EVERY Local Section Should Attend the 2005 ACS Leaders Conference!

Why should your local section be represented at the 2005 ACS Leaders Conference? For at least the following reasons:

• This is the premier leadership development conference for ACS leaders. Many of its resources and instructional units have been refined and improved over more than four decades.
• The contents of this conference are acutely focused on the needs of ACS local section leaders and are specific, in-depth, practical, and immediately implementable. Specifically, participants will learn to:
  • use a comprehensive set of tools and resources for local sections,
  • tap ACS speakers to appear on local section programs,
  • set local section goals and strategies,
  • budget for the achievement of adopted goals and strategies,
  • design and conduct local section meetings that attract larger turn-outs,
  • recruit sufficient numbers of able volunteers,
  • communicate well verbally and in writing,
  • orchestrate local section activities without losing sleep or burning out,
  • and more (diversity/inclusiveness, fund-raising, etc.)
• Attendees will learn the skills of organizing, delegating, managing, and reporting the day-to-day, month-to-month work of a local section, yet in ways that are known to work without overworking the elected leaders themselves.
• Much of the knowledge and skills gained at this conference can transfer into one’s workplace
  (corporate, academia, governmental, consultative), as well as to other arenas (civic groups, e.g.).
• It’s a bargain. The registration fee is $275, which covers two nights’ lodging, all meals and beverages, and all conference materials. Virtually all local section officers are reimbursed for the registration fee and travel costs. The bottom line is that between the local section and ACS resources, there’s no cost to the individual registrant other than time. And the time invested in this conference will be recouped many times over through more efficient management of a local section and its human and financial resources.

There will be a number of planned and spontaneous opportunities for local section leaders to meet and interact meaningfully with other ACS leaders during this conference: members of the Board of Directors, new chairs of Board and Council committees, regional meeting organizers, division officers, career coordinators, Younger Chemists, and Technician Affiliate Groups. The contacts made at this conference can be a significant jump-start to each leader’s term of service.

Each of the participating groups will meet in its own individual track of sessions; at times, however, various groups will combine with another group or groups for a joint session and with all groups for general sessions. A key benefit of having all ACS major leadership groups convening at the same time and under the same roof is to increase the opportunities for leaders to interact with a wide array of fellow leaders throughout the Society.

Make sure your local section is represented at the next ACS Leaders Conference. While chairs-elect are given first preference, any officer (including a councilor) may attend.

Where? At the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
When? From 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), Friday, January 28, to noon Sunday, January 30

Register Now!

Dale Gaddy
Manager
Office of Local Section Activities

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