Professsional Development

The Perfect Workday
Wednesday, March 19th 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.

What would be a perfect workday for you?  Can you describe it?  If you could set and meet your priorities, work more effectively with the people around you and move closer to a balanced life, wouldn't that come close to a perfect workday?  "The Perfect Workday" program is about creating the type of workday you want.  The program will include:

• Understanding how much time you really have
• Planning on purpose and planning with a purpose
• Setting and tracking priorities: Are you trying to do too much?
• Timeliness and deadlines:  How to do three things at once
• What to do in times of crisis and conflict
• How to handle the information avalanche
• Getting it done and having a life

If you want to get more done, learn better ways to deal with workplace stress and move toward a more perfect workday, you should attend this seminar. 

Today's managers are under increasing pressure to get the job done, and personnel skills are often the key to making it happen.  However, most managers do not realize that their style of management can help or hurt them when managing others.  Come to this seminar and discover:

• How to get the most out of yourself and your employees
• When to say "It's my way or the highway."
• How to recognize a good potential employee
• How to teach personal accountability
• How to use the only 5 management resources you have
• How to create a structured and methodical management system
• How to understand what workers really want
• How to hire better people
• How to recognize when to let someone go
• How to use low-cost rewards for better performance

Unacceptable behavior in the workplace is expensive.  It wastes management time, lowers morale and causes mistakes.  However, there are effective, reasonable ways to handle behaviors that are problematic or simply annoying.  In this seminar, you will learn ways to work with individuals who may be on their way to making substandard behavior a habit.  The program will cover:

• The causes of unacceptable behavior
  
• How to clearly communicate with the problem worker
• How to turn the problem around
• What to do if the problem continues
• When termination is the only solution
• How to lower the likelihood of legal issues

If you have an employee who exhibits substandard qualities, you should not miss this seminar!

Member Info allows you to view, edit and add information that chamber staff uses when working with your account. This includes your business information, business categories, your employees (representatives), and your ChamberMaster login name and password. The information in this module cannot be seen by a consumer.

Webpage Info allows you view, edit and add the business information that you want the consumer to see when they view your business directory listing on the chamber's web site.

Advertising Info allows you to increase visibility, move slow merchandise, and build business by advertising specials with Hot Deals, posting employment needs with Job Postings, and posting an event of your choosing through Events.

Reporting Info contains selections to view and/or print reports displaying your membership profile information and Hot Deals hits.

The "Members Only" portion of the chamber website is a password protected web-based software that is accessed through an active Internet connection. Once successfully logged in, you have access to these features.  To get started, contact the Chamber office for your login and password.