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Meetings and Special Events

- AMP Workshop for SOMWBA
- The Green Advantage
- Rich Morgan Photography Re-Opening
- Getting the Most Out of Your Employers
- Principles of Lean Manufacturing Workshop

The Green Advantage

Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Time: Continental Breakfast 9:15 a.m., Training 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Location: Metro South Chamber of Commerce
Cost: $10.00
To Register: Call Lisa Keene, 508.586.0500 x 25
Come and learn why companies need to start thinking about energy
costs and what can be done for cost savings now and in the future.
Register Online

• Investigate Small Wind and Solar Energy for your establishment
• Financial logic for implementing-Return on Investment
• Case studies of companies who have implemented these initiatives successfully,
could you be utility free in 5 years?
• Potential Cost savings long and short term
• Tax Breaks and State Rebate Programs
• List of resources to assist and programs for reimbursement costs

Rich Morgan Photography's Re-Opening

Tuesday, April 29, 12pm
26 Crescent Street, West Bridgewater, MA

If you would like to attend please email or call Kim, 508.586.0500 x 231

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EMPLOYEES

Date: Thursday May 15, 2008
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Where: MetroSouth Chamber Office, 60 School Street, Brockton
Cost: $25
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Are you getting what you expect from your employees in attitude and behavior?
Are they constantly positioning for credit when things go well?
Are they quick to pass blame when things do not?
Do you get the performance and results you expect?

What if everyone in your company:

Knew the business’s mission and their role in creating success?
Knew the priorities of the company and worked with a sense of urgency?
Gave freely to obtain goals, and were not concerned with who got the credit?
Consistently obtained attainable results?
Valued everyone’s ideas?
Openly shared feedback?
Had fun at work?

This is a two hour workshop that will give you a roadmap to get your company in alignment and start you on a path to creating this environment.

If you are a business owner with any number of employees or a senior level executive, this workshop is not to be missed.

Ken Cheo is a Principal with Winfree Business Growth Advisors “Results Guaranteed”. He helps business owners double and triple their sales by helping them to develop a results proven marketing and prospecting strategy, hiring top performers, implementing a selling system that gets results, keeping them accountable, and ongoing coaching and mentoring.

Jim Moniz is the Owner of NorthEast VisionLink, a member firm of the VisionLink Advisory Group. Jim and his team help companies use vision-linked incentive programs to achieve significantly higher levels of growth.

Principles of Lean Manufacturing Workshop
Presented by MassMEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership)

May 13, 2008
7:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Chamber Office, 60 School Street, Brockton
$125/person (Continental Breakfast will be provided)
To register, contact Kathie Mahoney at 508-831-7020 or kathiem@massmep.org.

Join us for a hands-on workshop that guides participants through the transition from a traditional manufacturing environment to a lean, world-class enterprise. By introducing and implementing Lean principles, your company can improve efficiencies, reduce waste, increase profitability and provide customers with high quality products at competitive prices. Companies that are interested in reducing their inventory, improving their overall quality, improving their on-time delivery performance, improving their productivity, and lowering their manufacturing costs should attend.