike, this week has been an extremely busy VIP week for us. With back to back client meetings requiring food/drink cart setups and a visit from a VIP client on Wednesday, the team did a fantastic job handling all of their tasks.  The office had to be cleaned from top to bottom in preparation for our client visit and the team went above and behind to get the office looking fantastic. Just wanted you to be aware that everyone stepped up and juggled multiple crazy requests with enthusiasm."

"Thanks to you and the office services staff for putting in the great effort today to help me stay on schedule. I really appreciate their generosity when it comes to helping out this week, and every week! Just wanted to put in my thanks and I hope you pass it on to the team. I’m lucky to have a team like you guys in order to do a good job putting together these lunch programs for SOM."

GK Team

"Thanks to the expert packing of the file cabinets/book shelves and help with moving all the heavy stuff. Bernard and Marlon did an excellent job of making sure that all our items were safely and securely packed, Felix and you did a great job painting the space. Again.. Thank you again for all your help with my move."

Capco:
Kaydeon, Monica, 

Jenna,I just wanted to let you know how helpful the front desk (Kaydeon, Monica, & DeAndre) have been over the first two weeks of my being at Capco.  Whether it be setting up conference rooms, arranging calls, or just pointing out where things are, they have been a big part of my getting up to speed around the office.

DeAndre

"Great job so far on organizing!"

"Super fast delivary.. thank you! You're awesome."

Ausberto Falcon
No suggestions just wanted to let you know that you do a great job (all the HQ folks are great, really)"

"No suggestions just wanted to let you know that you do a great job (all the HQ folks are great, really)"

"Keep up the great work a usual and I love the cereal, yogurt and chips.Thank you!”

"The assorted chips are great!!! Thank you!!"

"Awesome. Good Job!"

"Thank you for coordinating your team and going the extra mile to make sure our day full trainings went smoothly!"

"I want to thank you for all your help with the NALT meeting on Monday and for your help every day! You are constantly thinking 10 steps ahead and going above and beyond. It really is a pleasure to work with you! THANK YOU!"

“ I just thought you should be aware. Thanks again to them for all the help....Deane."

Nathan Mesidor, WisdomTree
"In the last couple weeks, I have received a handful of packages with:

•   The correct font
•   The correct quantity
•   The correct location
•   The correct paper

Thank you guys very much!!!!  It is very helpful when you guys are on your game, it makes my life much easier!!!"

Jannel, Melissa & Felicita, Emerald Expo
"I can’t say thank you enough for all of your help today. You have no idea how much your assistance with folding the letters, stuffing, and sponging (lol) helped Crystal and myself today. Seriously thank you, thank you, thank you. That little bit, allowed Crystal and myself to focus on other tasks that were time sensitive."

Trevor, Matthew, & Padre, HQ Office Services
"Wanted to say thank you so much for all of your hard work today. I know Crystal and I had you guys running around like crazy, and that’s just us, let alone the other requests you guys get on a daily basis from everyone else in the company. You have no idea how much we appreciate everything you do for us. From folding the letters, to running errands, to gathering materials for our strategy meeting, and setting up for the bell ringing. Thank you, Thank you, thank you! Enjoy the weekend and rest up (before Crystal and I send more requests lol)"


  

Mailroom and Security Staff, GroupM

'I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how great I think our current mailroom and security staff are. Everyone is so helpful and friendly.  Especially in security! Every day I walk through and it is like a breath of fresh air. They say good morning and wish you a good night and always have a smile.  It also hear less chitter chatter from guests about getting through security when they are not in the system. There are less long lines and disgruntled people than there were in the past. Joe has also been great and very helpful too. Thank you!"

Mark, Monaco

"I’m a resident of the Monaco building and wanted to give you feedback on the entrance lobby employees. Last Saturday when my wife was in hospital it was great to be able to count on Mark - we needed a favor, for him to go and pick something urgently from our apartment and he assisted us immediately. He is also always very courteous when dealing with us. Also, we leave our keys every morning with Mike for our nanny to pick up and again, he is very courteous and always in a pleasant mood. All in all, the guys are all great and we appreciate all of their hard work."

You can read more of what our clients had to say about these Rockstars HERE and HERE. What amazing teams ~ the energy and passion were unmistakable!! 

Every day, people search for something that motivates them. Things to get them out of bed, things to get them pumped up, things to help them make it through the day and so much more! What a great thing to be able to say about your job!

As in the locations that I am lucky enough to visit this week, each site employee, YOU, are the FSO difference! You're commitment to service, to exceed the client’s expectations, to notice that detail,to have that SKIP, FIRE, TWINKLE is uniquely FSO.  

The employee and client lovefest could not be stronger and I could not be more fired up!!

Have a fabulous late fall day filled with love and inspiration.  

Hugs all around,

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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"From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors."

  ~Proverb

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Ted Tuesday: The Talks Everyone Talks About

"Google was not the first search engine and Facebook was not the first online social community. Very few TED Talks are about original ideas. Simon Sinek was not the first person to talk about identifying the purpose for your life and work, nor was Amy Cuddy the first person to talk about how your body language and posture shape your self-confidence."

Good Morning Folks,

The TED platform is about “ideas worth spreading.” Watch any TED Talk and you can observe that everything a speaker says is in service of advancing one key idea, and making audience members so passionate about the idea that they want to spread it as well. This is why so many TED Talks go viral. The speaker does not just successfully convey an idea — they make everyone watching excited to share it too.

If you look at any TED Talk, you will discover that the thought leader’s delivery style can be categorized in one of the following five ways. The speaker is either a:

==> Change agent: 
Uses language, stories, and pictures that show what is possible when the change being shared happens

==> Scientific expert: 
Relies on logic and evidence to present an idea

==> Performer: 
Incorporates theatricality into the delivery of a message

==> Vulnerable expert: 
Connects life experience and stories to a message

==>  Inventor: 
Discusses an original idea, product or service and breaks it down into easy to understand, digestible parts

When you look at the most successful companies — such as Google and Facebook, or popular TED and TEDx Talks by Simon Sinek and Amy Cuddy — most are not household names because they came up with something original. Google was not the first search engine and Facebook was not the first online social community. Very few TED Talks are about original ideas. Simon Sinek was not the first person to talk about identifying the purpose for your life and work, nor was Amy Cuddy the first person to talk about how your body language and posture shape your self-confidence.

What each company or person did, however, was improve upon an existing idea. That should be the goal of entrepreneurs. While being first to market is nice, it’s rarely possible. If an idea can be monetized, it likely already has been. Plus, the first incarnation of a product or service often has significant flaws in its design or user experience. Entrepreneurs can and should focus their attention and strategizing on advancing business ideas that already exist by improving upon problems or frustrations for its customers and clients.

Check out our extensive library of Ted Tuesday Talks featuring Simon Sinek and Amy Cuddy and others on life, love and happiness, HERE (scroll backwards).

Thanks to Forbes for today's message and to you for listening.

Have a GREAT day and…. Love Life,

Mitchell D. Weiner

Chief Happiness Officer  

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form. TED Tuesdays on MitchWeiner.com highlights some of today's most intriguing ideas. Look for more talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more— HERE. 

Law Firms: Is Your Outsourcing Marriage On The Rocks?

"Your company continues to amaze me. I am in awe of what you have done in just a few short years. Your enthusiasm for your team is wonderful. What a joy it is to not only find a CEO who believes in his employees and business, but to find that your employees have the same goals and mission you do."

Good Morning Folks,

When you exchanged Wedding vows with your spouse, you accepted, comforted, honored and promised to keep each other in sickness or in health, for better or worse, so long as you both shall live.

Fortunately these vows don't apply to the marriage with your outsourcing partner.

So if you’re fed up with shoddy service, snails-pace bureaucracy, unhappy-unmotivated workers, low productivity and poor overall results, welcome to our world of outsourcing bliss.

From the first infectious smile that greets you by name in the morning and changes the whole demeanor of your day, such happiness is contagious –– when the boss has it, it trickles down throughout the entire organization. Today, an enormous opportunity exists to (re) imagine and reinvigorate your workplace and workforce with FSO.

Nixon and Peabody, PwC, NBC Universal, Brother, Y&R, AstraZeneca/MedImmune and have switched to FSO and will confirm significant and positive changes in employee attitude and results.

==> It's Time to Explore A Better Outsourcing Alternative:   
  
==> Get Personal Attention Instead of Voice Mail

==> Get Consistency Instead of New Faces

==> Get Decisions instead of A Chain of Command Without Authority to Act

==> Get New Ideas instead of More of The Problems You Hired Your Vendors to Solve

==> Get Unmatched White Glove Service From Friendly, Smiling, Accommodating And Productive People Matched To The Culture And Fabric Of Your Firm

==> Get All of The Above at Lower Cost

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What Have We Done For Law Firms Lately?
  
At Weitz and  Luxenberg:
Turning a expense burden into a profit center: We recently completed the largest and most successful document conversion in the New York area, migrating over 35 million pages to electronic format. Savings come not just from eliminating each $900 lateral file, but also from freeing up Class A office space formerly used to store paper in order to be sub-leased for millions of dollars per year.

For another large law firm:
A reduction of the  record's department's real estate footprint from just over 26,00 sqf down to 9,500 sqf, thus providing the firm with cost-savings close to 50k annually, Cross-training of the entire records staff to improve efficiency and coverage needs, the destruction of 2,400 boxes and another 15,00 sent to offsite storage, a floor by floor audit and clean-up of all eight of the firm's floors in Newark, and the list goes on and on.
  
Can your incumbent do this?

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What Customers Are Saying:

“They saw that our business is changing and actually came to us with suggestions on how to reduce costs.”

“Outsourcing to FSO frees us to leverage our core competencies.”

“Supply costs, headcount, workflow, equipment utilization and configuration — they’ve strategically explored options and (re)IMAGINED our operation from top to bottom.”

“People show up and work gets done. The front desk changed to outsourced model and is very successful.”

“They are like proactive, like a breath of fresh air. They’re well dressed, presentable and… cheaper!”

“Since shifting from in-house to outsourcing the cost is better and performance has improved”

“We are convinced the did the right thing and picked the right company. Things are getting done that were overlooked before. Now we have the manpower and expertise that was lacking and, as a result, improvements are being made all the time.”

Over 200 firms in 500 National locations have already made the switch, helping us to become the fasted growing privately owned company in the industry. The impact and results at these sites are nothing short of remarkable.

So if you are going home at night overwhelmed and under appreciated, and would like to turn those outsourcing frowns to smiles, you owe it to yourself to explore a better alternative.

Why not choose happiness instead?

Call me personally at 212.204.1193 and I’ll show you how to take the headaches off your mind and plate, put the fun back into work and a smile on your face.

Have a GREAT DAY as I look forward to seeing all of you soon.

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

   
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

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Inspire ME Friday: Be Inspired By Israel Sci-Tech Schools and My Appointment to Their Board of Friends

"Not only do these life-changing inventions benefit all of humanity, they promise high employment at good salaries contributing to the economy of Israel. I couldn’t be happier to be part of such a noble effort.”

Good Morning Folks.

It's an exciting day for me as news spreads across the US and beyond of my recent appointment to The Board of Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools.

The job-creating Israel Sci-Tech Schools, as you'll read in the press release that follows, is a perfect fit for FSO and my own passion to create opportunities for the underserved. 

Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools is the new North American non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and strengthening Israel Sci-Tech Schools network - the largest network of independent science and technology schools in Israel. This network includes 212 schools and colleges and 100,000 Israeli students as well as 500,000 alumni. The school network that the Friends organization supports was originally founded in Russia in 1880 and was established in Israel in 1949.  Funds raised by the Friends organization are designated for a variety of educational programs to keep pace with the ever-changing fields of science and technology and for special social and volunteer programs. Donations can also be earmarked to update existing classrooms and labs, or to build new schools. 

Here are some of the highlights about the initiative:

• Focusing on science and technology; essential skills for gaining sustainable employment and making important contributions to society in the 21st Century and beyond
• Offers opportunities to lower social communities with a vision to upgrade those communities, resulting in bigger potential for getting employment and earning a good salary
• 60% students study subjects mechanic to nano technology versus 35% Israel average
• Curriculum being developed and spread to schools throughout the US and Europe
• Volunteering in community- 20,000 students volunteering as part of studies
• Identifying Holocaust survivors, buying them computers, installing Internet connecrtions and teaching surveyors communicate with the world and share their life stories online
• Student volunteers dispatched to children's hospitals- teach and play with cancer-striken kids on computers across ten hospitals across Israel

 Here is the press release:

Mitchell D. Weiner— Entrepreneur, Business Transformation Pioneer and Founder and CEO of one of INC 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies, Appointed to 

The Board of Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools

Tel Aviv, Israel and New York, New York, November 4, 2014— 

Israel Sci-Tech Schools, Israel's largest independent educational network of schools and colleges, and FSO, the USA’s fastest growing onsite outsourcing company, announce the appointment of Mitchell D. Weiner, CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of FSO to the board of directors at Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools.

Mr. Weiner’s appointment strengthens and expands awareness and support in the United States, ensuring the security and vitality of Israel through the advancement of a strong science and technology education for all its citizens. Israel Sci-Tech Schools' graduates are among Israel’s most productive citizens: a workforce of engineers, senior military personnel, high tech entrepreneurs and scientists who are the backbone and the future of Israel.

Said Zvi Peleg, Israel Sci-Tech Schools' Director General, “There was an immediate warm connection between Mitch and us and Israel Sci-Tech Schools. Our schools are known for outside the box thinking and in Weiner’s case there is not even a box! We look forward to working with Mitch on strengthening the bond between Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools in the US and our network of schools in Israel.”

Commented Weiner, “Israel Sci-Tech Schools operates one of the largest Research & Development and Training centers for science and technology education in the world. It develops innovative curricula for robotics, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, teaching-learning methodologies and online pedagogy for implementation in Israel and export to education systems and hundreds of schools around the world. Not only do these life-changing inventions benefit all of humanity, they promise high employment at good salaries contributing to the economy of Israel. I couldn’t be happier to be part of such a noble effort.”

Adds Peleg, “In high school, did you ever see sparks fly off the sun through a state-of-the-art telescope or build a military vehicle for the IDF Armaments Corps? For nearly 1,200 students at Tzimbaum Israel Sci-Tech High School this is part of their daily learning. Tzimbaum is one of two aerospace schools in Israel – both belonging to the Israel Sci-Tech network. It caters to the full range of high school students and prepares its students to think creatively with innovative curricula including aviation, aerospace, physics, mathematics, computer programming, social studies and theater.”

“The business value of technology is limitless in this rapidly growing field. Humans already depend on robots in many spheres – robot-assisted search and rescue teams, surgeons making smaller incisions and enabling better prognoses, unmanned vehicles and airplanes, spray-painting cars,” says Weiner. “From creating food for astronauts, turning plastic into paper, to preventing tanker oil spills - Israel's accomplishments in science and technology continue to amaze all of us. Many of these life-changing inventions come from students.“

In addition to traditional learning, students of the Israel Sci-Tech Schools supplement their education with active participation in community service. “Mechubarim” (Connected) is an example of a program connecting hundreds of Holocaust Survivor to Cyberspace. 400 dedicated, tech-savvy teens put in the time to make a real, personal ‘connection’ with survivors.

Says Weiner, “It’s amazing, the students teach their elder partner how to use computers and explore the Internet. After they have learned basic skills, the seniors write their life stories on the computer bringing their past to life for their grandchildren and generations to come. This project helps the young and old bridge the generation gap. Together they learn to see beyond stereotypes and discover the value of each person.”

Mrs. Edith Everett – Chairman of the Board of Friends of Israel Sci-Tech school congratulated Mitch on joining the board and said “Thanks to the interest and support of Directors like Mitch Weiner, we are training teens with vision, a creative spirit and a desire to make a difference to Israel and the world.

The Israel Sci-Tech Schools network was established in Israel at 1949 and to date, has over 500,000 graduates.”

About 20 years ago, incoming Israel Sci-Tech Schools Director, Weiner, co-founded Archer Management. The company pioneered mailroom outsourcing – essentially bringing his employees into law firms and other companies to manage all aspects of the mailroom. After growing the company, Weiner was part of the sale of Archer to Oce  (now Canon) in the mid-1990s. He then repeated the success with a startup, rapid growth and sale of another outsourcing company, his third business success. With each, he’s laid a bit more of the foundation for FSO – and the acceptance of onsite outsourcing within multi-billion dollar companies. Like Israel Sci-Tech Schools, Weiner’s firm creates jobs and opportunities for the underserved which he believes, will be his corporate legacy.

I couldn't be more proud and honored to be part of this great organization. I look forward to spreading the word within the United States and to working with other great American organizations and their CEOs as they come aboard.

I will keep you posted in the months ahead.

Meanwhile there are times to work, rest and play. To fully enjoy your weekend let go of the working week. 

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! 

Mitchell D. Weiner

Chief Happiness Officer  

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"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken"
 —Oscar Wilde

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The Easy Way to Use Twitter in a Job Search

"Since the number of recruiters and hiring managers using Twitter to find candidates has been growing rapidly over this past year, you'll want to widen your online footprint to include Twitter and take advantage of this wide audience."

Good Morning Folks,

You can’t deny it. Job seekers and recruiters have a love affair with Twitter.

With Twitter becoming perhaps the fastest-growing social network on the planet, job seekers and employers have been turning to this resource. To get seen by these eyes, you need an effective method to write a Twitter resume.

But a resume in only 140 characters? Well, not quite, but Joe Turner put together this step-by-step guide to understanding Twitter’s language so that you can get your name out there.

The challenge lies in making your Twitter resume:

• Succinct
• Easy to find

And, fortunately, it’s easy to do. Two easy tools have surfaced to make these two challenges, less challenging. To make your resume succinct, there are link-shortening applications (like is.GD or GOO.GL) so your links don’t take up your entire character count. And to make your resume easy to find, Twitter has a great feature called “hashtags” that make the word tandem to it searchable.

Recruiters constantly use hashtags to locate potential candidates by searching words like "resume," certain skill sets, locations and so forth. As a result, you want to incorporate a few of these keywords as hashtags on your Twitter resume so you'll be found when recruiters perform their searches. Some good examples of hashtags to include on your Twitter resume include #needajob, #laidoff and #jobangels, among others. A good resource for looking up hashtags is to check out hashtags.org.

Now that you’ve got the basics, here are four major elements you should incorporate into your Twitter resume:

1. Desired job title

2. Desired location

3. Keywords with hashtags

4. Link to resume, personal homepage or your social-networking profile page, such as LinkedIn.

Once we put it all together, here is a good example of what a Twitter resume looks like and how a recruiter would decode it:

Example

RT #Donna Molinari seeks a LEAD/SR QA ENG JOB http://bit.ly/1ThaW @teTalentNetwork -
http://bit.ly/QB5DC @TweetMyResume #resume #QA-Jobs-CA

Decoding

• The RT stands for retweet, which encourages your Twitter followers to retweet, or repeat, this to their followers
• Hashtag with your name makes you to easy to find
• Desired job title
• The first link is the Talent Network profile page leading to her online resume.
• The second link is the job seeker profile that was previously established on TweetMyJobs.com
• The hashtags are the search terms used, in this case, the name, quality assurance jobs in California and the encompassing term "resume."

Now what?

Once you have your online profile and your Twitter resume set up, you'll want to use them to market yourself to the Twitter community. According to John Walker, there are a number of approaches you can use. Co-founder of Talent Evolution, John is a recruiter and career coach who first recommends that you send this tweet to all your followers so they can retweet. Walker recommends following people who can help you in your job search. This list could include recruiters, job sites and potential hiring managers with companies for which you'd like to work.

Walker also suggests making a secondary posting to your Facebook and Twitter profiles.

Remember, the lifespan of a tweet is short, so retweet your resume periodically, but no more than once a week or every few days at the most.

Can you get results from Twitter? Even though it's a bit early in the Twitter job search game, Walker is aware of at least one recruiter who has made six recent placements as a result of finding good candidates solely on Twitter.

Summary

While Twitter shouldn't constitute your entire job-search strategy, you'll most definitely want to incorporate this approach into your current set of tools. Since the number of recruiters and hiring managers using Twitter to find candidates has been growing rapidly over this past year, you'll want to widen your online footprint to include Twitter and take advantage of this wide audience.

And if you'd like to talk to us about career opportunities, we're hiring! Start here. 

Feel the FSO Experience - and ensure everyone around you does too. 

Here's to a wonderful week!

Love Life!

Mitchell D. Weiner

Chief Happiness Officer  

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"There's one thing you can't give away. 
You can't give away a smile. It always comes back to you."

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A former recruiter, Joe Turner spent 15 years finding and placing top candidates in some of the best jobs of their careers. The author of "Job Search Secrets Unlocked" and "Paycheck 911," Joe also hosts his weekly "Job Search Guy Radio Show" on JobRadio.fm as well as other locations. 

Rockstars: "Your Guys Were All Over It! Courteous. Timely. Relevant. Don’t Go Anywhere.”

"It's in the great FSO spirit that makes me feel accomplished each and every day when I can make someones life that much easier while at work. Our clients at Y&R are always on my mind, and servicing them is something I live, breathe, and FEEL, and I want them to FEEL it too! " ~~FSO's Ben @Y&R

Good Morning Folks,

Our clients love what we are doing for them. When they take time to write like this after months of being let down by their former suppliers, it is testament to what I've been saying all along: At FSO, our difference is people. They bring a passion for hospitality and service that just can't be faked or duplicated.

Everyone on the team knows their position and role and they work in harmony to execute greatness. That is what FSO is all about – a perfect harmony of perfection and greatness.   

We have won and continue to win because we make everything PERSONAL – this is what attracts great talent to FSO, and why prospects have chosen FSO and why our clients retain us – not because we have are trying to push equipment and not because we are this massive bureaucratic organization that moves as slow as a snail.  

People want to be part of FSO as clients and employees because we are passionate and we CARE about what it means to be there for them.

==> Hear it direct from our client's mouths:

Belinda, Crystal Point

"I wanted to let you know that I was impressed by Belind's ability to hold down the front desk on Sunday.  I watched as she managed 3 things at once and still maintained 

awareness of lobby activities."

Jay D, Caplin &  Drysdale
"Thank you very much and staying until 3:30 am to make sure the copy job was done and ready for the big EO meeting this morning." 

A HUGE THANK YOU to the guys at Roberts & Holland: Eddie C and Andre 

"Andre and particularly Eddie have performed above and beyond the call of duty assisting in a priority project with a time sensitive deadline.  

You guys have gone above & beyond and the client has recognized your efforts. THANKs for taking pride in your work and representing the FSO brand."

Steve Guyewski, Eni
"Steven, thank you for the fantastic identification of the Fire Warden photo! I was expecting you to just scribble names right on the paper, and instead you provided a typed, complete listing. Thank you!! You made my job so much easier. We are going to put these slides on Eni TV, but they won’t be broadcast until Oct 15. Although we have all the names and photos, we need to get the same from Alaska and the offshore folks. They aren’t quite as efficient as we are"



Itau Team
"Just to let you know that I always get the best of service from them all."

Saleem, Capco

"Thanks Saleem for your hard work and going the extra steps to make sure all transactions on my card are accounted for and properly coded for easier processing for Eleny. You really did a good job for the first time of doing this."

Chad Dookie, Capco

Hi Chad, Marlene Desravines has thanked you through CapInTouch

Thank you so much for your assistance in resolving my computer system issues.

Rajesh Basra, Commerzbank
"I attached emails from a close call last night; however your guys were all over it! Rockstar!”

Adrieanne, Liquidnet
"I just wanted to send you a note to let you know how wonderful Adrieanne is. She is always thinking about her floor and what can she do to make our day extra special. She is always happy and smiling and talkative and I think we all feel like she is part of our floor, not like someone who keeps stuff together but part of the team.  Anyway… I know people are always saying negative things about a variety of stuff. So I wanted to make sure you heard something good and that you knew that she is fantastic!"

FSO Office Service, HQ Team

"I would like to thank office services as well for doing a great job with preparation leading up into the meeting and staying late to ensure the office was back up to standard by the morning. We could not have had a successful meeting setup without your help!"

Demetrius and Ben, Y&R

"Pleasure to meet you today. I love Ben being in our office. His position is one of those perks that I always wished my other agencies offered. He’s Courteous. Timely. Relevant. He’s great. Don’t let him go anywhere else. Glad he’s on the team."

Today we've heard from clients about the qualities and skillets that will define our future leaders. Each promotion from within starts with client recognition such as we've witnessed here today.

Have a GREAT day as I look forward to seeing all of you soon.

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

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Ted Tuesday: Pamela Meyer— How To Spot A liar

"On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception — and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving."

Good Morning Folks,

People--friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople--lie to us all the time.  Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day.

Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines--facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field--into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception and get the information they need to successfully conduct their most important interactions and transactions.

Some of the nation's leading business executives have learned to use these methods to root out lies in high stakes situations. Liespotting for the first time brings years of knowledge--previously found only in the intelligence community, police training academies, and universities--into the corporate boardroom, the manager's meeting, the job interview, the legal proceeding, and the deal negotiation.

With 10 million views on ted and probably as many on You Tube ,Pamela Meyer's "How to spot a liar" Ted Talk and Liespotting book, are sure to be eye-opening and relevant every day in many ways.

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? In the second video above, Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves.

Thanks to you for “caring” (and sharing!).

Have a GREAT Day,



Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer  

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form. TED Tuesdays on MitchWeiner.com highlights some of today's most intriguing ideas. Look for more talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more— HERE.  

About FSO Onsite Outsourcing
Recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest growing companies for the third consecutive year, and lead by industry pioneer, Mitch Weiner, FSO's growth and success can be attributed to making a positive and powerful impact on their clients' bottom lines, as well as their employees' careers and lives.