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Show SBpennaket holds Olympics By JOYCE WINTERS KAYSVILLE - Dick Bowman, owner of Bowman's Market believes be-lieves in his employees and looks at them as a team and family. He also believes in rewarding outstanding efforts. The store had an "Olympic Contest" recently that was inspired in-spired by two employees, Vaughn Gardiner and Bret Nybo. The winners win-ners of the contest received Dick's thanks along with cash awards and future bonuses. The contest has left the employees with a greater desire to work as a team and family in order to give the best service possible to the customers. With the goal "improvement -an on-going process," the employees em-ployees divided up into teams to work for five weeks on five different diffe-rent categories, adding a new goal each week, while keeping the previous pre-vious one in mind, thus habits would be built hoping to become a permanent part of that employee's ' behavior. The five categories were department depart-ment improvement, decor and appearance of the store and employee, em-ployee, production and effectiveness, effective-ness, customer service and appreciation appre-ciation and sales and in-store de monstrations. Along with these, items that were worked on, the employees em-ployees had the opportunity to complete a survey, and submit ideas on how to improve their departments. de-partments. This recent contest was met by . enthusiasm as the teams pulled together. There were 18 captains over the 60 employees, who had a judging sheet on each team member. mem-ber. It was based on dress standards, stan-dards, prompt breaks, initiative, puctuality and positive attitude. The individual winners were Karyn Win ward, the gold medal and $50 cash award; Darin Watts,' MEMBERS OF THE Olympic Team are, from left, Marjie Davis, Kevin Myers, Eric Smith, Ryan B rough, captain Vaughn Gardiner, and owner Dick Bowman. Photos by Joyce Winters. silver medal and $30 cash award; Marjie Davis, the bronze medal and $20 cash award. The teams were judged by retired re-tired meat department head Alma Park, Wally Green, retired store manager. Rich Christensen. store manager and Dick Bowman, owner. The team of Vaughn Gardiner won with team members Marjie Davis, Kevin Myers. Eric Smith and Ryan Brough. ' ' wr" wmrt fm 1 11 OLYMPIC WINNERS AT Bowman's were, left to right, Marjie Davis, bronze; Darin Watts, silver; and Karyn Win ward, gold. Shown is Dick Bowman at right. |
