February 12, 2014 – Regional Manager Meeting – Panama City Corporate Office
“Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars!” Les Brown
On Wednesday, February 12th a Regional Manager Meeting was held in the Panama City Corporate office. All regionals were in attendance as well as Regional Vice Presidents. They all arrived safe and sound Tuesday evening, despite weather issues, delayed flights and lost luggage! The joys of traveling – but these “stars” arrived with smiles on their faces and eager to work and play with their fellow RA comrades!
The meeting opened with a welcome from Kerri Toth and Denise Ost, followed by a discussion on miscellaneous topics.
Then came the “fun”, a team building game called “Saving Joey!” Everyone was divided into groups of two and each group was given a small clear plastic cup placed upside down with a gummy Life Saver under the cup. A gummy worm was lying across the cup, along with a swizzle stick and two paperclips. The cup represented the capsized boat, the life saver was the life jacket, the swizzed stick was the oar and last but not least the worm was Joey! Joey’s boat had capsized in the rough seas and his life jacket was trapped underneath his boat. His oar was his only means of movement to get back to land safe and sound, but it had fallen into the rough waters! Joey now sat perched on top of the capsized boat and he needed help. It was up to the teams to flip his boat over and get him back inside with his life jacket ON him and his oar lying across the top of the boat.
Sounds easy right? Well here is the catch! Read more
It is our pleasure to celebrate the voyage of Denise Ost throughout Royal American over the past 32 years. We were honored to have the opportunity to learn her story and we are very excited to share it with you. Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for an interesting read.
Denise Ost began working for Royal American in 1980 as a Property Manager during the construction of Palmetto Apartments, a HUD property in Tallahassee. There she worked on the lease up of Palmetto from the office of Mission Hills Apartments, another HUD property managed by Royal American. Five years later, once the property was in good standing, Denise made use of her talents at a smaller management company. That same year, she moved back to Panama City, where she was born and raised. Denise spread her wings and ventured outside of management to work for Nerving Travel Agency for 5 years as well as working in the Insurance world with her brother. She then spent 6 months as a stay at home mom. Read more
You may have seen a few familiar faces in the Panama City corporate office recently. This year’s Regional Manager Meeting was held July 11th and 12th and all regional’s and assistant regional’s were in attendance as well as Kim Hackett and Denise Ost.
Traveling from many different locations, they all arrived in PC on Wednesday the 11th and jumped into action, right after receiving a welcome gift of course. To keep the energy high, each regional’s chair had a balloon tied to it that contained a number. Throughout the day balloons at random were popped and various prizes were given out based on the numbers they held.
It was not all fun and games however. The agenda was jam packed with various topics such as budget planning, financial worksheets, minor policy adjustments, property inspections and more. Read more
