Customer loyalty starts with company culture


  • June 15, 2016
  • /   Rachael Gillette
  • /   training-development
Loyalty is not for sale with gimmicks or promotions. Customer service begins inside the organization and starts with the culture of the company.

Kindergarten readiness depends on a child's first 1,000 days


  • June 14, 2016
  • /   Reggie Dogan
  • /   education
A growing body of research shows that success in kindergarten and primary school depends greatly on good nutrition fueling cognitive development during a child’s first 1,000 days.

Make meetings count: prepare, communicate, rate


  • June 13, 2016
  • /   Quint Studer
  • /   training-development,quint-studer
Standardizing meeting protocols and leadership training are important to making sure meetings are clear, productive and efficient.

The hard truth about


  • June 13, 2016
  • /   Brandy Allport, CREO
  • /   training-development
Communication, team building and problem solving are vital for students to take from an academic setting into the workplace.

Shannon's Window: The power of play to build brains


  • June 10, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
How to avoid the Big Slowdown: Trading the movement and unstructured play-based learning of preschool for alot more sitting still and worksheets in kindergarten.

How benefits have grown as cost of doing business


  • June 10, 2016
  • /   Phyllis Pooley
  • /   economy
UWF's Phyllis Pooley writes about how the rising cost of fringe benefits, such as health care, and how that affects wages and employment.

Palafox Historic District makes National Register of Historic Places


  • June 10, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
University of West Florida public history alumna Cynthia Catellier's efforts to earn designation for Palafox district pay off with prestigious listing

What “economic development” really includes


  • June 10, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
In his weekly economic report with WUWF radio, Dr. Rick Harper talks about measures of quality of life that now fall under the idea of

FSA reading, math scores released


  • June 10, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
Florida education officials released school-level data for reading and math scores on the 2016 Florida Standards Assessment test. How did your school fare?

Small businesses get a shoutout


  • June 8, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development
As the Florida Small Business Development Network marks 40 years of supporting small businesses, the Studer Community Institute offers training in customer service to help those businesses grow and thrive.