2024 is over halfway gone. Hope your summer has been good and your fall is exactly what you want it to be. Personally, I love summertime, but fall is good as well, but put me on a planet with summer every day and I call that heaven. The leaves changing colors, the cooler weather (less work on that HVAC 😊), and the holidays (which I love), time to settle in and make some other priorities, such as some educational priorities. I have some plans for this fall/winter personally. IAWP has some plans as well. We are putting together a fall conference:

* October, 7th, from 10:30am to 4:00pm and

* October 8th, from 8am to Noon.

At the Salem Scottish Rite Center (4090 Commercial St SE Salem OR 97302). Be on the lookout for more information on that coming soon.

Try to make this fall something good for yourself. Choose something beneficial you’d like to accomplish and set yourself up to be able to accomplish whatever that goal is. You will feel sooooooo good if you do.

Besides the upcoming conference we have some plans to get the chapter more active and provide opportunities for our members who are interested in becoming more involved. If you’re interested in knowing what some of those things are, please don’t hesitate to reach out to anyone on the board and/or you can reach out to the chapter by emailing: info@iawporegon.org.

Feel free to get ahold of me directly and let’s chat.

Looking forward to the future,

Ron Sohnrey

President

IAWP Oregon Chapter

Check out this resource for Veterans created by Paul Messet, a WorkSource Oregon Employment Department DVOP/LVER located in our Bend WorkSource Center. This video is the 8th in a series of 13 videos designed to assist Veterans to become work-ready.

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[TCP08] sheds some light on informational interviews and job shadows, two practices used to help determine the best fit.

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From Copilot:

A study by KPMG has found that only 9% of companies are seeing significant revenues from AI implementations aligns with observations from other experts, highlighting the challenges many businesses face in fully leveraging AI. Here are some insights from other studies:

1. McKinsey: Their research indicates that while AI has the potential to increase global corporate profits by $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually, only a small percentage of companies are currently realizing this potential1. They emphasize that the full benefits of AI are often seen in companies with mature AI strategies and robust data infrastructures.
2. Boston Consulting Group (BCG): A survey by BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review found that although 90% of executives see AI as an opportunity, only 18% have tried to use AI to generate revenue2. This suggests a gap between recognizing AI’s potential and effectively implementing it to drive significant financial returns.
3. Deloitte: Their research suggests that while AI can significantly boost productivity and quality of work, the actual revenue uplift might be more substantial in the long term as companies continue to integrate AI more deeply into their operations3.

These studies collectively indicate that while the potential for AI to drive significant revenue is high, many companies are still in the early stages of realizing this potential. The key challenges include integrating AI into business strategies, developing the necessary infrastructure, and upskilling the workforce.

AI continues to be a technology that Business believe has great potential, but only a very few have a mature enough business strategy and infrastructure to benefit from it. AI is not unlike other technologies, in that they have great potential, but the cost of implementation and training outweigh the benefits for most companies for now. When you think of something as simple as Excel, which has a great deal of potential for expediting work (see what I can do with it for instance!) but it takes training and desire to learn the technology and teach the technology to do what you need it to do.

Currently, most people and businesses only use about 10% of the total current technological capabilities of their systems because they don’t understand all the capabilities or how to implement them to the procedures. This is true even of our home computers, smartphones and more. But the market (businesses and end users) is still no where near having the understanding, the training or the infrastructure to implement them, let alone consider the legal ramifications of allowing “smart Systems” to make decisions that impact health and wellbeing of humans.

I could spend hours talking about how to build policies and procedures, how to balance the cost of implementing and “teaching” the technology to do what is expected with the return on investment, especially as the market changes so rapidly today!

But CoPilot offers some links for further research for those enthusiasts of knowing more about new technologies.

When I was very young, I was awakened one night by the sound of dogs barking. I put on my boots and

walked towards the barn that housed the family dairy cow. I found our cow quivering as she stood surrounded by four snarling and lunging dogs. The dogs paid no attention to my yelling, so I ran back to the house and woke up my father who followed me back to the barn. Dad had grabbed a shotgun on the way out of the house, but did not need to fire it because the dogs ran in different directions when they saw him.

Dad and I talked to the cow, gave her some feed and walked back to the house. On the way back to the house dad said: “Well, she won’t give any milk for a while.” He was correct. No milk for my Wheaties for almost two weeks.

So why did the cow go dry just like dad predicted? The fact that the cow had been frightened to the point of terror did not provide a full enough answer. I had not thought much about the event until one day in a biochemistry class and a discussion about the manufacture of hormones in the body filled in the blanks from dog attack to no cow milk.

The reason is the hormones the cow’s body uses to produce milk are made from the same building block molecules that the cow’s suprarenal glands use to produce cortisol - another hormone that prepares her body for “fight or flight”. If the cow’s body uses up

those building blocks, aka precursors, to make cortisol in response to stress, her body’s hormonal mix is thrown into an imbalanced state. The precursors have been depleted and new ones need to be manufactured. Two weeks of calm grazing and sweet-talk from the dairyman gets the hormones back into balance.

OK, how does this affect you? It may not be dogs in a pack; it could be paperwork in a stack, or dirty dishes on a rack, that has got your body’s chemistry out of whack. Acute or chronic, a mild to moderate level of stress tears at the fabric of one’s being as does the major traumatic event. I tell this to my patients every year coinciding with April 15, if they tell me they are avoiding preparing for that event until the last minute.

After our cow was gone (she was killed by a falling tree in the Columbus Day Storm) we never had another on the place. Milk came from the grocery store and never tasted as good.

We enjoyed another successful IAWP Picnic at Sliver Falls on 08-17-24. Thank you to all that participated from, Waldport, Newberg, Salem and surrounding area’s. It was a beautiful day and we beat the storm. As we were leaving, big drops started and by the time I was on the main drag heading home, the road lit up from the lightning and listened to see how close the thunder was, as it poured the rest of the way home. It was amazing 😊 Hope to see you next year.

Thank you

Erika Motzko

That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain's metabolic requirements too.

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If you had $1 for every year the universe has existed (approximately 13.8 billion years), you wouldn’t even make the top 50 on the Forbes list.

Requires: An interest to contribute. Knowledge of English, spelling, grammar and punctuation, journalistic writing and editing procedures.

Duties: Write articles and features based on research and interviews; conceive ideas for content; arrange for content from other sources; and select and edit photos and artwork to benefit the educational and professional interests of Oregon Chapter IAWP members.

Pay: The gratitude and admiration of your fellow Oregon Chapter IAWP members and the joy of seeing your name in print.

How to Apply: Submit articles or express interest by e-mail to Steve Strain at Steven.D.Strain@employ.oregon.gov

VOLUME 51, ISSUE 3

Editor - Steve Strain, steven.d.strain@employ.oregon.gov

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:

Ron Sohnrey

Paul Messet

Malcolm G. Boswell

Mark Butterfield

Erika Motzko

Email: info@iawporegon.org

Website: http://iawporegon.org
Location: 2490 Fisher Rd NE, Salem, OR 97305