CCEA Professional Development Summit
This is a Chamber of Commerce Executives of Alberta event.
Join us in Rocky Mountain House on July 10-12, 2024 for the CCEA Professional Development Summit!
Please bring a gift from your local community (value $20) for the White Elephant gift exchange on Wednesday, July 10.
Here's a sneak peek of our conference highlights. Download the full draft conference program here.
The Importance of Employment Contracts
Keynote Speaker: Darcy Michaud, HR Covered
In Canada, businesses and NFP's have leverage on just two things: employment contracts and the compliant policy manual. Beyond that, the laws and policies in this country are stacked in favour of the employee. During this talk, Darcy will explore the risks of not having proper contracts. This includes contracts that have not been updated to reflect recent common law rules in Canada. He will also discuss what proper contracts should include.
Table Talk: Chamber Management, Events & Communications & Membership
In small groups, you’ll have 15 minutes each to discuss trends, opportunities and challenges with chamber management, events & communications and membership. We’ll spend the final 15-minutes sharing best practices and ideas as a group.
Leveraging Your Strengths
Keynote Speaker: Michael Snyders, Future Focus Inc.
In this keynote presentation, Michael will present a simple concept to leverage your natural leadership strengths that will have a measurable impact on your efficiency, engagement, and purpose, as a leader in our business communities. During the presentation you will also learn ways that you can bring this concept into your teams that will vastly improve the group dynamic, engagement, and performance within your teams and supporting your members.
Topics include:
- Leveraging strengths for personal & team success
- Identify how strengths connect to our interests
- Optimize time spent in your strength zone
- Examine how this approach will help enhance team performance
- Take-away tool to implement strategy within your teams to enhance their collective strengths
Learn how these Chamber pros are successfully generating thousands of dollars a year in non-dues revenue for their Chamber though Chambers Plan.
The Importance Of The Visitor Economy & Why Managing It Matters
Keynote speaker: Austin Weaver
Throughout the nation Chamber of Commerce associations are entrusted to provide services to communities and businesses integral to the sustained management of the local visitor economy. In this presentation you will learn about the economic and social value it brings to a community as well as key steps to incubate or manage this billion-dollar industry. We will also explore the distinction between destination marketing and destination management, revealing why both are important in new/emerging destinations.
Focus Executive Attention To Unlock Your Chamber's Value
Keynote speaker: Derek Hudson, Unconstrained
Often an organization's largest constraint is the executive's attention. As demands on management’s time become more frequent and more challenging an organization can become stuck. Together we'll help you step back, see your organization as a system, and find the key leverage points upon which to focus your precious/limited attention.
Maximizing Membership Growth Through Engagement and Tailored Support
Keynote speaker: Karen Hastie, Chamber Perks App
Chambers of Commerce play a crucial role in fostering local business communities. However, Chambers must improve their engagement with business members and employees to maximize membership growth. Chambers must deeply understand their members' needs and provide tailored support to achieve this. This presentation outlines the importance of these strategies and offers actionable steps for Chambers to serve their members effectively.
Why Getting To Know Your Members Matters!
Enhanced Member Engagement:
- Build Stronger Relationships: Knowing your members fosters stronger, more meaningful relationships.
- Increase Participation: Engaged members are more likely to attend events, renew memberships, and advocate for the Chamber.
- Meet Specific Needs: Customized programs and resources address the unique challenges of each member.
- Boost Member Satisfaction: Tailored support leads to higher satisfaction and member success.
- Attract New Members: A reputation for personalized service attracts new businesses to join.
- Retain Existing Members: Meeting member needs ensures long-term retention and loyalty.
Unstoppable Influence: What's Required When The Stakes Are High
Keynote speaker: Kevin Gangel, Unstoppable Conversations
Does everything seem like it’s moving faster and faster, you have more and more to do, increasingly conflicting priorities, and the need to influence more and more people with less and less time?
Are the people around you so distracted and overwhelmed that they can’t seem to hear your message?
We think that influence comes from our position, authority, logic, or eloquence. But what if influence is a particular use of language? What if influence is a way to listen, to discover the hidden purpose that people have which they don’t know how to say, and then to speak in a way that they can see the future they want actually being fulfilled?
- You’ll learn to listen in new ways to both what people are actually saying and hear what they are leaving unsaid.
- You’ll see how to discover hidden commitments people have that drive their communication and positions.
- You’ll have the opportunity to look at your own individual purpose in life.
- You will leave with a model for conversations that put purpose at the forefront
Fun Night With Your Chamber Peers
- Free time to explore Rocky Mountain House
- Marketplace on Main
- Concert - WiL at Rival Trade Brewing
Event Sponsors
Exclusive Presenting Partner
Chamber Network Connector
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Date and Time
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024 Friday Jul 12, 2024
The conference begins with lunch at 12:00pm on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
The conference will end at 12:00pm on Friday, July 12, 2024. You will be provided with a 'to-go' lunch.
Location
Rocky Regional Recreational Centre: 5332 50 Street, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1B2
Accommodations:
Walking Eagle Inn & Lodge
4819 45th Street, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1A9
There is a room block for the CCEA Summit.
Call 1.866.845.2131 and reference 'Alberta Chamber Group'.
Standard rooms are $125 + tax
Kitchenettes are $140 + tax
Fees/Admission
Conference Registration:
$250 + GST
You must be a member of CCEC to register. If you're not already a member, you can sign up for a complimentary membership here.
