CMA - www.CMAonline.org - CMA MANAGEMENT MONTHLY
NUMBER 68
Emailed on February 20, 2003
TRENDS AND NEWS
FOR MEMBERS OF CHRISTIAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
>>>>>FIRST THOUGHTS
COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH READINESS. John Baillie's "A Dairy of Private Prayer," has this zinger for a morning prayer: "O Thou who hast so graciously called me to be Thy servant, I would hold myself in readiness today for Thy least word of command. Give me the spirit, I pray Thee, to keep myself in continual training for the punctual fulfillment of Thy most holy will."
JOIN THE CMA PRAYER TEAM!
As reported last month, prayer warriors are invited to join the CMA Colorado Springs 2003 Prayer Team. If you'd like to receive the Conference Prayer Alert for this Friday before the conference, and next Friday after the conference, please click on the website below and sign up. You'll receive an email with conference prayer requests and results. (Your email address will not be used for any other purpose.) To enroll, click here:
http://www.eprayerconnect.org/_admin/subscribers/qrySubscriptionFormNew.asp?GRID=1431
>>THIS ISSUE: HIGHLIGHTS OF CMA COLORADO SPRINGS 2003 -- STILL TIME TO BE A COURAGEOUS LEADER!
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Which ever category you're in (registered or not registered for CMA Colorado Springs 2003, Feb. 24-27, at The Broadmoor, in Colorado Springs, Colo., you'll benefit from learning about the latest additions, highlights and final details for guests at CMA's 26th annual conference. This year's theme is perfect for the unsettling world conditions and the resulting trickle down effects. Join us and explore the topic, "Courageous Leadership: Managing the Vision and the Valleys." Here goes…
FILM AT 11: WATCH FOR THE HIGHLIGHTS E-NEWS. This mini-version of the CMA Management Monthly e-newsletter will whet your appetite for the latest trends. Watch for the bonus issue, in early March, with the top 10 trends of CMA Colorado Springs, jam-packed new resources, and "heard on the street" chatter from conference guests. If you can't make the conference, the next e-news will be your next best thing, along with the list of the top 10 audio cassette tapes sold at the conference.
ATTN: COLORADO MINISTRY CEOs. Do you have emerging young leaders that are on the bubble? Are other companies and ministries taking your best people? Are you discouraged? Is leading a ministry just too hard? What's the real cost of people turn-over in your organization if 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 key people left you in the next six months? Solution: today, right now, walk down the hall and encourage 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 or more people to attend CMA Colorado Springs 2003. Our hunch is that the conference will breathe new life into your key people - and the information, networking and resources will extend the longevity and loyalty of your best people. The alternative is not fun!
>>BUSINESS MEMBERS: LEARN "SALES INSIGHTS AND UNIQUE STRATEGIES" AT THE CONFERENCE
CMA Plans Bonus Session Especially for Exhibitors and CMA Business Members! An innovative three-hour workshop, Feb. 24, Monday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., will help CMA business members learn new sales insights and unique strategies. Dan Seidman, the workshop leader, is also a Tuesday morning keynote speaker at CMA Colorado Springs 2003. Seidman is the author of the rib-tickling book, The Death of 20th Century Selling: 50 Hilarious Sales Blunders and How You Can Profit From Them. He offers a marvelous blend of humor and wisdom to help sales professionals have more fun. You can download more information about the seminar by going to www.CMAonline.org and clicking on the CMA Colorado Springs 2003 conference pages. Look under "Monday Intensive Training Institutes." Or contact Dan Seidman directly at: www.salesautopsy.com or dan@salesautopsy.com. Visit his website to read some great sales blunders!
>>MANAGEMENT TRENDS & RESOURCES: Hot Trends, News and Issues in Management
WHAT ARE THE LEADING CONSULTANTS RECOMMENDING? One strategic advantage of CMA Colorado Springs 2003: dozens of consultants and national leaders are leading workshops, speaking, drinking coffee, and hanging out in the hallways - and the meter is not running! Savvy and cost-conscious ministry leaders have made the annual conference a "must" on their annual calendar because of the huge resources available to them. Go to www.CMAonline.org and look at this year's world class faculty - and discover what they're proposing and praying about in 2003:
--Dennis Bakke, Co-founder and Emeritus CEO, The AES Corporation
--Peg Jackson, Generous Giving, Inc.
--Dale Berkey, President, Berkey Brendel Sheline
--Elisa Morgan, CEO/President, MOPS International, Inc.
--Paul Stanley, International Vice President, The Navigators
--Richard Hammar, Church Law & Tax Report
--Clarence Shuler, President, Building Lasting Relationships
--S. Truett Cathy, Founder & Chairman, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
--Tom Mason, Executive Vice President, Focus on the Family
--Sibyl Towner, Director of Mentoring, Willow Creek Community Church
--Jerry White, President, The Navigators
--Bob Fry, Director of Investments, Merrill Lynch Trust Company
--Jim Cymbala, Pastor, The Brooklyn Tabernacle
--and more than 150 other key thinkers and courageous leaders!
>>MANAGEMENT MENTORS
#286. POST YOUR JOB OPENINGS WITH INTERCRISTO - AND SAVE!
CMA and Intercristo have entered into an joint arrangement offering CMA members new job referral services from Intercristo, a ministry program of CRISTA, Seattle, Wash. CMA members can now receive special pricing, a 10% discount, when accessing Intercristo's extensive job referral services through the CMA website. Go to www.CMAonline.org, click on "CMA Job Market" and then click on the button, "Post Job Opening With Intercristo and Save!" Step-by-step instructions will lead you through the entire process for placing an employment listing.
#287. IF YOU LIKE THE BOOK, YOU'LL LOVE THE LAND! The exhibition hall at CMA Colorado Springs 2003 is sold out - which is great news for ministry leaders who will find aisles and aisles of resources from the "exhibit hall faculty."
In Booth #120, you'll find the Israel Ministry of Tourism and their great slogan, "If you like the book, you'll love the land!" They'll be at the conference to inspire and motivate church and Christian leaders to consider leading a group to Israel. Stop by their booth on Tuesday to see if you qualify for their invitation-only complimentary breakfast on Wednesday. (Limited space.) They are sponsoring a special leader's mission to the Holy Land later this year at a remarkable low price - with the hope that you'll return with your own group. For information, visit www.goisrael.com or www.ibelieveinisrael.com.
Thanks to the generosity of the Israel Ministry of Tourism, CMA is offering the "Win-a-New-Car-for-a-Year" drawing in the exhibition hall. Twenty-five semi-finalists will be announced Tuesday and Wednesday. One fortunate winner's name will be drawn on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. - and he or she will have their choice of a new-car-for-a-year or $2,500 in cash!
>>ASSOCIATION NEWS
CMA TEXAS 2004. A Texas-size discount is being offered to all conference guests at CMA Colorado Springs 2003. If you register, on-site, by Thursday 11:00 a.m., Feb. 27, 2003, you will receive $250 off the regular registration fee for CMA Texas 2004. Plus, the first 200 to submit their paid registrations, on-site, will receive a certificate for an unbelievable low room rate of just $115 per night (single/double), plus tax, for CMA's 27th annual conference, April 26-29, 2004, at Gaylord Opryland™ Texas Resort & Convention Center in Dallas.
SNEAK PREVIEW. For a sneak preview of the new resort, opening in 2004, go to www.gaylordoprylandtexas.com. For a PDF of the CMA Texas 2004 early bird registration form, click on the 2004 conference link at www.CMAonline.org. If you don't attend the conference, you'll still save $200 off the regular fee by registering before April 30, 2003. You'll receive a brochure, by mail, in mid-March.
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR CMA TEXAS 2004. The "Call for Presentations" form for CMA Texas 2004 has been posted on CMA's website. Go to the CMA home page, at www.CMAonline.org, and click on the CMA Texas 2004 information and download the PDF form.
2003 CHRISTIAN MANAGEMENT AWARD! The CMA Board of Directors has named John Bass as the recipient of the 2003 Christian Management Award. Bass served as the president of Christian Booksellers Association, Colorado Springs, Colo., from 1965 to 1988 and has served as a trustee of The Crowell Foundation since 1981. He will be honored by CMA at the conference banquet on Feb. 26.
CMA extends its thanks to Sanctuary Seating, Systems, a division of Bertolini, Inc., for their sponsorship this year of the 2003 Christian Management Award. You're invited to visit their booth in International Center on top of Tuesday from 11:30 - 2:00, where they are celebrating the announcement of their new division-Sanctuary Seating Systems, and the introduction of Gravity-Lift Seating.
HOTEL ROOMS AT THE BROADMOOR, for CMA Colorado Springs 2003, Feb. 24-27, have been sold out for weeks - but some rooms were released back into general available this week. For alternate hotel options, go to www.CMAonline.org. For reservations at The Broadmoor, call 800-634-7711 or 719-634-7711 or fax 719-577-5738, or visit www.Broadmoor.com (click on "Make a Room Reservation," then "Groups" and enter attendee code 5099).
CMA'S TRAVEL AGENT for the conference features special airline rates that do not require a Saturday night stay. Contact Guide Travel Systems, Inc., in Colorado Springs, at www.guidetravel.com/cmgta.asp, or call 800-884-5311 during MST business hours.
28 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR CONFERENCE. Thanks to a generous foundation grant, CMA is offering scholarships to CMA Colorado Springs 2003, and a bonus package of CMA benefits and training, for 28 ministry leaders from Colorado who fit the application criteria. Participants will receive the acclaimed training from program partner Hope's Gift International (HGI) on "The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask Your Nonprofit Ministry or Church." The CMA/HGI Workshop on The Drucker Foundation Self-Assessment Tool has three sessions over 14-months. The first session will be Monday, Feb. 24, at CMA Colorado Springs 2003. For information and an application, go to www.CMAonline.org.
JOIN THE COLORADO WELCOME COMMITTEE! Colorado ministries and churches that would like to participate on the Colorado Welcome Committee for the 2003 conference can receive additional information on the Gold, Silver or Bronze levels by downloading the PDF information at www.CMAonline.org. The committee (no meetings!) provides up to 11 ways your Colorado ministry can enhance the effectiveness and impact of CMA Colorado Springs 2003. It's not too late to participate, but you'll need to hand-carry your paperwork to the conference on Monday, Feb. 24.
THE CMA JOB MARKET is replacing the previous "CMA Management Classifieds" section on our website. This new identity will more clearly communicate the new and expanded services CMA is offering its members and will allow non-members, interested in employment information, to access the CMA job opportunities more quickly and easily.
FREE LISTING FOR CMA MEMBERS. CMA member organizations and companies receive one free job listing each year. Make sure your membership is current for 2003 and then go to www.CMAonline.org, click on CMA Job Market, and then access the Online Ad Placement Form. On the form there's a place to check for your FREE job placement listing. With the new joint arrangement with Intercristo, we'll experience greater traffic on both sites by interested job searchers.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: 2 CLASSES IN 2003. The next class of the Executive Leadership Program will be May 18-23, with a second class starting the week of June 22-27. The Elevation Group (www.theelevationgroup.com), CMA's new partner in the ELP, announced that the program has been dramatically enriched, based on extensive evaluations from the two-year pilot program.
The Elevation Group has expanded the program role of the Center for Creative Leadership (www.ccl.org) to all three sessions over the 12-month program period. In October, BusinessWeek magazine rated the Center "#1 in leadership development" for the second consecutive time. It was the only non-business school ranked among prominent business schools, including Harvard, Michigan and Wharton (Pennsylvania). For more information and application forms, contact Dave Dickinson at The Elevation Group in Colorado Springs, Colo., at 719-598-7594, or email him at DaveD@theelevationgroup.com. Dickinson will host an ELP briefing at CMA Colorado Springs 2003, Feb. 25, from Tuesday 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at The Broadmoor.
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP. CMA membership second renewal notices for 2003 have been mailed to the contact person for all CMA member organizations. The CMA Board of Directors, wanting to be sensitive to the challenging financial position of many ministries, decided to keep 2003 member dues the same as 2002. Questions: Terri Hughes, Membership Services Coordinator, 949-487-0900, ext. 3005, or Terri@CMAonline.org.
EXHIBIT HALL: WAITING LIST! We have a record turn-out for the CMA Colorado Springs 2003 exhibit hall - with 30 more booths than last year. If your company wants more business in 2003, sign-up to exhibit at our conference in 2004, visit www.CMAonline.org and click on "Business Opportunities" or contact Joe Voorhies at 949-487-0900, ext. 3022, or Kathie Richards at ext. 3021 or Kathie@CMAonline.org.
CMA STAFF POSITION OPEN. A full-time position as CMA Director of Membership Development is now open. The assignment: grow CMA's membership and enhance the services for our current members. The candidate will likely have a successful track record in association management and have a Palm Pilot crammed with ministry colleagues who will want to join CMA. Salary will be based on your success in recruiting new members. The perfect candidate will enjoy sales, data base management, motivating volunteers, and trusting God. No emails or calls please. Send an old-fashioned letter and bio, with a stamp, to: John Pearson, CEO, CMA, P.O. Box 4090, San Clemente, CA 92674.
