Monthly Goals, Weekly Planning, and Daily Dials
I’m often ask, “How do you get so much done when you’re a one man business?” “What’s the secret to your productivity?” As I think about it I attribute my success to the fact that every year I take the time to think deeply about what I want both personally and professionally. I dedicate time to ponder my [...]
One Page Business Plan Training for US Chapters
At long last we’re ready to help our chapters create their own One Page Business Plan. To do so we’re going to use Go To Meeting – a web based virtual meeting service that allows everyone to view the same documents at the same time and speak/listen in a teleconference setting. This virtual training meeting [...]
FOCUS Your Chapter Now! The One Page Business Plan Training, Dec 15th and 16th.
At long last we’re ready to help our chapters create their own One Page Business Plan. Just in time for 2009. We introduced this concept at our leadership meeting in October and promised to make it available to our chapters before the end of the year. To do so we’re going to use Go To [...]
How to Create/Promote/Host Workshops
How to Create/Promote/Host Workshops
The Silicon Valley Chapter Model
By Chet Harmer
Create:
1. Determine the training needs of the friends and members of the LDS Church in your geographical area. You can begin this process by interviewing current members of your chapter or sending out a survey. Interviewing usually works best. The workshop topics we [...]
One Page Business Plan
Soon, Joel Deceuster is going to post instructions on how to get started with a One Page Business Plan for your chapters. Stay tuned!
BYU Management Society Annual Leadership Conference 2008
BYU Management Society
Annual Leadership Conference
October 2-3, 2008
By all accounts, the BYU Management Society Annual Leadership Conference, held October 2-3, 2008 on campus in Provo, Utah was a rousing success. Over 100 participants from 11 countries enjoyed beautiful weather, surroundings, company and educational and motivational workshops, speeches and seminars. The vision of [...]
Ideas for Expanding Services and Membership
Some ideas on the partnership between the BYU Management Society and LDS Employment (Employment Resource Services, ERS):
“No dues” membership option. Different levels of membership in BYUMS could include “no dues” membership (some chapters already have this to drive membership and recruit new members). This might allow us to better penetrate the LDS target market through [...]
Emma Smith Movie – Huge Success for Silicon Valley
Due to the energized efforts of our past chapter president, Chet Harmer, the Silicon Valley Chapter sponsored two viewings of the new movie, Emma Smith – My Story. Plus we sponsored the executive producer Michael Kennedy and his wife in a fireside the night before. The fireside was standing room only with hundreds attending.
Chet agreed [...]
Networking and the BYU Management Society
In recent public and private conversations I’ve had with members of the BYU Management Society, I have detected some divergence in opinions about what our primary purpose(s) should be. In the interest of oversimplifying, I would suggest that there are two general camps or schools of thought as to what our primary purpose is or [...]
LinkedIn takes Business Social Networking Scene by Storm
Although My Space has the largest number of unique users (60 million), it only grew by 8% in the last year compared to Facebook’s 98% growth (25 million unique users). However, LinkedIn grew by a whopping 319% over the prior year to the current position of almost 7 million unique users.
Below is a [...]
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