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ESIG Professional Development Luncheon
Make Your Small Business Look and Perform Like a Big Business
Thursday Aug. 12, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
The Fabulous La Griglia
Today’s tough economic environment makes running a small business a challenge. To stay ahead of the game, your company needs to produce results and operate like a big business.
Understanding the critical operational elements of your business will help you increase growth, keep costs down and maximize revenue. Bryon Hebert serves as the director of Entrepreneurial Advisory Services at PKF Texas and is an industry expert specializing in small businesses. He has worked with hundreds of companies throughout his career and will bring that vast knowledge to this presentation.
Hebert will discuss key components to building up your small business, including identifying your competitive advantage and uncovering the root causes of vexing issues within your company. He also will help you determine how to set key performance indicators and then track your improvement. Register today.
Professional Development Luncheon
IABC/Houston Returns to Brennan’s of Houston
Here Everything's Better: Employee Communications the H-E-B Way
Thursday, August 26, 11:15 a.m. - 1 p.m.
The “saints” will indeed come marching back on August 26, and you’re going to want to be in that number. We have a great program planned, presented by Kate Rogers with H-E-B Food Stores, Inc., and much fanfare connected with our return to this beloved, historic landmark. A landmark with pralines? So much the better.
Read the write-up and sign-up now for Here Everything's Better: Employee Communications the H-E-B Way . . . and Lunch at Brennan's of Houston.
 Our thanks to Schipul, the Web Marketing Company, for hosting this event and helping us kick-off the celebrations and revelry on that day.
Suzanne Salvo, Houston VP Chapter Growth & Development, Named IABC Southern Region Member of the Year
At the mid-winter Houston IABC board meeting, the board collectively determined that monies collected, which were above our normal operating budget, should be reinvested into the local chapters. Suzanne Salvo’s creativity and sense of humor helped make real the idea of bringing world-class speakers and professional development to the Southern Region chapters.
Salvo offered to lead the effort, worked up a plan and used her vast resources and relationships to line up excellent IABC speakers. Thus, the “Traveling Circus” was born.
By the end of 2010, Houston IABC will have reinvested $10,000 of its reserves to delivering speakers and content to 11 chapters representing almost half the chapters in the Southern Region.
Suzanne has gone above and beyond with her leadership, creativity, persistence, organization and energy in spearheading this exceptional service to our customers – the local chapters!
Tidbitz From Communication World
Submitted by Denise Allen Zwicker, Writer
"Having plans in place and teams trained is clearly not enough to build the kind of reflexes the organization needs to face up to a true crisis."
IABC members can read more in Communication World, pp. 28-30: Why do we keep making the same mistakes?
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