Empower Your Trainees

Written by Sean North


Empower Your Trainees

One ofrepparttar most memorable quotes that I heard from a trainer came from a man I knew named Rizal:

"As trainees, you are supposed to interrupt me if you don't understand something. You are supposed to ask questions. But you are not to go ahead of where we are inrepparttar 105096 class. All ofrepparttar 105097 sections will be covered in due time."

As a trainee, I could not have agreed more with Rizal. He made an impact on me. He was one ofrepparttar 105098 best trainers I have ever known. What made him a great trainer was that he loved his career. (Notice I didn't say job.) I knew he viewed his classroom as more than just a place to go to work everyday.

As a trainer, what are YOU doing to enhancerepparttar 105099 spirit of your trainees?

One great tactic that worked for me happened when I was a restaurant manager. When I would train employees, I would purposely ask them questions that were contradictory. For example, I would ask, "This order is to go, right?" Whenrepparttar 105100 trainees answered yes or no, I always asked them why they gave their answer. I wanted them to discover for themselves what should and should not be.

The tactic worked because they learned to rely and trust their own reasoning. Their productively rose as a result. They were empowered to decide what actions needed to be done, and they tookrepparttar 105101 necessary steps that generated results.

Are you letting your trainees know that you are open to ALL questions? Are you asking yourself what you need to do to ask great questions? Are you wondering how you can get your trainees to be comfortable with you so they can getrepparttar 105102 most of their training?

Is Silver about to make a Spectacular Comeback?

Written by John Coote


Rumour has it that Silver is onrepparttar comeback trail and about to awaken fromrepparttar 105095 slumber it's had for most ofrepparttar 105096 past two decades.

Could this be fact or fiction?

For some ofrepparttar 105097 pro-silver market specialists, such an event is not only possible, it's an unstoppable certainty!

What makes them so confident when silver has floundered inrepparttar 105098 financial wilderness for so long?

Some reasons put forward by market commentators include:

 The accumulation of vast silver assets by prominent business tycoons.

 The buy-back of a huge silver hedge book.

 Official interference inrepparttar 105099 market that's about to end.

 Suggestions of market manipulation.

Serious stuff, but asrepparttar 105100 old saying goes, "there's no smoke without fire".

Records show that inrepparttar 105101 late 1970s,repparttar 105102 silver price went from a low of 90.5 US cents per ounce to a high of over $50 in 1980. The price increase was inrepparttar 105103 region of 6000%.

At that time (1980)repparttar 105104 available above ground stockpile of silver was close to 1.5 billion ounces. Sorepparttar 105105 rising price back then could not be attributed to shortage of supply,repparttar 105106 primary cause in most rising price situations.

Commentary overrepparttar 105107 past few months from various sources confirm thatrepparttar 105108 available above ground stockpile atrepparttar 105109 beginning of 2003 was between 20 and 40 million ounces (m. oz). The assessment was that this stockpile would be entirely depleted by mid year, or sooner, taking into account current silver production and consumption levels. The word "available" has great significance because some sources are known to report silver inrepparttar 105110 available category when in fact it is "unavailable for sale at any price".

Consideringrepparttar 105111 known annual consumption figures as confirmed by several respected sources, now close to 1 billion ounces per annum, it would seem that 20-40 m. oz is just a drop inrepparttar 105112 ocean compared to annual demand.

Taking that a step further to include current production from mining and scrap recycling estimated at around 600 m. oz,repparttar 105113 current supply situation could be in shortfall torepparttar 105114 tune of around 400 m. oz in this calendar year.

Statistics are boring at any time, so we won't dwell on them here. But our research reveals there was a shortfall of 331 m. oz in 2001 and an average supply deficit of 122.42 m. oz in each ofrepparttar 105115 past 12 years. Not insignificant amounts.

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