Happenings

Summer 2008: The Telein Group proudly celebrates its 20th Anniversary by signing a multi-year pact with national electricity utility company of South Africa.

The Telein Group, Inc., is excited to share with you the news of our recent signing of a three-year contract with the Phirwa (Jacob) Maroga, Chief Executive of Eskom Holdings Limited, Johannesburg, South Africa, the national electrical utility company of The Republic of South Africa. Eskom generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural and residential customers, and redistributors. Their core markets are South Africa, The Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the remainder of the African Continent.

The signing of this contract coincides with our 20th Year in business, and calls for us to work with Jacob and the Eskom leadership team to transform their leadership and business. We will provide advice and counsel, complemented by our copyrighted processes, tools, and educational workshops.

As we embark on this experience of a lifetime, we are filled with excitement about the enormous opportunity to add VALUE to South Africa's Visionary Leadership in its adolescent democracy, which has a Constitution that dares to guarantee more freedoms than ANY in the world, and whose preamble has a tenet that declares the requirement to improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person!! We believe this engagement is the opportunity to which our vision has led us, and for which our experience has prepared us!!!

January 2008: Telein invited a third year to co-teach seminal course
at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. 
Partners Joy Johnson & Greg Smith teach a course titled, “Choosing to Be Happy
through ‘Building a Considered and Consequential Life" at DePauw University.
Client Doug Smith, Chairman, Best Brands Corporation, developed the course
based on his work with Telein and his lifelong experiences and learnings about two
fundamentals of success: Purpose & Relationships. The course challenges, guides
and helps student gain insight about what does and does not lead to happiness.

Fall 2007: The Telein Group, Inc, names two new partners, Joy L. Johnson and D. Gregory Smith. 
Joy’s primary focus is increasing awareness of the Telein brand in the global
marketplace. She will lead the execution of brand strategy and e-marketing. Joy
honed her expertise in sales and customer service working for prestigious global
brands Pfizer, AT&T, Citibank and American Express. She received a Bachelor of
Science in Business Administration from Florida A&M University, School of Business
and Industry.

Greg has a dual role focusing on advisory services and commercialization of Telein services and products across traditional and interactive distribution channels. He envisions technology and the Internet as pivotal in leveraging the Telein global brand. Prior to joining Telein, Greg honed his expertise in operations, marketing, brand management, and financial forecasting at Unilever. He received an MBA from
Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics
from Middlebury College.

October 2007: Telein CEO, Joseph Johnson and client, Doug Smith, Chairman, Best Brands Corporation, conduct “The Happy Lawyer” Workshop at the annual Partner Retreat, sponsored by Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP. Joseph and Doug share the wisdom they have gained about living and leading with purpose to attain abundant, bottom line results.

April 2007: Telein invited to lead “Integrated Life” Interactive Workshop at the 9th Annual Work Life Symposium sponsored by the Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth College Medical School.
Today there are hundreds of forces pulling us in many directions – two careers, the internet, cell phones, Blackberries, travel, globalization, multiple languages, diversity, media, etc. The challenge is how to make sense out of it all? There has to be a way to have a successful career, be a loving responsible parent/spouse/friend, to be a positive force in the world community and all the while ensuring a healthy, fulfilled self.

Telein CEO, Joseph Johnson, and three clients share tips. Their answers may surprise
you, and will certainly get you thinking differently about the pathway to creating a life
of meaning. They believe LIFEWORK integration is the goal vs. balance which
requires making trade-offs. This is a must attend workshop if you are seeking to
create LIFEWORK meaning.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/news/releases/pr20070413_worklife.html

March 2007: Telein Presents: Working Together™ Seminar sponsored by
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Central Ohio Chapter.
The seminar is a learning experience in teaming. Team members from Ohio State University Medical Center and LLS Chapter learn techniques to collaborate with each other and the many stakeholders needed to find treatments and cure blood cancers. Counter to popular belief, teamwork makes the dream work. We guarantee an intense, interactive, learning, fun experience.

January 2007: Telein spends a month at DePauw University,Greencastle, IN.
In our continued quest to encourage the young & old to fulfill their purpose, Telein
teaches three seminars in collaboration with the University and client, Doug Smith, Chairman, Best Brands Corporation. First year student seminar titled, Effective Communication; Leading with Vision for Vice President of Student Services and department staff and Happiness Course for Winter Term students.
http://www.depauw.edu/univ/publications/album.asp?albumid=223

October 2006: Telein launches Working Together™ learning experience into
the global marketplace!  Working Together™, our three-day learning experience in effective communication and improved productivity, has its worldwide debut at the
Institute of People Management Convention in Sun City, South Africa, October 1-3,
2006.  Telein Partners Joseph Johnson, Don Hall and Raquel Brown are on hand to introduce this powerful module, which is the foundational piece in our learning series, “The Power of Integration – Igniting Passion in the Workplace.”

October 2006: Joseph Johnson featured speaker at Institute of People
Management Convention in Sun City, South Africa.  Our President, CEO, Joseph Johnson, will speak at the plenary session of the IPM’s 50th Anniversary Convention
on Monday October 2, 2006, on the topic of Getting The Best From Your Employees. 
The theme for this year’s convention is “Growth, Profitability & Competitiveness - 
Driving High Performance Through People.”  Telein is also providing a workshop
for conference participants titled, “The Basics of Spectacular Performance – What’s
LOVE Got To Do With It?”

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From Capitalism to Humanism, Reconnect Africa: Africa’s Online Careers, Business
and People Management Magazine
http://www.reconnectafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1044

“The organization that can capture the heart of its employees is going to be the
one that gets the best results”, said Joseph Johnson, CEO of US consultancy,
the Telein Group,Inc.  In a riveting presentation on ‘Getting the Best out of your
Employees.
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September 2006: The Telein Group, Inc. has a new look!  After nearly 20 years as
an enterprise, our thinking and principles have evolved, and now we’ve redesigned
our logo and tagline to better represent who and where we are today! The theme of
our new brand image is “Vision, Integration, Abundance” – the three concepts most fundamental to our beliefs about achieving spectacular individual and organizational results and value. Our new logo portrays water – the ultimate necessary, powerful, renewable resource that is common to all living things – and uses colors from nature
to explain our concepts. Vision, we say, is like the yellow sun illuminating our way. 
Green speaks of Integration, the bringing together of everything, in the way the
elements of nature work together harmoniously. And blue, we say, is a reminder of
abundance, as in the limitlessness of a clear blue sky.