PIPELINE | July 2017 PAGE 1 MONROE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JULY 2017 Upcoming Events ......................... 1 Members in the News .................. 2 Thriving Michigan ......................... 3 Calendar ....................................... 4 www.monroecountychamber.com Tuesday, August 8th 7:45 - 9:00 a.m. Ellis Library & Reference Center - Monroe, MI Monroe County Library System Your Business Resource Center RSVP Online by August 4th FREE EVENT! • Business Summit - Thursday, September 21st • Monroe Grub Crawl - Monday, October 16th • Member Mixer - Tuesday, September 26th FREE EVENT! The Chamber’s 46th Annual Steakout “Our Largest Business Networking Event” Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Newport Firefighters Park 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Members $45 • Non-Members $60 Member Online Discount Only Registrations cancelled after June 30, 2017 will not be refunded SAVE THE DATE Monday, August 21, 2017 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. $25 per Person Registration Open Now! Registrations cancelled after August 11, 2017 will not be refunded A PROGRAM OF THE MONROE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Immerse Yourself in Monroe County Build Valuable Business Relationships Limited Space Available for the 2017-2018 class For more information please call 734.777.1516.
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PIPELINE | July 2017 PAGE 1 MONROE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
JULY 2017Upcoming Events ......................... 1Members in the News .................. 2Thriving Michigan ......................... 3Calendar ....................................... 4
www.monroecountychamber.com
Tuesday, August 8th7:45 - 9:00 a.m.
Ellis Library & Reference Center - Monroe, MIMonroe County Library System Your Business Resource Center
RSVP Online by August 4th
FREE EVENT!
• Business Summit - Thursday, September 21st• Monroe Grub Crawl - Monday, October 16th• Member Mixer - Tuesday, September 26th
FREE EVENT!
The Chamber’s 46th Annual Steakout“Our Largest Business Networking Event”
A voluntary group of members who work together to help retain and grow Chamber Membership.• Milward Beaudry, MPACT• Jennifer Brown, Key Concern, Inc.• William Bruck, Visiting Angels Monroe• Brian Burns, Berkshire Hathaway Hudkins, Realtors• Norm Johnson, Red Wings Shoes• Jennifer Langenderfer, Monroe Bank & Trust• Marsha Oberleiter, LEADERSHIP MONROE Alumni• Ben Osborne, USI Insurance Services• Jason Reinhardt, Go M.A.D. Fitness• Amy Zangara, Monroe Bank & Trust
members IN THE NEWSPipeline Submission Guidelines
All Members in the News articles must be submitted by the 5th of each month (for the following month’s publication) and be a short paragraph with no more than 125 words. Send to [email protected]
Forest View Recreation Bar & GrillJoin Forest View on Sunday, July 9th, to help them celebrate their continued partnership with DTS Racing. There will be bowling, raffles, prizes…such as free tickets to Toledo Speedway and Flat Rock Speedway, food/beverages, and even racecar driver, Tadek Stadniczuk’s, late model racecar on display along with Ethan Stad-niczuk’s stock racecar. So, bring your family and friends out for a day full of fun festivities and excitement.DTS Racing is a local family owned racecar business. Both Tadek and his brother Dave race at Flat Rock Speed-way, Toledo Speedway, Kalamazoo Speedway, and other Midwest tracks. Come show your support for DTS and Forest View’s renewed partnership on July 9th starting at 5pm. For just $20 per person, you get 3 games of bowling, shoe rental, appetizers, your first beverage and soft drinks.
RCO LawThey’ve Moved….but just around the corner! Please join Matt Budds and the RCO Law team at an OPEN HOUSE, Thursday, August 17th at 4:30p.m. at 9 South Monroe. Please RSVP to Colleen at 734.457.1092 or [email protected]. Parking Recommended at the Riverfront Park Parking Lot - South of the River, North of Front St., West of Monroe St. Matt and the other members of the RCO Law team provide legal services to businesses, individuals and municipalities in the areas of business and commercial law, estate and succes-sion planning, real estate transactions, employment, dispute resolution, and litigation. If they can assist with a legal need, please contact Matt Budds at [email protected] or 734.457.1092.
Rehabilitation Specialists of MonroeThe U.S. Disabled Water Ski Team earned the world team silver medal and seven U.S. team members won individual medals at the 13th Disabled Water Ski World Championships at Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. Within each event (slalom, tricks and jumping), athletes were grouped into the three categories of seated (paraplegics and quadriplegics), standing (arm and/or leg disabilities with or without prosthesis) and vision impaired (partially or totally blind). U.S. team members earned a total of 17 individual medals. Dr. Kieth Barbour, owner of Rehabilitation Specialists of Monroe, has been the team physician for the USA Disabled Waterskiers and Chief of Classification for the International Waterski Association since 1989. He attends national and international events yearly where he tends to the medical needs of all team’s members, support staff and officials.
Rising Sun InvestmentsWe all work hard for what we have; why put off planning to make your financial life the best it can be? At Rising Sun Investments, they have been helping their clients plan for retirement since 2003, and it would be their honor to do the same for you. Their process is centered around you, your goals, and your objectives. It is never too soon to start planning for the rest of your life. How long have you been meaning to start planning for retirement? Call Rising Sun Investments today to see how they can help you plan for a brighter future. With offices in Monroe and Troy, they proudly serve clients from all areas of southeast Michigan. Rising Sun Invest-ments: 428 S. Monroe St. Suite 105 Monroe, MI 48161 (888)292-7601 www.rsinv.com Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through NEXT Financial Group, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC. Rising Sun Investments, LLC is not affiliated with NEXT Financial Group, Inc.
The Sawyer HomesteadTThe Historic Sawyer Homestead was built in 1873 by Dr. Alfred Isaac Sawyer, a homeopathic physician who was known as the founder of the Homeopathic Medical College in Ann Arbor , and served as President of the American Institute of Homeopathy Medicine. It is located on the 1780’s homestead of Francois Navarre. Dr. Sawyer married into the family, was Jenny Sawyer’s father, and City of Monroe Mayor twice. The Sawyer Homestead is a Non-profit volunteer organization, is city owned and available for rentals. (734.242.0168 - 320 E Front St Monroe 48161)
Williams Insurance AgencyA big THANK YOU to their Meemic members! Williams Insurance Agency of Southeast Michigan is built on exceptional member service that drives referrals to their office. They are proud to have earned 100% for their Net Promoter Score! The Net Promoter Score measures the customer’s overall satisfaction and willingness to recommend a company’s products or services to others. Feel free to refer friends and colleagues as they can save up to 35% on their Home/Auto insurance with Meemic. Reach them at 734. 244.0606 or stop by the office located at 14 West Front Street in downtown Monroe. As longtime educators and Meemic members, Kerri and Chip are proud to be a part of the Meemic family as agents who understand the special needs of the educational community.
to our June Member Renewals• Able Sanitary Service• Ammex Plastics• Bacarella Funeral Home• Consumers Energy Company• Cooley Hehl Wohlgamuth &
Carlton• Directions Credit Union • Education Plus Credit Union• F.G. Angelo & Sons Concrete• Farm Bureau Insurance, Starr
Insurance Agency, Inc.• Farm Bureau Insurance, William
M. Copi Agency• Floral City Beverage, Inc.• Friendly Ford Lincoln• Habitat for Humanity of Monroe
Co. & Habitat Restore• Hassett Title Company, Inc.
• Henry Ford OptimEyes• James S. Jacobs Architects, PLLC• Joe Lake Tireman• Key Bank• La-Z-Boy Incorporated• Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., The• Messina Concrete, Inc.• Milkins Jewelers• Monroe Community Mental
Health Authority• Monroe County Community
Credit Union• Monroe County Fair Association• Monroe County Library System• Monroe Florist• Monroe Industrial Supply Com-
pany• MTS Seating• Our House Games
• Pioneer Metal Finishing• ProMedica Monroe Region-
al Hospital• Raymond James Financial
Services, Inc.• Red Lobster• Red Wing Shoes• Rudolph Libbe Group• Rupp Funeral Home, Inc.• Schafer Agency Insurance
HOW TO CREATE AN ENGAGING VISION FOR YOUR BUSINESSThere’s a startling statistic from Gallup that 70 percent of the workforce is not actively engaged in their work. Think about this for a moment. You’ve no doubt seen this — or maybe even experienced it yourself, when you just “phone it in.” But imagine how much more a company of actively engaged workers could accomplish. The company that can truly win the hearts and souls of its team excels. And the first step to winning those hearts and minds is creating an engaging vision for your business. Your team wants something bigger that they’re working for, too. Creating a compelling and inspiring vision and mission is the key to making sure you get where you want to go and that your team is behind you. This is also how you know what to say yes to and, more importantly, what to say no to. In fact, it has been demonstrated that when people use visioning instead of simply problem solving, energy levels increase, innovative ideas flow, and peo-ple are excited and eager about the future. What’s more, visioning also gets you clear on what you do not want to do in your business so that you can easily turn away seemingly golden — but distracting — opportunities that come your way.
HOW DO YOU CREATE THAT COMPELLING VISION? My process starts in my journal, where I dig deep into what really makes my heart sing and how I want to wake up excited to jump into the day. Start by writing down all of your “prouds” — those things that you’re most proud of in your business and your related accomplishments and wins. This sets a posi-tive energy to start the process.
WHAT SHOULD YOU INCLUDE? • Your cause, mission, and deepest reason why. • Your impact scoreboard and mea-surements. How do you create impact goals that have byproducts that force more profitability and success? • Who you are serving and how? That’s your community and what makes you special and alluring. • Your team’s core values and how you help them fully engage. Your role is not to worry about the “how” of bringing the vision into being at this point either; your job is to simply create the very specific “what” this would look and feel like if you were setting foot into your ideal company.
WHAT ELSE MIGHT YOU INCLUDE? • Your company size and scope. • What does the brand feel like? • Who are your advisors? What are your partnerships? Which media outlets feature you? One smart tip is to write “Draft” at the top of your vision so that it doesn’t hold so much sway over you. Then circulate early drafts to people you trust to provide positive and constructive input.
MAKING IT FINAL It’s in the editing process that the magic truly happens; you start simplifying and cutting down to what’s most important. ensure it is clear and concise but also compelling. Last, once you have your final vision, don’t edit it before the date you’ve set. Make sure you use your vision everywhere; don’t just file it away. This powerful doc-ument is one of the most potent pieces you can add to help your organization achieve its greatest purpose and align with the key people who can drive it forward.
Excerpts taken from: Conscious Company Magazine - Mar/Apr 2017 Article by Yanik Silver
Our Mission To be a resource that promotes, educates and assists in the growth and success of Businesses
Did you know that members can register for events online and receive a discounted ticket price? For your convenience, we accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. Go to www.monroecountychamber.com to register.
15 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. The Workshop on Conscious Business Deep Dive Webinar
August
8 7:45 - 9:00 a.m. Koffee Klub Monroe County Library Services Ellis Library & Reference Center17 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. The Workshop on Conscious Business Deep Dive Webinar21 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Bedford Grub Crawl Locations TBD23 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Thriving Michigan Forum Purpose Beyond Profit Location TBD 29 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. LEADERSHIP MONROE Reception Quality Inn & Suites
The Monroe County Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Golf Outing was held Friday, June 9th at Green Meadows Golf Course. It was a beautiful day for golfing and the Schall Automotive team took first place. Team members were Kenny Hall, Matt Hall, Dave Rutledge and Craig Roe. Longest Drive for Men was made by Johnny Widmer. Longest Drive for Women was made by Vicki Franzen with the Monroe Bank & Trust team. Closest to Pin Men went to Eric Nagel with the Yinger Pharmacy Shoppe team. Closest to Pin Women went to Vicki Franzen with the Monroe Bank & Trust team. Our 50/50 Raffle big winner was Ed Zalecki with Battery Wholesale. The platinum sponsor for the event was Guardian Industries. The Chamber would like to thank all the sponsors of the Golf Outing and all those who participated in the tourna-ment. We look forward to seeing everyone next year!
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9 South Monroe St. (Just South of the River Raisin) Thursday, August 17th
4:30pm Parking Recommended at the Riverfront Park Parking Lot - South of the River, North of Front St., West of Monroe St.
We’ve Moved...But Just Around the Corner!
Please RSVP by August 5th to Colleen at 734.457.1092 or Email: [email protected]
