It's been over six months since our last issue of Executive Express.  So, to recap, you're receiving this because you signed up on our website, or we've had prior communication in the past.  We've also switched to another e-mail service provider and have a whole new look, so you may not immediately recognise us. 

Last newsletter we offered the chance to win a rather good bottle of wine - a 2001 Grange, in fact.  And the winner is... nobody!  We didn't have a single valid entry, so we've put the bottle to one side.  Apparently many of our corporate clients have strict rules about entering such competitions.  So back to the drawing board.

Meanwhile, we'll listen to any suggestions on how the bottle of Grange might best be used. Contact us with your ideas.

Nothing succeeds like success - so it was a tremendous pleasure to see an ASVP Group client company  - MailGuard Pty Ltd - break into the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 at the end of 2006.  ASVP first started working with MailGuard in 2003, developing strategic priorities, a corporate Balanced Scorecard, and a long-range strategic business plan, and have been instrumental in helping MailGuard focus on what worked well, and to eliminate projects that were "The Opposite of Strategic"^TM

The success is reciprocal.  ASVP uses MailGuard managed information security solutions to eliminate spam and viruses on the web, before it ever reaches our servers.  Click for more info about MailGuard. Or click to e-mail MailGuard to ask about the special offer for ASVP Group clients.

Very soon, we will be announcing a powerful new psychometric tool we will be offering our clients for:

• Pre-employment evaluation of candidates
• Interviewing 
• Performance Development Coaching

Unlike other so-called personality profiles, this tool will provide a repeatable, statistically valid measure of a recruitment candidate or team-member's integrity, values, self-management, assertiveness, focus, relationship management, networking and much, much more. So stay tuned - we shall be launching this product in early September.

ASVP Group is delighted to announce that Chris Blackman has been admitted as a member of the Institute of Management Consultants.

The IMC represents and promotes the management consulting profession, maintains standards, and develops members. 

Membership allows ASVP Group to access IMC facilities and services, and requires ASVP Group to comply with the highest professional standards under the IMC Code of Ethics.

Further proof of the high standards you have come to expect from Chris Blackman, and from ASVP Group.

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