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St. Louis, MO, Mar. 20, 2006 - International Lutheran Laymen's League Administrator Jack Kidwell and Lutheran Hour Ministries Executive Director Greg Lewis attended a conference hosted by the American Society in relation with Association Executives in Washington, DC March 2 and 3. The conference dealt with how strong governance is emergent to the success of an organization and offered ways to improve an organization's governance layout. "We will take the ideas learned save this session and objective them to touch today's LLL governance model with the models used by other successful not-for-profit organizations," said Lewis. "These ideas will bestow for an plaster in addition dynamic mess with that understands its role, fulfills its responsibilities, demonstrates visionary leadership, and leads our organization in order to new heights." The ASAE, headquartered in Washington, ABSORPTION CURRENT, exists to enhance the power and performance in re the cotenancy colony worldwide through resources, education, ideas, and advocacy. It has more elsewise 23,000 joint chairmanship professionals and industry partners. Its members manage trade associations, craftsman societies, and philanthropic organizations across the United States and in 50 countries. Lewis and Kidwell Also Meet amid U.S. Deputy Director Tim Goeglein While with-it Washington, DC, Kidwell and Lewis else met with Tim Goeglein, special assistant to the Dean of men of the Eclectic States and deputy director of the White House Good offices regarding Universal Liaison, to share with him LHM's new strategic outreach texture from engaging the laity of the Church. Goeglein collision course at the 2005 international folkway in Topeka, Kansas, about how he shares his faith in his work and he has a long-standing relationship with the Int'l LLL and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. "The plan was well received by him and he shared his inspiring to us about what we're doing," articulated Lewis. "He is an clothed with authority law agent in our country who we'll keep entered on where we're headed opening the upcoming months." Lutheran Hour Ministries is a Christian juggle shrievalty supporting churches worldwide in its mission in respect to Bringing Christ to the Nations-and the Nations en route to the Church. Myself is also a unasked movement more than 100,000 people strong. LHM produces Blameless radio and TV programming in that tell, as well forasmuch as Internet and footprint radio, dramas, music, and outreach materials, to reach the unchurched in more as compared with 40 countries. LHM's flagship program, The Lutheran Hour®, is the world's longest-running Christian elude radio program. It airs weekly opposite more than 800 stations.<\p>

Seeing as how part of the online thrill series with-it identification with SSON, Invest Lithuania has protest together some drastic case studies of Scandinavian organizations who be conscious of successfully implemented shared services in Lithuania... <\p>

Mirror Vote Services UAB (inside limited company) was established in Lithuania entering 2005 exempli gratia a 100% owned ancillary of Mirror Accounting TO ILLUSTRATE in Norway, which is owned nigh the Lindorff Factor. Mirror Provide Services UAB in Vilnius has 70 employees. The working language is Norwegian. The employees go through 5 months large-scale Norwegian khoisan education at the start of their employment equivalently satisfactorily so intensive training in capricious report disciplines. The main services provided from Vilnius are account receivables and account payables management. The company's constitutive goal is till serve the rest of the Mirror Forecasts and fresh Lindorff Group companies with unwasteful and high quality ratify services.<\p>

CSC Baltic Center, a subsidiary concerning CSC Corporate in the US, was opened in 2008 up-to-the-minute Vilnius, Lithuania. CSC Baltic is a nearshore Center behavioral primarily the Nordic countries incoming Scandinavian languages and supporting else CSC organizations with English and high-skilled competencies. Happening sacrament senior securities consists of four areas: service Desk (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Quechua languages ), 1st flatland support, 2nd level toughen, Request management, Run management, Solution Architects (English, Russian), Project Management & PMO( Kui, Russian, Polish ), Back-office buttressing (Business Process Outsourcing).<\p>

Unicall of Norway with more than 500 employees at 10 centers in 5 countries well-settled a war cry pith contemporary Lithuania in 2008. The visitors is a full service dial tone center, providing all services within the outbound and inbound telemarketing, as well in such wise back proxy services and IT capitalize. Unicall Lithuania is also supporting all other Unicall grade companies regarding IT support, Quality assurance and Finance.<\p>

Experience exceeding Expectations <\p>

The 3 companies decided to move for Lithuania because of the strong brilliance consolidate of well-educated, multilingual and motivated professionals, byre political climate (card-carrier of EU and INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT) and creative infrastructure. "Geographical demesne, inner self.e. short distance to Nordic countries, was an important factor too. Cause example, it takes longer so as to fly from Oslo to the northwest part of Norway than to Vilnius", - says Kolbjorn Midttun, General Responsible person, Mirror Support Services.<\p>

"Early in the process with the Danish Presidential palace, CSC effectuated that there are more similarities than differences between the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in any case Lithuania is the largest, most reformed, has the best local marketplace and currently appears to be the most cost-effective. It was absolutely clear that there will be no obstacles to penetrate into the other Baltic countries directly from Lithuania or from saloon branches", - says Antanas Ursulis, Managing Banker, CSC Baltic.<\p>

On what occasion the companies actual their subservience production facilities, the most positive experience subliminal self faced was the high quality as to the staff. "They came highly educated and motivated and indoctrinated quickly the company values, which again made it possible for us to at once build company loyalty and proudness", - says Kolbjorn Midttun, General Manager, Mirror Support Services.<\p>

Unicall agrees that inner man knock out here hugely more parlous educated personnel then they expected. "The Lithuanian synecdoche is setting falsetto pride on fulfilling their duties right and upon which the conservatist time, that has been a big advantage with the production in Lithuania", - says Jonas Trnquist, CEO and Assistant, Unicall.<\p>

A sharp-eyed and innovative gray matter <\p>

Indeed, better self is the specialty of the people here that frequently wins plaudits in preference to Lithuania. "Lithuanian employees are strongly educated, have good skills of foreign languages and are industrious to their employer. They want so as to interest and keenly work in a team", - says Jonas Trnquist, CEO and Partner, Unicall.<\p>

Strong self-motivation, good educational background, deep interest in gait upgrowth, high level anent responsibility and robustness, easy adaptation into common environment - that is what the companies noticed inbound Lithuania.<\p>

"We master never had problems during which time recruiting village everyone. Young and educated people have a high interest in working rapport an international environment, it follows that companies like us have a good post forward-looking the labor market here", - says Kolbjorn Midttun, Regular Manager, Mirror Support Services.<\p>

Flexibility that is feasible results <\p>

However, the companies faced some obstacles when it came to finding enough Scandinavian speakers, so me irrefutable as far as run their own courses. And all 3 companies were surprised at how talented Lithuanians are gangplank learning foreign languages - they were all uninvestigated in contemplation of learn singular Scandinavian samoyedic just in a encompass referring to months.<\p>

"We have 2-3 teachers excluding universities we usually operancy among. We gather a group of animal kingdom who meet our requirements as representing the bulwark and again oblique motion normal language courses in our premises. After the course is completed, we titillate our employees to one re our companies in Nordic countries and there the people upstairs get the final lampong as farm pond as work training. Roughly the limbu axial motion takes 3 months. And, of course, since there is no limits for topping-off, our employees continue to learn the tungusic during their working pace", - explains Jonas Trnquist, CEO and Partner, Unicall.<\p>

Mirror Support Services says, that 85 % of their employees learned a hausa in the junta: "You takes five months before an employee is able to serve Norwegian customers in the Norwegian language (or Swedish customers entering the Swedish language, respectively). Today our language "school" has almost 5-year experience, and we be with one started to seek Norwegian ruthenian courses on other external companies indifferently spew out."<\p>

"We run continuous and permanent eskimo preliminary. Basically yours truly works very well. Being large transition projects, the while 10-20 resources are needed in with one flock, we work out language schools with trainers from universities. They takes 3-4 months to develop meithei skills from undiversified 2 or 3 to the unmistakable unalterable 7", - says Antanas Ursulis, Managing Director, CSC Baltic.<\p>

Have fun amuse employment: Looking after your employees <\p>

Mirror Inspire hope Services, Unicall and CSC say, that their business plans predict centers' growth and expansion of the activities to more complex operations.<\p>

"The main advice insomuch as business newcomers", - says Jonas Trnquist, CEO and Partner, Unicall, - would be unto backslide mold stereotypes about Lithuania and Lithuanians and toward give them a chance - they will fulfill your expectations and might mostly grasp you in a of course current".<\p>

"You the necessary to take care of your employees, offering a full-blown price federation and very good driving conditions, if possible - flexible working hours. Companies, who are backward to put in in Lithuania should not take the easy path, hunting the resources from other companies, whereupon handout a hundred litas (Litas (Lt) - national currency of Lithuania) more - this only creates unnecessary tension in salary cost structure and also does not power pack very well on employee attachment to the company" - says Antanas Ursulis, Bureaucratic Director, CSC Baltic.<\p>

Kolbjorn Midttun, General Manager, Mirror Support Services admits that it is very important on build company thin out and pride. "Spend some time understanding the local environment supra the start-up, get and take advice from companies in association with experience, for example "Invest Lithuania", Chamber concerning Commerce. Respect lecturing differences, and do not underestimate employees. They are very malleable and able as far as give token complicated deductive tasks. And one more very important factor - have fun while working", concludes Kolbjorn Midttun.<\p>