Chamber Executive Ongoing Education Weekly New Idea: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
By Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr
As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in their groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. Their Full Engagement Training System is grounded in twenty-five years of working with great athletes -- tennis champ Monica Seles and speed-skating gold medalist Dan Jansen, to name just two -- to help them perform more effectively under brutal competitive pressures. Now this powerful, step-by-step program will help you to:
· Mobilize four key sources of energy
· Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
· Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
· Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals
The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully. It provides a clear road map to becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned -- both on and off the job. Read more: Amazon
· Mobilize four key sources of energy
· Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
· Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
· Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals
The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully. It provides a clear road map to becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned -- both on and off the job. Read more: Amazon
Chamber interest: Washington County, Virginia wants to help create more local businesses
The Washington County, Virginia Business Plan Challenge will award over $10,000 in business investment grants for start-up and existing businesses looking to expand with additional job creating in Washington County, Virginia, Town of Abingdon, Town of Glade Spring or Town of Damascus.
Applications must be submitted or postmarked no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 13, 2016 and received at the Washington County Chamber of Commerce at 1 Government Center Place, Suite D, Abingdon, VA 24210 or by email at washctybiz@gmail.com or fax at 276-628-3984.
Eligible business categories include Arts and Culture, Outdoor Recreation, Value Added Agriculture/Agritourism, Restaurants and Hospitality, Technology/Manufacturing/R&D, Retail and Support Services, and Light Manufacturing.
You can download rules and an application here.
Many awarded at Greensburg Decatur County Chamber of Commerce Annual meeting
The Decatur County Chamber of Commerce held their annual dinner, awards and recognition dinner on Thursday evening at the Indiana Grand Racing and Casino. The event held annually features recognition for each of the Chamber’s members, the annual business meeting and awards are given out for Entrepreneur of the Year, Ambassador of the Year, Small Business Grant Winner and the Don Horan Community Leader of the Year Award.
The night began with invocation by 2014 Don Horan Community Leader Award winner Oris Reece and dinner.
Following dinner, Johnny Budd, Superintendent of Decatur County Schools and Greensburg/Decatur County Chamber of Commerce Board President, began the annual meeting.
Following the meeting, awards were handed out.
Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jeff Emsweller says that the awards given out are of utmost importance to the night.
“It is always great to give out the awards that we do,” Emsweller said. “These awards and recipients are true pillars of the community.”
This year’s small business grant winner was RBSK Partners. The $1,000 grant is annually awarded to a locally-owned business located in Decatur County and is used for enhancing, promoting or growing the business. Read more: Greensburg Daily News
Sheboygan Chamber President Betsy Alles: Not your grandfather’s chamber
Gone are the days when local chambers of commerce took hardline positions on issues of the day, sometimes creating divisions within their own membership and their communities.
Today, the Sheboygan County Chamber is a place of learning and connecting with the intention of finding solutions that serve all.
These days, people are looking for places where they can make valued connections, build rich relationships and work together to make a difference. Hand in hand with our 300-plus volunteers, we are building an organization that pays close attention to the broader good here in Sheboygan County.
We welcome a variety of voices into the room because we believe many-sided discussions result in more learning, better understanding, healthy compromise and ultimately better outcomes.
Collaboration is at the heart of everything the chamber endeavors to accomplish. We don’t just pay lip service to our “Better Together” tagline — it has become a rallying cry for major initiatives throughout the county. Our “Working Together” award category has many nominations — a healthy sign. This award recognizes projects that succeed because business, government and nonprofit organizations work together.
Our Business Education Partners committee is composed of half leaders from education and half from business. Working together, they have developed richly-woven relationships that benefit our students, the businesses that hope to employ them and our communities. Read more: Sheboygan Press
Chamber opportunity: Logistics company drives international trade through Lansing
Inside TOC Logistics International's warehouse in Dusseldorf, Germany, workers load pallets of automotive components destined for Lansing into shipping containers, which are trucked 221 miles to a seaport in Bremerhaven, Germany.
From there, the parts are loaded onto a cargo ship that travels roughly 3,800 miles from the North Sea to a port along the Atlantic coast where the containers are loaded onto a train and hauled to the Port of Detroit. They make the final leg of the journey to TOC’s warehouse at the Capital Region International Airport by truck.
“It’s a bunch of different stuff coming in,” said Norm Stratz, TOC’s warehouse manager, reading over a shipment summary a few days before the container arrives. It will include wire harnesses and flip-down coat hooks that hang above car doors. "There's some stuff I don’t even know because I don’t check the boxes.”
Stratz doesn’t have time. He’s got 30 minutes to unload the 40-foot container so it can be cleared by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and trucked to different auto suppliers in the Midwest by the next day. Some include Grupo Antolin Primera Auto in Canton and Voss Automotive in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
TOC's warehouse space inside the Port Lansing Global Logistics Centre has been the company's Midwest consolidation hub for distributing European Cargo since August. The program makes up more than 50 percent of TOC’s business in the Midwest, where numerous clients share one container that gets unloaded in Lansing and the supplies then distributed. TOC serves more than 100 companies in the Midwest. Read more: Lansing State Journal
Effingham County Chamber President Norma Lansing Honored w/Noon Rotary Vocational Excellence Award
Norma Lansing, President, Effingham County Chamber of Commerce, has been selected to receive the Effingham Noon Rotary Club 2015 Vocational Excellence Award.
Norma serves as Chamber president, overseeing the programs and services that the Chamber provides to its 550+ members. For nearly four decades, her leadership, input and involvement has supported community and economic development efforts in Effingham County.
Norma’s leadership of the Effingham County Chamber is recognized and modeled by many Chambers around the State and beyond. Whether it is a Business After Hours, a First Friday Luncheon, the Chamber Annual Golf Outing or its Annual Business Recognition Gala, Chamber members benefit from Norma’s efforts.
Norma organized the Effingham County Manufacturing Day, which benefits area manufacturers, high school students and area colleges. She also implemented a Job Fair that is well attended by job seekers, students and area employers. Read more: WXEF Radio
MEC, Chamber interest: OUR OPINION: Expect big highways push in 2016 legislative session
The 2016 Mississippi legislative session will likely see a major initiative to pass a substantial highways and bridges maintenance and construction bill, a critical issue that involves not only infrastructure but economic development, which is always linked in some way to transportation.
That issue, among others, will test the mettle of newly elected legislators to take on key state issues and finding or creating revenues to pay for what’s needed.
Transportation is a nationwide issue as well, the reason for intense interest in a proposed $325 billion measure in congressional conference that faces a Nov. 20 deadline for action.
A long-term federal program, adequately funded, would segue with a new and more adequate state revenue effort for highways, bridges and other infrastructure. However, the still-developing Mississippi effort is not linked to federal legislation.
Mississippi Economic Council executive officer Blake Wilson confirmed Monday the private-sector statewide chamber of commerce will release its thoroughly researched recommendations on transportation before the end of November, providing a valuable resource for moving ahead. Read more: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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Paducah Chamber Small Business Council
Small businesses are important to the Paducah Chamber with about two/thirds of our members employing 25 employees or less. The Chamber has as an initiative in our Strategic Plan to strengthen our partnership with small businesses by providing statistical data, celebrations, recognition, seminars, and establishing an advisory group.
The Chamber and Paducah Economic Development, in cooperation with the Murray State University Small Business Development Center, are in the process of hiring a part-time small business consultant. For more information about the position, contact cwooldridge@murraystate.edu.
The Paducah Chamber has also chosen SizeUp for a Local Business Intelligence (SizeUp LBI) as a new service to give area businesses powerful new tools they need to grow and be successful. More information will be coming soon!
The Chamber’s Power in Partnership Breakfast in May featured a “Spotlight on Small Businesses.” The program included a panel of speakers discussing local resources available for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The panel of speakers include: Scott Darnell, President/CEO, Paducah Economic Development; Jim Pape, Vice President of Workforce and Economic Development, West Kentucky Community and Technical College; Melinda Winchester, Downtown Development Specialist and Main Street Director, City of Paducah; and Chris Wooldridge, District Director, Kentucky Small Business Development.
Additionally the names of three local businesses were drawn from those submitting their summaries during a segment to feature the businesses and their products and services. They included Supply Solutions, Rob’s Cleaning Company and Cook’s Computer Solutions. Businesses are asked to submit a 75 word summary about their business. The submitted summaries were compiled into a document for distribution to attendees at the breakfast and posted on the Chamber’s website and Facebook.
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