Welcome back Tri-County IAAP members!
I hope that your summer was fun and energizing and you’re
ready to get back to our Tri-County business/educational meetings.
Congratulations to our Tri-County Chapter! We won the
2010-2011 Chapter of Excellence Award. Diana Hampton accepted this award on our
behalf at the Educational Forum and Annual Meeting (EFAM) in Montreal in July. During
EFAM, incoming International President, Tamra Goodall, announced the theme for
2011-2012 -- “Making the Leap to Remarkable.” I personally feel that our
chapter has made many leaps and bounds since we were chartered in 2004. We hope
to continue the enthusiasm and momentum for our upcoming year and beyond.
We held our strategic planning meeting in June and developed
our goals for 2011-2012. I hope to finalize the one page at-a-glance strategic
goals for our upcoming year and will be sending to you shortly. We need
everyone’s help in achieving our chapter goals. If you have been contacted by
committee chairs to participate on their committee, I hope you said yes. We
need all of you to ensure our success.
Our committees have been busy this summer ensuring that we
have a great year. I want to recognize the chairs for this year:
- Mary Pyatt, Professional Development
- Janet Vallianatos, Leadership Development
- Cindy Johnson and Donna Greer, Membership
- Deanna Klein, Ways & Means
- Jannise Bush, Public Relations/Marketing
We still need a chair for the certification committee. Can
you help?
Some of you receive the Office Dynamics weekly e-zine that
Joan Burge sends every Monday entitled “Motivators”.
The articles are short and sweet but sometimes she has a message that reaches
out to me. Her article published on August 1st was entitled “Build Networks Every Day!” I won’t quote
the whole article but the 8 bullet items she had at the end of the article is
worthy of taking note relating to networking.
1. Get out there and meet some new people whether in
your personal life or professional life.
2. Join LinkedIn
3. Walk throughout your workplace and go into other
departments and say hello to people! What a novel idea in this day and age when
employees sit behind a computer all day.
4. Join a local business group and attend meetings at
least a few times a year.
5. Touch base with old networks.
6. Write congratulatory notes.
7. Write a real thank you note; not an email.
8. Be friend to vendors and clients. They have their
own networks too.
IAAP is a great way to network with other individuals in the
business world. See you at our September 6th Tri-County Chapter
meeting.
Karen Haensel, CPS, CAP