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January 2015
Date
Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau
2015 Business Plan
Your Board of Directors and staff
of the Emporia Area Chamber and
Visitors Bureau have worked diligently
to resolve positive change by providing
our community with broad and diverse
service—from legislative awareness,
business development to simply assist
or have fun with fellow business people
of the Emporia Area.
Our bottom line is to provide you,
our members, with value. We commit
to do our very best to learn from you
and guide our organization—simply
“for the good of the Emporia area!”
Leadership — We embrace and
drive change by being visionary in
our thinking, decision making and
programming.
Empowered Employees — We
are a positive team with a family
spirit. We encourage opportunities for
personal growth, open communication,
and celebration of successes.
Vision
Positive attitudes promoting positive
actions.
Values
Relationships — We build and
enhance relationships, and public/
private partnerships.
We seek broad, diverse and active
participation of our members in
programs and in the governance of the
organization.
Innovation — We approach
change and challenges to encourage
innovation and creativity. We will
utilize new technologies, delivering
programs, services and opportunities.
Excellence — We lead the way by
delivering programs, products, and
services of the highest quality.
Integrity — We are a credible
organization by being open, candid
and fair; honoring our commitments;
and adhering to the highest ethical
standards.
Mission
It is the mission of the Emporia Area
Chamber of Commerce to be proactive
in creating an environment for business
and community success.
2015 Platforms
regional membership organization
acknowledged as the leader of the
business community. We develop
future community leaders. We also
strive to be leaders in the state working
on enhancing business and tourism
initiatives.
We plan to:
Action Plan 1:
Membership Development: We
know that membership is the lifeblood
of the organization and that we must
put emphasis in not only new members,
but in retention of our current members.
We Plan To:
• Grow membership and retain
membership to show a net growth
in 2015.
• Strengthen our relationships with
our current members by showing
our appreciation and celebrating
their successes.
The Board of Directors have adopted
three platform areas to focus on during
the 2015 year. The first is Business
Advocacy and Development; the
second, Leadership and Membership
Development; and the third platform
area of focus is Organizational and
Operational Sustainability. We invite
you to review each of the platform
areas and get engaged in your
Chamber of Commerce.
• Provide high-quality, value-added
opportunities for m embers to
interact and foster profitable
business relationships. Such
programs include but are not
limited to: Business After Hours,
Spring Expo, and professional
development workshops.
Leadership and Membership
Development
• Maintain and improve established
communications tools, including
but not limited to, promoting the
ValuNet Smart room.
Leaders create leaders who create
leaders. The Emporia Area Chamber
of Commerce and Convention &
Visitors Bureau is a results-oriented,
• Monitor and Increase the
percentage of members actively
participating in Chamber activities
and committees.