October 2012 - Overland Park
2012-2013 Chapter Officers / Board Members President: Michele Bohnen, CAP-OM Vice President: Erin Bolton, CAP-OM Secretary: Karen Sutter
October 2012 Issue November Chapter Meeting (Meadowbrook Country Club) Tuesday, November 6, 2012 "Networking" Speaker: Fared Adib, SVP Product Development and Operations, Sprint December Chapter Meeting
Treasurer: Debbie Nash
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Holiday Fun and Team Building
Director: Patty Steck, FSSM
** Waddell & Reed/Ivy Funds 6301 Glenwood Overland Park 66201 **
Parliamentarian: Barb Slagle, CAP In This Issue: President’s Letter
2
Words of Wisdom from Patty Steck
3
Trivia Night Fundraiser
4
Get a Jump on EFAM
4
Scenes From Trivia Night
5
Misc. and Upcoming Events
6
RSVPs are due by the Friday prior to each meeting. You may RSVP at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? formkey=dDFLeTY2ZW45NVMzd1RGUkVDamh0N2c6MQ or by emailing Erin Bolton, Vice President, at [email protected] NOTE: If you RSVP and cannot attend or get someone to take your place, you will receive an invoice for the $20 meeting fee, $10 for students. Our charitable opportunities are: ✓ Support our Soldiers (see website for full listing) ✓ Avery Box Tops for Education (see website for full listing of where to find box tops) Remember, you get an extra door prize ticket for donations you make to each charity.
** December Meeting Location ** Waddell & Reed/Ivy Funds 6301 Glenwood Overland Park 66201
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 2
From the Desk of our Chapter President:
It has been a fast-paced start for the Johnson County chapter. Since the inception (1/1/2012) of the 70/70 plan for IAAP’s 70th anniversary, our chapter has added 18 new members. I hope all of you are taking advantage of this great opportunity and inviting all your friends and colleagues to join. Where else can you join a professional organization for $85, especially one with so many professional growth opportunities? For those of you who missed our October meeting, you missed a great program. This was our annual executive night where we invited our executives to join us so they can see what our organization is providing to their assistants. Ceci and team did an excellent job making the evening a huge success. Our speaker, Sandy Price, spoke on mentoring. Her antidotes about the various mentors in her life, ones you wouldn’t actually think were mentors, taught her many things along her journey to becoming the SVP of Human Resources at Sprint. It was a wonderful evening, and for those who attended, when you see Ceci, please let her know what a great job she and her team did. On October 12 we held our first Trivia Night fundraising event. The evening was a success, not only providing fun and frivolity for all who attended, but also raising $1000.00 for our chapter! Our first mock exam was held Saturday, October 13. Certification Chair, Donna DeGarmo, CAP-OM, has been working hard to get the next group of members ready to take the exams. That takes us to our next meeting, Tuesday, November 6. Be sure to vote before you come, but come for a great night. Our speaker is Fared Adib, Sprint SVP Product Development and Operations. He will speak to us on networking -- something I know I need to learn more about. If you haven’t been to a meeting this year, please plan to stop by, let’s continue to break attendance records. See you there! Michele
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 3
A Flash of Festive Flare and Inspiring thoughts from your Director, Patty Steck 10 Practical Ways to Improve Yourself 1. Maintain a positive attitude. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. The mind must believe it can do something before it is capable of actually doing it, so be aware of your mental self-talk. We all talk silently to ourselves in our heads, but we aren’t always conscious of what we’re saying or how it’s affecting us. Start listening to your thoughts. If you hear negative thoughts, stop for a second and replace them with positive thoughts. As the Dalai Lama once said, “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.” 2. Be kind to yourself. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend? The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. You must love who you are or no one else will. 3. Help others when you are able. In life, you get what you put in. When you make a positive impact in someone else’s life, you also make a positive impact in your own life. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Love and kindness begets love and kindness. 4. Stretch your comfort zone by trying new things. Doing the same exact thing every day hinders self-growth. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Growth happens when you change things – when you try new things – when you stretch beyond your comfort zone. 5. Create and pursue S.M.A.R.T. goals. Successful people are objective. They have realistic targets in mind. They know what they are looking for and why they are fighting for it. Successful people create and pursue S.M.A.R.T. goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely). When you identify S.M.A.R.T. goals that are truly important to you, you become motivated to figure out ways to attain them. You develop the necessary attitude, abilities, and skills. You can achieve almost any goal you set if you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that once seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. 6. Make your own needs a priority. Stop putting your needs on the back burner. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Yes, help others; but help yourself too. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now. 7. Stop procrastinating. Start taking action and making changes. Action and change are often resisted when they’re needed most. Get a hold of yourself and have discipline. Discipline is choosing what you really want over what you want right now. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier. What we don’t start today won’t be finished by tomorrow. And there’s nothing more stressful than the perpetual lingering of an unfinished task. 8. Forgive people and move forward. Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the remedy. It doesn’t mean you’re erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It means you’re letting go of the resentment and pain, and instead choosing to learn from the incident and move on with your life. Remember, the less time you spend hating the people who hurt you, the more time you’ll have to love the people who love you. 9. Express gratitude. When you appreciate what you have, what you have appreciates in value. Kind of cool right? So basically, being grateful for the goodness that is already evident in your life will bring you a deeper sense of happiness. And that’s without having to go out and buy anything. It makes sense. We’re going to have a hard time ever being happy if we aren’t thankful for what we already have. 10.Stop caring about what everyone else wants for you. Unfortunately, just before you take your first step on the righteous journey to pursue your dreams, people around you, even the ones who deeply care for you, will usually give you awful advice. It’s not because they have evil intentions. It’s because they don’t understand the big picture – what your dreams, passions and life goals mean to you. They don’t understand that, to you, the reward is worth the risk. So they try to protect you by shielding you from the possibility of failure, which, in effect, also shields you from the possibility of making your dreams a reality.
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 4
Trivia Night Fundraiser! October 12: Shawnee, KS: It was a damp, chilly evening in Shawnee, but inside a restaurant that typically only serves breakfast the ambience was warm, welcoming, and a bit rowdy. As the crowd filed in, curiosity about how the game would play out was soon replaced with team collaboration, competitive deliberation, and intense concentration as the first question was posed - the challenge was on! When answers were given after each round, high fives, heavy groans, and jubilant cheers filled the room. “I told you so”, “way to go team”, or “huh?” was heard at most tables. Like the “ring card girls” do at wrestling matches, team scores were paraded around the room after rounds, and the continued push for victory was apparent and mounting! With categories like “My Mother The Car”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “uno, dos, tres”, who really knew the most about everything (and nothing, really)? Ten teams, ten rounds, and MANY winners!
-
Official team winner: Carol Love’s team of geniuses with a near perfect score!
-
MANY raffle winners: Gift cards from Panera, Eggtc., Minsky’s, adorable Halloween-themed centerpieces, hand made by Renee States, and a CASH prize from our 50/50 pot to our own Anita Weida!
-
And the big winner … (drum roll) ... our chapter with $1000 event profit!
Thanks to all who rallied their family, friends, and neighbors to come join the fun and contribute to Johnson County IAAP.
Get A Jump On EFAM 2013 Room block reservations open September 1 for the 2013 Education Forum and Annual Meeting July 27-31 at the Marriott Anaheim hotel in Anaheim, California. Secure your spot at the world's most important annual gathering of office professionals. All EFAM 2013 sessions, social events, and Office Expo will be held at the Marriott Anaheim hotel. You'll be right in the center of the action! The Marriott Anaheim includes 1,030 comfortable rooms, 100,000-square-feet of meeting space, four restaurants, a coffeehouse, a fitness center and an outdoor pool. The hotel is also just a couple minutes walk to Disneyland® Park and the Downtown Disneyland® District, an outdoor promenade with restaurants, theaters and shopping in a tropical setting. You’ll also be near the Anaheim GardenWalk, an oasis of outdoor shopping, dining and entertainment in the heart of Orange County. EFAM 2013 registration will open in October. Reserve your room today at https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=9974275.
The Analecta Scenes From the Trivia Night Fundraiser
October 2012 ~ Page 5
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 6
“You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.” Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners)
October IAAP Birthdays: 3 Margie Paxon 8 Deborah Nash 16 Kathy Schmalz 22 Dalal Englin 24 Patty Steck
October IAAP Anniversaries: 2004 Karen Herrington, CAP-OM 2006 Shelli Mundziak, CAP 2007 Brenda Rinehart, CAP-OM
Upcoming Events/Deadlines! IAAP Futures Conference, March 15, Anaheim, CA. More info. can be found at www.iaaphq.org Technology Education Conference (TEC), March 17, Anaheim, CA. More info. can be found at www.iaap-hq.org *For details about these and other IAAP events, go to www.iaap-johnsoncounty.org/ JohnsonCounty/MeetingsEvents/OtherEvents
Visit our chapter’s website for the latest updates: http://www.iaap-johnsoncounty.org/IAAPHQ/JohnsonCounty/Home Check out our chapter’s fan page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IAAP-Johnson-County-Kansas-Chapter/229015876623?ref=sgm Submit newsletter photos, articles, events, or suggestions for the newsletter to: [email protected] Your comments and feedback are always appreciated. Thanks from the editorial staff. Thanks for reading the e-newsletter. Please conserve our resources. Print as necessary. Newsletter Chair: Cindy DuMortier, CAP ~ Co-chair: Erin Bolton, CAP-OM ~ Copy Editor: Donna DeGarmo, CAP-OM
October 2012 Issue November Chapter Meeting (Meadowbrook Country Club) Tuesday, November 6, 2012 "Networking" Speaker: Fared Adib, SVP Product Development and Operations, Sprint December Chapter Meeting
Treasurer: Debbie Nash
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Holiday Fun and Team Building
Director: Patty Steck, FSSM
** Waddell & Reed/Ivy Funds 6301 Glenwood Overland Park 66201 **
Parliamentarian: Barb Slagle, CAP In This Issue: President’s Letter
2
Words of Wisdom from Patty Steck
3
Trivia Night Fundraiser
4
Get a Jump on EFAM
4
Scenes From Trivia Night
5
Misc. and Upcoming Events
6
RSVPs are due by the Friday prior to each meeting. You may RSVP at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? formkey=dDFLeTY2ZW45NVMzd1RGUkVDamh0N2c6MQ or by emailing Erin Bolton, Vice President, at [email protected] NOTE: If you RSVP and cannot attend or get someone to take your place, you will receive an invoice for the $20 meeting fee, $10 for students. Our charitable opportunities are: ✓ Support our Soldiers (see website for full listing) ✓ Avery Box Tops for Education (see website for full listing of where to find box tops) Remember, you get an extra door prize ticket for donations you make to each charity.
** December Meeting Location ** Waddell & Reed/Ivy Funds 6301 Glenwood Overland Park 66201
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 2
From the Desk of our Chapter President:
It has been a fast-paced start for the Johnson County chapter. Since the inception (1/1/2012) of the 70/70 plan for IAAP’s 70th anniversary, our chapter has added 18 new members. I hope all of you are taking advantage of this great opportunity and inviting all your friends and colleagues to join. Where else can you join a professional organization for $85, especially one with so many professional growth opportunities? For those of you who missed our October meeting, you missed a great program. This was our annual executive night where we invited our executives to join us so they can see what our organization is providing to their assistants. Ceci and team did an excellent job making the evening a huge success. Our speaker, Sandy Price, spoke on mentoring. Her antidotes about the various mentors in her life, ones you wouldn’t actually think were mentors, taught her many things along her journey to becoming the SVP of Human Resources at Sprint. It was a wonderful evening, and for those who attended, when you see Ceci, please let her know what a great job she and her team did. On October 12 we held our first Trivia Night fundraising event. The evening was a success, not only providing fun and frivolity for all who attended, but also raising $1000.00 for our chapter! Our first mock exam was held Saturday, October 13. Certification Chair, Donna DeGarmo, CAP-OM, has been working hard to get the next group of members ready to take the exams. That takes us to our next meeting, Tuesday, November 6. Be sure to vote before you come, but come for a great night. Our speaker is Fared Adib, Sprint SVP Product Development and Operations. He will speak to us on networking -- something I know I need to learn more about. If you haven’t been to a meeting this year, please plan to stop by, let’s continue to break attendance records. See you there! Michele
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 3
A Flash of Festive Flare and Inspiring thoughts from your Director, Patty Steck 10 Practical Ways to Improve Yourself 1. Maintain a positive attitude. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. The mind must believe it can do something before it is capable of actually doing it, so be aware of your mental self-talk. We all talk silently to ourselves in our heads, but we aren’t always conscious of what we’re saying or how it’s affecting us. Start listening to your thoughts. If you hear negative thoughts, stop for a second and replace them with positive thoughts. As the Dalai Lama once said, “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.” 2. Be kind to yourself. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend? The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. You must love who you are or no one else will. 3. Help others when you are able. In life, you get what you put in. When you make a positive impact in someone else’s life, you also make a positive impact in your own life. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Love and kindness begets love and kindness. 4. Stretch your comfort zone by trying new things. Doing the same exact thing every day hinders self-growth. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Growth happens when you change things – when you try new things – when you stretch beyond your comfort zone. 5. Create and pursue S.M.A.R.T. goals. Successful people are objective. They have realistic targets in mind. They know what they are looking for and why they are fighting for it. Successful people create and pursue S.M.A.R.T. goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely). When you identify S.M.A.R.T. goals that are truly important to you, you become motivated to figure out ways to attain them. You develop the necessary attitude, abilities, and skills. You can achieve almost any goal you set if you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that once seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. 6. Make your own needs a priority. Stop putting your needs on the back burner. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Yes, help others; but help yourself too. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now. 7. Stop procrastinating. Start taking action and making changes. Action and change are often resisted when they’re needed most. Get a hold of yourself and have discipline. Discipline is choosing what you really want over what you want right now. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier. What we don’t start today won’t be finished by tomorrow. And there’s nothing more stressful than the perpetual lingering of an unfinished task. 8. Forgive people and move forward. Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the remedy. It doesn’t mean you’re erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It means you’re letting go of the resentment and pain, and instead choosing to learn from the incident and move on with your life. Remember, the less time you spend hating the people who hurt you, the more time you’ll have to love the people who love you. 9. Express gratitude. When you appreciate what you have, what you have appreciates in value. Kind of cool right? So basically, being grateful for the goodness that is already evident in your life will bring you a deeper sense of happiness. And that’s without having to go out and buy anything. It makes sense. We’re going to have a hard time ever being happy if we aren’t thankful for what we already have. 10.Stop caring about what everyone else wants for you. Unfortunately, just before you take your first step on the righteous journey to pursue your dreams, people around you, even the ones who deeply care for you, will usually give you awful advice. It’s not because they have evil intentions. It’s because they don’t understand the big picture – what your dreams, passions and life goals mean to you. They don’t understand that, to you, the reward is worth the risk. So they try to protect you by shielding you from the possibility of failure, which, in effect, also shields you from the possibility of making your dreams a reality.
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 4
Trivia Night Fundraiser! October 12: Shawnee, KS: It was a damp, chilly evening in Shawnee, but inside a restaurant that typically only serves breakfast the ambience was warm, welcoming, and a bit rowdy. As the crowd filed in, curiosity about how the game would play out was soon replaced with team collaboration, competitive deliberation, and intense concentration as the first question was posed - the challenge was on! When answers were given after each round, high fives, heavy groans, and jubilant cheers filled the room. “I told you so”, “way to go team”, or “huh?” was heard at most tables. Like the “ring card girls” do at wrestling matches, team scores were paraded around the room after rounds, and the continued push for victory was apparent and mounting! With categories like “My Mother The Car”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “uno, dos, tres”, who really knew the most about everything (and nothing, really)? Ten teams, ten rounds, and MANY winners!
-
Official team winner: Carol Love’s team of geniuses with a near perfect score!
-
MANY raffle winners: Gift cards from Panera, Eggtc., Minsky’s, adorable Halloween-themed centerpieces, hand made by Renee States, and a CASH prize from our 50/50 pot to our own Anita Weida!
-
And the big winner … (drum roll) ... our chapter with $1000 event profit!
Thanks to all who rallied their family, friends, and neighbors to come join the fun and contribute to Johnson County IAAP.
Get A Jump On EFAM 2013 Room block reservations open September 1 for the 2013 Education Forum and Annual Meeting July 27-31 at the Marriott Anaheim hotel in Anaheim, California. Secure your spot at the world's most important annual gathering of office professionals. All EFAM 2013 sessions, social events, and Office Expo will be held at the Marriott Anaheim hotel. You'll be right in the center of the action! The Marriott Anaheim includes 1,030 comfortable rooms, 100,000-square-feet of meeting space, four restaurants, a coffeehouse, a fitness center and an outdoor pool. The hotel is also just a couple minutes walk to Disneyland® Park and the Downtown Disneyland® District, an outdoor promenade with restaurants, theaters and shopping in a tropical setting. You’ll also be near the Anaheim GardenWalk, an oasis of outdoor shopping, dining and entertainment in the heart of Orange County. EFAM 2013 registration will open in October. Reserve your room today at https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=9974275.
The Analecta Scenes From the Trivia Night Fundraiser
October 2012 ~ Page 5
The Analecta
October 2012 ~ Page 6
“You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.” Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners)
October IAAP Birthdays: 3 Margie Paxon 8 Deborah Nash 16 Kathy Schmalz 22 Dalal Englin 24 Patty Steck
October IAAP Anniversaries: 2004 Karen Herrington, CAP-OM 2006 Shelli Mundziak, CAP 2007 Brenda Rinehart, CAP-OM
Upcoming Events/Deadlines! IAAP Futures Conference, March 15, Anaheim, CA. More info. can be found at www.iaaphq.org Technology Education Conference (TEC), March 17, Anaheim, CA. More info. can be found at www.iaap-hq.org *For details about these and other IAAP events, go to www.iaap-johnsoncounty.org/ JohnsonCounty/MeetingsEvents/OtherEvents
Visit our chapter’s website for the latest updates: http://www.iaap-johnsoncounty.org/IAAPHQ/JohnsonCounty/Home Check out our chapter’s fan page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IAAP-Johnson-County-Kansas-Chapter/229015876623?ref=sgm Submit newsletter photos, articles, events, or suggestions for the newsletter to: [email protected] Your comments and feedback are always appreciated. Thanks from the editorial staff. Thanks for reading the e-newsletter. Please conserve our resources. Print as necessary. Newsletter Chair: Cindy DuMortier, CAP ~ Co-chair: Erin Bolton, CAP-OM ~ Copy Editor: Donna DeGarmo, CAP-OM
