State President Josh Belhumeur and State Officer Liason John Tyler are looking to fill a vacant state officer position (position of State Secretary). If you are interested in being a state officer, please email Josh (president@azpbl.org) and John (john@azpbl.org) an email with the subject of “State Officer Application” and attach a one-page resume. Make sure your resume includes any relevant FBLA/PBL leadership experience, as well as any further work or school related experiences, your major and GPA, and your contact information.
Prior to applying for this position, please make sure you meet all requirements:
- You must have a 2.5 GPA or higher
- You must be able to prioritize PBL to the best of your abilities.
- You must be able to attend an online meeting October 21st at 8pm
- We prefer you be available to attend an in-person meeting in Tempe, AZ on November 21st at 9:00am
Also keep in mind there will be more in-person and online state officer meetings throughout the year. In-person meetings always fall on a Saturday morning and online meetings are democratically discussed and picked among the state officer team. We meet approximately once a month, alternating between in-person and online.
The state secretary has two primary functions: to take minutes/notes at all of our meetings and to promote communication (including maintaining our website and social networks). No web design knowledge is required for this position, we utilize a blogging platform for easy updates through our site. We are looking for strong verbal and written communication skills and proven leadership potential.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH.
John and Josh will schedule time for a phone/Skype interview with you between the 12th and the 16th. We will be announcing our pick on October 16th or 17th.
If you have any questions, you may email Josh or John as well.
Posted on September 25, 2009 in General
Arizona Phi Beta Lambda would like you to participate in a March of Dimes fundraising effort. We have called November 16-21st MOD Week. The goal of the week is for your local chapter to do as many fundraising and awareness activities as possible between the 16th-20th on your campus.We will then top of the week with a social event in the Phoenix area on Saturday the 21st (more information to come).
You should begin planning your activities now to ensure you have the best ideas for the most impact during MOD Week in November. We want to see big results from all of you!
Competition
Once you have finished your fundraising and awareness campaigns during MOD week, you should compile a report on what you did. Follow the national guidelines for Community Service Project. The winning report will receive a special award at the State Conference, but more importantly, will get the ultimate reward for their efforts; the pride in beating out every other chapter in the state!
Social Event
Any chapter or member that participates in some sort of activity during MOD week will be invited to a social event in the Phoenix area on the 21st in the early afternoon. You will be expected to give a quick verbal report on your success as a chapter. This will also be a great opportunity to network with other members of the state and have some fun.
Do you want to know more?
Visit http://www.marchofdimesyouth.com/ for more information on the programs March of Dimes offers. You can also get creative and come up with your own ideas. Ask the State Officers if you have any questions or need help. You can contact your local March of Dimes office.
Good luck to all chapter, let’s save some babies!
Posted on September 18, 2009 in National PBL
Kicking off a new school year, how about some new and exciting goals for our organization? Your PBL National Officer Team has set numerous goals this year, and we are delighted to share some of them with you! “Simply the Best” year begins with ALL OF US!
The Road to 13,000
13,000 PBL members is an ambitious goal set by your PBL National Officer Team. It’s never an easy goal. But there’s nothing that would take PBL away from achieving something big. Getting new chapters and new members across the country will definitely do the trick. What if the state(s) with the greatest percentage increase in membership will receive priority seating at the PBL National Leadership Conference Opening Session or Award Ceremony in Nashville, TN? Can you imagine sitting in the front of the ballroom watching the shows?
National Officer at Your Local Chapter Meeting
With technology advancing on a daily basis, why not utilizing some of the fancy electronic tools available to us? Several weeks ago, I attended a local PBL chapter meeting in Alaska via web camera! I was able to speak to the entire group about membership benefits, conferences, and competitive events and really got to know the members on a personal level. A web camera, a computer, and an Instant Messaging program (Skype, MSN, GTalk) is all you need. Talk to one of your national officers, and we will be happy to arrange a “visit” to your chapter virtually!
Facebook!
Check out the many resources on the national Phi Beta Lambda group on facebook. It provides many resources, from the Promotional Video to link to the Region Webpages. Most of all, it serves as an exclusive community that allows you to connect with other PBL members from across the country. Stay tuned on facebook and search for “Phi Beta Lambda”!
PBL, it’s that time of the year again – membership and recruiting! We can’t wait to see the great things we can all accomplish this year. It’s challenging, but celebration only comes with determination, commitment, and hard work. Let’s get ready for what is sure to be “Simply the Best” year!
This article was written by Gloria Lau, the PBL National President. Gloria can be reached by email at PBLPres@fbla.org
We now have the official schedule for the Fall Leadership Conference. It looks like Eastern Arizona College has put together an excellent day of competition, workshops, community service, and networking.
Saturday, September 26th
- 9:00-9:15 Registration Open Dining Room
- 9:15-9:30 Welcome and State Officer Report Bonita Room
- 9:30-11:30 Testing Sessions 1 & 2 Gila/Galiuro Room
- Job Interview Conference Room 188
- Public and Impromptu Speaking Aravaipa Room
- Community Service Projects Open Dining Room
- 11:00-11:25 Value Based Management and Bonita Room – Performance Evaluations; do your values align with the company you work for.
- 11:30-12:30 Lunch
- 12:45–1:45 Testing Session 3 Gila/Galiuro Room
- Community Service Projects Open Dining Room
- 2:00-2:25 “What’s Your Color” Bonita Room – Identify your personality traits and what you require in order to be successful.
- 2:30-3:00 Awards Bonita Room
Click here to download a pdf version of this schedule
Also please note that dress is business casual for this conference.
Reminders:
- Conference registration is due Friday, September 18th: more information here.
- The conference is hosted at Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, AZ (download map)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
EAC PBL Chapter is inviting you to EAC’s Campus for a day of competition, presentations and community projects. Begin the new school year networking with other chapters and sizing up the competition in preparation for the State Leadership Conference.
Registration Deadline: September 18, 2009
Registration Fee for Participants: $10
Please complete attached spreadsheet. Refer to Event Guidelines for Competition Numbers and Names.
Conference Agenda
9:00-9:25 – Check in EAC Gherald Hoopes Activity Center
9:30-11:30 Competitions, Presentations and Service Project
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2:30 Competitions, Presentations and Service Project
2:30-3:00 Awards
Contact
Dana Barnett / 928-428-8422 / dana.barnett@eac.edu
Derek Rich / 928-428-8423 / derek.rich@eac.edu
Tammy Campbell / 928-428-8432 / tammy.campbell@eac.edu
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Click here to download registration form
Posted on September 1, 2009 in National PBL
Greetings members and advisers,
The National Officer Team would like to wish everyone a strong and successful start to your membership year. With the membership goal set for 13,000, the main focus in the fall is membership. Membership registration is now open with our first deadline on October 20. There are plenty of resources available to assist all of you with your membership recruitment efforts. For instance, your Chapter Management Handbook and the State Officer Handbook (sent to you through the last email) contains a ton of great ideas for chapter activities, fundraisers and much more. Please be reminded that registration for the Career and Membership Achievement Program (CMAP) is also open to all members. Please encourage your members to complete the program!
On the other hand, we would like to announce a really exciting leadership opportunity. Do you have a passion in serving PBL at the national level? Do you know of someone you feel is ready to take on more challenges and responsibilities? Check out the applications for all the Region Action Councils and the National Treasurer Council. Members on the Region Action Councils assist the Region VPs in various membership and communication duties, and members on the National Treasurer Council assist the National Treasurer in national sponsorships. These are great opportunties to gain valuable leadership experience and to make a lasting difference in PBL. Don’t hesitate – visit the national website for the applications!
Members and advisers, we are off to a good start to “Simply the Best” year. Please feel free to contact any of your National Officers with any thoughts, questions or concerns. We are here to ensure that you get the most out of the year!
Best wishes,
Geoffrey Long
PBL National Secretary
Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc.
318 Friendship St
Providence, RI 02903
P 410.802.8404
www.fbla-pbl.org
FBLA-PBL: Simply the Best!
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The preceding message was taken from a mass email sent by Mr. Long to the PBL distribution list.
We will be holding an online meeting for Chapter Presidents and Advisers. The goal of the meeting is to discuss and coordinate recruitment efforts between the state and local chapters. We ask that only one member (preferably the President, but another representative is acceptable) and one adviser from each chapter attend that chat so it does not get too crowded. It is an informal and open chat and requires no preparation other than any suggestions you may want to have prepared. The chat is:
August31st (Monday)
8:00 PM
AZPBL Chatroom:
http://www.userplane.com/directory/index.cfm?action=chat.loadChatFrameset&domainCode=BC9A
0622B2AE597E904840D24EF8EF95&initialRoom=&app=ch
We hope to see you there.
Posted on August 24, 2009 in General
We are pleased to announce an organized marketing effort that we hope the local chapters can use to augment their recruitment efforts. We are dubbing this the “5 Reasons to Join” campaign. Below you will find high-quality, print-ready posters that you can spread around your campus. These posters are best used in a unified organized manner so that all five of them can be viewed in a short period of time (for example, as you walk down a hall or as you skim a bulletin board).
They provide a visually stunning hook followed by a quick, but effective, description on one of the benefits of being a PBL member and an advertisement for a special page on the web site that unifies the 5 reasons and provides a contact form if the student has trouble seeking out your chapter through traditional means. Please let us know how you like this campaign by leaving comments.
The Flyers:
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_compete.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_travel.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_serve.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_network.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_lead.pdf
The Arizona PBL web site has been updated to match our fresh/modern look, but more importantly its now running off a Wordpress blog. Now you will be able to comment on articles, search the web site, review archives, and more. Over the next week there will be a lot of additions to the site as we slowly transition over to this new platform. Please bear with us.
Why Wordpress?
We wanted to transition azpbl.org over to a content management system (CMS) to make updates and posts as quick and painless as a possible. With Wordpress, one of the most popular blogging platforms on the internet, we will be able to better manage content on the web site and facilitate contributions from the top down. This allows all the contributors to the web site to write posts with ease in a simplistic web-based interface. That means more frequent updates and in the end, a more robust and complete web site for Arizona PBL.
How does this new site affect me?
Switching to Wordpress actually gives all users more power in shaping the content of the web site. As a guest or member of AZ PBL, you may comment on any piece of content posted on the web site. In fact, we encourage it. This will promote healthy conversation about what AZ PBL is doing. If you are a chapter president, you can even post content pieces to the site. Just register (using the link under tools to the right) and notify the State President (president@azpbl.org) that you want author status on the web site. Once you are given the proper permissions, you will be able to login, access the site admin, and write content. This content will then be maintained in a draft state until one of the editors (state officers or advisers) publishes it live and on the site. We hope that chapter presidents can write interesting articles about what their local chapters are doing.
What can I expect in the future?
Here are some ideas that will probably be implemented sooner rather than later.
- AZPBL image gallery fed by Flickr
- Alumni Directory (we will be working to integrate what we previously had as a membership directory into the wordpress engine, hopefully with some further improvements)
- Archive of competitive event winners. We will be integrating competitive event winner lists directly into wordpress as posts categorized under “Awards.”
- Document Library
Your ideas and feedback, as always, are much appreciated.
