The Northstar News
Recap of December 2003 Meeting –
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Reported by Patrick White, CPP
Northstar Chapter Director of Communications
President Sharlene Smith opened the December
18th meeting at 8am. There were 62 attendees. She began with two appropriate
quotes for the day, relating to teamwork: “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most
fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.” and
“A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of
destruction!”
Sharlene’s first order of business was to
announce the recipient of the chapter’s 2003 Payroll Woman of the Year
award—SHERI BECK CPP!
Sheri has been a Northstar board member for
two years. She has chaired two very successful annual statewide payroll
conferences, as well as one National Payroll Week program. She taught for
several years at Century College, and has done consulting work in the payroll
field.
According to past President Denise McMahon,
“Sheri was active in our chapter off and on. But she sat at my table one day
and I simply asked if she’d be interested [in a larger role]. Then Marsha
[Smith] kicked in and before we know it she agreed to be Conference chair and
Education chair. I think that is what impressed me about Sheri. She is very
dedicated to her profession and to the group. She has never said ‘NO’ to me.
She has great ideas and isn’t afraid to use them, which is extremely
refreshing.”
After Sheri graciously accepted her award,
Sharlene made a few general announcements. She reminded everyone that there is
no meeting scheduled for January—the next meeting is on February 19th.
She also noted that the chapter is offering large discounts on APA books and
CDs, and that detailed information will be available on the website within a few
days (as of this writing, the information is now available online). The
deadline to order materials is January 23rd, 2004.
Vice President Karen Klein spoke about our
December community outreach effort, Toys for Tots. She noted that this effort
presents our chapter the opportunity to give to our community during the holiday
season, and thanked everyone for supporting the cause. Meeting attendees really
responded to the donation effort this month. A special table was totally
covered with unwrapped toys, which ended up filling four huge sacks! All of the
toys were brought to local collection sites after the meeting.
After the announcements, Program chair Barb
Muellerleile introduced the topic speaker, Jamie Post, Human Resources
Generalist at ProStaff, who talked about Team Building. Along with the talk,
attendees participated in an actual team building exercise at their
tables….collectively building a “skyscraper” out of dry spaghetti noodles and
marshmallows!
Click here to view the Team Building Powerpoint presentation in a new window.
The meeting ended at approximately 9:30am.
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