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Looking Ahead
Jul 14 - ICEL - Test Your Credit Knowledge - A fast paced, team competition with a Jeopardy game format to test Business-2-Business credit knowledge. Team prizes range from gift cards to chocolate. Grand Prize - $200 Amazon Gift Card info/registration
Jul 25 - Professional Designation Exams info
Aug 11 - ICEL - Understanding Gender Differences when Negotiating info/registration
Sep 12 - Professional Designation Paperwork Deadline for Nov 7 2016 Exam
Sep 13 - Credit Law Class more info
Oct 12-14 Western Regional Credit Conference - Seattle WA
more info
Why should I submit potential members to NACM?"
Help gain information on your customers. As a member, their information could help build the database on your customers. It's not just a one-way street. more Info
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Breaking
News
by Roving Reporter, April Tanner, CCE, Kimball Equipment, Co.
Education and Networking a huge value at the 120th Credit Congress
Where
- Las Vegas, Nevada, Caesar's Palace Convention Center - a fabulous venue
for the expansion of our minds and bellies (or maybe that was just this
reporter.) Next year Credit Congress will be Dallas,Texas, so plan ahead with those budgets for 2017. Read full article
The Awful Six Letter Word
by Shane Inglesby, CCE, Geneva Rock Products, Inc.
Change. No one lives for it yet, without it, progress is impossible. Quite
a contradiction. The mere mention of the word can send shudders up our
spine. Few individuals enjoy change yet, the reality of today's world, both
business and personal, is that change is inevitable. Ask anyone who has
purchased a state-of-the-art computer within the past couple of years how
state-of-the-art that computer is today. Typically computers are dated within
weeks of purchase. We live in a world that . . . Read full article
ICEL Chair Message
Stressed
and Overworked?
by
Shane Norman, CCE, Wheeler Machinery
As
a result, I attended a class held at Credit Congress in Vegas this year titled
"Stress Management of the Overworked, Over Scheduled, and
Overwhelmed" by Rita Emmett. Here is a summary of a few of the points I
felt were helpful: Read
full article
Always Learning in Credit
by Layla Calkins, Sunroc Building Materials, Inc.
Like many people in credit, I didn't plan on being a part of this world, but
here I am. It was a series of temp jobs that led me to where I am today. Doing
jobs in accounting, let me see several sides of the financial business whether
it was AP, AR, collections or credit. Some of these overlapped and only
increased my knowledge of my company's products, people, and financials.
Recently while working with Sunroc Building Materials, I've been able to start
increasing this knowledge by taking courses for my certification, the first
being Business Credit Principles. Read
full article
ICEL Recap
What Motivates Me
by Paul Stott, Sunroc Building Materials, Inc.
Paul Yoachum, President and SWP of Marketing with Culture Works said that there
is a "Global Crisis." The Conference Board, a business research
association, conducted a survey in 2012 and found that more than half of all US
workers were estimated to be unhappy in their jobs, an all-time low. On a
global scale, research by Gallup in late 2013 showed 87% of the world's workers
are either not engaged in their jobs or have become actively disengaged. Read
full article
Loose Lips Sink Ships
by Allen Vickers, CCE, A & K Railroad Materials, Inc.
Is it possible to be right and still be wrong (other than in marriage)? In the
2016 NACM National Credit Congress session "Loose Lips Sink Ships,"
Val Venable, CCE and Bruce Nathan, Esq. mentioned a situation that ultimately
cost some credit people their jobs even after the court found them innocent of
Anti-Trust violations. There was insufficient collusion among the credit group
members to be found guilty but their companies had to spend millions defending
the questionable comments and actions of their credit people. Read
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