Installation of Officers, Awards Banquet & Strategic Planning

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Annual Meeting & Election of Officers

Thursday, May 06, 2010

A purposeful Career: Creating a Roadmap for Success
by Erin O'Hara Meyer, PHR

Thursday, April 01, 2010

To reflect on your own career path -- what you have accomplished and what you want to accomplish as you continue your journey of personal and professional achievement.

Learning Objectives:
Recognize the difference between “jobs” and “careers.”
Understand your options for personal and professional advancement.
Discover four career phases and how they affect you and your career progression.
Assess your personal motivators and determine your opportunities for career growth and enrichment.

When you derive satisfaction from your workplace contributions you likely experience personal reward and fulfillment. Maximize your job responsibilities in support of your career goals and desires.

Outlook Calendaring
by Cindy Wherley, President, MNRV

Thursday, March 04, 2010

General Health & Nutrition
by Dr. Meaghan Kirschling, DC, RN, MS, Synapse

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Dr. Meaghan Kirschling, DC, RN, MS completed her doctorate of chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN. Before and during chiropractic school, she worked for over five years as a Registered Nurse on the solid organ transplant floor at University of Minnesota Fairview hospital. Prior to that she obtained a Bachelors of Science in Nursing with a double major in Exercise Physiology from Valparaiso University in Indiana where she competitively swam for four years. She has also received her Masters in Nutrition from the University of Connecticut Bridgeport. She has also done extensive training in various chiropractic techniques as well as functional medicine and enzyme therapy. She enjoys working with patients of all age ranges and has a vast knowledge of numerous health conditions. She will be speaking for on the topic of general health and nutrition.

Identity Theft
by Dianne Cutter CEO, Northern Lights Intl

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Dianne Cutter CEO of Northern Lights Intl. (www.northernlightsintl.com) provides companies that range from small entrepreneurial companies to fortune 50 companies with a variety of products as services. Included in these services are identity theft and data breach training and products. Northern Lights provides training for organizations on how to minimize their risk of a data breach and tips for employees to minimize their risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. Additionally, Northern Lights has formed strategic partnerships with the global leaders in identity theft protection to provides employers with the most comprehensive identity theft protection products and services on the market for their employees at rates that are unavailable to the public.

Metro Lakes Council Holiday Event
by Radisson, Plymouth

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Email Management
by Laura Zacharda-Jones, CPS

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Open House
by Embassy Suites/Bloomington

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Open House Brochure

MNRV Moving Forward
by Cindy Wherley

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Chapter discussion on the 2009-2010 year.

Installation of Officers, Awards Banquet, and Strategic Planning Meeting

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Annual Chapter Meeting and Election of Officers

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Top Ten Networking Oopses...and How to Avoid Them
by Kathleen Watson, Client Connections

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Business today is all about building relationships that profit both parties. But how can you build and nurture a great relationship if people don’t even know you’re out there? Administrative professionals need to keep their networking skills just as sharp as a business owner does, because you never know when you’ll need to tap your network for professional or personal assistance. In this interactive session you’ll discover ten common networking blunders that can cost you both time and money; identify easy yet powerful strategies to avoid these mistakes; and set yourself apart from the competition. Kathleen Watson is the author of Net Profit: Business Networking Without the Nerves, as well as founder and principal of Client Connections. As a networking strategist, Kathleen helps clients make more connections—and better connections—by showing them how to be more strategic, intentional, and effective in their business networking.

Finding Your Passion
by Lucy Dotte', Life Coach LifeCoach4Today@msn.com

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Many of us with our busy lives are finding ourselves asking "Is that all there is?...I want more, but I don't know what more even looks like!" Discover what is important to you and begin the process of achieving it, one step at a time. The workshop will be fun, experiential and inspiration.

LinkedIn, Facebook, Delicious, Digg … Now What?
by Caroline Melberg

Thursday, February 05, 2009

How to leverage the power of Social Media Websites to improve your search engine ranking, increase visitors to YOUR Website and grow your sales! Did you received an e-mail saying, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” from a colleague? Have you read an article about Facebook and how others are using it for business? Whether you’ve signed-up for several of these sites, or are just wondering what all the fuss is about, you won’t want to miss our upcoming Social Media Optimization Workshop.

Why Don’t You Understand Me?
by Dick Mesenburg, Mesenburg Consulting

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Is there someone in your life who always want to change you? Are there others who often do and say things that seem to be simply wrong? Do you work with people who are either “jumping ahead” or “dragging anchor? This session will help you learn how to work effectively with these folks.

CANCELLED Holiday Celebration

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Go Green! Production in the Workplace ~ Work Responsibly
by Beverly Hansberry, Avery Dennison

Thursday, November 06, 2008

This seminar delivers timesaving tips, image-enhancing ideas and cost-saving options. It gives you: software and formatting solutions designed to help you make the most of your time, information to put professional polish on your mailings in a few steps, and tips for producing professional presentations and meeting materials. Plus much more! See how Avery makes formatting and printing your favorite Avery products easier than ever. Live software demonstrations of Avery wizard will show you the best options for quick and easy formatting. Discover how simple performing a mail merge can be! Also, view the latest in new products designed to save you time and money, while giving you that professional edge.

Making Forms, Templates and Tables in MS Word
by Helen Krone, New Horizons of Minnesota

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Join Helen Krone, senior instructor at New Horizons of Minnesota, for a one-hour seminar on Word 2003. The focus of this presentation will be on how to create forms in Microsoft Word; including using tables, form fields, and how to save your form as a template. In this session, you will learn valuable shortcuts for working more efficiently in Word. In addition, time will be reserved at the end of the session to allow for an open Q&A session.

Nine Big Investor Mistakes When Planning for Retirement
by Terri Buhrer, Wachovia Securities

Thursday, September 04, 2008

As you think about your investments for eventual retirement, do you know if your performance expectations are realistic? What about inflation? Taxes? How long can you expect to be retired? Come and get a better understanding of what you need to do so you can retire comfortably.

Installation of Officers, Awards Banquet, & Strategic Planning (6/5/08 5:30p)

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Annual Meeting & Election of Officers (5/2/08 5:30p)

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Admin Professional's Appreciation - Women's Health (4/3/08 5:30p)
by Physician from Fairview Hospitals & Clinics

Thursday, April 03, 2008

C. Jennifer Dankle, D.O.

Dr. Dankle earned her medical degree at Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Minnesota and she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular disease. She completed a Cardiovascular Fellowship at Aurora-Sinai/University of Wisconsin affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her focus is in the area of non-invasive cardiology including echocardiography and nuclear medicine.


Li Ge, M.D.

Dr. Ge studied medicine in People’s Republic of China. She served residencies at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and completed her hematology/ oncology fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital. She is board certified in medical oncology, hematology and internal medicine. Dr. Ge is passionate about oncology, especially breast, colon and lung cancer care. Dr. Ge believes healing is something she and her patients do together and prides herself on helping her patients look beyond their diagnosis and live life to its fullest once again. Dr. Ge is married with a young son and enjoys aerobics, playing table tennis and volleyball, and traveling.

Networking (3/6/08 5:30pm)
by Patrick Finnegan, Dale Carnegie

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Objectives:
- Networking and building relationships with confidence
- Apply Skills to make powerful impressions and communicate effortlessly
- Recognize the importance of and challenges to networking

Imagination Ink: Move through Resistance to Make Meaningful Change (2/7/08 5:30pm)
by Rosanne Bane

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Move through Resistance to Make Meaningful Change

Senior executives in Fortune 500 companies attribute resistance as the main reason that less than half the change initiatives in their organization succeed. As Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance writes, “We must realize that managing change means managing resistance as well. We must be able to anticipate resistance and learn to use its force to build support for change. But far too often we seem surprised when resistance appears, and not at all sure how to deal with it.”

Participants will have the opportunity to:
· Find out what’s going on the brain that causes the feelings of resistance
· Learn to recognize and identify the 6 common forms of resistance
· Practice the 4 Step Method to move through resistance
· Explore techniques that reduce the frequency, intensity and duration of “amygdala hijackings” that give rise to resistance

Event & Meeting Planning (1/3/08 5:30pm)
by Tracey Smith, CMP, CMM and Diane Pearson, CMP

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Diane Pearson, CMP, founded Event BizNiz, a Meeting and Event Management Company, in March of 2005. She plans all aspects of meetings and special events out of her home office or steps into her client’s corporate office to assist in planning. Diane stumbled on a niche market since starting her company. In the last two years, she has temporarily replaced five different corporate planners while they were on maternity leave.

Prior to 2005, Diane worked as an event planner at U.S. Bank. For six years she planned sales meetings, client appreciation events, golf tournaments, incentive travel programs and employee gatherings… all as an event department of one. Diane understands the challenges and various responsibilities of an administrative assistant as she was the admin to the Marketing Manager and President of Piper Capital Management. Planning meetings was one of the many responsibilities of that position.

Diane has a blog at www.independentplanners.net to share ideas with her peers. Clients include corporations such as Allied Solutions, Piper Jaffray, Boston Scientific, Universal Hospital Services, and GE Healthcare.


Tracey B Smith, CMP, CMM discovered the meetings industry in 1989. Prior, she had organized retail marketing events and college-level conferences. After joining the high tech world as a tech writer, Tracey soon began working in the Marketing Department managing trade shows, sales meetings, and a small user conference.

She managed the Events Programming department for Thomson RIA from 1992 through 2004, directing the tax automation software company’s annual user conferences and sales meetings. In 2005, she founded Tracey Smith Events/Marketing and sat for the global Certification in Meeting Management. Tracey worked with various organizations on their events, including the first-ever Eco Experience, an ecology-themed exhibition at the Minnesota State Fair, visited by more then 350,000 people.

In September 2006, Tracey joined Garrett Speakers International, Inc. (GSI), a Dallas-based professional speaker bureau, as Vice President of Business Development and manager of the Minneapolis office. GSI helps meeting planners find the perfect speakers for their events and programs, which fulfills Tracey's passion for developing top-notch programming that delivers a return on investment.

Change: Are You Surviving? or Thriving? Be Your Own Brand! An Interactive Experience 12/6/07 5:30pm
by Kit Welchlin, Welchlin Comm. Strategies

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Kit R. Welchlin is a high-energy speaker who utilizes a variety of proven approaches and techniques that truly motivate listeners. Kit teaches participants how to apply practical strategies to enhance their personal and professional lives.

As a professional speaker, Kit draws from his years of business management experience and communication expertise, and shares practical strategies that address the issues we all face at work.

Clients appreciate that Kit takes the initiative to tailor presentations to meet their specific needs. Participants enjoy Kit’s sense of humor, speaking competence, and the powerful and positive message he delivers.

Change is becoming the norm and to resist it can ruin your career. Frankly, the world only rewards those who catch on to what’s happening, who invest energy in finding and seizing the opportunities brought by change. Meet the challenge. Be your own brand!

You will learn:
·Three key drivers of change
·Thirteen big mistakes in managing transitions
·Thirteen guidelines for managing your job during radical change

Your Nest Egg - Personal Finances (11/01/07 5:30pm)
by Terri Buhrer, A.G. Edwards

Thursday, November 01, 2007

We‘re going to discuss taking control of your financial future by exploring the topic, "What‘s Your Nest Egg Score?".

Attendees can learn where their wealth building activities stand relative to the nation as a whole. We will look at several ways to improve it, discussing financial objectives, time horizons, risk and worry. We‘ll talk about developing a strategy, and the pros and cons of cash, stocks and bonds. What I do is take care of nest eggs! Many of my clients are women; I understand and relate to their challenges and frustrations, and I encourage them to take control of their money. (Link to Website)

Power Point Presentation Tips (10/11/07 5:30pm)
by Sue Stoen, Spoken Impact

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Think Outside the Slide! Tips and Techniques to Design Fabulous PowerPoint Presentations, because PowerPoint isn't just bullet points anymore.

PowerPoint has clearly become the standard in presentation software. This tool has made it possible for people to put together presentations easily and inexpensively. But, how often do we resort to slides of bullet points to get our message across? Unfortunately, bullet points aren't what people remember. What your audience will remember are visual images that help explain your points. So how can you jazz up your slides and transform them from ordinary to extraordinary? More importantly, how can you create slides that accurately and professionally communicate your business message – not just incorporate the tricks of PowerPoint? The answer is to get visual.

This talk will share 12 different methods for creating more exciting and memorable PowerPoint slides. Using "before" and "after" business samples, we'll show you how we applied these techniques and how you can use these same ideas on your presentations. Be prepared to move beyond the basics and start thinking outside the slide!

Sailing Thru Your Holiday Mailings (9/6/07 5:30pm)
by Gil Castaneda, Avery Dennison

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Business Solutions: Find the tools, solutions and Avery products to make your business environment successful!

The Q4 creative leverages the insight that consumers are very busy in the Fall with holidays and work, but want to pull everything together seamlessly. Avery helps by offering the easiest, most hassle free mailing experience.

Installation of Officers, Awards Banquet, and Strategic Planning Meeting
by Special Guest: Claire Edmundson

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Claire works with clients primarily in the sales, service and leadership development capacities. With a leadership background in customer service operations and training, as well as in sales and marketing management, Claire leverages her more than 18 years’ of experience working directly with customers in client service and Account Management roles to help companies define and deliver outstanding results through their people. Key areas of experience and expertise include: coaching and leadership development, presentation delivery, sales and customer service effectiveness, quality improvement, and communication.

Annual Meeting and Election of Officers

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Vote for 2007-2008 Board Choose and Instruct Delegates for Division Annual Meeting and International Convention Installation of New Members Approval of Programs for 2007-2008 Review of Previous Year President Farewell

Administrative Professional's IMPACT
by Gil Castaneda, Avery Dennison

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Business Solutions: Find the tools, solutions and Avery products to make your business environment successful!

Gil Castaneda has been with Avery Dennison for 20 years educating consumers in office products. In addition he holds both a BS and MBA Business Degrees. We think you’ll enjoy and benefit from Avery’s special seminar for administrative professionals on April 5, 2007.

Event & Meeting Planning Panel
by Diane Pearson, CMP & Tracey Smith, CMP, CMM

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Our two panelist have professional meeting planning expertise. Diane and Tracey will present on Meeting & Event Planning with many helpful tips and resourses including: principles of meeting planning, resources and education, and professionalism. They will take questions from the floor after their presentation.

Diane Pearson, CMP, founded Event BizNiz, a Meeting and Event Management Company, in March of 2005. She plans all aspects of meetings and special events out of her home office or steps into her client’s corporate office to assist in planning. Diane stumbled on a niche market since starting her company. In the last two years, she has temporarily replaced five different corporate planners while they were on maternity leave.

Prior to 2005, Diane worked as an event planner at U.S. Bank. For six years she planned sales meetings, client appreciation events, golf tournaments, incentive travel programs and employee gatherings… all as an event department of one. Diane understands the challenges and various responsibilities of an administrative assistant as she was the admin to the Marketing Manager and President of Piper Capital Management. Planning meetings was one of the many responsibilities of that position.

Diane has a blog at www.independentplanners.net to share ideas with her peers. Clients include corporations such as Allied Solutions, Piper Jaffray, Boston Scientific, Universal Hospital Services, and GE Healthcare.


Tracey B Smith, CMP, CMM discovered the meetings industry in 1989. Prior, she had organized retail marketing events and college-level conferences. After joining the high tech world as a tech writer, Tracey soon began working in the Marketing Department managing trade shows, sales meetings, and a small user conference.

She managed the Events Programming department for Thomson RIA from 1992 through 2004, directing the tax automation software company’s annual user conferences and sales meetings. In 2005, she founded Tracey Smith Events/Marketing and sat for the global Certification in Meeting Management. Tracey worked with various organizations on their events, including the first-ever Eco Experience, an ecology-themed exhibition at the Minnesota State Fair, visited by more then 350,000 people.

In September 2006, Tracey joined Garrett Speakers International, Inc. (GSI), a Dallas-based professional speaker bureau, as Vice President of Business Development and manager of the Minneapolis office. GSI helps meeting planners find the perfect speakers for their events and programs, which fulfills Tracey's passion for developing top-notch programming that delivers a return on investment.

Office of the Future
by Keith Conrad, Office Team

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Office of the Future: 2020

The Evolution of the Workplace and the Skills Needed to Succeed.

OfficeTeam embarked on an ambitious project called "Office of the Future: 2020" to identify major trends and technologies shaping the administrative profession. Join us to hear several key findings.

Embracing Change
by Barb Greenberg, Author & Speaker

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Because of the powerful response to her book, Hope Grew Round Me, Barb is being asked to share her story with us. This strong, proud and focused woman we see today has come a long way from being a high school "wall flower." Barb did not grow up longing to write like so many people do. So, she feels blessed to have discovered this passion in her 50s. Loving her new career as a speaker and an author, Barb is working on her next book. She says, "It's wonderful to know there are always new gifts to be found in life." Barb lives in the Minneapolis area with her cat, Buster, and, of course, she still rides horses! She has two healthy daughters who live successful lives today. Her dream for them - shared by many mothers - is that they never live one moment feeling broken, damaged, unappreciated, or unfulfilled.

Where There's A Will, There's A Way - Estate Planning Made Easy
by Joseph G. Thompson, Robin Thompson & Doyle

Thursday, December 07, 2006

The things you do not know, and the things you refuse to do, can hurt your family for years after you die. This estate planning presentation will focus on a broad range of issues from simple to complex, personal and financial, that all families will face upon our death or the death of a loved one. Many people meticulously try to avoid these issues, and that can create even more work for the legal profession (Thank you!). With candor, insights, an easy to understand approach and a little humor, we will focus on the best way to plan and to help your family survive the stress and grief of losing you.

MINNESOTA HELPERS
Mary Gray will be speaking for 8-10 minutes before Joe on behalf of MinnesotaHelpers.

MinnesotaHelpers has worked diligently to provide emergency relief supplies to Katrina survivors throughout the Gulf region. Many families chose not to relocate and to remain in their damaged communities. Our long-distance relief efforts urgently need your help Minnesota! www.MinnesotaHelpers.org

Life is an Amazing Journey, Go First Class!
by Joyce Nelson-Shellhart

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Joyce shoots straight from the hip and has a dual business vision to both help entry level business women and to inspire others by sharing her personal trials and triumphs. Her book blends her personal story with hard hitting practical lists and dos and don’ts for the professional that is the “front door” image of a company.

Joyce asks her audience to travel with her on a personal journey. With humor and honesty she confronts the choices she made that kept her traveling through life in the baggage compartment. Audiences enthusiastically accept her message of hope and personal responsibility in choosing how we travel this life. This motivational speech is based on Joyce's life journey through an abusive marriage, MS, single low-income mom to social entrepreneur, writer and professional speaker.

Communication Styles
by Denise Franck Aboody, D.Franck & Assoc.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Denise joins us as a leadership coach, motivational speaker, teambuilder and volunteer. She has over a decade of experience in people development, inclusive of 15 years of Operations, Training and Leadership Development. She is the founder of D.Franck & Associates, a people development company that specializes in Development Coaching, Teambuilding and Motivational Speaking. She has worked all over the United States and in eight other countries.

Learning Objectives and Outline:

1. Learn the Work STYLE of self

Discover who we are

Discuss personality STYLES at work

Describe how STYLES operate

2. Learn the Work STYLE of others

Describe how to read another

Activity around like STYLES

3. Understanding how Adaptability affects Work

Discuss how we affect one another

Appreciating the differences

Working effectively with others

Leadership in the 21st Century
by Lisa Hogan CPS, President - MN-ND-SD Division

Thursday, September 07, 2006

What is a leader? It's the willingness to embrace responsibility. It means you step up to the plate and say "I want to be a leader!" Don't let that scare you as leaders are not born they are made. Leadership in the 21st Century will assist members in realizing their individual potential as a leader within a volunteer organization - specifically IAAP - as well as in the workplace. The objectives of the seminar are as follows:

• Who has leadership potential?
• Reasons to be a leader
• The characteristics and skills of a good leader
• Identify skills helpful to be an IAAP leader
• IAAP roles and structure

Installation Ceremony
by Renee Raun CPS/CAP, President, SouthWest Metro

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Global Etiquette – Presented by Debi Cain – Rivord CPS/CAP

In the past decade, business has changed drastically. Not only is it faster than ever, but it is now truly a global market.

“Global Etiquette” will help explain the differences between countries in the areas of:

• Making Appointments
• Business Dress
• Conversation
• Addressing People
• Gift Giving
• Negotiating
• Entertaining
• Public Behavior

Speaker Profile
Before beginning her career in the administrative area, Debi worked a myriad of jobs…from baker to cook to deli manager. From there she did housecleaning, filing, data entry, Medicare reimbursement, reception and secretarial work. Debi currently works for Novartis Nutrition as a Sr. Executive Assistant to the Global VP of R&D. Novartis Nutrition is best known for their retail products, such as Boost and Ovaltine. Debi holds an Associate Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Superior, as well as the CPS and CAP ratings. She was the 2001-2002 President of the TwinCities West Chapter and 2004-2005 President of the MN-ND-SD Division of IAAP.

IAAP: What every member should know...
by Val King CPS, President, MN-ND-SD Division

Thursday, May 04, 2006

This seminar will revisit the basics of what every good member should know, from the correct way to make a motion during a business meeting, to unearthing some of those "unwritten" rules/traditions that guide our organization. Come, learn something new, or be reintroduced to ideas you don't even remember you forgot!