Archive for September, 2008

The Key To Driving Great Results

Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I am fortunate to work for a company that excels at superior service, inspires leadership, recognizes the talents of my great colleagues and partners with exceptional clients, giving me the opportunity to do what I do best each day.  SERVICEFirst and foremost, providing superior service to my clients (both internal and external) professionally inspires me. People are not a commodity and therefore the relocation of people shouldn’t be viewed as such.  It’s a very personal and sometimes life altering experience for many and I have the rewarding privilege of positively affecting peoples lives each day.

LEADERSHIP

Wikipedia defines leadership as: “The ability to affect human behavior so as to accomplish a mission” While the word leadership has a lot more meaning than this modest definition, leaders have the privilege of leading in manners that positively affect human behavior, in turn, inspiring others to believe in and want to accomplish the mission of the company.

Capital’s President emulates our message and mission in his day-to-day behavior and leadership behavior.  As a result my belief in this message is innate and find it second nature to do my best to fulfill that mission each day.  Inspirational leadership motivates me to carry out Capital’s mission to provide superior service through The Low-Stress Relocation Process™.  

GREAT COLLEAGUES

My colleagues inspire me to put my best foot forward each day. Capital continually strives to recruit and develop the right talent for the right positions.  We all have at least one thing in common and that is we were “built to serve” which connects each and every Capital employee.  That connection naturally drives us as a team to effectively accomplish the same mission.    

GUIDING CLIENTS

I am excited when clients ask for guidance in reviewing existing policies or to help them develop new policies for their recruitment “tool boxes”.   Companies are faced with ongoing recruiting and retention challenges in a competitive marketplace with notable talent shortages and creative relocation tactics are becoming an important recruiting tool.  I am motivated by the opportunity to partner with our clients and help them transform their relocation program into a strategic recruiting and retention advantage.  Our great clients motivate me to do my best.

 

 

Nicole Overholt

noverholt@caprelo.com
 

 

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What Hasn’t Changed

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
We started this blog in April 2007 with “The Real Estate Market and Relocation Management” and referenced the “housing slump.”  (Is slump the right word??)  What a change the last 17 months have brought to real estate, mortgage, and the credit markets (not to mention oil).  Real estate values and time on the market continue their negative trends, mortgage markets continue to take billion dollar write-offs and are becoming more and more difficult for consumers to deal with, and the credit market .. is “tight” the right word. While a lot of daily dynamics have changed and with it the way we live our lives, one thing has not changed .. good people make all the difference.

As I read our most recent blogs .. by Rick Bruce, Heisha Hudson, George Herriage, Terry Gothard, Jim Finch and Tamara Bianchi .. I am reminded that people who really care combined with seasoned experience, intelligence, and wisdom not only equals great client and transferee service but they make the days productive .. and best of all .. FUN.  I can’t wait to see what’s on the blogging minds of future contributors John Reeves, Joe Torres, Nicole Overholt, Barbara Miller, and Dave McPherson.  As a whole, I don’t think people say “thanks”  enough to those around them who add value.  So, not only to those who are and will blog on our site, but to ALL the people of Capital .. in Sterling VA, Bentonville, AR, Denver CO, Atlanta GA, Ft Lauderdale FL, Knoxville TN, Richmond VA, and Dallas, TX .. I take this opportunity to say a great big personal .. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO EVERYDAY, and especially thanks for “connecting all the dots” for our clients and transferees.

And to our clients – THANKS FOR LETTING US DO IT.

Follow up to item: If Two Minds Are Better Than One…

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Jim Finch knows real estate!

Friday, September 5th, 2008
As a newer member of Capital’s management team, and contributor to our recently expanded “Blog”, I wanted to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself. Presumably I’m doing this so that readers can quickly judge my many professional qualifications to blog – then I realized that one doesn’t need any qualifications to blog. However, I suspect that its greater usefulness is for you to determine if we have any common interests that might cause you to return after reading my blog post.

In any case, here goes.

 

My expertise would generally be described as being in “real estate”. Is that broad enough for you? I am a “generalist” as opposed to a “specialist” in that my real estate background includes time in various related fields.  These include: architecture, city planning, public administration, residential and commercial real estate brokerage and corporate relocation. I have worked in the public and private sectors, been an employee, employer, business owner, agent, broker and consultant.

I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up!

Although obviously quite diverse, there has been one common thread to all of this and that is “real estate”, in one form or another, from one perspective or another.   I always seems to come back to “real estate”.  As might be expected from such a significant number of differing involvements, I have been at this for a long, long time. As such, not only do I have the advantage of great wisdom acquired from old age (?), but a perspective formed over considerable time.  Hopefully, this gives me the opportunity to provide you with interesting, as well as valuable thoughts and insights. With that in mind, I will make considerable effort to make my posts interesting and valuable, and I would appreciate hearing from you, either way.
Given the current state of the real estate market, I envision a few initial blogs covering some of the basics about selling a home, including how to put your home in marketable condition; selecting and working with the best real estate company and agent; attracting potential buyer interest, etc. This  may sound too basic to be interesting, but the reality is that many of the difficulties that impact a corporate relocation program can be minimized if real estate matters are handled more professionally and objectively.


Let me hear from you with your thoughts and interests: jfinch@caprelo.com.

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