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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #993300; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Recognition and HR</span></strong> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">HR professionals work hard to make the workplace a better place! Through their hard work, their exceptional performance sometimes gets overlooked. And so in keeping with what I do (I expose exceptional performance) the contest, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exposing Exceptional Performance in HR</strong>, was born! <!--more--></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The goal of this contest is to help Leaders and the Organization: </span></span></p>
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	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gather insight about the exceptional work of their HR professionals </span></span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gather insight about themselves by focusing on the recognition of others </span></span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Celebrate success </span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;">Organization leaders are invited to <strong>send in a story in written or video format</strong> of how an HR professional helped them develop solutions that improve the workplace and resolve an organizational or team challenge. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The 3 Top Stories will be recognized as models of HR excellence amongst their peers and win <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: &amp;amp;">prizes worth </span></strong><strong>a total combined value of approximately $15,200</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;">! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Submitting early has its privileges – prize draws for submissions received before October 1<sup>st</sup> are eligible! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 5.45pt 10pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information on how to enter and to download the story submission form, visit </span></span><a href="http://www.harvestperformance.ca/?p=3659"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Contest Headquarters on the Web</span></span></strong></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">! </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> You can also see the list of sponsors at that link too.  I am grateful for the support of my sponsors. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #c00000; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;">Next contest</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;">! </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">At the close of this contest, we will be launching another: <strong>Exposing Exceptional Performance in PM</strong> (Project Management)!  Already getting judges… a new cycle begins! If you are interested in submitting prizes or in becoming a judge please contact me by e-mail at <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">sdimaulo@readytofeedback.com</span></strong>.</span></span></p>