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Dear
IMC,
The
ballots are in and the new slate of
officers for the IMC SoCal Chapter has
been elected to serve a term beginning
July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005.
This is an energetic group, so look
forward to some innovation and growth
in the upcoming year!
- Chair:
Paul Glen, CMC
- President:
Dennis McCue, CMC
- Treasurer:
Kim Athmann King
- Secretary:
Raymond Urgo
- VP
- CMC Certification: Jim Ayres, CMC
- VP
- Professional Development: Don McNamara,
CMC
- VP
- Mentoring: Margaret Chock, Ph.D.,
CMC
- VP
- Membership: Barbara Mather
- VP
- Chapter Programs & Events: Azita
Arvani
- VP
- Marketing: Dale DeHart
- VP
- Webmaster: Harald Weiss
- VP
- Public Relations: Edith Bodnar
- VP
- Database: Becky Collins
- VP
- SFV/Ventura Breakfast: Jillian Alexander
- Orange
Co Breakfast: Harald Weiss, Don McNamara
- LAX
Breakfast: Barb Mather, Margaret Chock
Advisor
Council We are deeply indebted to the
following people who have agreed to serve
as Advisors to the Board of Directors:
- Haig
Armaghanian
- Jennifer
Beever, CMC
- Pete
Crosby, CMC
- Marsha
Lewin, CCP, CMC, FIMC
- Roger
Olson
- Jerry
Savin, CMC, FIMC
With
their years of experience in the profession
and in serving the chapter, they will
provide a depth of wisdom to the leadership
of the chapter that will help us to maintain
optimal growth as well as a vibrant new
look and feel to the chapter in the months
ahead. Come and Join In! We are trying
to expand our service offerings to the
consulting community dramatically so we
are looking for volunteers to help on
all levels. If you would like to contribute
your wisdom, knowledge and skill in a
particular area, please call Dennis McCue CMC
(949) 640- 2220 and let him know. He will
be glad to help you find the right place
to participate.
IMC SoCal
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"Open Space Technology for Consultants: How to be an Invisible
Facilitator" with Jennifer Beever |
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Open
Space Technology is a way
to enable all kinds of people,
in any kind of organization,
to create inspired meetings
and events. Over the last 15
years, open space has become
an intentional leadership practice.
It has created inspired organizations
where ordinary people work together
to create extraordinary results
with regularity. Created in
the mid-1980's by organizational
consultant Harrison Owen, Open
Space Technology has been successfully
used by corporations, governments
and non-profits, including AT&T,
US West, Boeing, Middle East
Peace organizers, communities,
churches, and schools.
At
our interactive workshop
on June 15, you will
learn how Open Space Technology
can work for your consulting
practice, while exploring critical
consulting issues and interacting
with members and guests of IMC
SoCal. The Open Space Technology
session was the highlight of
IMC's 2003 Confab Conference,
and now IMC SoCal is bringing
it to you.
Jennifer
Beever, CMC, is Chair and
Past President of IMC SoCal.
She founded New Incite Marketing
Analysis & Design in 1997
after 14 years in sales and
marketing in the software industry.
She and her team of marketing
professionals work with businesses
to analyze their current marketing
situation, plan new strategic
marketing programs, and then
execute these programs. She
is a Certified Management Consultant
(CMC) and a Certified Virtual
CEO consultant.
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2nd Annual Summer Kick-off Networking Dinner:Tribute to Lifetime
Achievement Award Winner, Marsha
Lewin |
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Meet
and greet your fellow consultants
at our 2nd Annual Summer Kick-off
Networking Dinner.
2nd
Annual Summer Kick-off Networking
Dinner Over the past few
years, we have been focusing
on more and more ways to help
build the community of management
consultants. Obviously, if we
are to joint venture projects,
refer business opportunities
to one another and to even understand
how we can supplement the value
that someone can bring to our
existing clients, we must know
each other personally. So come
to meet and greet your fellow
consultants at our Summer Kick-off
Networking Dinner. This is time
we set aside to really get to
know one another in a personal
way as well as professionally.
Then, you can use the summer
months as opportunities to schedule
some way to deepen the relationships
and when we come back to our
monthly events the relationships
will be better than they are
today. So, please come and join
us and get in on the fun!
We
will pay special tribute to
Marsha Lewin, recipient
of the 2004 IMC USA Lifetime
Achievement Award. This
award recognizes an individual
in management consulting who
has made an exceptional contribution
to the management consulting
profession for an enduring time.
This highly selective award
was presented to Marsha by the
IMC USA National Board of Directors
at IMC's Annual Conference.
If you are one of the many consultants
who have benefited from Marsha's
help and wisdom over the years,
come to our June meeting to
acknowledge her at this very
special time.
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"Marketing Makeover for Consultants-How to Get Consulting Clients
to Come to You" with Adam Urbanski. |
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Our
June 3rd Orange County IMC
Breakfast meeting with Adam
Urbanski will answer two
of nagging questions for many
consultants: "Why doesn't my
current marketing strategy work?"
and "How do I get more and better
quality clients to build a more
profitable practice?"
In
this presentation you will learn:
- New
marketing mindset. Get what
marketing is and what it isn't,
and fall in love with promoting
your services.
- The
seven-step marketing and sales
model. How to use your expertise
to build a marketing system
that will consistently and
automatically attract more
clients.
- Three
key pieces of information
that prospects are looking
for -- and 90% of independent
professionals completely overlook.
How to communicate about what
you do in such a way that
people understand it and respond
to your message.
- How
to sell value, not a process.
Learn why most service providers
fail to attract the highly
profitable coaching assignments
by charging for their time
and process, instead of asking
to be paid for the value they
deliver.
- "The
Six Figure Practice Marketing
Model." How to use elements
of "funnel" and "follow-up"
marketing to turn your practice
into a client magnet.
Adam
Urbanski is president of theMarketingMentors.com,
which works one-on-one with
solopreneurs (Independent Service
Professionals) to turn their
knowledge and expertise into
profitable revenue centers.
As a marketing consultant and
strategist, he also gives frequent
talks on sales and marketing
topics to professional groups,
teaches tele- classes, and runs
an in-depth marketing boot camp.
His three-day Marketing Seminar
for Service Professionals will
run this May 21-23.
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"Survey Your Way to Success" with William Wagner |
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| June
4th LAX Breakfast Meeting
Please
join us for our Grand Finale
breakfast of the season!
June will the be last LAX
breakfast meeting until September
3, 2004. This will be yet
one more breakfast meeting that
we can guarantee, "you will
be glad you came"!
You
heard him at Confab in October,
2003. If you're like some of
us, your sides are still hurting
from the humor- driven lightness
in which Bill is capable of
communicating behavioral-based
information. Please plan on
joining fellow management consultants
to hear Bill Wagner speak to
us about "Surveying your way
to Success". Critical with any
consultative relationship, you
will learn how to get the
people side of your business
right the first time. Don't
miss it! RSVP early - expect
another "Sold-Out" Breakfast
Meeting!
Bill
Wagner is co-founder and
president of Accord Management
Systems, a consulting firm specializing
in business development through
objective behavioral analysis.
His extensive "big-picture"
understanding comes from years
of experience with corporations
such as Pepsi-Co and Xerox.
Advanced studies have included
classes in Organizational Transformation
from the Adizes Graduate School.
He is a continuing member of
SHRM and The National Speakers
Association.
- Place:The
Producer's Room, Ramada Plaza
Hotel, 6333 Bristol Parkway,
Culver City, CA, 90230. Call
for directions: (310) 484-7000
- Date:
Friday, June 4 , 2004
- Time:
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
- Price:
$20 for IMC members and non-members;
Includes validated hotel parking,
tax and tip included (checks
may be made payable at the
door to: Margaret Chock. Sorry,
no credit cards accepted.)
- PLEASE
RSVP: to barbmather@comcast.net
or mibchock@cs.com
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San Fernando / Ventura County Breakfast Meeting |
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| June
18th
- Meetings:
3rd Friday of each month,
7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
- RSVP:
Wednesday prior to meeting
to Jillian Alexander.
- Location:
Renaissance Agoura Hills Hotel,
30100 Agoura Road, Agoura
Hills, CA 91301.
- Cost:
$15 for IMC members, $20 for
non- members. Full breakfast
buffet, tax and tip included.
Exact change appreciated.
- Coordinator:
Jillian Alexander, (310) 260-9765
[jillian@conduitconsulting.com]
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San Diego Breakfast Meeting |
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| June
4th
- Meetings:
1st Friday of each month,
7:15 - 9:00 a.m.
- RSVP:
Wednesday prior to meeting.
- Location:
Trellises, Town and Country
Hotel, Mission Valley, 500
Hotel Circle North. From I-8,
exit Hotel Circle North.
- Cost:
$20 for IMC members, $25 for
non- members, exact change
appreciated. This includes
any choice from the breakfast
menu, tax and tip included.
- Coordinator:
Clint Burdett, (858) 442-7408
- RSVP:
Dora Graham, enterprise Solution
Group, (858) 795.2212 [dorag@esgglobal.com]
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Board Announcements and Updating Your Contact Information |
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| Participate
in Programs Committee Activities:
"It is Your IMC"
Tell
us what you'd like to see more
of in the coming year! We are
here to serve you. As the
new chair of the programs committee
and on behalf of all its members,
I would like to ask you for
your continuous feedback and
your active participation. Please
take a few minutes and share
with us your opinions on:
- What
did you like about IMC programs
last year?
- What
did you not like about IMC
programs last year?
- What
topics would you like to see
covered in the upcoming year?
- Do
you have any favorite speakers
you'd like to hear form in
the upcoming year?
-Azita
Arvani, IMC Chapter Programs &
Events azita@arvanigroup.com (310)
260-8558
PLEASE
UPDATE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION.
At the very bottom left of this
newsletter is a link "update
your profile". When you read
this, please scroll down and
click on that link and update
your information with us so
that we have the most current
contact information for you.
It is our intention to serve
you in the best way possible.
In the update section, you have
the option of selecting which
mailings you will receive from
us, so that you can get all
breakfast announcements, the
notice about your local breakfast
meetings, chapter meetings,
or whatever you choose. Please
help us help you by checking
your information now.
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IMC SoCal Member Happenings |
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| Raymond
E. Urgo was recently honored
and elected as an Associate
Fellow, the second highest membership
rank, in the Society for Technical
Communication. He was honored
for his vision, extraordinary
talents, and high energy that
he applies to the technical
communication professions, especially
policies and procedures, and
for his leadership service in
guiding the growth of the Society.
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