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Vaccine

Yesterday, GlobeSt.com reported that the SelectLeaders Job Network, which includes most of the major associations and organizations that serve the real estate industry, introduced a powerful leadership assessment tool that will provide "change vaccine" for real estate professionals. The vaccine is an evaluation of an individual's decision-making styles, thinking styles, and leadership characteristics. The assessment report provides a road map for understanding what makes you tick, how to leverage your strengths, and guard against weaknesses that can undermine one's ability to succeed in an organization. This tool was developed by Korn/Ferry International and is based on the company's Lominger Leadership Architect Suite. I bring this to your attention because I observe every day that professionals often do not achieve their full potential, or even worse, fail due to issues other than technical job performance. It's the "soft" stuff that often makes or breaks one's success within an organization. I strongly recommend that you visit the SelectLeaders Job Network and get a shot of vaccine. It will help to prevent a bad bout of career flu.

Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn/Ferry International's Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.

JAIR LYNCH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
Chief Financial Officer
(WASHINGTON, DC) The chief financial officer will lead accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, job costing, investor relationships and partnership compliance. Specific duties include developing processes and policies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial function; advising on the impact of long range planning, introduction of new programs/strategies and regulatory action; working across functions to support project specific financing, including the utilization of low income housing tax credits; and developing forecasting, trend analysis, and annual budgets to proactively manage the overall business and achieve value objectives.

THE HUNTENSKY GROUP
Senior Retail Property Manager
(HARTFORD, CT) The senior retail property manager will direct and manage the physical, operational and financial aspects of a portfolio of real estate investments to enhance their asset value on behalf of a client/owner and for the benefit of tenants, consumers, and the community. This position will be responsible to provide sophisticated technical and management direction to tenants, contractors, and other employees to meet the requirements of the owner's approved budget and schedule.

SELECTLEADERS
Manager of Engineering
(NEW YORK CITY) Our client, the Empire State Building, is the most prominent landmark property in the United States. Reporting to the director of operations, the manager of engineering will be responsible for all maintenance operations and supervision of 30+ union skilled persons in the engineering, plumbing, carpentry, painting, and electrical fields. Ten years of high rise operating experience, five years which will have been in a management role required. Previous management of at least 800,000 square feet of high-rise space is necessary, preferably in a pre-war building also required.