Dr Alan Zimmerman knows about building stronger relationships. His book, Brave Questions, is a summary of a methodology taught to him by Dr Sidney Simon of the University of Massachusetts. One example he uses in his book is the case of "Tom": an employee of a pharmaceutical company, who decided to try the 20-question technique on some of his co-workers with whom he felt out of touch. Zimmerman recommends that when you do begin exchanging questions, you set a list of guidelines: 1. Agree on a time and place to meet. 2. Commit to honesty. 3. Agree on rules of confidentiality. 4. Go in sequence. 5. Take your time responding. 6. Stop the discussion if it becomes unproductive. The techniques in Brave Questions allow friends, families, and colleagues to build better communication between one ...
Like a group of 6,000-pound building blocks, the 10-foot walls of a basement and garage went up for a home being built in a single day. It was the third, and so far the biggest, home-building project in the New River Valley to use the pre-cast building technique pioneered by Superior Walls Systems Ltd.
HENDERSON, Ky. - It was only a test. But the active shooter training exercise conducted Thursday by multiple emergency responder agencies at Henderson County High School was hauntingly reminiscent of the shooting rampage that occurred June 25 at Atlantis Plastics where six people died.
Earth Day can be celebrated in a variety of ways, but being passive is the celebration of choice for Brendan O'Neill Jr., vice president of O'Neill Development Corp. in Gaithersburg, and David Peabody of Peabody Architects in Alexandria. Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Peabody, along with a team of local subcontractors, are completing the first "passive house" in the Washington area. The passive-house program is a certification program and a design and construction technique that results in a building that uses between 75 percent and 95 percent less energy for heating and cooling than buildings that meet current U.S. codes.
I plan to build a modest house in the coming year and I've settled on rammed earth as the best method for my particular needs. Although it's become a bit trendy (and expensive!) in recent years, with the increasing fame of architects like Rick Joy and Eddie Jones, rammed earth remains a basic building technique - one that's been around at least since Pliny was spying on Hannibal. If it's good enough for the Great Wall of China, it's good enough for me. In order to make the process affordable, I'll have to do a fair portion of the work myself, so I decided to book the workshop-cum-labor-camp in Arizona. As much as I looked forward to learning about rammed earth, I was not happy, to be hurrying off to Arizona. Locavorism was on my mind as we readied this year's Devour (see page 19). I've ...
We are a nation of sandwich eaters, partly because they are convenient to eat on the run and they are always available at fast- food restaurants, convenience stores and deli counters. Sandwiches are so easy to prepare and pack in a lunch bag. Cool packs make it convenient to keep sandwiches safe for several hours. We often get stuck in a rut, though, and make the same sandwich every day. An article called "Build a Slimmer Sandwich" was published in the April 1 issue of Family Circle magazine. I really liked the recipe's four-step sandwich building technique. They call bread the winner, protein the power, veggies the mass produce, and the condiments top it off.
Decision makers feel top managers today can differentiate themselves by their willingness to take the extra steps to enhance their knowledge, sharpen their skills and perfect their technique. And, not surprisingly, education and relationship building go hand-in-hand: developing talent, creating synergy and adding value to everyone's bottom line. Technology today offers opportunities in many forms -- including facilitated and nonfacilitated online courses, webinars and podcasts. The advantages to online education include access to cutting-edge information, expert resources, convenient 24/7 timing, so you can "attend" when convenient. The most important advantage: managers who continue to educate themselves will always be in demand.
When important news affecting your organization breaks fast, you've got to get out in front of the story immediately. It's during a period of crisis that public relations professionals and company executives are under the spotlight. Sometimes the best way to connect with customers and the media is to quickly build a new Web site. The technique of building a new site to communicate in real time can be used in a variety of situations requiring your organization to deliver instant information to a large number of people. There is a lot of misinformation about who can use a .org Web address. In fact, a .org domain name is available to anyone, not just nonprofit organizations. When an element of trust is involved, perhaps a .org domain would work for your organization too.
MINSTER -- A buried treasure was uncovered in this one-time frontier village. In tearing off the 1950s shingle siding and Civil War-era clapboard on an abandoned house on North Main Street, Dave Hemmert found a structure out of medieval Germany.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Azavea (formerly Avencia), an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB grant, totaling $216,000, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop advanced crime risk forecasting capabilities within HunchLab, the firm's web-based geographic crime data analysis and early warning software system. HunchLab provides advanced crime mapping and automated notification to authorities about changes in the geographic patterns of crime incidents. The system is targeted at the law enforcement agencies and enables police officers to develop and evaluate hunches about geographic patterns in criminal activity in the communities they patrol. The Phase IIB award...
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