February Newsletter Now Available!
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NC-PBL Executive Edge Fall Newsletter now available!
The 2009 Fall newsletter, The NCPBL Executive Edge, Volume 40, Issue 01 is available at the NCPBL website on the Publications page at http://www.ncpbl.org/PBL/PBLPublications.html
PBL Business Leader Goes Green!
The PBL Business Leader is now sent electronically and is available as an exclusive membership benefit to PBL members. The new reader allows users to view the publication online and search the document for information, send articles to friends, print out the publication, save as a PDF, and easily view interactive videos and web links. Find the Fall 2009 edition here: http://www.fbla-pbl.org/Fall2009.html.
September Illinois Voice Available
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PBL members participate in annual ICCCTSO conference in Springfield
Around 50 students and advisers, consisting of four Career & Technical Student Organizations (CTSO's) attended the annual Illinois Coordinating Council for Career & Technical Student Organizations (ICCCTSO) conference in Springfield on Sept. 11-13 at the Crowne Plaza.
FBLA, HOSA, PBL, and SkillsUSA all brought representatives to attend this three day intense conference. Members were able to participate in team building activities, visit the Governor's Mansion, visit the State Capitol, and hear from motivational speakers.
The conference started on Friday evening with an opening dinner that included an opening speaker, David Mouser. Mouser was a great speaker and works with kids every day. He talked about his times in FFA and really tried to tie our every day life experiences together with our CTSO and taught us about leadership and how important it is to be a leader. The night continued with a leadership session about team building and responsibilities, as well as a couple of games, including team challenges.
Sessions continued on Saturday morning about presentation skills and finding motivation, before heading to the Governor's Mansion for an etiquette luncheon. Everyone was able to explore the mansion and learn about some of the history of Illinois . A parliamentary procedures session was then held in the Senate Chambers at the State Capitol after the etiquette luncheon. At the Capitol, students were able to debate issues and discover what it is like to be a Senator during session. Saturday evening rapped up with a leadership session by motivational speaker Rhett Laubach from Oklahoma . He helped the CTSO officers learn more about each other and discover what it is like to lead groups by playing leadership games that involved team work.
Sunday morning started with more leadership sessions beginning with an organizational maze, where students were split into two groups and had to follow the leader through a maze, and everyone had to travel the same route. A closing luncheon was held after the leadership games in which speaker Rhett Laubach wrapped up the leadership weekend and further developed students into learning what it is like to lead a group and operate as a team.
Patty Hendrickson has been running ICCCTSO for several years and helped lead the nearly 50 participants through a fun filled weekend of leadership training. She also taught everyone several games and talked about leadership throughout the weekend. ICCCTSO concluded with a group send off that put everyone together in a circle and sharing memories they had. Each member was provided a necklace with small strings of yarn attached that could be pulled from the bottom of the necklace. People walked around the room, with the idea of getting rid of all of your strings while people tied strings onto your necklace and shared memories.
Many laughs occurred throughout the weekend, but many realized at that moment that this was the end and that they would not all be together in that setting again. Sharing the memories that will last a lifetime about the weekend certainly happened and will continue to occur as students look back on this conference, and all of the memories from it, in the future. Pictures now available from the weekend, click here!
Illinois Phi Beta Lambda
2009 National Leadership Conference Results
Approximately 35 students, advisers, professional division members and guests from Illinois traveled to the 2008 Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California, from June 20-23, 2009. The PBL NLC was the largest ever with 1,776 registered. Following are the results from that conference:
• Gold Seal Chapter Award—McKendree University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Southwestern Illinois College
• 1 st place, Professional Division Membership, North Central Region, Southwestern Illinois College
• 2 nd place, Professional Division Membership, North Central Region, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• 1 st place, Largest Professional Division Membership, North Central Region, Illinois
• 1st place, State Recruitment of Chapters (4 chapters recruited), North Central Region, Illinois
• 2008-09 PBL Most CMAP Participants by Region, North Central Region, Illinois
• Nicki Wilhelm, McKendree University, Who's Who in Illinois PBL
• 1 st place, Job Interview, Tondra Harvell, Southwestern Illinois College
• 1 st place, Marketing Analysis & Decision Making, Steven Sauder, Illinois Central College
• 2 nd place, Business Decision Making, Davis Redman and Sean Murphy, Greenville College
• 2 nd place, Human Resource Management, Tondra Harvell, Southwestern Illinois College
• 3 rd place, Computer Applications, Nicole Buklad, Southwestern Illinois College ($100)
• 3 rd place, Database Design & Applications, Katherine Wolford, Shawnee Community College ($200)
• 3 rd place, Hospitality Management, Davis Redman, Greenville College
• 4 th place, Accounting Principles, Charles Martin, University of Illinois
• 4 th place, Job Interview, Barry Sander, Shawnee Community College
• 4 th place, Microeconomics, Charles Martin, University of Illinois
• 5 th place, Local Chapter Annual Business Report, Nicole Buklad, Southwestern Illinois College
• 5 th place, State Chapter Annual Business Report, Nicki Wilhelm, McKendree University
• 6 th place, Financial Services, Michael Kennedy, Illinois Central College
• 6 th place, Marketing Concepts, Alishia Winkler, Kaskaskia College
• 6 th place, Small Business Management Plan, Barry Sander, Shawnee Community College
• 7 th place, Desktop Application Programming, Katherine Wolford, Shawnee Community College
• 7 th place, Financial Analysis & Decision Making, Sean Murphy, Greenville College
• Top 15, Impromptu Speaking, Sarah DeAntoni, Southwestern Illinois College
Tina Dierkes, Illinois PBL State Adviser, assumed the duty of chair for the FBLA-PBL National Board of Directors following the close of the National Leadership Conference.
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