Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

 

One of the pleasures of each Holiday season is the opportunity to say “Thank you” for your business and team work which has made Gallman Consulting a successful company. When GPS started 30 years ago, we did not envision that our company would be the organization it is today.

 

It has been 30 years of empowering individuals, developing a staff team and business partners of which we are proud to be associated, and most importantly, working together to make a difference in the lives of all the people that surround us and whom we associate with every day. We are all truly privileged to work in a job where we can make a difference in the lives of others every day.

 

Wishing you and your loved ones all the wonder and magic of Christmas only to lead you into a very prosperous 2016!!

 

Blessings,

Charlie Gallman & Gallman Consulting Staff

 

 

Fed Raises Rates

Fed Raises Rates After Seven Years Near Zero, Expects ‘Gradual’ Tightening Path

Wall Street Journal (12/17/15) Jon Hilsenrath; Ben Leubsdorf

The U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday announced it will increase interest rates. Fed officials plan to increase the benchmark federal-funds rate from near zero to between 0.25% and 0.5%, and will adjust their strategy as they see how the economy performs. New projections show officials expect the fed-funds rate to climb to 1.375% by the end of 2016, to 2.375% by the end of 2017, and to 3.25% in three years.

Happy Birthday Georgette Sandifer!

Happy Birthday Georgette Sandifer!

Georgette, you deserve a carefree day!

Your birthday is a promise that life has more to offer you, more plans to make, more goals to reach and more dreams to see come true. It’s a pleasure to wish you a happy birthday!

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Let’s all celebrate Georgette (Senior Director of Placement at Gallman Consulting)! 

GPS Elf on the Shelf!

GPS Elf on the Shelf will last 24 days! 

Be sure to visit our Gallman Consulting social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to view our scenes each day from our staff!

All GPS Branches (GPS Corporate, GPS Columbia, GPS Newberry, GPS Orangeburg, GPS Charleston, GPS Hot Springs and Gallman Consulting) will be participating with different Elf on the Shelf scenes each day!

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Scene from Debbie St. Mark, GPS Corporate “Hermey loves Spirit!”

 

 

Gallman Consulting Gives Back!

Gallman Consulting Gives Back!

Gallman Consulting encourages our staff to Give Back to their community by volunteering.  Each Gallman Consulting team member is encouraged to volunteer 8 hours between now and the end of the year…this will be a paid working day by Gallman Consulting. 

We will continue Gallman Consulting Gives Back into 2016 by allowing each team member to volunteer one day per quarter through the year.  

Thank you Charlie and Becky Gallman for giving back!

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Pictured above: Charlie Gallman volunteering for Harvest Hope!  Charlie and Becky Gallman manning the WIS-TV phone bank on Thanksgiving for Families Helping Families!

Show some kindness

Show some kindness on World Kindness Day

13 November 2015

World Kindness Day

 

World Kindness Day – Kindness is universally appreciated so why not show some on 13 November 2015!

Mark Twain summarised kindness when he said it is “the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”.

World Kindness Day has been recognised in many countries throughout the world for a number of years.   Driven by The World Kindness Movement, the day involves people around the world showing that we can think about more than ourselves and make the world a better place because of it.

In June 2010 Louise Burfitt-Dons and David Jamilly, both members of the World Kindness Movement and humanitarians, launched a Kindness Day UK.  Their aim is to highlight good deeds done across the country.

Everyone’s idea of kindness is different.  Helping an elderly person cross the road, giving someone a compliment, volunteering at a local children’s charity, or distributing baked goodies in your workplace – it all counts.

You’ll also notice a wide range of people quoted on kindness on the official homepage.  From comedian Jo Brand to Kay Boycott at Shelter they only reinforce the significant role of kindness in a person’s life no matter who they are.

I thought I’d need to hop on a plane and go do some humanitarian work in an African orphanage or something equally as significant.   But it turns out I can make the world better by being kind to the people around me. Its so simple yet so true.

So, whether you hold your tongue and don’t voice mean thoughts or do something proactive to be kind to others, you can play your part in the day. 

For half a minute on 13 November, you are asked to contemplate kindness and selfless acts that have had a lasting impact on you.  Nothing huge, or shouting it from the rooftops – it’s a gesture as gentle as the notion itself.

Remember what Wordsworth said; “the best bits of a man’s life are the simple, random acts of kindness and love”. 

It really doesn’t take much to show someone somewhere an act of kindness – so what will you do on 13 November?

Thank You Veterans!

Thank You Veterans! 

We here at Gallman Consulting would like to thank Charlie Gallman along with all the men and women who have courageously served and bravely fight today to protect and preserve our freedoms each and every day!

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Thoughts on Veterans Day, patriotism and courage:

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” 
—John F. Kennedy

“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.” – Dan Lipinski

“Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.” – Charles B. Rangel

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” —Maya Angelou

“The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.” – Steve Buyer

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis

“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” —Winston Churchill

“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place—police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.”
—Sidney Sheldon

“I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.” – James A. Autry

“Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.” – Bill Shuster

“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.” – George Washington

“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan

“This year’s Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.” – John Doolittle

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. “
—Joseph Campbell

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” — Michel de Montaigne

“While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.” – Kristen Gillibrand

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mixed Hiring Results Expected

Mixed Hiring Results Expected in November Compared With a Year Ago

In November, a net of roughly two-fifths of manufacturers and service-sector companies will add jobs during the month, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Leading Indicators of National Employment (LINE) survey for November 2015.

  • Hiring rates will be mixed in November. A net of 39.9 percent of manufacturers and a net of 43.9 percent of service-sector companies will add jobs in November.
  • Recruiting difficulty increased again in October. For the 19th straight month, difficulty in recruiting candidates for key jobs reached four-year highs in both sectors.
  • Pay rates improved for some new hires in October. The index for new-hire compensation rose in both sectors compared with a year ago.

The LINE Report examines four key areas: employers’ hiring expectations, new-hire compensation, difficulty in recruiting top-level talent and job vacancies. It is based on a monthly survey of private-sector human resource professionals at more than 500 manufacturing and 500 service-sector companies. Together, these two sectors employ more than 90 percent of the nation’s private-sector workers.

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