Weekly Newsletter 05/15/19

Peoria Chamber of Commerce


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Six Bold Team-Building Activities

Tough commudder: Working in teams of three or four during their commutes, all employees use FaceTime and Slack to choreograph a Bollywood-style dance number for this year’s corporate holiday video. Winners are excused from filming ...

1. TOUGH COMMUDDER
Working in teams of three or four during their commutes, all employees use FaceTime and Slack to choreograph a Bollywood-style dance number for this year’s corporate holiday video. Winners are excused from filming.

2. ESCAPE THE ONSITE OFF-SITE
The first team to extract every member and reassemble at Dave & Buster’s without detection by a company executive wins swag bags from last year’s national sales conference.

3. VOCAL FRYDAYS
Everybody speaks in Kardashian intonations and communicates exclusively via fish gape and emoji.

4. STACK RANKING, EXECUTIVE EDITION
The rank and file rate all the executives. Whoever winds up last has to collate copies of the board presentation Power Point until 4 a.m. the morning of the annual meeting.

5. THROWBACK THURSDAY
No intra-office IM or email. All employees must communicate face-to-face, via desk phone, or using Post-it Notes. (Bonus points to anyone who knows their office extension.)

6. FRACK-A-THON
Nothing brings people together like getting their hands dirty by doing backbreaking labor. (Any natural-gas deposits discovered beneath your office will put an end to worries about Q4 revenue.)

A version of this article appeared in the May 2019 issue of Fast Company magazine.

New Article


"The last thing I remember, I was sitting in a staff meeting. Apparently, I died from boredom."

Bad Meetings No More!

The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
by Steven G. Rogelberg, Oxford University Press, 2019

Aldous Huxley had it wrong. Bad meetings — not mescaline — open the doors of perception. They lull me into a trance. I occasionally surface (did I snore?), murmur agreement (to who knows what), surreptitiously check my phone, and nod off again. If the deep breathing I often hear on conference calls is any clue, I’m not the only one who achieves spiritual transcendence in bad meetings.

The authors of how-to books about meetings never consider the salutary effects of bad ones. Instead, they typically start with an adrenalin-like shot of statistics. Steven Rogelberg, Chancellor’s Professor at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of The Surprising Science of Meetings, is no exception to the rule. He offers the usual litany of dismay. There are about 55 million meetings per day in the U.S. alone, and they cost US$1.4 trillion annually, not counting indirect costs such as employee frustration. “Too many meetings” is cited as the top time-waster by 47 percent of U.S. workers.

Nevertheless, Rogelberg doesn’t think that companies should eliminate meetings. 

For more information go to The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
by Steven G. Rogelberg, Oxford University Press, 2019

The Four Leadership Styles left on "Game of Thrones"

The four leadership styles still left standing on “Game of Thrones”

Over the course of its past seven seasons, the political and military maneuverings on Game of Thrones have sparked countless leadership-style lessons and corporate boss comparison breakdowns.

For more information go to:
The four leadership styles still left standing on “Game of Thrones”

100th Anniversary & Awards Banquet!!!

Peoria Chamber is turning
100 Years Old!



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Weekly Events

 

Ribbon Cutting - Reba's Vision
Please join us as we welcome back Reba's Vision!!!

 

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May Peoria Chamber
Women 4 Women Meeting

 


IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU REGISTER!!!!

Please join us for our next exciting meeting!  Our group has a lot of fun getting to know each other and learning how we can help each other grow!  
 
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Open to members and non members!
 
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Peoria Chamber Ambassador
Monthly Meeting



 

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Coffee with MAG-Maricopa Association of Governments

Join us as we discuss the 2019 Legislative Session and look forward to the 2020 Legislative Session with guests from the legislature. 

This is a free event, but we ask you “register” to attend so that we have food and seats for all. 


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May - Hot Topics & Lunch

Learn the trends, best practices, and innovation of websites and what it means for your business! With so many options out there, which one is right for your business? What are your customers looking for? What are some of the latest and greatest websites innovations available to me? Learn from the experts on what they suggest you should incorporate into your website to stay ahead of the game!

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Ribbon Cutting

OfficeMax Seminar

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PEORIA CHAMBER NEWSLETTER - Weekly Newsletter 05/15/19