November 21, 2005
9Gs Organizational Excellence workshop coming in January . . .
9Gs president Bob Vosburgh will be one of the featured presenters at the CANYS 2006 Legislative & Leadership Conference, January 17-18. Bob will engage you and your chamber staff with the Organizational Excellence assessment and workshop, along with personal debriefs for chamber executives.
Have a look at the dynamic presentation here: www.9gs.org/workshops/orgex.htm
In the next few days, each chamber executive will receive an e-mail message from 9G Enterprises. It will contain instructions for completing a chamber assessment survey. The survey questions probe internal and external chamber organizational dynamics: balance, communication clarity, empowerment, accountability, work atmosphere, recognition, etc. It’s designed to give chamber leaders a very complete view of how their chamber’s doing organizationally.
When you get this e-mail from 9Gs, forward it on to your full chamber staff. Make sure each staff member uses your assigned chamber code (located in the e-mail) when filling out the online survey.
Any chamber with five or more participants in the survey is entitled to a one-on-one debrief with Bob to go over individual chamber results at the January conference.
Got questions? Email maggie.moree@bcnys.org.
January Legislative & Leadership Conference . . .
Get ready for a January Conference so packed with ideas and information, you’ll wonder how the committee fit it all in! Block off January 17-18th as days you’ll be in Albany along with your fellow chamber teams from around the state. Here’s just a bit of what you can expect at this year’s conference:
- Greg David, Editor of Crain's New York Business ~ luncheon keynote
- Bob Vosburgh, President of 9G Enterprises ~ Organizational Excellence mega-session
- Cathi Hight, President of Hight Performance Group ~ Chamber 2015: A Look into Your Future and Membership Retention: Get ‘em and Keep ‘em!
- The Business Council’s Legislators’ Reception
- 45 Ideas in 45 Minutes in the “CANYS Lounge”
- On the Map Winners’ Show and Tell Session
- SPECIAL BONUS working group session on sole proprietor health insurance with Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills
- Plus even more!
New this year! CANYS is taking thinking creatively with a venue change for Tuesday’s luncheon and mega-session .. the Albany Institute of History and Art (directly across the street from Business Council offices). PLUS: have you always wished you could bring your whole staff along for the intense idea-generation, skills development and networking .. but couldn’t fit it into the budget? Now you can “Bring One More for $44!” With any fully-paid staff member registration, a second (or third, or fourth) staff member from the same chamber can register for just $44.
Watch for all the details in the full conference brochure and registration forms headed your way by mail next week. Or, to get a jump-start on your registration, click HERE for the printable registration form you can fax back with a credit card payment.
Association Health Plans . . .
A compromise in Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation has been proposed by Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY). Senator Enzi’s compromise legislation would put states, not the federal government, in charge of regulating these plans. The new legislation re-brands AHPs as Small Business Health Plans (SBHPs), and would not allow associations to self-insure their SBHP plans.
Senator Enzi’s press release is available here: ENZI-PR112005.
A good synopsis from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal is
available here: www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/11/14/story3.html?t=printable.
2006 minimum wage poster . . .
The Department of Labor has issued a new poster for the 2006 New York
State minimum wage. It needs to be posted in workplaces as of January
1, 2006. The poster can be printed from the link below. Feel free to pass
this along to your members.
http://www.labor.state.ny.us/formsdocs/wp/lS207_rev_2006.pdf
Tell us about it. . .
Wally Hart, president of the Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry needs your help: “I am interested in creating a ‘seasonal membership’ category. We are in a tourist driven area with a select number of businesses that are operate only seasonally. We have been trying to get them to join the chamber or remain members of the chamber but they have concerns paying full dues for operating only three or four months of the year. Does anyone have a policy for ‘seasonal’ members? I have some ideas but would like to hear other thoughts.” E-mail Wally at: president@fultoncountyny.org.
The Corning Area Chamber is looking for a Coordinator of Administrative Services and Events. The position serves as the central receptionist for the chamber, serves as lead coordinator for multiple annual events, and needs a proven ability to lead committees, manage events within budget guidelines and generate innovative ideas for improving existing events. Please submit cover letter and resume to the Corning Area Chamber of Commerce, Attention: Human Resources, 1 West Market Street, Suite 302, Corning, NY 14830.
Congratulations to Sarah Jayne, new marketing assistant at the Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce. In her new position, Jayne will serve as the main contact person for all event reservations and directly assist with planning the Chamber’s annual events.
Got a question you’d like to ask other CANYS members? Job opening in your chamber? Great idea you’d like to share? Send it to maggie.moree@bcnys.org.
