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Old Newsletters
Did you miss a newsletter or want
to refer back to an earlier newsletter? Just go
to www.imcmi.org. All
of the newsletters are placed on the website once they
are issued. Eventually presentations will be made
available for members only.
Send any comments on the website to
dschumaker@schuco.com.
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2006 Officers
With the change to the new year, we have some new
members to the IMC MI Board of Directors. The
officers for the 2006 year are:
President
Dennis
Schumaker, CMC®, PMP®, MCSE
dschumaker@schuco.com
Vice-President
Douglas
Hicks, CMC®
dohicks@aol.com
Secretary/Treasurer
Dr.
Robert W. Sopo, PhD, CHRP, CMC®
rsopo@rwsgroup.com
Membership
Director
Kerry
Laycock, CMC®
kerry@dklaycock.com
Certification/Renewal
Director
Patricia
(Pat) Schumaker, CMC®,
CPA, PMP®
pschumaker@schuco.com
Marketing and
Publicity Director
Thomas
Adams
tadams@newmillenniumconsultants.com
Programs/Professional
Development Director
Jay
Houston
jhouston@jdha.net
President
Ex-Officio
Patricia
(Pat) Schumaker, CMC®,
CPA, PMP®
pschumaker@schuco.com
Member Profiles
We still need more member
profiles!
This is another way for IMC-MI
members to begin to know each other and perhaps identify
opportunities for growing our consulting practices
through joint projects. However, to be featured in
the newsletter you need to (1) be a member of IMC-USA
and (2) need to provide a brief write up and a
digital picture. It is each consultants
responsibility to get this information to dschumaker@schuco.com
if they want to increase their visibility by being
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February 20th IMC
MI Meeting
We will be trying something new in February!
We will meet at 6:00 pm on Monday night, February
20th
for an "evening" (dinner)
meeting at:
Italian Epicure
42050 Grand River
Novi, MI
48375
248.349.7770
We will be
holding a roundtable discussion on the topic of "How
Business Development Activities Change As Your Firm
Matures." It was recognized that with the diverse
membership both in terms of consulting services provided
and in terms of years in the consulting business, our
members wealth of experience can be drawn upon for this
topic. Why listen to someone who makes a
living telling consultants how to sell business when you
can actually learn from the people that having been
doing it? The items that each participant
needs to be able to respond to are along the lines of:
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How do you
identify what products and services your firm
offers? How have those product and services
changed over time?
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How do you
identify potential prospects or leads for your
products and services?
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How do you
secure the business? Verbal/written proposals? Sole
source?
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Thinking
about your consulting business, how have your business
development activities changed?
Come prepared
to participate. If this session is well received, we are
tentatively planning on holding a separate meeting on
proposal development later in the year. This dinner
meeting will include full audience introductions and
the usual networking (mingle) opportunity. During this
meeting you will be able to introduce yourself while
making connections with others. So get your
elevator speeches up to date! Bring plenty of
business cards and make you connections
count!
As a
reminder, the fee for the dinner and program is $25.00
for members and $30.00 for non-members. ($5...just one
more reason to become a member!). We will
appreciate knowing in advance if you will be joining
us. Responding to this email with a simple yes or
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Meeting
Calendar
We have developed our initial meeting
calendar for the upcoming year with tentative topics for
most of the meetings. One item that is different
this year is that we will be holding some outreach
programs in different areas of the state in order to
attract some new and existing members and guests to our
meetings. We need existing member attendance at
these meetings to help recruit new members.
| Meeting Date |
Proposed Topic |
| January 16 |
No Meeting |
| February 20 |
Business Development |
| March 20 |
Ann Arbor Outreach |
| April 17 |
Proposal Writing |
| May 22 |
Ethics |
| June 19 |
Western Michigan Outreach |
| July 17 |
No Meeting |
| August 21 |
No Meeting |
| September 18 |
TBA |
| October 16 |
Outreach |
| November 20 |
TBA |
| December 18 |
Annual
Meeting | |
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Profile
 Jay Houston has been consulting with
manufacturing and service-driven businesses for more
than 10 years. During this time, he has consulted
with companies on a number of topics related to
Strategic Planning, Organizational Development,
Performance and Accountability, Change Management and
Human Resources.
He serves as
President of Jay D. Houston and Associates, Inc. (JDHA)
and is actively involved in the firm's work in the areas
of Strategic Planning, Organizational Development,
Executive-Level Consultation, Leadership Development and
Behavioral Consulting.
Prior to
founding JDHA in 1997, he worked with consulting firms
specializing in Organizational Development and
Psychological/Behavioral Assessments and Testing. He has
consulted within a number of industries including,
automotive, industrial construction, residential
construction, real estate brokerage, higher education,
legal, banking and other professional services.
Jay graduated, with distinction, from Wayne State
University's Graduate School of Business Administration
with a Master's Degree in Business Administration, where
he wrote his thesis on the measurement of Service
Quality. Jay earned his Bachelor's Degree in
Business Administration from Wayne State. He is
also a graduate of Cranbrook/Kingswood
School.
Currently,
he is preparing to commence his doctoral work at Wayne
State, creating an interdisciplinary program through the
Colleges of Business and Industrial/Organizational
Psychology. Jay can be reached at
jhouston@jdha.net. |
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