Planning for the Holidays

At any point during the year, there are holidays which are on the horizon and which are planned for by your company. Here are some tips for planning for the holidays, no matter when they might arise:

1. Look up company policy. At any time, you should be aware of your particular business’ drinking policy, partying policy, and any policies which may be in effect concerning inebriation, inappropriate behavior, and harder rule breaking, such as drug abuse or carrying of illicit drugs onto company property.

2. Schedule office/jobsite parties at least two weeks in advance. There is something mentally anarchistic about the sudden onset of makeshift, last minute parties, and this can lead to relaxation of company policy and obedience of the rules. This is not to say that you should be a stickler, but that you should plan ahead so that everyone knows what to expect.

3. Always be aware. This is a particularly appropriate rule for anyone who is afraid of being taken advantage of or of stepping too far over the line during bouts of inebriation. Awareness increases the likelihood that you will make your holiday celebrations poignant, enjoyable and fun, while also not making mistakes which you will regret down the road.

4. Plan post party activities. This is a two-fold rule. First, if you have something planned for after holiday parties, then you are less likely to engage in binge drinking or drug abusing. Second, if you are keeping the evenings and days after the party in mind, you are less likely to sink all of your celebration into just one event. The neediness may decrease.

5. Update your CMM equipment. The cost of drug and alcohol testing is cheap with us, and our drug tests and Alert J5 personal breathalyser are perfect for your regular and post-holiday drug and alcohol testing. Make sure you have plenty of testing equipment on reserve so that you do not have to wait to continue with your regular testing.

CMM Technology provides Oraline drug tests, Medix equipment and Alert J5 personal breathalyser devices for your company use. Call us today: (+61) 1300 79 70 30.

Drug Testing with Employees Who Refuse to be Tested

In certain high hazard industries, employee drug and alcohol screening is a requirement and absolutely positively must be done in order for the company to abide by government guidelines. However, some companies have the option of whether or not to test their employees for drugs or alcohol, and if an employee should refuse to be tested, this can pose quite an interesting dilemma. If the individual has been employed by your company for some time and has proven themselves competent and trustworthy, do you go the extra step to convince them to submit to employee drug and alcohol testing, or do you give them a break?

At this point in time, if you are inclined to give them a break about this topic, and they may well have earned such a privilege, you still have to keep other employees in mind. If you make exceptions to the rule which other employees find out about, then this specialized treatment is likely to breed bitterness and resentment within your other staff members. It is important to discuss this with the favored and competent employees, but to also explain that they are a leader in your company, a self made leader, and that their example and attitude about employee drug testing will affect other people.

Absolutely make sure that you do not become stern and officious and tell the valued and competent employee that everyone gets tested and that’s that. It is best to always help them to understand that, while you respect them as a person and that your respect their professionalism, you have to think about the other employees and that they should, too.

If, however, you do end up giving someone an exception to the rule, make it quite clear that their free ride is based entirely upon their confidence about the matter. If they should mention the circumstances to anyone else, it will engender destruction of the teamwork mentality, and you will make sure that they are properly tested, just like everyone else.CMM Technology provides employee drug & alcohol testing equipment to businesses all over Australia and we ship to some countries.

Doubt in Your Own Abilities

Intellectually speaking, most people are the same, and they are perfectly able to accomplish whatever they put their mind to. In The Magic of Thinking Big, by Dr. David J. Schwartz, we find that perceptions of reality are the true blockades to progress. In fact, according to Dr. Schwartz, doubt in your own ability seems to really be the ONLY problem with regard to accomplishing that which you would like to accomplish. Unfortunately, our individual perceptions are highly fickle and based upon our memory of the past and emotional reactions, and the result can be a person who is entirely caged in by their own mind.

Doubt in your own abilities really does define how much you learn new things and incorporate those new things into your life. There is really is only one wall against perception, and that is your own beliefs about such things. When you doubt in your ability to accomplish a task, your mind really desires to make your wish come true, and therefore gives you every excuse in the book in order to get out of actually accomplishing it.

Truthfully, personal perceptions are the only reality which exists in your lifetime. Advertising agencies understand that. They comprehend how, rather than the qualifications of the product, the actual perceptions of the product make it sell. If an advertising agency is not accomplishing that job, then it is time to move on to someone who can sell something consistently and in large amounts.

In Dr. Schwartz’s book, he describes how inaction leads to further fear and that action destroys fear. What does this mean? When you are afraid of something or someone or of a situation, then take immediate action steps to addressing the problem, meeting the person, or coming in contact with the object. Face your fears head on and do it immediately, or your inaction will grow your negative perception to unreasonable heights.

One perception is that drug and alcohol screening is extremely helpful to businesses, and CMM Technology backs this perception one hundred percent. We believe in our drug testing products, and we know that you will, too.

Investing in Yourself

We have all heard the phrase, “pay yourself first,” and it has to do with putting aside money for yourself before you pay your bills and deal with other expenses. It is not just a form of common sense and good investing, but it has to do with self respect. How can you give respect to others when you do not even have any respect for yourself? How can you bless the lives of others when you have not given yourself blessings first? All resources must come from somewhere and how you treat yourself and how you invest in yourself both have everything to do with what type of productivity you are able to put out.

Investing in yourself is not a new concept. However, it has become less and less socially acceptable to even talk about, since society in general and lower middle socioeconomic groups in particular fail to discern between investing in yourself and just plain selfishness. How does one go about investing in themselves, while at the same time avoiding the unpleasant and depressing insistence of others that they should be serving their community instead?

The key is in secrecy, privacy and isolation. When you tell other people about what you are doing for yourself, even if they show unlimited external support of your ideas, it helps to draw your focus in that direction…externally. Fortunately, this article describes the importance of being intimate with yourself and your personality and investing in things that only you like to do and that only sink blessing into your own life, without anyone else knowing anything about it.

Do all of your personal intimate and private self improvements in private, and tell no one about them afterward. This builds up your internal reserves because no one else knows your secret and can then evaluate it in any direction, and it also helps you to feel like you can tweak it without having to update the general populace around you. Your intimate conversations with yourself should be just that…intimate. This is the highest and most profitable and most permanent way to invest in yourself. On the jobsite, your reactions will be quick and to the point, and your spirit will be calm and relaxed and not affected by the disillusionment and dissatisfaction of others.

In the meantime, CMM Technology offers another, more external, way to bring calmness and responsible employees together. Our drug test and alcohol breathalyser devices will bring a whole new state of calm and security to your jobsite, thanks to employee drug and alcohol testing.

Expectations and Their Consequences

Expectations, just like habits, can make or break a man. In fact, most expectations already are habits. They are just habitual beliefs about circumstances and people and places and situations which have been cultivated over time into expectations. Well, we cannot do much about it someone else has low expectations of us, and it is not in our best interests to try to dissuade them from this ideal, because that would allow their opinion to control our actions. We can, however, control how we perceive the world around us, and deal with life in a more proactive manner. For example, perpetual worriers often feel that it is normal to have some stress or concern in their minds at all times, or else they feel that they are being irresponsible. Conversely, those who never concern themselves even with basic responsibilities find everyone else to be too uptight and not as mellow as they are. Of course, in either case, their surrounding or external circumstances have not changed at all, but their private worlds are different depending upon how they perceive themselves and the world immediately around them.In advertising, this motto is frequently touted: perception IS reality.

Unfortunately, negative expectations not only change your own energy, but they change how you behave and how your react to others, bringing about and increasing the likelihood that others will act in the manner which you expect. This is a commonplace phenomenon, which describes how perceptions affect the perceiver FIRST, and then the perceiver's behavior and attitude affects others to the point where they begin delivering what is expected of them, good or bad. Often, drug addicts and alcoholics are so far gone that they do not even need to see the expected behavior in someone else before they accuse them and expect evil from them.

Fortunately, not all expectations have to be continually fed, especially in a worthwhile marketplace like the professional business world. CMM Technology provides employee drug testing equipment to help reduce these negative expectations due to abuse. Check out our drug tests and alcohol breathalyser devices, especially our Medix drug testing kits and our Lion SD 500 breathalyser devices.

Employee Discrepancy Policies

In every business, employees will break the rules, as well as engaging in discrepancies which are not listed in the rules. Many large companies with several thousand employees incorporate very detailed policies and a comprehensive human resources department in order to deal with just about any problem which could possibly arise. Outside of that comprehensive list, managers and executives work hard to make sure that employees have a thorough understanding of what is expected of them and what is not. This nice set up is a good way to conduct business, and common sense is a large part of what makes a good business great. Fortunately, part of this process is scientific and involves drug and alcohol testing. For example, CMM Technology provides Alcoblow, Lion SD 400, Lion SD 500, and Oraline drug tests and alcohol breathalyser devices to companies, especially ones which employee onsite drug and alcohol testing. This is particularly for drug testing in Western Australia, though we ship our products all over Australia and to certain select countries.

Employee discrepancies can easily involve drugs or alcohol, and this type of behavior can allow your business to be liable for accidents, injuries, even fatalities, not to mention what employees may incur to and from work if they are under the influence. Drug and alcohol testing is part of prevention of danger and protection of your assets. Many companies use it as part of their standard policy based upon how effective it is and how easily it illuminates problem individuals within the business.

More importantly, though, drug tests can be used as scientific backing for reason to discharge employees. If someone ever sues your business for loss of employment, you will have scientific data to back your position. It is a matter of safety in case of lawsuit.

Employee discrepancy policies are in place to protect not just you, but their coworkers. Not everyone wishes to work with someone who cannot control themselves. Company implemented policies can be just the sort of safety net and reassurance that makes your business so well worth working for.

Business Market Updates and Why You Should Use Them

Resources like CNN Money on YouTube, TED Talks on Ted.com, and Information and Teaching offered by upscale universities like MIT under the Creative Commons License are all valuable insights into the world around you. They are, in effect, business market updates covering a wide variety of material and offering an extremely in depth and thorough perspective on the world around us, and most of these videos are up-to-date up to the very latest minute.

Business education is very important, because it gives you perspective on what people are really wearing out in the professional world, how they are acting, what they think of new technology, and which businesses are now obsolete because they are not keeping up with business market updates themselves. A well rounded perspective is the cornerstone to a successful career, a thriving family, and a growing home life. Without it, we as humans tend to just replay old patterns, distorted and out of date patterns, thus hobbling ourselves even more. It is time to take off the shackles and start investing a little more time and energy and education in yourself.

Well, does all of this mean that you have to spend your day glued to your computer and watching all of your videos as they are updated in real time? No, this would actually be detrimental to your growth and development. A recommendation would be something along these lines: determine how much of each type of educational video you are willing to spend time on each day, set a minimum and maximum number for each type of video so that you can satisfy your curiosity if some days you want to watch more than others, and then plan a particular time of the day in which you will regularly watch them. Setting a minimum number of videos ensures that you stay updated and educated within your time frame.

In the business world, keep your company updated in real time through employee drug and alcohol testing. Use our Oraline saliva drug tests, our Medix drug kits, and even our Lion Alcoblow personal breathalyser devices.