January - 2005 Awards Luncheon
February - Express Personnel Services with the Express Training Team
March - Crucial Conversations with Vicki Camp
April - A Day at Sonic with the Sonic Training Team
May - No Meeting since national was in Dallas
June - Leadership Challenge Workshop with Deb Reisweber
July - No Meeting
August - Being an eLearning Manager with Lyn Leffler and the training team from Foundation Surgery Affiliates
September - The Real Truth about Accelerated Learning in the Workplace with Bev Wood
October - Workshop and Vendor Expo with the Oklahoma City Human Resources Society
November - Creating a Coaching Culture with Jason Jones
December - Awards Banquet (check the website for all our 2006 winners!)

We co-sponsored the following certificate courses with the University of Oklahoma this year:
Accelerated New Trainer Certificate Program, April 25 - 28, 2006
Accelerated New Trainer Certificate Program, October 10 - 13, 2006

As part of our sponsorship of these programs, we get a portion of the enrollment fee. We also provide breakfast one of the days and talk about the advantages of belonging to a professional organization. Of course we advertise for it and our chapter, too!

We had three major goals for 2006. 1. Increase membership by 50%. I am extremely pleased to announce that we met that goal on December 4 with our 200th member, Sunny Sethi! (By the way, Sunny was recruited by his wife, Ritz, from Moore-Norman Technology Center. Way to go, Ritz!)

2. Increase member participation by 25%. I am pleased to announce that we exceeded that goal by quite a bit. Our average event attendance in 2005 was 31 and our average event attendance in 2006 was 44. In 2005 we had 14 members working actively on projects. In 2006 we had 26+ actively working on projects for the chapter.

3. Create a members only section of the website. In addition to creating this section, we created these areas for it; a members forum, member posting job site, videos of the monthly programs, board meeting minutes and core chapter documents sections.

You can feel good that we are also a fiscally sound organization. I have decided that our Finance VP has a favorite word; NO! It is because of his efforts and diligence that we have the recommended amount in the bank and can pay our chapter bills! You can rest assured that our chapter funds are in good hands. Thanks, Travis!

In addition to the goals we reached in 2006, our chapter became incorporated. We created a new mission statement for our chapter. (Advancing the Learning and Development Professions to enhance performance.) We also are 100% compliant in the 17 CORE elements from national. (If you are interested in what each of the CORE elements are, see the national website, www.astd.org, under CORE.)

As part of our service to the community, our members participated in the Public Broadcasting Service Telethon (OETA Telethon) and the Oklahoma City Arts Festival.

We held our Board Retreat on December 2 and have a strategic plan in place for 2007. You will hear more about that from Linda Lumen as she takes the reins as President for 2007.

I want to thank all the volunteers for making this chapter what it is today. Without the input and support from our chapter members, our chapter would not be as successful as it is.

I want to extend a special Thank You to the board members for 2006; Linda Lumen - President Elect, Lyn Leffler - VP Programming, Stacy Pierce - VP Arrangements, Kate Beavin - VP Special Projects, Travis Marker - VP Finance, Bob Howard - VP Data and Web Services, Terri Pickering - VP Awards and Recognition, Susan Gorton - VP Membership, Daniel DiGriz - VP Communication and Public Relations and Glenda Russell - Executive Advisor.
They have done an awesome job!

Have a very merry holiday season and a very happy New Year!
Vicki Camp
President 2006
Central Oklahoma Chapter of ASTD
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