Board of Directors Meeting Minutes - 13 January 1998

ATTENDEES:  Shirley Harris,
            Michael Bachmann,    
            Larry Orcutt,
            Kent Bierley,
            Billye Geisinger

1. Meeting was called to order by the Board Chairperson, Shirley Harris.
2. Kent Bierley discussed updating the Chapter Web Page. He has been working on it and anticipates having all current information added NLT Friday, 16 Jan 98. This will include the outstanding Board Minutes for the Months of September 1997, October 1997, November 1997, December 1997. (Note: we can now link directly from the NAIC WEB.)
3. Chapter Goals. A copy of the latest version of Chapter Goals was provided to Shirley Harris. She will be sending the final version to the members, have posted to our Web Page, and submit to HQ.
4. Marketing Tool: To build the membership we need a practical way of marketing the Chapter and overall NMA activities. How to do this?
   • Need managers in the Chapter. Could upgrade member criteria to make the membership more exclusive.
   • List precisely what the advantages are to becoming a member.
   • Need representation from the Command Section at each Monthly Meeting.
   • Speak with our founder, Dr James Van Kuren. Ask him to help us teach NAIC managers the benefits of being associated with the National Management Association.
   • Awards for great leadership. Gold Knight/Silver Knight. Kent to check criteria associated with submission of award nominations. (Involvement brings awards but need to market the value of receiving such an award.)
   • Attain more involvement from our National Director, Mr John Hojnacki. Ask him to help market NMA to NAIC.
   • Attain more involvement from the HQ President, Mr Steve Bailey. Ask him to come and help market NMA to NAIC.
   • Add the Commander to the NMA distribution list.
   • Chapter Newsletter. Our best asset, yet, we haven't been publishing on a regular basis.
   • 1997-1998 Officers need to meet with the new NAIC Commander.
   • Our President, Raelynn Bryan, has a box of Calendars. Suggest any extras be passed out to the 2-letters.
5. News: The Chapter has been notified by HQ that we are to be audited. The penalty would be a deduction of points. No concern for worry: Joe Horine keeps excellent documentation.
6. CMC: The next CMC is will be in Baltimore, Maryland in April 1998. We should have our new officers elected and one of the new team should attend since they have training on officer functions at the CMC.
7. Election of Officers: A Board Function. The Board needs to appoint an election Chairperson and get an election committee set up. If there are no volunteers, Shirley Harris will appoint someone. One restriction is that anyone running for an officer/board position is disqualified from the election committee. The beauty of an early election of officers is the possibility of a graceful assumption of duties and overlap of positions for training purposes.
8. Professional Development: Supervisory and Management Skills program course #1 and the Advanced Management Studies Program course #7 both begin this week.
9. Dates for the "Creating the Future Organization" (CTFO) workshop have been set up for every two weeks through the end of March 1998. See Announcement Board for schedule.
10. Meeting was adjourned.