CCEC Webinar: Budgeting for Time Management

Do you constantly have issues balancing your time and priorities? Is it difficult to justify to your Board that you can’t take on another project because you and/or your staff are stretched? Are you maximizing your time and evaluating the return on your investment for the time that you are putting into your projects? Now is the time to take a good, hard look at how you manage your time, how you can budget for time and how you can use it as an evaluation tool – not only to your board, but to your membership. Make the most of your budget and budget for time.
 
In this webinar, you’ll learn about how to actually apply your budget in a meaningful and more concrete way and understand how your time is calculated into your projects and how you can integrate time management into your budget and reporting process.

Presenter: Lisa Kowalchuk
Lisa is the Executive Director of the Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce. Hired in November 2009 at a time when the Chamber was in financial distress, Lisa was tasked with budget preparation and creation and implementation of a plan to inject not only a renewed sense of commitment and energy into the Chamber and its members, but also financial stability through fiscal restraint and increased revenues. Through her operational effectiveness and efficiency, the Chamber has sustained year over year profits, with an over 92% retention rate this last fiscal year and has a consistent net membership growth of over 5%.
 
Lisa’s team consists of six staff including an Administrative Assistant, Membership Services Coordinator, Events & Communications Coordinator, Accounts & Policy Coordinator, Sales Manager and Trade Show Manager. The Chamber runs approximately 22 events per year, plus two large scale consumer trade shows and the Chamber also oversees the management and contract for a Travel Alberta Visitor Information Centre which employs six seasonal staff from May to September. With an active team, a Board of 12 Directors,  nine active committees to assist, and a hefty policy agenda, time management is key to this organization.