Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm Registration & Networking with Peers (Cash bar available)
6:30-7:30pm Dinner - Select your choice of an entre of fish, chicken or vegan.  Beverage of tea or coffee.  Dessert is served.
7:30-8:30pm Monthly Meeting Program 

Holiday Charity Gala Celebration with Training Futures – Plus: Business Process Improvement from the Pages of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion

Please save the date for our December 9 chapter meeting.  During the meeting we will have a special presentation from Charles M. Herbek on Business Process Improvement from the Pages of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion and continue our chapter’s decade-long tradition of supporting Training Futures. 

Charlie will describe a unique methodology designed to reduce day-to-day dissonance in organizational operations and help businesses improve their bottom line performance.  By focusing the battle-tested lessons of Civil War commanders on identified business problem areas such as communications, risk, time, procurement and human resource management, business efficiencies can be improved to positively affect the bottom line. 

Using The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies as the primary source, he will cross-walk the actions that occurred during the lead up to and the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia Nov-Dec 1862 to key Knowledge Areas of Project Management as a method for business process improvement. 

Dinner will be paid for by the chapter for every person who donates $25 or more to Training Futures.  In addition, the chapter will donate $200 and match any personal donation over $25. (You give $50; the chapter matches $25).  There are Bronze ($25-0 match), Silver ($50-$25 match), Gold ($75-$50 match), Platinum ($100-$75 match), and Diamond ($125-$100 match) levels.  Please invite your family and friends (your boss is most welcome) to join us and meet those dedicated and exciting ARMA people that you network with. 

During the meeting, in addition to Charles Herbek’s presentation, we will hear from Beth Lavin, Training Future’s Career and Alumni Coordinator.  We will also hear from one of the students enrolled in the Training Futures training program. 

About Training Futures:

Training Futures prepares high-potential, underemployed individuals for more stable, professional office careers, via a 25-week career-training program, focusing on office and computer skills.  The program is part of the Northern Virginia Family Services (NVFS) – a private, non-profit 501(c) (3) organization. Students are trained in medical terminology, health care insurance, billing and coding, MS Office Suite, Windows Internet/e-mail, keyboarding, business math/English, customer service, reception duties, filing, 10-key calculators, and professional development workshops.  As part of their training, they learn core records management skills. 

Since its inception in 1996, Training Futures has trained more than 1,000 people – with 90% of its graduates obtaining permanent positions, earning significantly more money than what they could have earned without the training. Part of this success stems from the program’s focus on teaching problem-solving and communication skills, in a simulated office environment. Trainees must arrive on time, dress professionally, complete assigned office projects, and receive periodic performance reviews. The Training Futures website is http://www.nvfs.org/trainingfutures.htm   

The ARMA NOVA chapter has supported Training Futures for the past eleven years.  In 2013, the chapter raised a record $2,390 for this very worthy organization.  Let’s see if we can surpass that record!

Speaker: Charles Herbek

Charlie Herbek combines corporate-level business executive experience with a long and distinguished military career, all wrapped around a life-long fascination with and expertise in Civil War history.  As the founder and principal of LearningFields, Charlie brings all this experience and expertise to bear in dynamic and thought-provoking presentations to business executives designed to measurably improve their individual performance and the overall operational quality of their companies.

Charlie served in the United States Army for more than 20 years at increasingly responsible levels of command and staff, including key roles in the Department of the Army Office of the Inspector General and Operations Staff. He gained valuable international perspectives and insights during a specialty NATO assignment with the British Army, and he was selected for advanced training at the Senior Service School level at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

After retirement from the Army, Charlie joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a premier national defense and technology provider. He became a Project and Program Manager leading the Missile Defense Agency’s Knowledge on Line Program, CSC’s first efforts into Virtual Worlds and the Immersive Internet. As Deputy for Global Information Management, Charlie trained more than 1,000 Information Management Coordinators and helped establish CSC’s critically complex and sensitive Information Governance process.

Charlie has numerous professional and military credentials that attest to his expertise in both military command and business management, including ARMA International, the Information Governance Initiative and Project Management Professional (PMP) and Information Management Professional (IGP) certifications. He is an active member of the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce serving on the Legislative and Military Affairs Committees.  He is a former member of the board of directors of ARMA NOVA.