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Equality Health

9/2/2020 – DISC: Understanding You and the Value You Bring

September 4, 2020 by Sheila

Written by: Beth Redfield

DISC

Keynote

Marlene Lundy, Senior Partner, Magna Leadership Solutions

What is DISC?
Four Styles within Everyone
D: Dominance = How you handle Problems/Challenge
I: Influence = How you handle People/Contacts
S: Steadiness = How you handle Pace/Consistency
C: Compliance = How you handle Procedures/Constraints

Taking the DISC Assessment is complimentary through Career Connectors: CareerConnectors.org/disc/: Dedicate uninterrupted 15 minutes to complete and get report immediately.
Understanding Your Report to Enhance Your Cover Letters & Resume
DISC is “How” we Behave (Descriptive/Observable)
NOT “Why” we Behave (Analytical/Non-Observable)
General Characteristics:

  • General statements to provide a broad understanding of work style
  • Statements are separated into three paragraphs:
    • Major Talents
    • Deals with Problems/Challenges
    • Communication Style

Value to the Organization

  • Identifies the specific talents and behaviors brought to the job
  • One can identify their role in the organization
  • These statements can be included in resumes

Ideal Environment

  • Identifies the ideal work environment for respondent’s primary behavior style.
  • People with limited flexibility will find themselves uncomfortable working in any job not described
  • Identify specific duties and responsibilities that are enjoyed and also those that create frustration

Keys to Motivating – Driving Engagement

  • People are motivated by the things they “want”
  • Once the “want” is satisfied, it’s no longer a motivator
  • Ways to be motivated to perform at an optimum level

Keys to Managing – Driving Productivity

  • “Needs” which must be met in order to perform at an optimum level
    • Can be met by one’s self, while management must provide for others
    • Difficult for a person to be motivated when their basic management needs are not met
  • Use this as a tool in creating development plans

Areas for Improvement

  • Possible limitations without regard to a specific job
  • Elements that are hindering performance
  • Develop an action plan to eliminate or reduce this hindrance

Understanding Other Profiles to Prepare for Interviews

Compliance: Detail Oriented, Conventional, Exacting
Dominance: Driven, Ambitious, Strong-Willed
Steadiness: Loyal, Relaxed, Patient
Influence: Enthusiastic, Warm, Persuasive

Communication Tips

  • Brief description of typical people
  • Suggestions to improve communications
  • Adapting to the communication style desired by other people to become
  • more effective
  • Use as a “Cheat Sheet”

Identifying Profile Types – Body Language

C:

  • Voice: Monotone, precise, deliberate
  • Volume: Quiet volume
  • Body Language: Very few hand gestures, direct eye contact, controlled and composed

D:

  • Voice: Strong, clear, confident, fast-paced, forceful
  • Volume: Very Loud
  • Body Language: Uses direct eye contact, Points finger, leans toward you

S:

  • Voice: Low voice tone, warm detail-oriented methodical
  • Volume: Soft volume
  • Body Language: Small hand gestures, relaxed, non-emotional

I:

  • Voice: Animated, friendly, rambles
  • Explains, casual
  • Volume: Fairly loud
  • Body Language: Smiles a lot, uses expressive gestures

How to Determine Other People’s Profile, Especially in a Virtual World

Identify their most visible style by choosing the correct focus or pace:
Focus = Task or People
Pace = Faster or Slower

HIRING COMPANIES

Equality Health, Marci Rollo and Aimee Bennett
Vision: A world where everyone has equal access to quality health care and achieves optimum health
Mission: To ensure all people receive quality health care that improves and enriches their lives.
Holistic Approach: A technology-enabled, whole-health delivery model designed to consistently drive quality, efficiency and member satisfaction.
Job Opportunities:

  • Behavioral Health Therapist, LCSW
  • Care Management RN
  • Medical Director, Q Point
  • Provider Network Development Manager (Tucson)
  • Practice Performance Manager (Houston)
  • Quality (HEDIS) Improvement Specialist
  • Senior Accounting Analyst
  • Vice President, Platform as a Service

Visit their website to apply.

Early Warning, Cyndi Peterson Hash

  • FinTech owned by seven of the country’s largest banks
  • Almost 30 years old – Headquartered in Scottsdale with about 1,000 employees in the US
  • Our identity, authentication and payment solutions empower financial institutions to make confident decisions, enable digital payments and mitigate fraud.
  • Best known for the Zelle Network, a financial services network focused on transforming payment experiences.

Job Opportunities:

  • Systems Engineer
  • Risk Management Manager
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Application Security Architect
  • Director, Finance
  • Sr. Financial Analyst (IT)
  • Customer Success Analyst
  • Business Process Optimization Engineer
  • Cyberthreat Intelligence Analyst
  • Director, ePMO

Visit here to learn more and apply.

RESOURCES

BestCompaniesAZ: Altogether in one place you can find VERIFIED, trusted companies who have thousands of jobs (120,000 at last count!) open now. Check them out here if any listed hiring companies match your values. For employees who are going through difficult situations, this is a great resource.
Free DISC Assessment: We all like free, so at no cost to you find your behavior traits (which may help point to your values) and what kind of job will likely fit you through our online DISC assessment here.
For details about upcoming Career Connectors events, click here to visit the events page on the website for details about hiring companies and keynote topics!

Filed Under: Event Recaps Tagged With: Early Warning, Equality Health, DISC assessment

7/1/20 – Discover and Unleash Your SuperPower

July 7, 2020 by Susan Lamphiear

Written By Susan Lamphiear

Jean Briese

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. ~Oprah Winfrey

All of us have choices to make in our lives. Even in this “season” of the Pandemic and challenging societal unrest, when our lives seem to have constricted so suddenly and dramatically overnight, many of us feel it’s hard to breathe, literally and figuratively.

Our keynote speaker has masterfully interwoven deep thoughts about meaning in life, with practical advice, too, about the job search, transition into and out of a Pandemic, and ways to be happy even in the midst of multiple and simultaneous crises we’re all sharing in real time.

Keynote

Jean got an early glimpse at age 15 into how life feels when everything we know to be true turns upside down. Sort of like how we all feel at being thrust into an uncertain world caused by the current Pandemic.

It was the most defining moment of her life.

Jean Briese was only 15 years old then, and the oldest of four siblings, when their mother left the house to go out on a date, and literally never came back. After the fifth day, it was Jean, as the oldest, who finally called social services when the four siblings started running out of food. Just days before Christmas, Jean also had to tell her sister, 12, and brothers 10 and 5, that not only would there not be a Christmas with gifts and food that year, but likely the four siblings would need to be separated. Even Santa had abandoned them.

The social worker arrived, bringing kind strangers from a local church, who got out of cars they’d filled with food and Christmas gifts. And hope. Though she was traumatized and couldn’t thank them at the time they came to rescue her, she remembers the power of their kindness.

At the time, Jean now realizes, she was deep into survival mode, comparing the overwhelming topsy-turvy feeling she and her siblings experienced to the uncertainty brought on so suddenly by the current Pandemic. She describes that chain of events as a turning point in her life when she vowed to live a good life, and to approach that life with kindness, because, after all, kindness can change a life. And it changed hers.

Jean has achieved much in her life but it was that upside down world at 15 years old that made her the person she is today.

Introduced as Arizona’s highest ranked and most reviewed motivational speaker, she blogs about leadership, high performing cultures, and empowering women. She’s an entrepreneur and a recognized business leader.

Her focus during her online presentation for Career Connectors, was to share with her audience that extraordinary people who achieve extraordinary things are ordinary people who happen to share some important traits in common, traits she calls Super Powers. Throughout her presentation she’s able to relate her message to job transition and to surviving the transition into a world post-Pandemic. And to living a happier life.

Five Super Powers
  • The Power of Habits
  • The Power of Your Purpose
  • The Power of Your Beliefs
  • The Power of People
  • The Power of Action

1. The Power of HABITS

Jean highly recommends all of us develop proactive habits. She lists her own as examples and recommendations from high achievers or research.

  • The first thing she does each day is to meditate, asking God to give her the right words for the people she encounters during the day.
  • Next, she selects the three most important things to accomplish during her day and they must align with her 90-day goal. She asks the audience to consider the last time they implemented a new positive habit. She suggests turning off notifications like email and just check at certain times of the day. Studies show for every 30 second interruption it takes 23 minutes to get back on track.
  • The fitness goal must include both physical fitness and mental fitness.
  • Adequate sleep is a must.
  • Self-talk is vital. Talk to yourself like you’d talk to a friend. Jean mentions Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer, who boils it down to two things. 1) He’s banished the phrase “I can’t” from his vocabulary. 2) He visualizes success. But he takes it a step beyond and visualizes obstacles in his way and how he will overcome the obstacles.
  • Life gets better when you DO something. If you want to write a book–why aren’t you writing it NOW?
  • How do you HELP others?
  • How do you spend your money?

Asking the audience “What’s your BEST habit?” they typed a number of responses which included getting weighed daily, walking, biking, praying, writing a grateful list, and going to bed. Jean stresses that habits are what we do without thinking. We just do them.

2. The Power of PURPOSE

Do you know your purpose? Jean asks. Out of seven billion people in this world, NO ONE has the same gifts and experiences you do. Especially during this Pandemic time, if you don’t know, what better time to focus on or determine your purpose? What is something you do and never get tired of? Pick one strength and become amazing at it. Our culture loves the spectacular but too often we strive to overcome our weaknesses instead of concentrating on our strengths.

Towards determining or solidifying your purpose, Jean recommends the following activity. Send an email to 5-7 friends and ask them what they consider your top three strengths and then something you could do better. She did this with one of her successful teams but was very disappointed at first when so many of the responses came back saying “Jean Cares.” She was looking for a response she could put on her resume. She wanted action items since our culture is so heavily fixed on outcomes. She was always taught to produce results. But as it turns out one of the chief reasons her teams succeeded was they felt Jean cared. It was, in fact, her “secret sauce.”

Too often we don’t give credit for our strengths because we feel society doesn’t value our strength. When she feels down, she still reads those emails pointing out her strengths.

3. The Power of BELIEFS

Belief is the conclusion we’ve come to. What is our truth? Two kinds of truth include lower case truth and upper case TRUTH.

Her truth with lower case is she was abandoned. But that doesn’t mean she’s unlovable. The first was a truth for a season–she was abandoned. Her truth with a capital T is something else. And sometimes, Jean says matter-of-factly, truth isn’t truth at all.

Jean gave an example of a man, successful in business, who had a heart attack. It was only then he began to question the “truth” he’d been told as a child–that art wasn’t valued because his parents felt he couldn’t make a living with art. But the truth was he’s a gifted artist but didn’t pursue it until after that heart attack. Soon his art teacher fired him saying he was the better artist. Sometimes we can retrain our brains about what is true in the lower case versus our truth with all caps. A belief is acceptance that something is true.

Jean explained that she found her truth through prayer. She learned that sometimes you have everything you need. She’s succeeded at her career though at times feeling she didn’t measure up because she didn’t have a college degree. With her background, she explains, she felt lucky to have graduated from high school. When she speaks to groups no one asks her about her formal education.

4. The Power of PEOPLE

In a study measuring stress level, individuals who had a friend by their side found a hill easier to climb. So we really do need people, and certainly in a job search or job transition. Still, Jean points out that some people are lessons, and some are blessings.

In the Pandemic, we still have people.

However, there will always be people who don’t understand us and sometimes it’s people closest to us. That doesn’t mean we throw them out. Instead, we surround ourselves with people who “get” us. “You are never too old or too young to be who you were meant to be,” Jean said.

In her own business she’s had to find new people–she’s sought out people who were already doing what she wanted to do. She’s an entrepreneur so she sought out other entrepreneurs. Don’t forget to use LinkedIn to expand your circle. Ask someone in your circle of influence to introduce you. You don’t have to go it alone.

Consider getting a coach, a mentor. That doesn’t mean they’re necessarily smarter than you are. They are beside you to help you on your journey. To guide you. Ask yourself, who are you learning from? Your goal is to discover your absolute truth.

5. The Power of ACTION

Action is key. Did you know that only ten percent of people who attend a conference or take a class ever take ACTION? The number one reason we don’t take action is FEAR. Jean tells the story of watching a group on America’s Got Talent with her daughter who was ten years old at the time. A group called Zucaroh introduced themselves as amateurs who wanted to improve, to be better. They accepted everyone who wanted to be in their group. During their act they performed acrobatics she and her daughter had never seen before, and they received the Golden Buzzer. If you receive the Golden Buzzer in the first round of the show, you go directly to the live how. Her daughter turned to Jean and said, “I wonder how many fails that took?” Lesson here for life is we ACT, we FAIL, we LEARN and we ADJUST. And Repeat.

Four Steps to Engage Your Super Powers

  • You must BELIEVE
  • You must be DELIBERATE
  • You must STRATEGICALLY PLAN YOUR TIME
  • You must HAVE A MENTOR

In taking action, people are exhibiting their POWER of Choice–and sometimes in life (like Jean at 15 or all of us during the Pandemic) the only choice we have is how to react. Reframe your thoughts–instead of “I HAVE to do this” say, “I GET to do this.”

Be Happy.

  • Habits
  • Action
  • Purpose
  • People
  • Your Beliefs

Hiring Companies

Leslie’s Poolmart

Kim Contreras, Recruitment Manager

Leslie’s Poolmart, experts in their industry, was established in a home backyard in 1963, and now operates from over 900 locations in 38 states.

Leslie’s  is your local neighborhood pool store, offering a broad selection of pool and spa chemicals, pool cleaners, pool equipment, cleaning accessories and pool inflatables and floats.

Reasons to work for Leslie’s include their 85% internal promotion rate, their core values, company perks, and their distinction as an Arizona Veteran Supportive Employer. Besides that, Leslie’s is fun, offering discounts plus holiday and employee success celebrations. Towards morale, they even brought in puppies one day, and some of the puppies were adopted.

Open positions include the following: Logistics Coordinator, Account Payable Representative, Windows System Administrator, Network System Administrator, Linus System Administrator, Engineer (2), Manager of IT Development, Business Analyst/Project Manager, Project Management Office Manager, and Vendor Management Compliance Coordinator.

To Learn more about the company or to apply, go their website. From there, go to “Careers” at the bottom of the home page and search by job title.

Equality Health

Aimee Bennett, Director, People & Culture

Marci Rollo, Generalist, People & Culture

Equality Health, at four years old, is the nation’s leading integrated healthcare delivery system, focused solely on improving healthcare delivery through the lens of culture.

Their vision is a world where everyone has equal access to quality health care and achieves optimum health; and their mission is to ensure all people receive quality health care that improves and enriches their lives.

Equality Health and Bashas’ Family of Stores’ Food City brand partnered in 2019 to launch a full-service health retail clinic that will provide under- served populations with personalized, quality healthcare that’s easily accessible and affordable. The Equality Health Walk-in Clinic was scheduled to open in April last year at the Food City located at 9020 West Thomas Road in Phoenix, offering the full-spectrum of health and wellness services supported by an onsite care team that includes a nurse practitioner and health navigator. A pharmacy and onsite lab services will also be available.

Equality Health has powerful software and a network of 3000 providers. Their data analysis determines who is best served by their tailored care delivery and social support system. In Phoenix, for example, six care delivery districts have been identified based on demographics, access, quality of care, and social/cultural barriers.

Visit their website to see a full list of benefits, to learn more about the company, and to apply. All interviews are remote or on the phone. No healthcare experience is necessary for some of the positions.

Resources and Closing

Founder/CEO of Career Connectors Jessica Pierce closed the meeting, thanking volunteers and reminding the audience of the free resources on the Career Connectors website including free DISC assessment.

Click here for information about virtual coaching offered by Career Connectors including free 10 minute virtual consultations in the following areas:

  • Resume Review
  •  LinkedIn Review
  •  Career Coaching/Development
  •  Financial Coaching

Filed Under: Event Recaps Tagged With: Equality Health, Jean Briese

08/09/18 – From Transition to Triumph!: Mentally Regrouping in the Midst of Career Change

August 15, 2018 by Diane Forner

Written by: Connie Huber, PHR SHRM-CP

Keynote

From Transition to Triumph! Mentally Regrouping in the Midst of Career Change
Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins

As we conduct our search to find our next opportunity, we will experience a roller-coaster of emotions. One day we will be coasting and have a “can do”/positive attitude and find our positive mindset results in good things coming our way. The following day we may be spiraling downward and filled with guilt and depression. No longer are we rewarded with the riches of success, but have few if any.

We may have an awesome resume, an “All Star” rating on LinkedIn and other social media platforms, but our mental attitude needs to be a positive one to be a success. As we shift to a positive mindset, our confidence level rises. Being confident is knowing what you’re good at, the value you provide, and acting in a way that conveys that to others. Bridgett enthusiastically shared her road to success in reframing your mental outlook.

  1. Make a statement of your worth, __AND__, BUT THEREFORE. An example is the following:
    STATEMENT OF WORTH
    “It’s hot outside and it is important to stay hydrated in this kind of weather.”
    __AND__
    “But conveniently getting a quality beverage made from the freshest of ingredients can be a challenge.”
    BUT
    “Therefore, I operate a lemonade stand that offers a refreshing homemade beverage with great service and a smile!”
    THEREFORE
  2. Get comfortable with displaying awesomeness! It is difficult for many of us to openly share how great we are to those who need to know. Don’t be shy in communicating your achievements and what a great professional you are. If you fail to do so, many will not know just how awesome you are.
  3. Do something that excites or scares you. Get out of your rut and tackle new endeavors! Ideas are returning to school, starting a blog, collaborating with someone on a project, selling a service or starting a business.
  4. Get MORE uncomfortable. Keep pushing yourself to try new things.
  5. Be ready with a response. You will be asked time and time again why you left your former employer. Think about what you are going to say to someone who asks this question. “The company closed its office/made some changes/did some reorganizing. I am actively looking and networking but am not ready to talk about my search at length. I appreciate your concern and will be sure to keep you updated.”
  6. Mark the past. Find a way to let go of your past. Look at the pros of what you encountered with your previous employer. If necessary, have a ritual of letting go of the past. Cortez burned his own ship! Letting go prevents you from being stuck.
  7. Respect the past (position, company, etc.). Friends, family or potential employers do not want to hear about your terrible experience with your former employer. The more you engage in the negative the longer you hold on to your past and ill feelings.
  8. Avoid burning bridges. You may want to march into your former boss’s office and give him/her a piece of your mind, but don’t do it. You never know who your former boss knows or those organizations that may share contacts that might open doors for you.
  9. Burn some bridges. Get rid of the negative mojo in your life. Take a moment and make 2 lists. 1. Who are the people, things, ideas you need to keep. 2. Those you need to toss.
  10. Use power words, not wimpy words. Remember power words are way more impactful than wimpy ones. A powerful vocabulary makes your awesomeness sparkle. Examples include establishing the stronger statement such as “I can do that” versus “I might be able to do that”; or “Let’s review this challenge;” instead of “Let’s review this problem.”
  11. Give great eye contact. Pretend there is an inverted triangle between the eyes of the person you are talking with. Focus your attention on their eyes first the left then the right. Avoid looking away from the individual.
  12. Avoid giving reasons for actions or decisions.
  13. Respond to criticism only when/if necessary.
  14. Don’t just talk about it; be about it. Demonstrate the commitment of your thoughts by showing action. Things do not have to be perfect before taking action.
  15. Make others feeling incredibly important. They should feel as though they are a VIP.

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

HIRING COMPANIES

vCandidates
LT Ladino, CEO/CMO, Founder
vCandidates is a three-pronged solution for the staffing marketplace. The company’s focus is to buildup small to medium recruiting and staffing firms while giving candidates the ability to create the best presentation of themselves. The recruitment tools used expedite the search, screening and presentation process eliminating the use of costly job search boards. vCandidates is not another database but a marketplace of pre-screened candidates by the organization’s recruiting and HR team members. The company is a true subscription-based career ecosystem for candidates and active recruiting professionals. The cost for the service is $50 to sign up and $25 per month. For more information go to here.

Amazon
Elia Gal, TSC Solutions Team Lead

Amazon’s work environment has employees handling many sizes of packages, requires comfortable shoes, emphasizes safety, and earns the trust of customers by making promises and keeping them. Jobs allow employees to move around and feel comfortable while working in relaxed clothing. Employees must be able to lift up to 45 pounds, stand/walk for 4-10 hours a day and may be asked to drive powered industrial trucks. Benefits begin day one for full time employees and include medical, time off options, extra time opportunities and multiple shift options. It is important to know most of the available jobs are part time and focus in fulfilling the customer promise by moving small to medium packages, lifting, bending and standing for long period of times. Shifts are varied and can be 4-day work weeks, full or part time, and day or night; 5-day work weeks, full or part time, day or night; or flexible work week, days and night, part time. Current job postings can be found here, or you can begin the hiring process by texting PHXNOW.

Equality Health
Blanca Sandoval, Director of People and Culture

Equality Health is an Arizona based integrated, holistic healthcare delivery system focused on improving care delivery for under-served populations with culturally-sensitive programs that improve access, quality and patient trust. Through an integrated technology and services platform, a culturally competent network and a unique cultural care model, Equality Health helps managed care plans and health systems improve care for diverse populations while simultaneously making the transition to risk-based accountability. The company’s mission is to see health disparities disappear and working relentlessly to do its part.
Benefits include a variety of health plans and supporting programs as well as paid time off. Offerings include multiple PPO and high deductible medical plans, dental, vision, wellness incentives, employee assistance program, 15 paid days off in year one and paid leave benefits. Current opportunities include senior software developer, senior MySQL developer, credentialing specialist, production development specialist, behavioral health counselor, development operations analyst, physician, pain specialist, quality assurance analyst, call center representative, director, clinical quality improvement, behavioral health, medical assistant, network data coordinator, and business analyst. If interested, please visit Equality Health.

Allstate
Steve Morin, Senior Sourcing Consultant

Allstate was established in Chicago in 1931 and has been in business for 80 years. Allstate is #81 on the Fortune 100 list and has 70,000 employees in the US and Canada. The SW region is composed of AZ, OK, NV, NM and UT. Allstate is one of the most recognizable brands in America and has 47 products to help serve its customers’ needs.
Available positions in Tempe Regional Office include IT, Human Resources, Product, Claims, and Sales Management. Other opportunities are Financial Specialist, Agency Owner, and Licensed Sales Producers. The company is military friendly and offers free education to veterans and a bonus award of $500. In addition, Allstate has a $10,000 referral award. To learn more about careers visit Allstate’s website.

RESOURCES

Grand Canyon University
Kyle Richardson, University Counselor
In today’s job market, 58% of all new jobs are in STEM. Computing jobs are the #1 source of new wages in the United States. To help you get the necessary skills to compete in this job market, GCU is now pleased to be offering Immersive Java Boot Camp. The camp includes more than 600 hours of project-based collaborative instruction, accelerated path to employment, competitive pricing for an on-site experience, and transferrable college credits.

CLOSING

Kristy Bach, Board of Directors, Career Connectors, closed the meeting by thanking Grand Canyon University and the volunteers. The next Career Connectors meeting will be in Scottsdale on Thursday, August 16, 2018 and features Sean O’Neil, as speaker for the topic “Be Unforgettable.” For additional information on this event and future events, please visit the Event Schedule.

Filed Under: Event Recaps Tagged With: Equality Health, Amazon, vCandidates, Grand Canyon University, Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, Allstate

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I own a Leadership Company, and have enjoyed attending the Career Connector events. With gratitude I listen to the speakers you line up… they offer phenominal and practical information. What has struck me each time has been the audience. My heart hurts for them. They are in a desperate place in their lives. I have had the opportunity speak with a few of the people in attendance, and they have shared their stories… I walk away thankful to God for the opportunity to meet these people and they … Read more
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After one year of unemployment, I have been employed with an excellent company at a job which is perfect fit for my experience and desires for many months, through the efforts of the devoted volunteers at Career Connectors. I and my family are eternally grateful. Sincere thanks!
Jeff A.
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