1. How to Get More Out of Your ACP Membership: Learn How to Improve Your Networking Skills

This is a great opportunity to enhance your networking skills and learn tips on how to sell your personal career skill set and services.

Tim Shaver (presenter) is a business owner and represents the Sandler Sales Institute in the Nashville area. The Sandler Sales Institute is an international management development-consulting firm that specializes in training in the areas of sales, sales management, and human relation's skills. The late David H. Sandler who is the author of the sales professional's handbook "YOU CAN'T TEACH A KID TO RIDE A BIKE AT A SEMINAR" developed the Sandler Selling System.

2. Generational Diversity in the Workplace

Deborah Nunn, Ed.D., Director of Organizational Development at Belmont University, will speak on this topic and will include discussion time with our group since this is a hot topic facing us today.

3. WHINE and WINE: Strategic Planning at ACP - Getting ACP to Work For You

Strategic Planning at ACP - A very important meeting to plan the next few years for our Tennessee chapter. We urge everyone to attend and bring their ideas for ACP and how it can better work for you. We will focus on 3 key areas: Membership and Programs, Growth of the Organization, and Logistics. This meeting will be facilitated by Insight Partners which has facilitated Strategic Planning services with the Nashville Ballet and the Middle Tennessee Health Care Human Resource Directors Association. The bios for Insight Partners are at the bottom. And please note...we’ll be serving Wine and Cheese as we brainstorm and plan.

4. Topic: The Cycle of Renewal

Thelma Kidd began her professional career as a therapist after receiving her Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Michigan. For five years she worked with individuals, couples and families in mental health and family service settings as well as in private practice.

In 1980 she and a friend began Davis-Kidd Booksellers, a general bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee. Eventually that store grew into a superstore with a café. For years Nashvillians have voted it the city's best bookstore. By 1986 Davis-Kidd stores had been opened in Memphis and Knoxville, Tennessee and in 1996 another bookstore/cafe was opened in Jackson, Tennessee. The owners were often recognized for their success in business and their expertise in marketing. After seventeen years of managing a company that had come to employ over 200 people, the successful entrepreneurs sold their business to another independent bookseller and went on to pursue other ventures. For Thelma this meant becoming a Life Coach.

Thelma received her coach training and certification through the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara. She works with successful, high-achieving people who are seeking to live a well-balanced life and who want to be proactive in creating their life. She helps people (1) clarify exactly what their vision is and (2) strategize how to reach their goals. With warmth and good humor she will walk along with you as you go your own way, helping you determine what you would like your next steps to be.

5. HR PANEL: Brian Abrahamson, Executive Director of Talent Management, Gaylord Entertainment Tim Hunt, Technical Recruiter, HCA Beth Minter, Corporate Recruiter, Web MD Micki Kaleta, Director Talent Management, Gibson Guitar

Questions presented to the HR Panel. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the file.)

6. An Economic Overview of the Nashville Job Market

Presented by Carlyle W. Carroll, Vice President, Economic Development, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Prepare to hear information on new businesses coming to Davidson county, job opportunities, and the economic outlook.

Carlyle Carroll graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Economics. He then worked in urban planning for two years before entering the field of economic development. Has worked for the State of Tennessee , Middle Tennessee Industrial Development Association, and in private brokerage primarily recruiting business into the 42-county area of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. He assumed the Director of Economic Development position for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce in October of 2002. In October 2003 he was promoted to Vice President of Economic Development. Carlyle has been the President of the Tennessee Industrial Development Association, The Tennessee Representative for the Southern Economic Development Association, on the Board of Vol State Business Advisory Council, and on the board of the Tennessee State University School of Business Advisory Council.

7. What you Don't Know About Working With People with Disabilities

Regena Burrow, Program Coordinator, Supported Employment and Employment Services and Carl Brown, Assistant Commissioner for Rehabilitation Services will be our guest speakers.

8. Learn How to Become Career Management Certified!

Speaker: Kathy Blanton, M.Ed., N.C.C., CMF, Managing Consultant, Spherion, Treasurer, U.S. ACP Board Member