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This year QWANtify is helping the environment by going green with our holiday cards. We selected cards for our clients printed with Agri-based inks on recycled paper as certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and 100% produced in the United States. Additionally, a portion of proceeds from the sale of these cards is donated to charitable organizations.
Our efforts, while small, are a definite indication of how easy it is in every day life to make our environment a little bit better. Let’s all resolve to make a larger contribution to a healthy earth.
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November 22, 2008 · by Tammy Adler
Today, at the very good suggestion of one of our team members, we volunteered, for the entire day, ringing the Salvation Army Bell at JC Penney at West Towne Mall. We began at 10:00 am and stopped at 8:00 pm. Team members rang in one or two-hour shifts, some of them doubling up, some of them bringing along family members. I was pleased to see everyone’s enthusiasm to participate in the event. I’ve always known we have a great team. It was really great having team members bring along their families. I heard how much fun team members had, how gratifying the experience was, how teenagers shopping in a group each gave a dollar, how young children asked their parents for money to drop in the kettle, how people gave $1, $5, $10 or $20, and how they want to participate again next year in this worthwhile event.
It’s wonderful that, while in tough times like those the US is currently experiencing, people dig deep into their hearts and pocket books to help out others for the betterment of all mankind.
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November 20, 2008 · by Tammy Adler
Our team has supported the United Way Campaign each year we’ve been in business. Each year one of our team members volunteers to be the campaign chair. They go through United Way training, plan and facilitate our campaign rollout, education and wrap-up.
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This year QWANtify team members continued the tradition for another successful United Way campaign. Our kick-off was attended by 90% of our team. During the kick-off our team campaign manager outlined QWANtify’s corporate objectives, our United Loaned Executive outlined United Way’s objectives and goals, and a Girl Scout representative outlined her organizational goals and the important impact they have on young women.
QWANtify’s team once again rose to the challenge when every single person, 100% of our team, contributed to our 2009 campaign. Individual contributions rose 4.7 % over last year and corporately QWANtify again donated .50 on each dollar given to increase total giving. We have a great team of community leaders at QWANtify; something we’re very proud of.
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September 30, 2008 · by Tammy Adler
I’m so excited for Eric Sorenson, one of our team members. He was recently quoted in a Forte’ Madison article talking about building dialogue with superiors to ease the transition into management.
Check out the Tips for New Managers article.
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September 15, 2008 · by Tammy Adler
Our Community Involvement Committee has come up with some great ideas this year for QWANtify’s involvement in our local communities. Our committee is made up solely of team members. No one from management participates on this committee. That’s the beauty of the committee. They’re given unfettered responsibility to come up with what they feel is the best charitable causes for the company to be involved in.
This Spring, for example, we worked with Project Home painting basements and landscaping several apartment buildings in the Allied Drive neighborhood.
This Fall we’re going to be Salvation Army bell ringers for an entire day at West Towne Mall.
We usually also do a Winter event. Stay tuned to learn what it will be.
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Tammy Adler, QWANtify President/CEO, and Kacie Conroy, QWANtify Business Analyst, are very excited to have recorded a Podcast for Jody Glynn-Patrick’s and Joan Gilman’s On Air with InBusiness Podcast, August 28, 2008.
Tammy and Kacie talk about the information technology student shortage facing colleges, how it may impact businesses in the future, and how they’re attempting to education young women about information technology roles available to college graduates. More specifically, Kacie speaks about her GET IT program, how she came up with the idea, what the program provides, and local response to the program.
To learn more about the program, see.
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Yesterday our team went to the Second Annual QWANtify Brewer’s Baseball Game. This event is proving to be a very important annual team building activity. It is an opportunity for our team to gather for the day, talk about anything other than work, joke, laugh, tailgate and enjoy a wonderful National pastime.
Our entire team attended the activity, encouraged by an extra paid day off compliments of QWANtify. We once again left our office at 8:30 a.m. for the 1:05 p.m. opening pitch. Upon arriving at Miller Park, each team member was given a QWANtify bag chair for attending.
Once again the weather cooperated with sunny skies and warm temperatures. The Brewer’s won, which didn’t hurt.
This event is a great team building exercise as are many of our events. I hope it helps build a culture where team members are excited and passionate about their work, innovation is rewarded and everyone strives for excellence, team members are empowered and their judgment is trusted, team members are supported, and the team as a whole unselfishly serves and supports our communities.
I still honestly believe there is more to business than counting the number of billable hours and constantly cracking the “you have to bill” whip. While we all need to remain good business people, it is incumbent upon us to recognize the importance of leading by example and letting everyone know we value them as team members.
Team building reinvigorates everyone, lets them know we really care about them, and it is an integral part of building the type of culture where everyone thrives; something very important to us.
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