Superb Staff Services and empower Management Inc. form Strategic Alliance

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Superb Staff Services and empower Management
Form Strategic Alliance

December 11th, 2002, Victoria, BC Canada – Superb Staff Services of Victoria and empower Management are pleased to announce the formation of a Strategic Alliance. This strategic relationship will enable empower Management to offer Superb Staff's suite of human resource solutions. These effective online-delivered assessment tools round out the executive development mentoring, human resource and performance/productivity consulting services provided by empower Management.

Superb Staff Services is a key business partner for Profiles International, focused on providing innovative on-line assessment tools that measure a wide range of aptitudes, and includes personality profiling and job pattern matching to facilitate informed hiring decisions. Additional tools include, skills gap and team analysis to ensure balanced project staffing, and 360 leadership analysis for executive development. These services are proven to minimize staff turnover, minimize exposure to wrongful dismissal suits, encourage improved productivity and enhanced performance, and support ability and interest-centric career development.

Says Roger Harmston, president of empower Management, "We were looking for a solution to offer our clients that would deliver significant benefit with minimal investment. One of the main reasons we elected to work with Superb Staff is that we recognize the value of testing in the hiring process, as well as in the employee development process. Further, as these assessments are delivered on-line, there are virtually no barriers to implementing this process as part of an organization's human resource policy." Frank Towler, president of Superb Staff states, "empower Management is extremely well connected across a broad range of industries and types of organizations. They understand relationship marketing. Further, they are comprised of a strong team focused on the process of optimizing human collateral in an organization to maximum benefit. These solutions fit with that focus."

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ABOUT EMPOWER MANAGEMENT INC.
empower Management Inc. is a leading business and mentoring services organization, whose core competencies are business transformation, business redevelopment, business process development, risk management, and due diligence. These professional business services coupled with branding and aggressive corporate growth strategies, are leveraged extensively to enable client organizations to address complex business problems and overcome issues that impact success. Headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, empower Management serves a local, national and international client base and offers more than 150 years of collective business and management experience in its professional business advisers. Visit empower Management at http://www.empower-inc.com .

A new wave of innovation - in business, in management, in process.

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ABOUT SUPER STAFF SERVICES
Superb Staff Services is a strategic business partner for Profiles International, serving the Pacific Northwest with innovative, proven assessment instruments that predict the performance and behavior of employees and employee candidates. These cost-effective professional development tools support effective human resource decision-making -- for hiring, skills gap analysis, career development, motivation and superior team building. Superb Staff is based in Victoria, British Columbia and supported across the Pacific Northwest by independent agents and resellers specializing in providing human resource solutions.

SUPERB STAFF SERVICES PROVIDES ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS TO PREDICT
THE PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIOR OF EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEE CANDIDATES.

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