“The Chamber of the Future”

Change doesn’t normally occur this quick. Nevertheless, when a disaster of this magnitude takes over our lives, the tempo by which all of us should evolve will increase dramatically. The longer term is coming faster than anybody might have anticipated. Which means all of us should seize, course of, and be taught new data at unprecedented charges. To take action, we want trusted sources that may curate what we have to know. We additionally want that intelligence delivered incessantly. For companies, that’s what a Chamber of Commerce has all the time performed. At this time, that’s what our Chamber is doing greater than ever.

Like any profitable product, service, or trade, Chambers of Commerce have all the time modified by way of time. We reply to the wants of our members and that shapes our existence. Reinvention is all the time on the agenda.

Throughout this pandemic, our members have seen examples of what the chamber of the future might seem like. Make no mistake, we are going to all the time be a corporation that convenes enterprise leaders in individual, however going ahead there might be extra alternatives for digital gatherings, on-line studying, and a wholesome combine of content material and connections throughout our digital channels. Our purpose might be to ship a continuing stream of data to our members in an entertaining, insightful, and must-see manner.

This transformation has been underway over the previous few years. Our workforce has developed usually scheduled movies, podcasts, webinars, and different media for our members, and people merchandise proceed to enhance every day. Our audiences have grown, and our members have responded with a requirement for extra. When paired with our reside occasions, these choices have helped to redefine the worth of a Chamber membership.

Your membership dues assist this work. Because of the management of President/CEO Sue Dick, we’ve assembled a workforce that’s completely located to plan and create the very best enterprise content material in our market. As the COVID-19 pandemic started to power sudden adjustments on our complete enterprise group, we had been prepared and capable of quickly shift our enterprise mannequin right into a full-scale digital providing. This has been a virtually seamless transition and that’s one thing all of us take satisfaction in. The event of our workforce and enterprise useful resource choices has been made doable as a result of of the funding our members make in the chamber.

Our workforce can also be blessed to have super steerage from our Board of Administrators. This 12 months, with Beth Corum as Chair, our Board has embraced a spread of adjustments to each our mission, priorities, and applications. In the months earlier than anybody was speaking a few world virus, our Chamber officers had been holding quite a few brainstorming periods on how we might change finest for the future. The concepts and inspirations taken from these discussions are taking part in out in real-time at the moment. Because of the imaginative and prescient of these key enterprise leaders and the execution of our workforce members, we’re in a primary place to drive worth to our native companies whereas additionally rising the entire group. If this pandemic has taught us something, it’s that this mission issues greater than ever.

Even after this pandemic passes, the methods by which all of us do enterprise won’t ever be the similar. Right here at the Better Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, we’re dedicated to serving to our members reshape the native economic system whereas additionally bettering outcomes throughout our complete group. Proper now, our prime precedence is to re-open our economic system in a sensible and protected manner. Our sources and applications might be geared toward this for the foreseeable future. We consider there may be nice worth for our members in being half of a corporation that’s forward-focused and absolutely dedicated. We do that work collectively as a result of alone it can’t be completed.

Together with your assist, we are going to construct a greater future. We are going to stay resilient and enterprise will go on regardless of mounting challenges. Issues might be completely different for all of us, however our want to assist our members prosper will all the time be the similar. We’d like your membership as a result of Tallahassee wants a powerful Chamber of Commerce.

To our members, we thanks for supporting us throughout these tough instances. To those that have but to affix, we invite you to assist us and over 1,200 native companies construct the Chamber of the future.