These performance standards, the technical assessments that go with them, and the resulting reports can provide the tools your organization needs for a quality improvement cycle. They can also provide individuals within your organization with the opportunity to advance and improve their individual skill sets, thus improving overall productivity.

We can't talk about details, but we want you to know that we are doing some exciting work with one of our partners, the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC), in the area of green manufacturing. We are collaborating with MSSC and are hopeful that we will be presenting on that very topic at the Industry Week Best Plants Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 4-6, 2011. We also continue to work with the Home Builder's Institute (HBI), a foundation arm of the National Association of Homebuilder's (NAHB), regarding green building.

Internally, we continue to make The Whitener Group products and services more user-friendly. We have improved our corporate website, our blueprints http://www.whitenergroup.com/ProdSvcs-StandardAssessments.cfm and our Client Services Center (CSC). In the CSC you can access a variety of report formats, download archived testing reports and access a number of services available to our existing clients. Call Anne at 800-334-6283 ext. 232 and ask for a tour of those improvements.

We are skilled at legally defensible, psychometrically sound customized test development. If we can help in any way with your assessment needs, please don't hesitate to contact us. The Whitener Group strives to be an important partner in helping prepare the workforce of the future. On behalf of the entire Whitener Group staff, thank you for the good things you are doing to improve the country's economic future by improving the training of your employees.

John Foster
President/CEO
NOCTI and The Whitener Group