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Meet Jenny Watters!

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Jenny Watters

Jenny has been a member of the SPACE team for four years now. She worked part-time as an intern for two years and became a full-time contract Interior Designer two years ago. Jenny is a jack-of-all-trades. A few of her talents include furniture specifier, “Jello,” random knowledge giver, techy-techerson, and making up acronyms. Her biggest and most challenging project has been the SPACE showroom! Jenny says, “It will be the death of me!” It has been great working with different trades to see a renovation project from start to finish.

Jenny’s hobbies include sewing, photography, hiking, the mountains, camping, golf, and spending time with her nephew. Jenny recently participated in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Saginaw with team “Rack ‘n Roll”.

If Jenny won the lotto, she would do some traveling and turn more of her attention to “Quilted Watters”–her online custom quilt and bag company. She would also set up trust funds for her nephew and the new baby nephew that is on the way!

Thank you, Jenny!

We’re glad you’re a member of the SPACE family and appreciate all you do!

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Meet John Dybas

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John has been with SPACE for five years and eight months. His current role with the company is as Director of Operations. He attends meetings with clients and fellow employees to facilitate communication and ensure that high quality customer service is delivered. John provides support for his team and tries to coach the team to achieve flawless execution in “all that we do.” John views his biggest accomplishment with SPACE as being invited onto the leadership team.

John has two children. His son Zach has joined the SPACE team as a warehouse assistant. John enjoys the outdoors, particularly during the fall and spring. Camping is one of his favorite things to do, especially rustic camping.

If graced with winning the lotto, John would like to set up his entire family financially so that they could do what they enjoy doing instead of just what they need to do.

Thank you, John!

We’re glad you’re a member of the SPACE family and appreciate all you do!

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Meet Jessie Donahue

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Jessie has been with SPACE for nine years as an Interior Designer. About a year and a half ago, she moved to the Washington, D.C. area and took on the role of Account Manager where she supports our DHHS accounts. Her primary clients include ONC, ASPR, NIH, FDA, and OIG.

Jessie feels her most challenging and rewarding projects have been the Loons Stadium, the Oklahoma City Indian Health Services, and the ASPR-PP2 move. The Loons Stadium was a great success. SPACE allowed Jessie to run with the client and she was able to provide solutions that they loved. Oklahoma City IHS required very intense programming and was the largest project on which she has worked. The ASPR-PP2 move was a rewarding project as she acted as both Interior Designer and Account Manager on the project. This was a $1.7M project with virtually no CSOs.

Number one in Jessie’s life is her family. The light of her life and the one around whom her world revolves is son Gage, age three. Her husband, Mike, is a stay-at-home dad and she wouldn’t change that for the world. If she can’t be home with him, she’s happy that Mike can be. Jessie and Mike have been married for 11 years and love living in D.C. In her spare time she loves reading fiction mystery novels, making pottery and being a mom.

If Jessie won the lotto, she would have a litter of children and spend every moment enjoying and teaching them. She would give herself the attention she so desperately needs and build her marriage with the help of a nanny…to help with the litter of kids, of course.

Thank you, Jessie!

We’re glad you’re a member of the SPACE family and appreciate all you do!

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SPACE Inc Installers

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The Installation group here at SPACE inc continues to grow within themselves. Each member is now willing and able to handle daily deliveries as well as lead large installs. They all now have the ability to manage a large crew that can consist of our own crew as well as 2 other preferred crews. Managing 1 crew is a job in it self, but the ability to manage a crew consisting of 3 separate crews, brings on a larger challenge. I am glad to say our Installation team has stepped up to that challenge. We now have a greater ability to handle all of our clients needs and the ability to handle multiple clients simultaneously.

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Favorite motivational Quotes

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In today’s times of selling office furniture, in a tough economy, it is sometimes hard to get yourself motivated.  SPACE Inc has always believed in making the client’s needs come first.  Having a core value like this has made weathering a tough economy a little easier especially when so many companies have closed their doors.  We are fortunate to be a preferred dealer for Haworth and have a GSA contract and a Blanket Purchase agreements with the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of NAVY in these tough economic times.   Even though SPACE Inc has been taking care of customer’s needs as if they were their own, several of our clients too, have gone out of business.  How does a sales force stay motivated when they see several of their clients are no  longer in business, even when things are looking better for the coming year? 

I was looking for motivational literature for my sales meetings when I came across several great quotes on the internet.  I am going to share a couple of the one’s I thought were great.  If anyone has others they would like to add, I would like to hear them, so please respond back to this blog.

“People often ask me if I know the secrets of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true.  My answer is, you do it by working!” – Walt Disney

“The way to get started is quit talking and begin doing!” – Walt Disney

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning a lion wakes up.  I knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.  It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle- when the sun comes up, you’d better be running” – Unknown

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world is just the beginning for the butterfly” – Richard Bach

“Tough times don’t last tough people do!”  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Let me hear your favorite motivational quotes or ones that made an impression on you!

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Employee Council Is Out For Blood

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SPACE’s newly-selected Employee Council didn’t take long to come up with some great ideas to emphasize and promote SPACE core values.  One they’re working on right now is to set up a blood drive at SPACE.

There’s always a need for blood, but the overwhelming catastrophe in Haiti has kept that need front and center.  Our Employee Council took it upon themselves to answer the call and make it a company-wide event.  While many of us have donated blood, SPACE itself has never sponsored a blood drive.  Thank you to our Employee Council for embracing the SPACE core value of giving back to the larger community.

According to Jessie, an Employee Council member, if you can’t give blood, you can volunteer to help in some other way.   Volunteers are needed to promote the drive, recruit and register donors, schedule appointments, etc.  Further details will be forthcoming once a firm date is known.   So…keep an eye out for the mobile blood unit in our parking lot!

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Potential Office Safety Hazards

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Potential Office Safety Hazards part #2

 

Continuing on with my blog about the potential office hazards let me give you a few more tips that can benefit your office area.

 

Filing Cabinets

*         Keep drawers closed when not in use

*         Don’t open all the drawers at the same time

*         Use handles to open and close drawers slowly and carefully

*         Don’t let a cabinet get too heavy

o       Fill from bottom up

o       Put heavy items in lower drawers

o       Put lightweight items in top drawers

 

Furniture

*         Chairs should remain squarely on the floor

*         Casters on all chairs should be secured

*         Furniture should be selected and maintained free of sharp edges, points

 

Stacking and Storage

*         Store heavy articles on lower shelves

*         Keep aisles and exit corridors clear

*         Don’t obstruct fire extinguishers, fire alarm pull stations, or electrical   

*         Limit storage of combustible materials

*         Maintain 18” overhead clearance from sprinkler heads

 

Stay tuned to my blog to learn more about Potential Office Safety Hazards at SPACE, Inc.

 

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What is Company Culture?

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If you ask four different people what company culture is, likely, you will get four different responses.  Our culture includes our values, personality and practices of SPACE Inc. The culture determines how our teams interact, problem solve, provide client satisfaction and solve problems.

A company with a strong culture may find they have mutual trust and cooperation, open communication, efficient decision making processes and fewer internal disagreements. Creating and maintaining a vibrant culture is what SPACE Inc. strives to do year in and year out. Building relationships and encouraging teamwork help to enhance and grow company culture. Communicating and empowering team members solidify a strong culture.

SPACE Inc. values its team members viewpoints and styles and this makes our growing company attractive to potential employees and is why our current employees stay!

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Things Are Looking Up At SPACE Inc.

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SPACE Inc has been in business for close to 15years now and we are a Haworth Furniture dealer. SPACE has seen good times and as of recent seen how the recession has effected businesses on every level.  We pride ourselves on serving our clients and helping them come to the best possible solution for their unique situations.  This attention to customer service has just paid off for SPACE Inc for the month of July where they have just turned in over one million dollars in new business for the month.

With all of the talk about the bad economy, SPACE Inc’s sales professionals and designers have been working relentlessly on serving the client’s needs as the number one focus. Even in a bad economy, when customer service is made a priority, customers will be drawn to a company with great customer service.  A lot of companies in today’s market have tried to cut corners to save money and forgot about the customer.  The furniture business is what some might say a hard business to be in right now.  One million dollars in sales for one month shows SPACE Inc has not forgot about customer service and is forging ahead in these hard times with the story “We want to make you feel special”. 

Companies can buy furniture from a variety of venues today, but who will service you after your sale? Who cares some might say.  Haworth is not the cheapest office furniture on the market, but it is one of the highest quality products you will find anywhere, and it lasts for years.  If there was to be an issue with the furniture, SPACE Inc will be there to help, whether it be a warranty issue or if it is just an adjustment that needs to be made on a chair. 

Congratulations to the sales and design departments on turning in a great month and thanks to the rest of the teams for making it all go smoothly.

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