Join us for a dynamic workshop designed to empower you with invaluable insights on leveraging both your Indianola Chamber Membership and affiliate benefits through the Greater Des Moines Partnership. This comprehensive session brings together the expertise of two influential entities—the Indianola Chamber and The Greater Des Moines Partnership—offering tailored guidance to suit your business needs.



Session 1: Indianola Chamber Insights (9:00 am - 9:45 am) In the first segment, Amanda, Indianola Chamber's President, will explore strategies and resources aimed at maximizing your engagement with the local business community. Learn how to leverage the power of networking, gain visibility, and access exclusive opportunities available through your chamber membership. 

Session 2: Greater Des Moines Partnership Affiliate Benefits (9:45 am - 10:30 am) Following the first session, representatives from The Greater Des Moines Partnership will explore a wealth of affiliate benefits designed to elevate your business on a regional scale. Discover how to tap into resources, programs, and initiatives tailored to accelerate growth, expand your network, and amplify your influence across the Greater Des Moines area. From advocacy to economic development, this segment equips you with the knowledge to leverage every advantage of partnership affiliation.

Combined Ticket Option: Access Both Sessions For those seeking a comprehensive understanding of leveraging business networks, we offer a combined ticket option granting access to both sessions. Engage with experts from both the Indianola Chamber and The Greater Des Moines Partnership to gain a better understanding on maximizing your business's potential with the Indianola Chamber.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain actionable insights, forge valuable connections, and propel your business forward. Reserve your tickets now to secure your place at this transformative workshop!

Learn about Emotional Intelligence in Your Clear Next Step’s tried-and-true W.H.A.T. format; you’ll learn What emotional intelligence is, How to apply it, Avoiding common pitfalls, and specific, concrete Tools and techniques to take back to work and boost your Emotional Intelligence in your day-to-day interactions with your team, colleagues, and customers.

Using a balance of instructor-led presentation and engaging, hands-on skill practice that simulates real-life situations in a nonthreatening way, this session will launch you on your way to being more effective in your current role by helping you raise your Emotional Intelligence and leverage emotional intelligence more effectively. Dispelling common myths about emotional intelligence, and packed with practical, try-this-now tips and techniques, this session has been increasingly popular since its inception. Regardless of your own Emotional Intelligence, you’ll walk away with tools you can use to get even better and ways to influence those around you to also grow their own Emotional Intelligence.

By attending this course, you'll:

• Gain a simple model for understanding the four stages of emotional intelligence
• Practice examples of how to apply emotional intelligence in familiar situations
  • Starting with the role of self-awareness in effective interpersonal interactions
  • Continuing with the value of self-management in achieving goals at work
  • Exploring the importance of other awareness and how to identify where someone else is coming from
  • Focusing on the criticality of relationship management and how to ensure that the situation moves forward in the best possible way for everyone involved
• Encounter stories and anecdotes, tools and techniques to learn “the easy way” to avoid the most common and most painful mistakes around emotional intelligence
• Experience tools and techniques to help you improve your influence with others, including a tailored quick reference guide for future development

All one-day sessions run from 8:30am – 4:30pm
All two-day sessions run from 8:30am – 12:30pm each day

State Employees: $235
All Other Participants: $506

Classes at the State are open to anyone, regardless of where you work. If you are interested in registering for The Art and Science of Emotional Intelligence and are not a State of Iowa employee, please download the registration form and email the completed form to Kim Hanson (515-401-9542, pds@iowa.gov) at the State of Iowa Performance & Development Solutions or contact us and we’ll get the conversation started!

Learn about Emotional Intelligence in Your Clear Next Step’s tried-and-true W.H.A.T. format; you’ll learn What emotional intelligence is, How to apply it, Avoiding common pitfalls, and specific, concrete Tools and techniques to take back to work and boost your Emotional Intelligence in your day-to-day interactions with your team, colleagues, and customers.

Do more with less! Designed specifically for those who are actively managing projects, this class is an in-depth look into the processes, knowledge areas, inputs, and outputs you need to know to manage projects effectively and successfully. Learn key knowledge areas and critical success factors now so you don’t have to learn them the hard way later. This class is a high energy, hands-on balance of PMBOK knowledge and application as well as best practices learned and passed down by the pros. Walk away with critical essentials for getting a project done regardless of size or complexity, as well as techniques, concepts, and tools that will save you time and energy in the future.

During this course, participants will:

• Describe the characteristics of a project
• Complete a roadmap of critical knowledge areas within the lifecycle of a project
• Practice initiating, planning, managing, and closing down a project
• Learn a reusable set of tools for approaching projects in a comprehensive yet efficient way

All sessions run from 8:30am – 4:30pm

State Employees: $187
All Other Participants: $374

Classes at the State are open to anyone, regardless of where you work. If you are interested in registering for Foundations of Project Management and are not a State of Iowa employee, please download the registration form and email the completed form to Kim Hanson (515-401-9542, pds@iowa.gov) at the State of Iowa Performance & Development Solutions or contact us and we’ll get the conversation started!

Designed specifically for those who are actively managing projects without extensive project management training, this class is an in-depth look into the processes, knowledge areas, inputs, and outputs you need to know to manage projects effectively and successfully.

Please join us on Friday, April 19th  at 2:30 PM for the Ribbon Cutting for Northwestern Mutual. The Ribbon Cutting will take place at the Indianola Chamber office, 110 N Howard St in Indianola. Feel free to check them out online in the meantime: https://samhofer.nm.com!  

Indianola Public Library and Indianola Parks and Recreation are partnering to bring you an afternoon of local authors, prizes, and baked treats at the Activity Center!

Authors Jamie Ogle, Ann Hanigan Kotz, and Joseph LeValley will each give a talk throughout the afternoon. More authors will be there to answer your questions and showcase their books, including Ember Gray and Nina Wilson. Pageturners Bookstore will also have local interest books for sale, and baked treats are generously donated by The Cookie Lady. Both businesses and the library are also bringing raffle prizes - you’ll get a free raffle ticket at the door!
 

As the weather gets warmer, we want to focus our supper clubs on a local presence of ingredients and talent. Our Spring Soirée will consist of 6 courses of vegetable forward small plates showcasing spring’s first harvest. Join us on April 20th for an evening full of flavor. With the amount of courses, there will be one seating for this event at 6pm so you are able to take your time with each course and throughly enjoy the experience.

Courses will include:
Tea & Petite Scone
Soup Pairing
Green Salad
Savory Cannoli
Sobert Pallet Cleanse
Gnocchi
Dessert

Table options, and single seats available. If you choose a table, it comes with as many seats as listed. If you are looking for reservations of 8-12 people, please contact us directly for accommodations. You are more than welcome to bring your own beverages in, and encourage you to check out some of our local shops with great beverage offerings like Feed & Foster, and West Hill Brewery!

Please join us on Tuesday, April 30th at 4:00 PM for the Open House for Fiesta Jalapenos. The open house will take place at their restaurant, 508 N. Jefferson Way in Indianola. Feel free to check them out here in the meantime!