Thursday, October 28, 2010

Mickey BMX

Two members of the Space Coast BMX team took home first-place trophies at the Disney Cup Fall Nationals in Orlando. Caleb Jones, 8, and Kyle Hoffman, 15, each placed first in their age groups. Jones, a Meadowlane Primary student, took first in the novice category, beating a rider from Midland, Texas. Hoffman, a Central Middle School student, won the novice category in the 15 age group. Earlier this month, the Palm Bay track hosted a National Bicycle League Summer Series qualifier Oct. 15-16, bringing more than 300 BMX racers from around Florida. The Orlando event hosted professional athletes from across the country, including 2008 gold medalist Maris Strombergs as well as U.S. Olympic hopeful Josh Meyers.

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New Trophies

On the 50th anniversary of Thrall's first district championship in football, players from that historic team accepted fresh trophies and warm applause Friday night from an overflow home crowd. Arguably the best team in school history, the 1960 Class A Tigers outscored their opponents 304-30 while rolling through a 9-0 regular season. Trophies honoring that milestone season were secured in a glass case until a fire gutted the high school in 1969. The trophies remained a memory until Larry Johnson, the quarterback of the 1960 team, made a pitch to create new ones in time for Friday's ceremony at Tiger Stadium.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

11 year old has almost three hundred trophies

At 11 years old a dancing diva, who has nearly 300 trophies to her name, swept the board at an under-12s competition. Sydney McClaughlin took the victory in the solo freestyle, pairs and rock and roll sections held at Clifton's Dance Academy at Brigg Leisure Centre. Sydney, who attends Tara Fox School of Dance in Scotter, is currently the only under 12 champion and has been dancing since she was seven. It is amazing she has more trophies then most professional altheles will gather in a lifetime. Well is your kid has got talent, flaunt it!

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Racing For the Trophies

Cambrian Rally

Martyn Walby Ran hard for the trophies and won!

He was crowned the 2010 Hankook Tyres Welsh 2wd Champion at the end of the Cambrian Rally. One more trophy to add to his class B11 title. The Broadwell haulier, together with Paul Willetts, went into the event knowing he was in for a tremendous battle with three other drivers for the prestigious trophy.

The Cambrian attracted 150 crews to do battle in the North Wales forests of Clocaenog and Penmachno, but the Team GMF/BG Landrovers Escort never missed a beat all day, apart from a moment on Stage 3 and losing time with the low sun on the final two stages, to arrive back in Llandudno late on Saturday evening 59th, eighth in class.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

What Corporate Awards Are You Giving Out?

When you think about all of the different resources that your company has, which do you get the most value from? Is it from the machinery or is it from the people who work for you? In the end, the people are the ones who are most valuable and create the greatest value. This article will look at why corporate awards are so important to taking your business to the next level.

When you first start thinking about where your business is and where you want your business to grow, where do your employees fit within the picture? Your employees' productivity and contributions to the business will be what can take you to that next level. To increase the contributions your employees make to the business, it is important to create an environment which fosters happiness and where people want to come to work. This will boost employee morale and consequently your productivity as well.

Creating that environment can start with making sure people are happy. Part of what makes people happy is recognition for a job well done. This is where corporate awards can come into play. It gives you a chance to recognize employees for a job well-done. In the end, employee longevity and your rate of turnover often have less to do with the pay scale than employee perceptions of the workplace and whether they want to come to work in the morning.

You can use corporate awards in a variety of different situations to recognize your employees. You may decide to do an employee of the month and the winner receives a corporate award. This could be something that employees vote on so that more people are engaged and paying attention to the efforts that others make. Many people will become conscious of others' efforts and this may raise their level of performance as well. You could have an award for the "Contributor of the Year" for that person who has done the most to build your business for a particular year. You could have specific corporate awards for each particular department. These awards can be used because different departments may have different requirements for what a good job is. The same behaviors and actions that make a good accountant do not equal what it takes to be a good salesperson. You may want to recognize someone in each department consequently with a corporate award.

It comes down to developing your talent to a greater level and one of the best ways to do this is through motivating and developing your employees. In these times of financial struggle for both corporations and individuals, it is essential to find ways to keep and build that talent on your team. If you were able to make your employees happier and more productive simply by investing in corporate awards, would you not? This is much less expensive than having to hire new workers to do more work when your existing team can do it if they are happy and satisfied people.

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