It is with great honor and humility that I present you all with an action plan in order to guide you into a successful career here at Riordan Manufacturing. In the past two weeks, each of you completed a series of self-assessments that identified your strengths, characteristics, and weaknesses. Those assessments, as I’m sure you all have probably figured out, were required in order to better assist each one of you individually to know yourself as a person and employee. We care about your future here at Riordan Manufacturing, and we want to provide you with the tools you need to become a team leader, manager, or even move yourself up all the way to corporate within our company. At Riordan Manufacturing, we are preparing for an exciting new segment of production to meet the needs of the expanding medical technology industry. The news that Cardiac Valve heart valves will be produced in our customs plastic-injection facility in Pontiac, Michigan was released a while ago. We look forward to developing a long-term relationship with the Cardiac brand. New teams will be formed to begin work on Cardiac production beginning next period. Many of our seasoned employees will be joining Cardiac production teams, and this production segment also marks a new phase of job creating and hiring. “We will maintain an innovative and team oriented working environment. By assuring that our employees are well informed and properly supported, we will provide a climate focused on the long term viability of our company,” (University of Phoenix Material, Virtual Organizations). Team building and training will begin immediately. To construct the teams effectively, we reviewed many team creation strategies. Bringing a fresh perspective to these teams is important because this marks our first involvement in the medical industry. We want this to be a reflection