Aug 6
IMA's Small Manufacturers Council
Ditka's Restaurant, Route 83 and 22nd Streets, Oak Brook, IL [ LOCATION MAP ]
8:15 AM - 12:00 noon - IMA’s Small Manufacturers’ Council is a group focused on the unique issues and challenges facing manufacturers employing fewer than 150 workers. The council meets four times yearly to explore current and emerging business trends and hears from leading experts on matters important to the manufacturing community in Illinois. The Council is the key avenue to assure that the needs and concerns of small manufacturers are distinctly heard by elected officials and state and local policy makers. Continental breakfast provided. Underwritten by Sikich LLP
Contact: Jim Nelson
Phone: 800-875-4462, ext. 3023
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Email: jnelson@ima-net.org

Aug 10
IMA-MIT Event - Essential Leadership Skills for Front Line Managers and Supervisors
DePaul University O’Hare Campus, 3166 S. River Road, Des Plaines, Il. 60018 [ LOCATION MAP ]
One day program that will prepare your supervisors for a complete change of responsibilities and offer a plan for the challenges ahead. They will come away with a better understanding of what the boss, peers, staff and company expects of them. The invaluable set of tools in this program will prepare supervisors for their important new role providing greater confidence and success.
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue & Grant Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Aug 19
IMA-MIT Event - Time Management and Personal Effectiveness
DePaul University O'Hare Campus, 3166 S River Rd, Des Plaines IL 60018 [ LOCATION MAP ]
Each day we are bombarded with an overwhelming amount of information, asked to make hundreds of decisions, required to juggle countless projects and expected to meet numerous personal demands. Our lives cry out for balance, and yet few can identify, let alone practice, the skills needed to bring things under control. This skills gap and its by-products (confusion, anxiety, and loss of control) are impairing both personal and corporate productivity. This full day workshop will identify the essential personal effectiveness skills needed in today’s fast paced environment, and focus on applying these key skills utilizing the process you choose (paper based, e-tools or both). This powerful combination (skills and tools) will result in immediate and dramatic improvements and help you to: • Develop effective techniques for planning and achieving short and long term goals • Prioritize your daily activities/tasks to accomplish your most important work • Plan and schedule the necessary time for highly important projects • Make effective decisions and handle information flow efficiently • Delegate with confidence and track delegations with greater ease and success • Gain control through personal organization and desk management • Use creativity and mind-mapping techniques to effectively design and manage projects • Plan and execute productive meetings • Achieve balance in the key areas of your life
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Aug 31
IMA-MIT Event - Project Management Skills for Non Project Managers
DePaul University O'Hare Campus, 8770 W Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago IL 60631 [ LOCATION MAP ]
Objectives • To provide non-project managers with the project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to make the transition to a project leadership role and ensure optimum project execution. • To increase the competence to manage a project through all project stages: initiating, planning, delivering, monitoring and completing. Approach • A basic overview approach to be adopted that will allow first time project managers to practice their project manager role with confidence. • Practical checklists and/or tools to be used throughout. • Project management practice applied to each stage.
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue & Grant Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Sep 15
IMA-MIT Event - Effective Presentation Skills
DePaul University O’Hare Campus, 8770 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631 [ LOCATION MAP ]
In virtually every survey or study conducted, the ability to communicate effectively is ranked as the leading and most relevant skill for business success. Regardless of the size of company, job function or business sector, all workers today must be able to communicate effectively to increase their credibility and influence when dealing with coworkers, clients and management. At the core of effective communication is the ability to communicate "assertively"; using skills that portray us as trust worthy, confident, credible, direct and results oriented. Skills that translate into far better outcomes and goal achievement. This interactive one day workshop will provide professionals at all levels with easy-to-implement techniques to increase communication and listening skills. Participants will learn to communicate positively, respond productively and improve work relationships.
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue Administrator
Phone: 800.875.4462 ext 3020
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Sep 21
IMA-MIT Event - Consultative Selling Skills for Sales Professionals
DePaul University O'Hare Campus, 8770 W Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631 [ LOCATION MAP ]
The goal of any selling process is to earn and sustain a loyal and partnership-minded client base that will keep coming back. Be ready to turn your "lean and mean" sales team into 'customer friendly' advisors your clients will trust to help them make complext buying decisions. Get a better grasp of the needs and vision of your customers, and leave with toolds you need to develop great working relationships with key decision makers. Participants will be able to determine how their company's product can provide meaningful value to a client, even in a competitive or saturated market.
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue & Grant Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-ne.tog

Sep 22
IMA Breakfast Briefing: Wage & Hour Laws
Ditka's Restaurant, Two MidAmerica Plaza, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
8:00 - 11:00 a.m. Wage and Hour litigation continues to explode in all segments of American business. At stake are complicated, large dollar litigation verdicts for back pay, attorneys' fees and other damages.Find out the latest trends in one of the most vexing areas of employment law today. Costs: $60 IMA members, $85 Non-members
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 800-875-4462, ext 2109
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Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Oct 1 - Oct 3
Young Leaders Council Fall Conference
Eaglewoods Resort & Spa, Itasca, IL [ LOCATION MAP ]
The Illinois Manufacturers' Association's Young Leaders Council will hold its Third Annual Fall Conference October 1-3, 2010 at the Eaglewood Resort & Spa in Itasca, Illinois. Registration is now OPEN and we ask this year that you make every effort to register before September 1, 2010 for this year's challenging subject...The Leader's Compass. You've seen leaders come and go and you've seen some succeed and others fail. Have you ever wondered what explains this? One of the key first steps in becoming a leader is to develop and articulate a personal leadership philosophy statement. While it sounds easy enough, consider what happens when a leader fails to communicate a philosophy, establish a future vision or develop a system to measure progress toward that vision. We'll study these questions by reading the book, "The Leader's Compass" and each attendee will develop a personal leadership philosophy. Since we'd like everyone to have read the book before the conference, please remember to register before September 1.
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 800-875-4462, ext. 2101
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Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Oct 8
IMA-MIT Event - Strategic Planning and Goal Setting
DePaul University O'Hare Campus, 8770 W Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631 [ LOCATION MAP ]
Effective strategic planning and thinking skills combined with the ability to set compelling and achievable goals are at the core of all successful leaders and help to establish the foundation for sustainable business success. The ability to develop winning business strategies and then take those strategies from plan to action (or to rethink them on short notice) sets true leaders apart from their peers. Forward-looking strategy formulation can become a key competitive differentiator and provide a clear “road-map” and path for success. Learn the key skills, strategies and techniques that are critical to successful strategic planning by attending a full day workshop titled “Strategic Planning and Goal Setting”
Contact: Janie Stanley, Revenue Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Oct 19
IMA-MIT Event - Assertive Communication Skills: Communicating With Authority and Impact
DePaul University O'Hare Campus, 8770 E Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631 [ LOCATION MAP ]
In today’s fast-paced work environment, any professional or manager dealing with people needs effective assertive communication skills. Do you deal with insistent demands from clients or customers? Do you report to others who rely on you? Do you frequently find yourself on teams or in groups where interpersonal skills are important? Responding assertively is positive and effective, showing leadership skills and self-confidence. Professionals having effective assertive communication skills are most often seen as trust-worthy, credible, direct, and resultsoriented. They are better able to generate desired outcomes. Workers today need to be able to communicate effectively in order to increase their credibility and effectiveness in dealing with coworkers, clients and customers and management. Assertive communication provides the speaking and listening skills necessary to productively relate in today’s complex work environment.
Contact: jstanley@ima-net.org Revenue & Grant Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x 3020
Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Oct 22
IMA EVENT - Food Manufacturing Seminar
NIU-Naperville, 1120 E. Diehl Rd., Naperville
Join IMA and Michael Best for an informative and interactive discussion on topics that are specific to food manufacturers. We'll start with a networking breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The program will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a panel of your peers in food manufacturing and will end with an update on legal issues facing food manufacturers presented by Michael Best attorneys.
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 630.368.5300, ext. 2109
Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Nov 10
IMA EVENT: Sales & Use Tax Seminar
NIU-Naperville Campus, 1120 E. Diehl Rd., Naperville, IL
This annual, half-day seminar will cover the Illinois tax structure, how manufacturers are impacted by the sales and use taxes, Manufacturers’ Purchase Credit, recent tax law changes and issues relating to sales taxes in other states will also be addressed. Bring your questions for the Q & A session. Cost: $125 IMA members, $200 Non-members
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 800-875-4462, ext 2109
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Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Nov 11
IMA EVENT: Sales & Use Tax Seminar
PEORIA, IL
Experts from Clifton Gunderson will discuss: Overview of Illinois Sales & Use Tax, Current auditing trends, Manufacturers Purchase Credit and much, much more. Cost: $125 IMA members, $200 Non-members
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 800-875-4462, ext 2109
Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Dec 3
IMA Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
SAVE THE DATE InterContinental Hotel, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
Contact: Kimberly McNamara
Phone: 630.368.5300, ext. 2109
Email: kmcnamara@ima-net.org

Dec 13
IMA - MIT Event - Essential Internal Training Skills and Techniques
DePaul University, 8770 W Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, IL 6270 [ LOCATION MAP ]
Essential Internal Training Skills and Techniques is a one day workshop that will introduce the new internal trainer or subject matter expert to the skills necessary for them to be a successful trainer or facilitator. Essential Internal Training Skills and Techniques will cover core skills such as how to create rapport with your learner, how to communicate learning objectives, how to introduce a learning activity, how to ask the right question, and how to engage and reengage the adult learner. Key Learning Outcomes • Understand the basic principles of adult learning • Learn how to prepare before the session • Know when “fun” becomes counterproductive • Learn how to create rapport with the learner • Discover how to create and deliver a winning icebreaker • Know how to engage and reengage the adult learner • Learn how to minimize the negative impacts of unattentive learners • Know how to lead an effective class discussion • Learn how to ask the right question – each time, every time
Contact: Janie Stanley Revenue & Grant Administrator
Phone: 800-875-4462 x 3020
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Email: jstanley@ima-net.org

Sep 13 - Sep 18
International Manufacturing Technology Show 2010
McCormick Place, Chicago
Registration for the 28th edition of The International Manufacturing Technology Show – IMTS 2010 is open and available at www.IMTS.com. IMTS, being held September 13-18 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, is one of the largest industrial trade shows in the world hosting more than 92,000 manufacturing industry professionals from 116 countries.
Contact: IMTS
Phone: 508-743-8535
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Nov 10
ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Mid-America Club in Chicago
A one day conference featuring Baldrige recipients sharing knowledge about how they improved clinical and operational quality. November 10, at the Mid-America Club in Chicago. David Fox, President, Advocate Good Samaritan, is one of the keynote speakers.
Contact: Debbie Hasse
Phone: (630) 637-1595, Ext. 1
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Email: dhasse@lincolnaward.org