Today companies when hiring staff, not only comply with select professionals who know how to do a particular job or have a specific academic or technical knowledge. Many companies are concerned in hiring professionals who meet a certain type of skills or qualities. And every job requires a series of competences. Each company has its own list of competencies and evaluation of behaviors that are associated with each of the competencies. Similarly competencies vary if the company seeks so-called candidates to occupy a first job (learning ability, flexibility to adapt to changes, teamwork, empathy) or if you intend to fill positions requiring experience (initiative, decision-making capacity and management of team work, creativity, leadership, control of emotions). There are many and varied methodologies to analyze and measure the competencies of the candidates to occupy a place of work or to promote internally to employees of a company. These systems of measurement and evaluation are looking for accurate information about the competencies required for the position.

There is, however, the possibility that companies are aware of competencies and natural abilities of your candidates or employees through the interaction of these with horses. Using horses, which, through a series of specific exercises and tests that do not require riding animal, facilitate, direct and immediate responses to sincere and true about how we are and how we relate, communicate and generate confidence in others. Horses don’t judge, simply react naturally and honest, and put to the test our powers of leadership, coherence, empathy, security and clarity of intention. With this methodology, the company, with the responses of the horses, it can detect and uncover, among its employees, leaders so far were occupying posts without any responsibility and that, with proper training and preparation, they are called to exercise leadership effective. Similarly, there is a danger to control of the company in evidence that they don’t get an adequate by the horses response (of leadership), but that, pursuant to a plan of action to make it work those competencies needing improvement, can exercise a true and effective leadership. We can conclude that this tool can be a complement to traditional assessment systems that accelerate and define more precisely the skills of prospective employees or those in process of internal promotion.

Before information that realizes the communication campaign to level country that will implement HidroAysen with the objective course show citizens in what is the largest hydroelectric project which is planned to be constructed in Chile, the sustainable Chile, Sara Larrain, Program Director expressed that it is good that the company is willing to reopen the debate at national level as regards a mega impact project country, which we know that we are going to win, because we have seen them removed on several occasions of public debates organized by universities and houses of study, where he finished the Council of defence of Patagonia single, exposing the projects and their impacts. As reported by the national press, the advertising campaign would be released at the same time the company to respond more than 3 thousand observations received its environmental impact study. On this, the rather indicated that so far resources by Endesa and Colbun to materialise five dams on the Baker and Pascua, rivers in Patagonia Chilean, they have resulted in a terrible environmental impact study with thousands of observations of public services and more than 11 thousand observations citizen, despite which the company continues to invest in millions of dollars consulting technical and communicational, however, Chileans already have a position on HidroAysen. His words are endorsed by the latest IPSOS (April 2009) survey which found that 57.6% of Chileans is not agree with dam Chilean Patagonia. Sara Larrain took the opportunity to address the issue of collusion of big business with politics, to remember that the sociologist Eugenio Tironi is strategic advisor of the candidacy of Eduardo Frei and now your company (Tironi and Associates) joins the communicational campaign of HidroAysen, alongside Prolam Young & Rubicam and Burson Marsteller. Larrain even recalled that the Executive also is director of the Group Enersis, which controls Endesa HidroAysen..

For Luis Valdivieso, the day of Monday not could have been better: assumed as the new Minister of economy of Peru on the same day in which Standard and Poors granted investment-grade rating to his country. The task of the Latin American Finance Ministers, usually isn’t simple. But in the case of the Peruvian economy, that it is marching in the right direction, the only thing you need to do is stay on course and avoid that different factors that threaten to divert it, achieve it. Already with his Orthodox profile, the new Minister of economy ensuring the continuity of economic policies that come forward being in Peru. In particular, the sustainability of fiscal austerity is key at a time where inflationary pressures have increased in a context in which monetary policy is ineffective.

But returning to the subject of Peru investment grade rating, what drew S & P to improve the note at a time when global markets are so agitated and may negatively impact on the Peruvian economy? Sebastian Briozzo, analyst for S & P credit, in a statement said: the improvement is supported by the significant drop in the fiscal and external vulnerabilities of Peru, in the context of diversification of the sources of growth with low inflation and strengthening of the macroeconomic fundamentals. For Fritz Dubois of the Peruvian Institute of economy and former adviser to the Ministry of the economy: despite a difficult international context, Peru is doing very well. He has had an excellent fiscal position and does not need that markets are open to finance. The Peruvian economy will easily grow by 8% this year. The wide access that has Peru to international markets in the current global economic context, is reflected in the fact that recently, he issued bonds with deadlines of 30 and 40 years (the 30-year bond issued it at fixed rate).