Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 9:00am via Conference Call
Board Members Present: Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson
Board Members Absent: Lindsey Carpino
Guests: Incoming board members Scott Vanderlin, Sarah Andeen, and Carrie Port
Significant Actions: None
Treasurer’s Report (Section IV)
April 13, 2021 at 8:30 a.m.
Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson
Board Members Absent: None
Significant Actions: The board approved extending the implementation of the strategic plan through May 2023.
Treasurer’s Report
Conference call
March 9, 2021 8:30 a.m.
Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson
Board Members Absent: None
Significant Actions: None
Treasurer’s Report (Section IV)
The 2020-2021 CALL Placement & Recruitment Committee (“committee”) was comprised of Julie Pabarja (Chair), Valerie Kropf and Sean Rebstock. Megan Butman was the Board Liaison.
The committee started the year by reviewing and suggesting edits to the committee charge, the job posting form and the job placement terms & conditions found on the CALL website. The committee also discussed the initiatives in the CALL Strategic Plan assigned to this committee to handle. Continue reading CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
Conference call
February 9, 2021 8:30 a.m.
Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson
Board Members Absent: None
Significant Actions: None
Treasurer’s Report (Section IV)
Greetings CALL Colleagues,
We are at that time of the year where we feel pulled in two directions. Trying to squeeze every last bit of relaxation we can into the final weeks of summer while also sprinting into fall, preparing for new students and new associates. The tension between those tasks feels even more precarious this year as we factor in our “return to work” plans. Are we going back to the office? How often? What will it look like? One thing we have gotten very good at over the past year is not only making plans, but also making contingency plans and maybe contingencies to those plans too. The What Ifs loom large over all of our heads, which can be a source of stress, but I am choosing to look at this time as a source of opportunity. Continue reading President’s Letter
I would like to thank the PLLIP-SIS for a grant to attend the AALL Management Institute! Attending the management institute has been a goal of mine, so I was happy for the opportunity. The institute was held virtually on March 23-24, 2021.
This year’s institute focused on managing remote and hybrid working environments, training on implicit bias, inclusive decision making, management and leadership responsibilities of managers and improving conflict and professional development planning.
AALL was able to focus the management institute on core principals as well as topics that are vital to everyone, including diversity and inclusion initiatives and workplace changes in the times of COVID. Continue reading AALL Management Institute
Committee members: Jessie LeMar (chair), Jesse Bowman, Shari Duff, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, and Jamie Stewart.
This year’s Grants and Chapter Awards Committee was charged with selecting grant recipients based on established criteria for CALL members to attend professional meetings and selecting recipients for the chapter awards based on nominations from CALL colleagues. Continue reading CALL Grants and Chapter Awards Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
As you sip your shaken-not-stirred martini at the bar, you recognize “As Time Goes By” on the piano. You sigh impatiently as you look at your Rolex again – your contact is late. You have very urgent questions only they can answer and you are starting to worry. Are they having trouble finding parking? Or is their Aston Martin lying in a ditch, nudged off the road by shadowy figures hidden in the fog?
A very glamorous scenario to be sure, but that type of intelligence imagery belongs to the fictional world of movies. Competitive (Strategic) Intelligence (CI/SI) certainly does have military roots and practiced by national security agencies and police departments. However, the business world adapted those original techniques with an aim to “leverage insights, best practices, and unimpeachable ethics to drive growth and reduce risk in strategic choice” in their respective industries. (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)). Continue reading No Stone Unturned: Leveraging HUMINT Insights
Celebrate your fellow CALL members accomplishments. Please send any and all accolades, announcements, or position news to the co-editors of the Bulletin and to Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Chair of the Public Relations Committee. Continue reading Member News
