| New employees: valuable from day 1 onwards
Brand: Introduce your new employees to your brand values and product or service features and promises. Do these focus on quality and tradition or rather on lifestyle and innovation? What does the customer expect from your products and services? Customers: Which reasons, benefits and values lead to the purchasing decision of our customers? These can be technical points or individual values. The new employee for example might discover: 'Many our customers are high-income people and value our exceptional quality a lot. They also appreciate our pragmatic and helpful solutions.' This way, your new employees get a better and more complete picture what is important and how to handle their tasks more effectively and more efficiently. This procedure provides them with more security and motivation.
Vases, pillows and other house warming accessories
The effect is almost like a transom, Pesce said, and it lets in more of the light we crave this time of year. Speaking of light, buy yourself some new candles, and burn them to bring warmth and shimmer to this season of darkness, said Donna Horst of Cynthia J. Hoffman Interior Design. The light of candles symbolizes promise, she said, so their impact is emotional as well as visual. And don't ignore the power of scent, Horst said. An aromatherapy diffuser might not add a lot to your decor, but it could lift your spirits as much as a new rug or lamp. 8. Make it personal. Another decorative element with emotional appeal is personal photos. Computers make it easy to print prized pictures in almost any size you want, so you can change your display on a whim.
Sammamish mountain-bike plan gets cash
After years of pushing for a mountain-bike "skills park" on the Sammamish Plateau, the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club got a $150,000 boost from King County to move forward with its plans, county officials announced Wednesday. The club signed an agreement to work with the county on developing the 120-acre project at Duthie Hill Park, a swath of second-growth conifers and deciduous trees that is underused, county officials say. The course will feature a cross-country loop, dirt jumps and downhill runs with drops, said Jon Kennedy, volunteer director of the Seattle-based trails club. The park is connected to King County's nearby Grand Ridge Park, which features a 6-mile mountain-bike trail. Design work on the course is scheduled to begin in February, with three public meetings planned for the spring.
Students intern for Southeast Como
With the help of an internship at the Southeast Como Improvement Association, Juetten said she is working on projects for the community while fulfilling a credit for her major. The University's urban studies program requires students to intern before graduating, said Paula Pentel, urban studies coordinator of undergraduate advising. "It's designed to help students curious about cities put together a degree program that meets their interest," she said. If a student doesn't like an internship, said Pentel, he or she can still learn from it. "They may learn through this that it does or doesn't fit for their own personal values and for their own skill sets," Pentel said. The SECIA has three interns this semester and has had consistent help from interns in the University's urban studies department since 2001, said James De Sota, Southeast Como neighborhood coordinator.
When It Comes to a Mate, Beauty Can't Be Beat
Eastwick's work is published in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, while Lee's finding were expected to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science. In the first study, Eastwick joined his co-author Eli J. Finkel, an assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University, to conduct 30-minute online surveys of 163 undergraduate students regarding their pre-dating preferences for an "ideal" romantic partner. With an average age of almost 20, the participants and their responses split by gender -- men placed an emphasis on looks, women on money. Approximately a week to two weeks later, all took part in a speed-dating event in which multiple four-minute "dates" occurred over the course of two hours. Over the following month, as speed-date meetings turned into subsequent dating, students continued to register their views on both ideal romance and the actual characteristics of their speed-date matches.
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