April Teleclass-Maintaining Your Financial Business

Our chapter had an excellent presenter on Maintaining Your Financial Business. Dan Betts, a certified Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney gave a two part teleclass that offered .2 CEU's on how to plan for your future and how to use receive tax credit with your business. We learned what we should be giving to our accountants and Six Ways to Prepare for Retirement as a business owner.

Educational Teleclass in February with Linda Thomas, AICI CIP

This educational teleclass is open to members and nonmembers of the AICI OH/PA Chapter. One of our chapter's focus is to provide education for professional development. This month we are excited to have a very well-known corporate trainer, Linda Thomas, AICI CIP conduct a one-hour teleclass on "The Four Generations".

Four Generations in the Workplace
Whether your goal is to help employees understand each other by improving their day-to-day communications or to increase your own success with a wider variety of clients, this session will demonstrate the importance of connecting with the four generations working side-by-side in today's changing workplace.

Four Generations in Your Clients
This program will define the four generations and discuss the various ways in which a consultant or vendor can enhance their services for their clientele while being aware of age-related concerns.

Four Generations in Style
Helping our one-on-one clients and program attendees understand what ‘age appropriate’ dressing is for them while having their own personal style can be tricky, especially if you and your clients are of different generations. This session will be about current styles and who can best wear them for their workplace and/or lifestyle.

Linda Thomas, AICI CIP has been in the image industry for over 10 years and is a published author and corporate trainer. She has served on AICI's South Central Chapter and is on the board in Texas for the National Speaker's Association. Some of her clients have been FedEx Kinko's, Four Seasons Resort & Club, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, Texas Instruments, and TGI Fridays, just to name a few.

To register sign up here http://fourgenerations.eventbrite.com/

Achieving Success in 2010

This year has kicked off to a great start with Brenda Kinsel's teleclass called, "10 Simple Steps to Achieving Success in 2010" offered to all of OH/PA & NY's Tri State chapter members. OH/PA AICI's President, Erica Torres-Dudziak, opened up the session introducing Brenda, one of AICI's CIP veterans, who has been in the industry for 25 years and brings with her a level of energy and spirit that leave her participants wanting more of. This seventy-five minute session was packed with great information on getting our business on track and off to a running start for 2010.

Brenda took us through ten steps that she discovered over the years has brought her business to new heights. We kicked off the session by taking a look at our accomplishments from 2009 and discussed ways in which we can start tracking our success. Many of us left this session with new energy and great ideas from the presenter and each other and how we can frame this year with a name!

Brenda has launched a new website www.brendakinseletc.com that is dedicated to image professionals worldwide.