Believe it or not, our program year is almost done. We have the last educational program on Tuesday, 5/17 and our installation of new officers and awards ceremony on June 15.
The announcement of our election procedures went out on May 6 to chapter members on the official chapter roster, and elections will take place electronically per our newly ratified chapter bylaws, on June 7. Ballots will be tallied and results announced on June 10.
Having our chapter governance in place sets the guidance for leadership succession. It sets up the appropriate checks/balances and procedures to ensure that no one leader has undue authority and/or responsibility for the chapter.
There are other roles/responsibilities in chapter leadership that are not officer positions. Several emails from members requested info on these roles. These are some general responsbilities for each position. Like any other position, you may be asked to pitch in to help cover other stuff if needed.
1. Membership chair- Welcomes new members. Reaches out to potential members. Coordinates chapter leader visits to local companies to either introduce information about IAAP or present information on IAAP certification. Just depends on what the company executive requests.
2. Program chair- Coordinates the program year schedule along with the chapter executive committee. Confirms speaker, materials, A/V, speaker location for each program. Submits speaker materials and recertification point requests to IAAP HQ. Prepares recertification certificates for attendees and is responsible for verifying the attendance roster.
3. Communications chair - Gathers information and materials for chapter newsletter. Updates chapter member email and general email distribution lists
4. Certification chair- This person helps coordinate the study group and schedule for certification exams. Acts as a liasion between the division and the chapter, as well as responsible for relaying any information from IAAP Certification to the chapter membership.
Other volunteer roles that have not been finalized but generally exist within chapters are:
Retirement Trust Foundation (RTF) chair
Ways and Means (fundraising) chair
Parlimentary Advisor
Nominations committee chair
Financial review committee
Professional Member of the Year coordinator
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There are many options to contribute and participate. The key is to gauge approximately how much time you will be able to volunteer and try to match your interests and time available to that committee or committees.
Hope everyone is having a good week. Tomorrow (tues.) is the Full Moon! (smile)
Kemetia
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
May/The Kentucky Derby/ #Winning/ and elections
May/The Kentucky Derby/ #Winning/ and elections
What do these things have in common? They're relevant to our very active chapter.
May!
Our next program is May 17-Best Practices: Making and Implementing International Travel Plans for Your Executive/Executive Team : ** note that the location has changed to the SHRM offices -1800 Duke Street. Our peers at SHRM have graciously offered to help out with our crunch for meeting space. See you there. Here's the link for info and registration.
The Kentucky Derby.. okay..so this is about a horse race.. and really? what does this have to do with our chapter events? Well, in a s-t-r-e-t-c-h of a tale... (Get it, Tail?. Horse?) Our program year is literally headed towards the finish line, we're about 3/4 of the way around the track.. and it's a speedy trip!
#Winning.. ahh..That beat to death joke related to Charlie Sheen. Well, actually that has several relevant meanings for our chapter.
1. We talked about digital media and business etiquette last evening at our Administrative Professionals Day program in the program presented by Ian Gainor, Division Director, OfficeTeam.
2. We talked about Twitter which uses # to basically act as a flag, or as it's called a hashtag, to pull key words from the TwitterVerse. So if you see #IAAP on a tweet, then search for #IAAP-- it should pull all the Tweets that have #IAAP in them!
3. Winners! We had lots of winners for fun door prizes. We won because the food was pretty delicious (Thanks, ZPizza) as was our cake.
4. AND we had winners today..because today was our chocolate tasting reception at Artfully Gifts and Chocolate - located on John Carlyle-just behind the SHRM offices and off Eisenhower Avenue. We tasted spicy chipotle chocolate, white chocolate with toffee bits, a honey chipotle chocolate and a cinnamon chocolate. All wonderful.. along with some very tasty hot chocolate drinks. Really.. I can't believe how anyone could pass on free chocolate.. Frankly.. I'm a little concerned about you.. :) Some folks even got in some shopping buying up gifts for friends and maybe one or two pieces of jewelry for themselves.
5. Winners? Could we be? Carla Thorpe, our fantastic newsletter editor and webmaster has submitted our entries to the VA-WV Division to be considered for Division Media Awards. We'll find out the result at the June Division meeting in Fredericksburg.. Hope to see you there.
And Elections?
Well, hopefully you 've elected to review the Bylaws and voted. Having the foundation of Bylaws ensures that no one member is president for life (Thank goodness) and that we have a written governance on how our chapter is lead. Very important.
Once we announce the vote outcome on the Bylaws- we can send out the notice for officer elections and the requirements for running.. hold our elections and close out our very, uber productive chapter year.
Oh,.. one more thing..re: elections.. Jan Szych, CPS/CAP and I have been hard at work visiting area companies to share the strength of our chapter and benefits of IAAP membership to their administrative team and leaders. We've gained three new members in the last two weeks. And we're anticipating gaining more members prior to the end of the program year. Let's hope they elect to join OTAC.. because we think we are a great chapter offering program content relevant to conquering some of the daily challenges of the admin world. And that, my friends.. is really #Winning. (smile).
Hope you had a superb Administrative Professionals Week®.
What do these things have in common? They're relevant to our very active chapter.
May!
Our next program is May 17-Best Practices: Making and Implementing International Travel Plans for Your Executive/Executive Team : ** note that the location has changed to the SHRM offices -1800 Duke Street. Our peers at SHRM have graciously offered to help out with our crunch for meeting space. See you there. Here's the link for info and registration.
The Kentucky Derby.. okay..so this is about a horse race.. and really? what does this have to do with our chapter events? Well, in a s-t-r-e-t-c-h of a tale... (Get it, Tail?. Horse?) Our program year is literally headed towards the finish line, we're about 3/4 of the way around the track.. and it's a speedy trip!
#Winning.. ahh..That beat to death joke related to Charlie Sheen. Well, actually that has several relevant meanings for our chapter.
1. We talked about digital media and business etiquette last evening at our Administrative Professionals Day program in the program presented by Ian Gainor, Division Director, OfficeTeam.
2. We talked about Twitter which uses # to basically act as a flag, or as it's called a hashtag, to pull key words from the TwitterVerse. So if you see #IAAP on a tweet, then search for #IAAP-- it should pull all the Tweets that have #IAAP in them!
3. Winners! We had lots of winners for fun door prizes. We won because the food was pretty delicious (Thanks, ZPizza) as was our cake.
4. AND we had winners today..because today was our chocolate tasting reception at Artfully Gifts and Chocolate - located on John Carlyle-just behind the SHRM offices and off Eisenhower Avenue. We tasted spicy chipotle chocolate, white chocolate with toffee bits, a honey chipotle chocolate and a cinnamon chocolate. All wonderful.. along with some very tasty hot chocolate drinks. Really.. I can't believe how anyone could pass on free chocolate.. Frankly.. I'm a little concerned about you.. :) Some folks even got in some shopping buying up gifts for friends and maybe one or two pieces of jewelry for themselves.
5. Winners? Could we be? Carla Thorpe, our fantastic newsletter editor and webmaster has submitted our entries to the VA-WV Division to be considered for Division Media Awards. We'll find out the result at the June Division meeting in Fredericksburg.. Hope to see you there.
And Elections?
Well, hopefully you 've elected to review the Bylaws and voted. Having the foundation of Bylaws ensures that no one member is president for life (Thank goodness) and that we have a written governance on how our chapter is lead. Very important.
Once we announce the vote outcome on the Bylaws- we can send out the notice for officer elections and the requirements for running.. hold our elections and close out our very, uber productive chapter year.
Oh,.. one more thing..re: elections.. Jan Szych, CPS/CAP and I have been hard at work visiting area companies to share the strength of our chapter and benefits of IAAP membership to their administrative team and leaders. We've gained three new members in the last two weeks. And we're anticipating gaining more members prior to the end of the program year. Let's hope they elect to join OTAC.. because we think we are a great chapter offering program content relevant to conquering some of the daily challenges of the admin world. And that, my friends.. is really #Winning. (smile).
Hope you had a superb Administrative Professionals Week®.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Exciting Membership News!
Great news to share with you ... as our chapter continues to move forward and grow.
Please welcome the following (11!) new members to Old Town Alexandria (OTAC)- IAAP.
Cindy Salusky
Kathy Heyman
Dawn Robinson
Linda Hurd
Linda Woodland
Vicki Kilpatrick
Kathleen Erslev
Judy Carmichael, CPS/CAP
Kanya Praetorius
Adell Cokley
Kim Youtzy
Look forward to seeing everyone on May 17, 2010 at 6pm at our next meeting!
Please welcome the following (11!) new members to Old Town Alexandria (OTAC)- IAAP.
Cindy Salusky
Kathy Heyman
Dawn Robinson
Linda Hurd
Linda Woodland
Vicki Kilpatrick
Kathleen Erslev
Judy Carmichael, CPS/CAP
Kanya Praetorius
Adell Cokley
Kim Youtzy
Look forward to seeing everyone on May 17, 2010 at 6pm at our next meeting!
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