Summer Education Program

Summer Education Program
Monday, September 21, 2015
Poinsett Club
Greenville, SC

 Registration is now closed.  Please contact Chapter Administrator,
Kelly Dixon if you would like to attend

Program Agenda

Education and Speaker Information
“Best Practices When it Comes to Budget Time” with Mitch Stump, CPA
(CMAA Competency: Accounting & Financial Management; Credits: 3 Chapter Education)
Mitchell L. Stump, CPA, one of the leading accountants serving the Private Club Industry, will lead three hours of interactive discussion that will be useful as your club works on the budget for next year. Mitch does not hesitate to challenge the status quo, often questioning why clubs do many of the same things, year after year, and expect different results. Thus, this session will be beneficial to all department heads.

Some of Stump’s musings that will be discussed:

• Is your Board suggesting the club skip a year without raising dues?
• Do budgeted expenses really have a direct percent correlation to the amount of dues income?
• Is your club ignoring industry benchmarking statistics, using historical information only?
• Where is a new “WOW!” found in each department’s budget?
• Is there a budget item for a new book each department is planning to read as a group for 2016?
• Is the daily training portion of each department’s budget adequate?
• Is the club limiting non-member functions to only those that will be financial successes vs. busy work?
• Is your club’s 20-year plan for capital asset acquisition and replacements up-to-date?
• Should food minimums be replaced with golf guest fee minimums?
• Will marketing dollars be used on members and prospects living or working with 15 miles of the club?
• And, how do those pesky tax and privacy rules affect the budget?

Mitchell L. Stump is a former IRS Revenue Agent and a practicing CPA located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, with 43 years of tax experience. He has consulted with the Club Industry since 1991 and is recognized as an industry leader, being called upon to speak to and write for club-related groups and club-specific publications. Author of Club Tax Book and Club “It’s All About Golf” Book, Mitch hopes to provide answers to most of your club tax, accounting operations questions.

Mitch is an Honorary Member of the Florida Chapter CMAA; Member of HFTP and Member of AICPA Tax Division. He is President of Mitchell L. Stump, CPA, PA, along with its subsidiary Club Capital Planners, Club Book Series, Inc. and Founder of Club Tax Network, Inc., an association of CPAs, Attorneys and Consultants serving the Private Club Industry.

"Outrunning the Tsunami of Change: 7 Rules of Leadership in a World of Unknowns"
with Rex Miller (CMAA Competency: Leadership; Credit: 1) 
How did the 2008 financial crash change your world? Are you prepared for the next surprise? In this presentation, you will learn the insights that futurists and a few savvy investors saw in 2002 anticipating the 2008 crash. You will also learn a new leadership mindset necessary in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. You will be challenged, awakened and motivated to take on and create your own future.

"Plugging the Hole in Your Boat: Why Culture is Key to Keeping Your Team Afloat" with Rex Miller
(CMAA Competency: Human & Professional Resources; Credit: 1)  
Why are half of employees happy but disengaged? Did you know there are probably 20% of your staff you are better off paying to stay home because of their toxic effect? Rex will share the key takeaways from his book Change Your Space, Change Culture: How Engaging Workplaces Lead to Transformation and Growth. His two years of research included more than 50 leaders working with some of the most engaging companies on the planet. You will hear how you can take these lessons and create the same kind of employee engagement that leads to transformation and growth.

"The 40 Minute Solution: A Way to Quickly Solve the Things that Keep You Up at Night" with Rex Miller
(CMAA Competency: Leadership; Credit: 1)   
Every leader has key challenges that keep them up at night. The problem is that few have the luxury to check out for a day or two to clear your head and tackle them. What if you could leverage the collective insights of other leaders in a process that could create a breakthrough in just 40 minutes? That is exactly what we will do together. Bring your biggest challenges and you will learn a model that will not only tackle these problems during the workshop but will be a model you can take home to your staff. The 40 minute solution will allow you to stay on top of those big challenges and engage your team back home in a highly motivating approach to problems.

Rex Miller is the Principal and Thought Leader for mindSHIFT. His books are: The Millennium Matrix, The Commercial Real Estate Revolution and Change Your Space Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workplaces Lead to Transformation and Growth.

He is currently leading the Hope Schools MindShift initiative to shift the dysfunctional narrative driving much of our national conversation around education reform. The consortium includes 45 organizations with more than 80 educators and practitioners.

Rex and his family live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. He is married with three kids and three dogs.

Rex takes the fuzziness and mystery out of talking about culture and will show you how to elevate your culture to high performance with that winning edge.

Club Information
Poinsett Club
807 East Washington Street
Greenville, SC 29601
864-242-3062
www.poinsettclub.org

Attire
Business Casual; collared shirts for men, jackets and ties not required.

Accommodation Information
The Courtyard Marriott Greenville Downtown will serve as the Chapter’s host hotel for the Program. The hotel is located in the heart of downtown Greenville at: 50 West Broad Street, Greenville, SC 29601.

The Chapter has a room block set up at a rate of $129/night plus taxes. To make your reservation online, click here; to make your reservation by phone, please call 864-451-5700 and ask for the “Carolinas Chapter CMAA” group rate. The room block will be released on Friday, September 11.

Optional Event Information
Networking Happy Hour
Attendees coming in to town on Sunday are invited to join Chapter members and friends for a casual Networking Happy Hour at Rick Erwin's Nantucket Seafood from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. The Village Green Patio will be reserved for the Chapter and it will be a cash bar for attendees to make an event of it as they wish. Drop by just to say hi, stay for a drink (or two!) and/or then enjoy a night out on the town to explore all that Greenville's dining scene has to offer.

Golf
Golf will be available at Greenville Country Club on Sunday complimentary for CMAA members; discounted fees for any guests will apply. If you are interested in making a tee time, please contact Greg Hobbs, General Manager, at 864-672-1710.