PDTA Spring Leaders Conference helped foster communications.
Press Release Summary:
Held in Charleston, SC from March 15-17, PTDA Spring Leaders Conference introduced participants to new business ideas and concepts. It brought together nearly 120 PTDA distributors and manufacturers from all leadership levels for networking and learning. Conference encompassed 3 components: governance meetings for PTDA's new committees, Leadership Development Conference, and General Educational Session. Latter gave seasoned and emerging leaders insight into ways to communicate.
Original Press Release:
Reaching New Generations & Developing Adaptive Communication Styles are Takeaways from 2012 Spring Leaders Conference
Chicago, Ill.-The newly designed PTDA Spring Leaders Conference, held March 15-17 in historic Charleston, S.C., introduced participants to new business ideas and concepts and brought together nearly 120 PTDA distributors and manufacturers from all leadership levels for networking and learning.
The conference encompassed three components: governance meetings for PTDA's new committees, the Leadership Development Conference and a new feature-a General Educational Session designed to give both seasoned and emerging leaders insight into ways of communicating.
Among those in attendance was Jeffrey King, director marketing, Bearing Service Inc., who said, "For independent distributors, learning about and embracing rapidly changing communication methodologies is vital to both the development of new customers and the retention of current customers. The distributors that fail to embrace these changes will undoubtedly be on the outside looking in to those that do."
Communications consultant Jim Paglia of In's & Out's LLC facilitated both the General Educational Session and the Leadership Development components of the conference. Paglia encouraged soul searching by asking members to use symbols to visually describe how their companies perceive them and how they perceive themselves at their companies. The interactive discussion that followed touched on such topics as corporate branding, value statements and the vision required to lead an organization.
Paglia also illustrated how various cultures-and generations-differ in their communications styles. Participants walked away with a new grasp of how adaptation in communications is critical for business survival.
For photos or more information, visit www.ptda.org/SpringLeadersConference.
Founded in 1960, the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) is the leading association for the industrial power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel. A U.S.-based trade association, PTDA represents 178 power transmission/motion control distribution firms that generate more than $10 billion in sales and span 3,500 locations in North America and 11 other countries. PTDA members also include 180 manufacturers that supply the PT/MC industry.
PTDA is dedicated to providing exceptional networking, targeted education, relevant information and leading-edge business tools to help distributors and manufacturers meet marketplace demands competitively and profitably. For more information, visit www.ptda.org.
