martes, 25 de junio de 2013

Homework #1

the professor put a task in which we had to make real budget you about the restaurant remodeling
and answer 3 questions:
1. which is the aim of the subject?
2. Name three methods to optimize resources?
3 .Explains the three types of clients
?


Training- 10 step Effective Learning Tips

1. Memory Improvement Basics
I've written before about some of the best ways to improve memory. Basic tips such as improving focus, avoiding cram sessions and structuring your study time are a good place to start, but there are even more lessons from psychology that can dramatically improve your learning efficiency.

2. Keep Learning (and Practicing) New Things
One sure-fire way to become a more effective learner is to simply keep learning. A 2004 Nature article reported that people who learned how to juggle increased the amount of gray matter in their occipital lobes, the area of the brain is associated with visual memory.1 When these individuals stopped practicing their new skill, this gray matter vanished.
So if you're learning a new language, it is important to keep practicing the language in order to maintain the gains you have achieved. This "use-it-or-lose-it" phenomenon involves a brain process known as "pruning." Certain pathways in the brain are maintained, while other are eliminated. If you want the new information you just learned to stay put, keep practicing and rehearsing it.

3. Learn in Multiple Ways
Focus on learning in more than one way. Instead of just listening to a podcast, which involves auditory learning, find a way to rehearse the information both verbally and visually. This might involve describing what you learned to a friend, taking notes or drawing a mind map. By learning in more than one way, you’re further cementing the knowledge in your mind. According to Judy Willis, “The more regions of the brain that store data about a subject, the more interconnection there is. This redundancy means students will have more opportunities to pull up all of those related bits of data from their multiple storage areas in response to a single cue. This cross-referencing of data means we have learned, rather than just memorized.

4. Teach What You've Learned to Another Person
Educators have long noted that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Remember your seventh-grade presentation on Costa Rica? By teaching to the rest of the class, your teacher hoped you would gain even more from the assignment. You can apply the same principle today by sharing your newly learned skills and knowledge with others.
Start by translating the information into your own words. This process alone helps solidify new knowledge in your brain. Next, find some way to share what you’ve learned. Some ideas include writing a blog post, creating a podcast or participating in a group discussion.

5. Utilize Previous Learning to Promote New Learning
Another great way to become a more effective learner is to use relational learning, which involves relating new information to things that you already know. For example, if you are learning about Romeo and Juliet, you might associate what you learn about the play with prior knowledge you have about Shakespeare, the historical period in which the author lived and other relevant information.

6. Gain Practical Experience
For many of us, learning typically involves reading textbooks, attending lectures or doing research in the library or on the Web. While seeing information and then writing it down is important, actually putting new knowledge and skills into practice can be one of the best ways to improve learning. If you are trying to acquire a new skill or ability, focus on gaining practical experience. If it is a sport or athletic skill, perform the activity on a regular basis. If you are learning a new language, practice speaking with another person and surround yourself with immersive experiences.

7. Look Up Answers Rather Than Struggle to Remember
Of course, learning isn’t a perfect process. Sometimes, we forget the details of things that we have already learned. If you find yourself struggling to recall some tidbit of information, research suggests that you are better offer simply looking up the correct answer. One study found that the longer you spend trying to remember the answer, the more likely you will be to forget the answer again in the future. Why? Because these attempts to recall previously learned information actually results in learning the "error state" instead of the correct response.

8. Understand How You Learn Best
Another great strategy for improving your learning efficiency is to recognize your learning habits and styles. There are a number of different theories about learning styles, which can all help you gain a better understanding of how you learn best. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences describes eight different types of intelligence that can help reveal your individual strengths. Looking at Carl Jung’s learning style dimensions can also help you better see which learning strategies might work best for you.

9. Use Testing to Boost Learning
Testing can be more effective than studying.While it may seem that spending more time studying is one of the best ways to maximize learning, research has demonstrated that taking tests actually helps you better remember what you've learned, even if it wasn't covered on the test.3 The study revealed that students who studied and were then tested had better long-term recall of the materials, even on information that was not covered by the tests. Students who had extra time to study but were not tested had significantly lower recall of the materials.

10. Stop Multitasking
Multitasking can hurt learning effectivenessFor many years, it was thought that people who multitask, or perform more than one activity at once, had an edge over those who did not. However, research now suggests that multitasking can actually make learning less effective. In the study, participants lost significant amounts of time as they switched between multiple tasks and lost even more time as the tasks became increasingly complex.4 By switching from one activity to another, you will learn more slowly, become less efficient and make more errors. How can you avoid the dangers of multitasking? Start by focusing your attention on the task at hand and continue working for a predetermined amount of time.

http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/tp/effective-learning.htm

Jennifer Rogers

Trainings - Tie a Tie




Half Windsor Knot


The Half Windsor Knot, a modest version of the Windsor Knot, is a symmetrical and triangular tie knot that you can use with any dress shirt. It works best with somewhat wider neckties made from light to medium fabrics.
To tie the Half Windsor Knot, select a necktie of your choice and stand in front of a mirror. Then simply follow the steps below:


1) Start with the wide end ("W") of your necktie on the right, extending about 12 inches below the narrow end ("N") on the left.

2) Then cross the wide end over the narrow end.

3) Bring the wide end around and behind the narrow end.

4) Then bring the wide end up.

5) Pull the wide end through the loop and to the right.

6) Bring the wide end around front, over the narrow end from right to left.

7) Again, bring the wide end up and through the loop.

8) Then, bring the wide end down through the knot in front.

9) And -- using both hands -- tighten the knot carefully and draw it up to the collar.
And there you are! Simply keep working on this necktie knot and be sure to practice a few times until you are really good at it.



http://www.tie-a-tie.net/halfwindsor.html
 
Jennifer Rogers

Time is Money!!

Week 4 by Jennifer Rogers


Costs of making the menu:
  • ingredients itself
  • chef who make the menu
  • the impresion of the menu
  • debustation of dishes
  • personal designer

Direct or indirect Costs:
Variable costs. linked expenses directly to business volume (dishes, drinks, food).
Sales volume: variable cost and fixed cost (music, marketing, credit, special rates)
Semi variable: both fixed and variable element. The man porwer, operating salaries, telephone and energy).



 http://216.54.19.111/~mountaintop/log235_new/scopage_dir/bca2/risks.html

Week 4 by Jennifer Rogers


We basically taked about strategies:






Syllabus Homework-Forecasting Sales By Jennifer Rogers



Theme: 3.4.1 Forecasting sales
4.1.1 Advantages
4.1.2 Sales History
4.1.3 Computing Sales Average
4.2 Sales Variances
4.3 Future Revenue

Lo puede encontrar en el libro:

Food &Beverage Cost Control (FOURTH EDITION)
Lea R. Dopson, David K Hays and Jack Miller.

Chapter 2. Determing Sales Forescast
Forecast Sales 28
Sales History 29
Averages for sales history 32
Recording Revenue 35
Maintaining Sales history 37
Sles Variances 38
Future Sales 40


*Libro disponible en biblioteca de la Universidad Interamericana.

Tambien en: https://gihe.box.com/s/t3tvnyqjc9/1/14438210#/s/t3tvnyqjc9/1/14438104/1670389206/1
PPT sobre Forecasting Sales

Week 6 by Jennifer Rogers


Guess what!!




I think is was very simple, each theme was well explained and every class we would make a little briefing about past class, i think that help a lot. The strategy of having to rewright every class i personally think it helped us all.

Includes: Resources, skill pyramid, and class study case.

Today`s Lesson: Never miss a class..........

Jennifer Rogers

Courage



Change for GOOD!



Barack Obama

Week 1 by Johana Rutherford II


We also do the remodeling of a restaurant in 10 minutes

1. Remodeling and designing the site.
2. Study the menu possibilities.
3. Provide advertising the event.
4. Offer a VIP pass to our portfolio of repeat customers. 
5
. Evaluate possibility of gifts and offers (free cocktails until 9:30 pm for example).
6. Hiring live entertainment.
7. Rediseñariamos staff uniforms.
8. Offering wine tastings and snacks.
the professor put a task in which we had to make real budget you about the restaurant remodeling
and answer 3 questions:
1. which is the aim of the subject?
2. Name three methods to optimize resources?
3 .Explains the three types of clients
?

Business Card






     Jennifer Rogers

Economic Power and Social Economic Power






This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product, the market value of all final goods and services a country in a given year.
It is based on the needs of customers purchase a service or a lower quality according to their customs.

Believe

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

We are working on the budget....



Coming soon.... the final budget of our project.

Jennifer ROGERS

Taste of Panamenian Menu


    Jennifer Rogers

Little Giants Corp

Managers Board


Jennifer Rogers

Survey

Model of Survey


We all made a survey to try to aim correctly to our market, inthis case we selected UIP professors.

This is and example:





Jennifer Rogers

Week 2 SWOT ANALYSIS


SWOT ANALYSIS



Stregths we have been able to define could be: our contacts, we are all in differents cycles of tourism wheel, we can all use contact that we each have to make the perfect strategy. Also our time we invest in this project.

Weaknesses might be the size,commitment and also time because most of us work.

Opportunities, experience we are going to gain, a new business we can develop and revenue.

Threats: in this case the company that rents the bus can steel our main idea.


Jennifer Rogers

The Key, Importance of Resources...!



 To apply all out elements to success we need to have a strategy based on:



All companies to work succesfully need to have resources, capabilities, structure, goals, skills, competences and values.

As we have mentioned before, resources can be define by the following:
  • Human: Cashier, chef, manager, waiters (include motivational activities and training)







  • Material: (whites, chinaware, tables, electric infraestructure, and equipment).
 
  • Financial: Will be the money we invest, credit, time, ideas, currency, costs.
 

  • Technological: Standard receipt, waste system, inventory, know how, waste control, and procedures.
 


Jennifer Rogers

Elements of Success


                        Elements of Success

1. Goal that is where we want to go, in how much time and what we need to do to get there.

2. Understand environment (marketing trends).

3. Resources (human, technological material and financial).

4. Implementing all we have mention before.


Jennifer Rogers

Consumer, Prosumer and Addsumer 2013


Consumer>>>>>>
Those who are faithful to the product.

An individual who buys products or services for personal use and not for manufacture or resale. A consumer is someone who can make a decision on whether to buy or not a product and someone who can be influenced by marketing advertising. Any time you go to the supermarket a choose a producto and pay it, you become a consumer.

Prosumer>>>>>>

Yesterday we were consumers today we are prosumers. Announcing and consuming and produce have make the left the consumer on the past. Today is the more active than ever and a new market has emerged.
Addsumer>>>>>>
Is the new evolution, this are the collectors of moments through social networks such as facebook, grupon and others.

Jennifer Rogers