The Chamber SceneHUNTINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

305 Warren Street • Huntington, Indiana 46750 • (260) 356-5300 • www.huntington-chamber.com • October 2014

The Huntington County Chamber of

Commerce will hold a Work-Life Priorities

and Choices Workshop on Wednesday, Oc-

tober 22. The informative half-day event

will be held at Pathfinder Services, 2820

Theater Avenue from 8 to 11 a.m.

Alan Siepker, SPHR, HR Manager for

Thermafiber, Inc., will lead the workshop.

Siepker has over 30 years of industrial labor

relations, negotiations and arbitration expe-

rience in union and union-free facilities. He

is an adult education adjunct instructor, has

a degree in Communications from Eastern

Illinois and has a Business Management de-

gree and MBA from Indiana Tech Univer-

sity.

A business leader’s success depends

upon their ability to lead the people who

work for them to get things done, to focus

on the right priorities and produce maxi-

mum results in the shortest amount of time.

Good leaders know that “unleashing” an

employee’s creativity and initiative starts

with their own ability to see the big picture,

set priorities, communicate expectations,

motivate and focus on results.

Most leaders want to do a good job, but

many are struggling with knowing what is

really important, which priorities make a

difference, and how to understand, measure

and lead others to success. Without clear

leadership, employees can become easily

distracted, disengaged, or de-motivated. Ef-

fective self-management requires the leader

to have a “balanced work-life choice ap-

proach” to their strategic and tactical ac-

tions.

So, what steps can a leader take to de-

velop balance between work-life priorities,

planning and strategic goals to lead, engage,

motivate and manage employees? This re-

quires the leader to make an investment of

time to balance their personal life needs

with specific career planning and develop-

ment first, and then, to factor in work re-

lated strategic and tactical goals and

objectives.

In order to achieve and maximize the

ability to manage ourselves, we must under-

stand and learn how to apply the seven F’s

of effective self-management – Faith, Fam-

ily, Friends, Firm (work), Finance, Fun and

Fitness. The Work-Life Priorities and

Choices Workshop is designed to help those

in attendance learn to work toward this goal.

This workshop is not a time-management

seminar, but rather will involve a journey of

individual discovery and group discussions

exploring the work-life factors which guide

and influence behavior and decision-mak-

ing. Learn the secrets of how passion and

calling drive discretionary effort, willing-

ness to take risks, focus, relationships, fam-

ily, and results in us consistently doing our

best work. Also the workshop will teach

how to identify, recognize, and address

those factors which distract and cause us to

lose focus on the priorities which will result

in our success and satisfaction.

During this workshop we will discuss

how to develop a clear picture of planning,

purpose, passion and priorities. Content will

include ways to combine work-life choices

with basic career planning and personal ob-

jectives in order to direct time, energy and

effort to influence family and employee

trust, performance and motivation.

The keys behind the concepts of the

seven F’s of self-management rely on the

participant’s ability to focus on designing

the life they really want, creating their own

definition of success based on core values

and then re-engineering work or business

processes for support. This seminar is for

people who love their work and desire to

enhance it with what they value more -

health, family life, relationships and living

life fully. Participants will discuss how to

handle real work-life situations, address

concerns and choose actions to drive higher

levels of enjoyment, performance and re-

sults.

Participants are encouraged to bring their

toughest, real-life example to this workshop

for discussion.

This hands-on

workshop will

encourage the

sharing of best

practices, ex-

periences and

t e c h n i q u e s ,

which can help

individuals to improve their work-life pri-

ority and choices and self-management

leadership skills to increase their personal

job satisfaction, and reduce stress.

The results-oriented training session will

include group discussions that examine

real-life situations and the sharing of effec-

tive methods and techniques used by other

similarly situated professionals. By the end

of each session, participants should have de-

veloped a workable, action plan.

Each participant receives maximum at-

tention with direct and specific answers to

their questions. The presentation format is

simple: presenters are local, working pro-

fessionals who bring real-life, real-world

solutions, not theories, to everyday prob-

lems.

With minimal lecturing, introductions

and the basics are skipped and the workshop

immediately jumps right into the proven,

practical and advanced action steps. Group

discussions and exercises are conducted to

practice the skills discussed which are cri-

tiqued by workshop presenters to give im-

mediate feedback and personal guidance to

each participant as they master the desired

skills.

All participants will receive a certificate

of attendance and three hours of training ap-

plied toward PHR-SPHR re-certification.

The cost of the workshop is $50 per person

which will include breakfast.

To attend this very informative and help-

ful workshop contact the Chamber at

www.huntingtoncountychamber.com or call

the office at (260) 356-5300. Registration is

required by Friday, October 17.

Chamber to hold Work-Life Priorities WorkshopBalance: Faith, Family, Friends, Firm (work), Finance, Fun, Fitness

Page 2 Huntington County Chamber of Commerce October 2014

Board of Directors

2014Chairman of the Board

Stefan Poling

Rollo Harter & Poling LLP

Chairman of the Board Elect

Michael Zahn

First Federal Savings Bank

Treasurer

Kay Schwob

Huntington University

Assistant Treasurer

Ryan Lemon

Novae Corporation

Arthur Daronatsy

Dean Foods

Trace Hinesley

Huntington County Community School

Corporation

Lori Mickley

Bendix Commercial Vehicle

Systems, LLC

Lee Pasko

iAB Financial Bank

Jeremy Penrod

Walgreens

Mike Perkins

Parkview Huntington Hospital

Foundation

Steve Petry

W.A. Zimmer Co.

Joe Santa

TrophyCenter Plus

Sandra Seacott

Teachers Credit Union

Adam Stroup

Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance

Randy Warner

Terry L. Reckard CPA

STAFF

Steve Kimmel

Executive Director

Angie Garcia

Office Administrator

The Huntington County Chamber of

Commerce is now able to promote our

members’ Facebook pages through our

database and website. Your membership

currently has your business name, ad-

dress, phone and fax number, description

of your business, Google map to your lo-

cation and a link to your website. Now we

can add a link to your Facebook page all

at no charge to you. Don’t forget to find

your business on a smart phone, down-

load MyChamberApp and localize your

app for Huntington County Chamber of

Commerce members. The Chamber has

your business promoted for your cus-

tomers from website to smart phone.

If you are interested in sharing your

Facebook page with the community, give

our office a call at (260) 356-5300 or

email at skimmel@huntington-cham-

ber.com. All we need is the link to your

Facebook page. This is one more value-

added benefit for being a member of the

Huntington County Chamber of Com-

merce.

Chamber to

promote members’

Facebook page

Shown in the photo is Dr. Sherilyn Em-

berton, left, president of Huntington Uni-

versity, Leland Boren, president and CEO

of PHD, Inc., center, and at the podium is

Ed Vessels, Hi-Valu LLC and Learning

Center development team member.

Two Huntington County heavyweights -

PHD Inc. and Huntington University have

joined forces to challenge the community

to raise the final amount needed to get the

Huntington County Community Learning

Center off the ground and running.

The “Bringing It Home Campaign” was

unveiled Thursday, September 18, at the

Huntington County Community School

Corporation’s Vocational Technical Center,

site of the new learning center.

Ed Vessels, president of HiValu, LLC

and a member of the learning center devel-

opment team, says $822,300 of the $1.3

million goal has already been raised. The

challenge from PHD and Huntington Uni-

versity will match 50 percent of whatever

money is donated between now and Janu-

ary 31, 2015, in order to raise an additional

$200,000.

For more information about donations

and future class offerings, call the learning

center at 356-2858. Office hours are 8 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Learning Center

holds press

conference

October 2014 Huntington County Chamber of Commerce Page 3

OCTOBERBusiness of the Month

W.A. Zimmer Co.

W.A. Zimmer Company, 1700 N. Broadway was chosen as the Business of the Month

for October. W.A. Zimmer Company was chosen by the Chamber’s group of Ambas-

sadors for their commitment to the Chamber, their involvement in the A B.I.G. Day Golf

Outing and their long-standing contribution to the Huntington community. The Chamber

of Commerce congratulates W.A. Zimmer Company on being named Business of the

Month.

Shown in the front row, from left, Terry Miller, Real Living Ness Bros. and Chamber

Ambassador; Bill Zimmer, owner, W.A. Zimmer Company; Thadd Seffernick, Kent

Houser, Steve Petry, general manager, all from W.A. Zimmer Company; Charlotte Cen-

ter, Enlivant Tipton Place and Chamber Ambassador and Belinda Clancy, Markle Health

& Rehabilitation and Chamber Ambassador. Second row, from left, Richard Fishburn,

W.A. Zimmer Company; Les Graham, Evolv and Chamber Ambassador; Stuart

Mutzfeld, W.A. Zimmer Company and Bobby Bailey, All American Home Remodeling

& Repair and Chamber Ambassador.

Speakers at

the Hunting-

ton University

Founda t ion

breakfast on

Thursday, Oc-

tober 9 will

focus on local economic development ef-

forts and the state of the region’s economy.

The speakers will be Mark Wickersham,

Huntington County Economic Develop-

ment, executive director, and John Samp-

son, CEO of the Northeast Indiana

Regional Partnership.

Wickersham will update breakfast atten-

dees on the local economy. He has spent the

last 20 years working as the northeast re-

gional director for the Indiana Development

Corporation, working as a community bank

commercial lender and serving 15 years

with two members of Congress. He partic-

ipates on multiple boards of directors and

committees. Wickersham holds a bache-

lor’s degree in history from Huntington

University.

Sampson will speak on the region’s

economy. He leads the Northeast Indiana

Regional Partnership’s mission to generate

business investment in the region through

supporting collaborative relationships with

stakeholders, facilitating regional commu-

nications and expanding all channels of

business development. Before coming to

the partnership, Sampson worked as the

vice president for external affairs for Amer-

ican Electric Power. A graduate of the U.S.

Naval Academy, he holds a Bachelor of

Science degree in aerospace engineering.

“In addition to the two speakers, a fea-

tured local company will share some excit-

ing news for the Huntington community,”

Wickersham said.

The Huntington University Foundation

hosts a monthly breakfast meeting, open to

all who are interested in learning about cur-

rent community issues and the people and

programs of Huntington University.

Usually held on the second Wednesday

of each month, the October breakfast will

take place in Habecker Dining Commons

on Thursday, October 9, at 7:45 a.m. and

will conclude by 9 a.m. Breakfast is $7, but

free breakfasts are provided for first-time

attendees courtesy of Chris and Janelle

Love of Bailey-Love Mortuary.

The Chamber of Commerce will hold

a Breakfast Showcase on Tuesday, Octo-

ber 7 at the Habecker Dining Commons

on the campus of Huntington University

from 7:45 to 9 a.m. The showcase will

feature Two EE’s Winery and Clear Ele-

vation.

The owners of Two EE’s Winery will

talk about the progress they have made at

their new venture near Roanoke while

Clear Elevation will share with the audi-

ence their business model. Two EE’s will

share more about the winery, some of the

events that take place at their location and

more. Clear Elevation is owned by Hunt-

ington University and Reusser Design

that specializes in web site development

for the small business.

If you are interested in learning more

about Two EE’s Winery and Clear Eleva-

tion, you are going to want to attend this

very informative and interesting break-

fast. Both businesses are from the

Roanoke community.

The cost of breakfast is $10 per per-

son. RSVP by calling the Chamber of

Commerce office at (260) 356-5300 or e-

mail skimmel@huntington-chamber.com

Chamber Breakfast scheduled for October 7

Foundation breakfast

to focus on economy

Page 4 Huntington County Chamber of Commerce October 2014

October 2014 Huntington County Chamber of Commerce Page 5

Thomas E. Carnes, CPA

430 N. Jefferson St., P.O. Box 266

Huntington, IN 46750-0266

tecarnes@carnescompanycpa.com

carnescompanycpa.com

“We Love Small Business”Tel: 260.356.8888

Fax: 260.356.8873

Welcome

New MembersAllen Business Machines

1816 S. Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Designs by Dinius909 S 100 E, Huntington, IN 46750

It Works447 Lowry Way, Roanoke, IN 46783

Stackmasters FXFWY01, 03, 04

Stackmasters FXINDY01, 02

Stackmasters FXKOK01, 02314 Eagle Court Drive, Ossian, IN 46714

Ryan Briggs

Business Account Executive

720 Taylor Street

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Office: 260-409-4473; Fax: 260-458-5256ryan.briggs@cable.comcast.com

www.business.comcast.com

The Chamber of Com-

merce will hold a Lunch

‘n Learn on Thursday, Oc-

tober 30 at 12 noon at the

Horace Mann Education

Center. The seminar will

present marketing and

public relations

strategy/tactic ideas for

small businesses.

Marketing and Public Relations 101 will help small busi-

nesses plan and implement marketing strategies. The presenter

will be Amy Mattox, account executive and marketing special-

ist from Clear Elevation, LLC.

Mattox will discuss two of the key aspects in successful mar-

keting and public relations campaigns which are research and

planning. They are also the two elements that typically get ig-

nored. Marketing is not magic. To be successful, it should in-

volve a carefully crafted strategy, measurable goals and

practical tactics. Those in attendance will gain practical steps to

move forward in their small business marketing and PR strate-

gies.

Participants should bring their laptop or favorite mobile de-

vice in order to apply what is learned as the seminar pro-

gresses. The cost to attend Marketing and Public Relations 101

is $10 for Chamber members and $15 for non-members. The

fee includes lunch.

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Thursday, October 30

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Networking BreakfastTuesday, October 7, 7:45 to 9 a.m.

Habecker Dining Commons at Huntington University

Chili Cook-OffHuntington County Council on Aging

Saturday, October 11, Noon to 3 p.m.

1450 West Park Drive

$5 allows you to try all the chili you want.

Work-Life Priorities SeminarWednesday, October 22, 8 to 11 a.m.

Victory Noll Center

1900 West Park Drive

Lunch ‘n LearnThursday, October 30, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Horace Mann Education Center

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