Work Force One – North

I think Workforce One is providing a service that Broward County desperately needs. The mortgage-​backed security crisis which hit America in 2008 has percipitated an employment crisis the likes of which this nation has not seen since The Great Depression. Many employers can no longer borrow money from banks and therefore the lay-​off of employees is inevitable because there is no longer any money to pay to keep them.
The way the entire world works seems to be going through a transition of sorts. As Seth Godin states in his best-​selling book, Linchpin, there used to be two groups — management and labor. But now, with the rise of the Internet and Social Media, a third group has emerged — what Godin refers to as «linchpins.» These are the people who have an artistic focus toward doing a job. That is to say, they seek to make things better not just acceptable. Linchpins see work as not just a job, but as «an opportunity to shine.»
However, who is taking the time to tell today’s job-​seeker to do the unconventional? Who tells him or her to take an artistic approach toward finding employment? Who encourages these folks to pursue a better future — not simply find work? Who is telling them to build relationships with other job-​seekers and mutually collaborate to help each other out? Answer: Work Force One.
I am particularly impressed with the bi-​weekly business networking meetings hosted by Bob Nealon. Here job seekers are no longer referred to as «unemployed,» but «salespeople in transition.» Having a different mindset toward who you are and what you can accomplish really does matter. At Nealon’s bi-​weekly meetings folks are actually encouraged to network with each other. No one is encouraged to be a «one-​man band» and «go it alone «in the search for a better future. Instead, folks are encouraged to help each other out. Indeed, the idea of campaigning for a specific job with a specific employer using letters of endorsement from fellow members of the PPN Group is not out of the question. If this campaigning approach for a better future for sales professionals in transition catches fire in Pompano Beach, I believe it will spread to other areas of South Florida and beyond.
Lamar Morgan