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NECMA Mid-Summer CMI Workshop: Skills & Tools for Communication Excellence Sunday-Monday, August 19-20, 2012 Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington VT Our Host Christopher Barron
Agenda Sunday, August 19 - Social 10:30 am - 7:30 pm - Swimming Pool Opens at Vermont National Country Club  2:00 pm - Golf compliments of Vermont National Country Club, limited to 5 foursomes (20 players), proper golf attire. 6:00 pm - Social: Beer Tasting and Selected Food Pairings conducted by local brewmaster from Long Trail Brewing (Bridgewater Corners, Vermont) Monday, August 20 - Education 8:30 am - Full Breakfast and Registration   9:45 am - Quality Writing = Quality Business - Lisa Carroll 10:30 am - 7:30 pm - Swimming Pool Opens at Vermont National Country Club 11:45 am - Break 12:00 pm - True Colors - Greg Giesen, MS 1:00 pm - Lunch 3:00 pm - Business with a Heart - Crystal Thomas, MCM, CHE 4:30 pm - Break 5:15 pm - CMI Test *Six (6) CMI Workshop education credits for this full-day workshop (Sessions 1-5) along with a passing score (70%) on CMI test, and one (1) Association Activity credit for Chapter business session will awarded for attendance. Please Register by Fri Aug 17th at 9:45a.m. Event Details EDUCATION Skills & Tools for Communication Excellence  “The art of communication is the language of leadership” - James Humes 1 Workshop - 4 Speakers - 6 CMI Credits Lisa Carroll - Quality Writing = Quality Business - This session helps you get your written messages through to your members and staff and improve club business. Whether you love to write or hate to write, this session is for you. Learn an easy process to cut through the clutter and connect with your readers. Greg Geisen - True Colors - This session is a personality identification method that is easy to understand, remember and apply. With the colors of Blue, Gold, Green and Orange, True Colors breaks down the elaborate concepts of personality theory into a user-friendly, practical tool used to foster healthy and productive relationships.  Crystal Thomas - Business with a Heart - This session is an interactive opportunity to review your balance, the values and standards at work in your club, and the core principles of Crystal’s newest book Business with a Heart. Explore how these principles can serve us to create more life balance as well as head-heart balance and even higher levels of communication and membership satisfaction, resulting in a better bottom line. ATTIRE AND PRICING  Full-Day CMI Workshop, $75 per person, includes all workshop sessions, breaks, breakfast and lunch. Half-Day Workshop Options: Attend either Morning (2) Sessions, breakfast, break and lunch, $50 per person or Afternoon (2) Sessions, lunch and break, $50 per person. Sunday Social: Beer Tasting and Selected Food Pairings, $30 per person. Sunday afternoon golf and pool use compliments of Vermont National Country Club. Club Professional Casual. OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS We have a block of rooms at the Sheraton Burlington at the rate of $139.00/night for either Sunday or Monday Nights -  Call Bernadette Whitcomb @ 802-865-6600 and ask for NECMA rate. RESERVATIONS Please RSVP by the reservation deadline date of Friday, August 17th, at 9:45 a.m. Please do not call the host club, but: Reserve Now Online  Call Lee Norton Kelly, NECMA Managing Director at (774) 430-9050 or Fax at (774) 430-9051 Send email to reservations@necma.org Overnight accommodations at Sheraton Burlington call 802-865-6500, speak with Bernadette Whitcomb and ask for NECMA rate. To cancel an existing reservation: NECMA Members:  Please "Click here to Register" and then your registration number at the bottom of this event page to retrieve and cancel your event registration at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. Non-NECMA Members: Please email NECMA Reservations at reservation@necma.org . In the absence of such written cancellation (no show), managers/guests/attendees will be billed in accordance with our event cancellation policy. When placing an online reservation, we ask that you mail a print-out of the email reservation confirmation message with payment or plan accordingly to pay on the day of the event. Please do not ask to be billed in accordance to our billing policy. YOU'RE INVITED! The New England Chapter President, J. Brent Tartamella, CCM, CCE extends an open invitation to all New England Chapter meetings and social events to all other CMAA Chapter Members, Allied Association Members, and prospective members and their guests. Interested in Membership? Click here for NECMA/CMAA membership information. QUESTIONS?  Please click here to send email to Lee Norton Kelly, NECMA Managing Director History of VNCC Construction began on the Vermont National Country Club in the summer of 1996 when the Economou Family received permission to construct a golf course on the 400 acre family dairy farm in South Burlington. Nicklaus Design of West Palm Beach, Florida was contracted to be the chief architect with EZP Golf Course Construction overseeing the building of the course. In late 1997 many changes occurred when eventually the club's current owner JA McDonald acquired the property and finished construction of the golf course. The first nine holes opened for play on July 17th, 1998 with the back nine opening in June of 1999.  During the spring of 2000 the clubhouse opened, as well as the Junior Olympic Swimming Pool and two Har-Tru tennis courts. Today VNCC is still privately owned and operated by JAM Golf, LLC of East Burke, VT. The club's management are members of the Club Managers Association of America, PGA of America, The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and the American Culinary Foundation.  Please click here for a directory of club staff.	Guest Speakers Lisa Carroll  Carroll Quality Alliance and Kopplin & Kuebler  Lisa Carroll has built relationships in the private club industry for over 25 years. She has taught shops at eight CMAA conferences, led over 40 CMAA Chapter Workshops and provided training and consulting services to over 50 individual clubs. The workshops she facilitate focus on technology, time management, project management and communications. She was the interim Managing Director of the Florida State Chapter of the CMAA and the Florida CMAA’s Seminole Region Administrator. She is also Search Executive with KOPPLIN & KUEBLER and regular contributing writer for Boardroom Magazine. Greg Giesen  Greg Giesen & Associates  Greg Giesen is President of Greg Giesen & Associates, a management development company specializing in conflict resolution, leadership development, teambuilding and motivational speaking. Giesen is also an adjunct graduate school professor at the University of Denver and is the author of three books on Creating Authenticity, including his latest, Monday at 3: A Story for Managers Learning to Lead. In addition, Giesen is the lead facilitator of the award-winning program, Leading From Within, and intensive three-day personal empowerment workshop, and is producer and host of the Mondays At 3 talk radio show on Castle Rock Radio. Crystal Thomas  Crystal Clear Concepts Inc. Crystal's work touches many areas, including working with clubs in leadership development, team building, efficiency, and achievement of goals including St. Francis Yacht Club, Green Hills Country Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. Crystal’s mission is “to educate, inspire, and empower people to achieve their highest potential.” She was listed as one of the 16 Influential Women in the Club Industry by Boardroom Magazine and earned the 2008 Gary Player Educator of the Year Award and the Excellence in Management Award. She has over 30 years of experience as a General Manager, including The Athenaeum at California Institute of Technology, which earned Platinum Club status in 2003 and has a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Driving Directions Driving Directions to  Vermont National Country Club 1227 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 864-7770 vermontnational.com

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