Traci Carr, Fabian Corly and Leonard Miller (L – R)

Benjamin Enterprises strives to create opportunities for people to achieve their full potential through the experiences of skill development and mentorship. Benjamin Enterprises awards employees the ACE award based on their Accountability, Commitment, and Excellence. The ACE award’s primary focus is to reward exceptional employees for reaching work goals, achieving milestones or simply doing a good job as well as arousing motivation, sustaining retention and increasing the overall performance of Benjamin Enterprises. The recent ACE award was presented to Fabian Corly. Fabian was hired by Benjamin Enterprises in June of 2011 as an unarmed Security Guard.

Fabian was nominated on the premise of his flexibility, response, and availability for emergency situations while maintaining a 100% attendance record. Fabian’s commitment to Benjamin Enterprises and his career growth within the organization sets a leading example for other Benjamin Enterprises employees.

Michelle Benjamin – CEO of Benjamin Enterprises

As a solutions-driven company, Benjamin Enterprises can offer your business customized training to support your workforce development goals.

Many companies focus on gaining greater levels of performance from their employees without adequately addressing the preparedness of the employee to become accountable for quality results. Benjamin Enterprises’ on-line courses are now available to every employer to support your corporate productivity goals and objectives.

Our proprietary BeLearning course addresses the soft skills so often lacking in achieving employment results. These modules are part of a blended learning program, and can be combined with our mentorship program and classroom seminars to reinforce the newly acquired concepts.

Benjamin Enterprises has cultivated a large catalog of course choices designed to help employers to ensure that workers can maintain current certifications and remain successful on the job. You can choose from a large variety of Career Certificate courses or Instructor Led courses on a job-specific topic. Our customized, blended learning programs provide the option to combine one-on-one or group mentorship.

In today’s economy, businesses need a more efficient workforce.

Workers need to:

• Adapt to changes in equipment, procedures and technology
• Communicate clearly to customers and coworkers
• Understand the value of customers and customer satisfaction
• Provide an appropriate attitude and demeanor at work
• Be dependable and flexible with work schedules

How Will Training Improve Your Workplace?

Studies have shown that employees are happier at work when they know what is expected of them. Employees that are comfortable with their skills are more efficient.

This contentment leads to job retention and greater work output both of which will benefit your business.

How Will Training Benefit Your Customers?

Providing employees with training to develop their customer communication skills is a triple-win proposition for your company, your customer, and your employees.

Win # 1: Your company can maintain a steady stream of revenue when you have repeat business from satisfied customers.

Win # 2: Your customer is more satisfied when they experience intrinsic value through the use of your service.

Win # 3: Your employees are more apt to be satisfied when they are afforded sustainable employment.

Bottom Line: A satisfied customer leads to a satisfied company that can maintain employment for satisfied workers.

How Can Workforce Development Save You Money?

Hiring new staff is costly. Protect your investment by ensuring employees have the skills needed to do the job efficiently. Train your current staff to become more productive and efficient. Retaining productive staff will save your business time and money.

If you choose, Benjamin Enterprises can provide a full-service Managed Services Program. Experience a labor cost savings of up to 35% by allowing us to manage your clerical, administrative, help desk, security guard, and janitorial requirements.

Concentrate on your core functions and leave the rest to us.

Michelle Benjamin – CEO of Benjamin Enterprises

In keeping with our theme, Employers Need Excellence; Employees Need Skills, let us explore the many ways that a cleaning staff experienced in green techniques can improve your workplace.

What is BEGreenReady™ -Benjamin Enterprises has developed an exclusive green cleaning process that emphasizes the core green concept of “Reuse, Reclaim and Recycle”. We use a holistic approach to both cleaning and maintenance of a facility. Green Seal certified cleaning chemicals and high performance cleaning equipment can be purchased directly through our warehouse and delivered to your facility. Our cleaning methods and products are environmentally-friendly, preserving both the environment and human health.

How will BEGreenReady™ improve your workplace?

• We will help you lower the environmental impact or footprint of your business
• We will reduce cost
• We will improve air quality
• We will improve efficiency

How will BEGreenReady™ benefit your customers and employees?

• Customers will benefit from improved air quality and by knowing that your business cares about their health. Our customers are important to us and in these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to let them know how valuable they are to your business.
• Employees will benefit from increased productivity due to reduced exposure to toxic chemicals and improved air quality. Research show that employee retention is improved when the employee feels that the business cares for their health and personal needs.

How will BEGreenReady™ save you money?

• Benjamin Enterprises uses green cleaning products sold in concentrated form, and used for multiple cleaning tasks. Reusable cloths, mop heads and dusters eliminate the cost of paper products.
• Using your staff or ours, Benjamin Enterprises can train efficiency techniques to further reduce expenses, manage the cleaning of your facility and reduce your labor costs by up to 35%.

Allow Benjamin Enterprises’ expertise to improve your workplace environment.

Michelle Benjamin – CEO of Benjamin Enterprises

In keeping with last week’s theme, Employers Need Excellence; Employees Need Skills, Benjamin Enterprises provides recertification courses for employed security guards and certified security guard courses for potential employees.

Training for security guards was mandated by the Security Guard Act of 1992. The Act requires that all security guards complete three training courses. These courses include the 8-hr Pre-Assignment, 16-hr On-The Job, and 8-hr Annual Refresher. All courses must be conducted at approved training schools, by certified instructors. The Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Public Safety provides administrative oversight for private security training in New York State.

These steps were taken to regulate training schools through an approval process and ensure that security guards completing courses meet the minimum standards and skills required for the job. Private enterprises increasingly utilize security services as a supplement to traditional law enforcement to protect people and property.

The security industry provides:

• A specialized workforce to enforce the rules, regulations and procedures of employers and clients
• Control access and prevent trespass to an employer’s or client’s property
• Prevent loss of or damage to persons and property
• Represent the employer or client by providing guidance to authorized visitors and other employees
• Manage traffic flow and deter criminal activity on the employer’s or client’s property

Are your New York security guards registered with Albany, and are their certifications up to date?

Benjamin Enterprises offers the solutions both employers and employees need to succeed:

• Benjamin Enterprises, through its training partner – TrainEase International is licensed to provide the NYS-mandated Security Guard compliance classes.
• Our security guard classes can ensure your workforce is properly trained ensuring qualified staff and avoiding hefty NYS fines.
• Our Security Guard training program meets all New York State current requirements:
• Our instructors are Law Enforcement professionals certified by NYS to teach Security Guard courses.
• Our Training Institute has been approved by NYS to provide Security Training programs.
• Our curriculum is approved by NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services

Let Benjamin Enterprises put our training expertise to work for you. As your security guard training partner, we can train your guards, our perhaps, you will choose to use our guards to make your tenants, customers and employees feel safe and secure, 24-hours a day, seven days per week.

Our commitment to excellence extends to every employee. Our security personnel undergo a comprehensive pre-employment screening process, and are randomly tested throughout their tenures.

At Benjamin Enterprises, every job is approached with experience, executed with precision and completed with excellence.

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Michelle Benjamin – CEO of Benjamin Enterprises

As we enter into this New Year, Benjamin Enterprises is launching BE Learning Systems.

This new service will provide another opportunity for Benjamin Enterprises to provide quality solutions to our customers. Our trainings are geared to bridge the gap between employer needs and employee soft and job specific skills with the goal to create a more productive and sustainable workforce.

Our Philosophy is that success will come as a result of a company’s commitment to excellence on all levels, including their workers.

Our Goal is to deliver better solutions and service to our customer than our competition.

Our Vision is to provide customized job specific training, soft skill enhancement, including attitude and effective customer communication, to improve worker performance, productivity and customer satisfaction.

Our Value Proposition is to solve our customer’s challenges by providing creative, cost-effective training solutions to build skills, improve productivity and enhance employee retention.

Our Mentoring Program will provide job-specific guidance. Studies support the finding that adult learning yields the best results when it is received through a blended program – hands-on learning coupled with personal mentorship. The goal and objective of the mentoring program is to ensure skills retention and sustained work productivity levels among our trainees.

CEOs will tell you that the difference between business success and failure is in the quality of their employees. Our tagline, ”Hands that Work, Minds that Think”, is a principle so important to Benjamin Enterprises that it appears in our logo. This attests to our belief that employees, bolstered by customized business and training solutions, are keys to a business’s excellence and ultimate success.

Benjamin Enterprises has always been driven by the ability to evaluate our customers’ needs and to provide the solutions – through skilled employees – to meet them. Our skill in training and certifying employees in the areas of Facilities Maintenance, NYS Security & Patrol, Warehouse & Distribution management, National Safety Council Construction Flagging, and OSHA Safety Training & Compliance is unparalleled in the industry.

BE Learning Systems will expand this portfolio of instructional services to include a broad curriculum of courses in areas such as enhanced soft skills training, new hire orientations, core aptitude training, and remedial retraining, as well as, developing programs tailored specifically to their customers’ needs.

Particularly well-timed will be course offerings in Green Facilities Maintenance and Operations, a vital area already identified by BE Learning Systems as critical to a company’s future environmental “footprint.” Benjamin Enterprises’ executives have received and will continue to receive training and certification from the U.S. Green Building Council through NYSERDA and the Urban Green Council initiatives.

These courses and training programs will be delivered through a newly robust selection of interactive, online, classroom and onsite products. There will be online e-training and webinars, instructor-led classroom courses, and customized onsite programs.

Last but certainly not least, a confident workforce will deliver the best customer service. We believe that a workforce that has confidence in their skills increases their capacity to perform.

Benjamin Enterprises
Hands that work. Minds that Think.

Michelle Benjamin – CEO of Benjamin Enterprises

In this last post for 2011, I wanted to bring you the great news that we will be ever more relevant to our customers as we start 2012.

We will offer four primary services that build upon our core competency in Managed Services:

• Continued growth in Managed Labor Solutions, where we are the prime or sole contractor, fully responsible to the customer for the function(s) outsourced to us. Simply put, we do it, so that you don’t have to.
• Staffing Augmentation, particularly in our Government market, will expand. We will provide the qualified people to support customer-directed work.
• Our workforce training and development institute’s curriculum is expanding to offer coursework in vital new areas such as “green” facilities maintenance. With its new eLearning capabilities, it will extend its reach to companies and students in new markets. Geography is no longer a limitation.
• We are introducing consulting services. Using the broad experience of Benjamin Enterprises in markets such as Utilities and Logistics, our executive team has defined consultative programs in key practice areas including vendor performance management and supplier diversity.

As you can see from the schematic below, all four primary services interact with each other, and draw strength from our Managed Services core competency.

The holidays are upon us, so I want to take this opportunity as I close out 2011’s CEO Perspective to wish you a happy and safe holiday season, and a prosperous New Year.

Ashley Platt – Marketing Coordinator

As each year comes to an end we reflect on things accomplished and completed throughout the year. Considering the current economic climate of our country, we’ve made strategic investments in our corporate team, processes, and technology to begin 2012 with a well prepared and strategic approach to reach and exceed our future goals.

Benjamin Enterprises commitment to listening to our customers resulted in the development of eLearning programs that dramatically extend our traditional classroom-based training into the workspaces and homes of employers seeking better qualified talent, and allowing employees to improve themselves.

2011 was an internal growth year for Benjamin Enterprises, it will allow us to make a positive difference moving forward across our company, among our current clients, and future business endeavors.

Marijane has joined Benjamin Enterprises as the Training Director of Benjamin Learning Systems. As the Training Director, she will be developing programs to expand the training institute. The focus will be on providing customized training solutions, while advancing sustained employment with a dedication to continuous improvement and customer service excellence.

Marijane believes, “learning cannot only change your circumstances it will often change your perspective. It is always worth the effort to invest in yourself by continually learning new skills.”