Word: helping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lamest, most awkward ceremony since I got my last diploma, that I found out Skip Barber offers a free course at high schools called "Crashing Is a Bummer." It certainly would cover the bummer of crashing your girlfriend's parents' car. Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't help me with that part, but he did tell me Jerry Seinfeld, who took the course a couple of times, totaled two Formula Four cars. Feeling sorry, Seinfeld slapped a Skip Barber magnet on his TV show's refrigerator. It is in that spirit of reconciliation that I now mention Hope and Ken, my girlfriend...
...when they return to work. If an offsite is mandatory, organizers should let workers know what to expect. It has to be made clear that "this is not a game," says Drury's Zimmerer. "What we are trying to do is increase productivity and performance. We are trying to help you all become better at doing your jobs...
Team members from the rest of the kitchen converge around Oberdorfer to help finish the cookies. Before they started cooking, the group split into two- or three-person teams that would, to their surprise, switch places at the appetizer, entree and dessert stations. The job shuffle was designed to address their boss's desire for them to share tasks better. It wasn't always easy. The first shift had a communications crisis: "The recipe says broil, but the oven's on bake!" (The incoming veggie team hadn't been debriefed on a menu change...
Counselors provided guidance at each station, helping teams determine how to save time. But guidance was as limited a resource as time and ingredients; the group had help for only one hour to make their two-hour deadline. They had to husband their consulting time to meet the boss's goal of spending money more carefully...
Daniel Hubbard, director of corporate communications at Schwab, which is America's leading online broker, created the club for employees at his company's San Francisco headquarters. He believes adventure racing will develop personal and team skills. He also hopes it will help his workers get to know one another better or meet for the first time, and will promote loyalty to the company. About 10 members of the club, a continuing Schwab endeavor, will later represent Schwab in a race Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. It will include some 30 corporations, so the program may also be used...