What: Professional Partners is a joint program between the Birmingham Rotaract Club and the Downtown Rotary Club of Birmingham.  Participants are chosen from Rotaract through an application process to match with a member of the Downtown Rotary Club.

Why: This program provides members from each club the opportunity to learn more about each other’s professions, to network, and to foster relationships with established  and successful members of the Birmingham community.  It also continues to strengthen the relationship between the Downtown Rotary Club and the Birmingham Rotaract Club.

Who:  Each club will provide ten participants to be paired for the Spring session.  Rotary members will be handpicked, and Rotaract members will go through an application process.

When: The spring session of Professional Partners will run from February to May of 2010. The participants will be notified of their pairings in January. In February the program will be formally introduced at a Downtown Rotary Club meeting with all participants in attendance. This gives each partner the initial opportunity to meet.  Between March and May each pair are encouraged to meet at least twice if not more.  At the end of the program in May, we will have an after work reception to end the program.

Timeline:

Dec. 15^th: Applications due for Rotaract members

 Jan 15^th: Notify participants of their pairings.

 Feb: Announce program at Rotary meeting with all participants in attendance.

 Feb-May: Program and meetings occur

 May:  After work reception to wrap up the program.

PUBLIC SPEAKING IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

Tuesday, November 17^th, 2009

5:45 -6:45 pm

Department of Communication Studies

UAB 331 Heritage Hall

The PDS will be led by Dr. Cecil G. Betros, Jr. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  

This event is only open to members and reservatiosn are required. Please visit the Members Only section of the website for registration.

Dr. Cecil G. Betros, Jr. is currently an instructor/course master in the Department of Communication Studies at UAB. In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Betros has developed an online public speaking course and successfully put together a blended program for all public speaking sections. Dr. Betros received his Master’s degree in speech-language pathology and his Doctor of Science degree in Health and Human Services. He practiced as a speech-language pathologist in Birmingham for 30 years before beginning his career at UAB. Dr. Betros has several books to his name in addition to numerous professional articles. He completed his master teacher course in December of 2007.

Dr. Betros has presented at local and national conventions. He has consulted with local businesses in the field of public speaking and human communication in addition to consulting internationally.

His teaching philosophy is centered around making the classroom as real as possible. He feels that students need to have “real world” experiences and focuses his courses on bridging the gap between theory and practicality. He considers himself the instructor that will go the extra mile for his students.

Join us for an evening of baseball…Birmingham Barons style! 

Rotaract Members have been invited to attend a networking event with the Chamber on June 30th from 5:00 – 7:30 PM in the Michael Jordan Room at Regions Park. All members are welcome to stay after the networking event to attend the game against the Mobile BayBears (Arizona Diamondbacks).

We hope you can join us for this wonderful event!

 Please visit the MEMBERS ONLY section of the website to register for this event. If you have questions please contact Holly Brown at hbrown@harbertrealty.com.

Presented by Henry Ray 

Come learn from one of Birmingham’s foremost real estate experts on how to network and to build personal and professional relationships inside and outside the office to help you develop business, clients and contacts.  These are tools that can be used in any industry and profession.

When:       Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:45 PM to 7:00 PM

Dinner and drinks provided. 

Space is limited to 30 people 

Please RSVP to vjg@hsy.com on or before March 6, 2009. 

Where:       Law offices of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC. 

2001 Park Place Tower, Suite 1400, Birmingham, AL  35203. 

Boardroom is located on 14th floor.  Street parking available on Park Place and in front of City Hall. 

Henry B. Ray, Jr. is one of Birmingham’s most well-known veterans of the real estate market.  Ray served as president of Ray & Co. and First Real Estate Corp. until 2000, when the company was acquired by RealtySouth.  He then served as vice chairman of RealtySouth’s board of directors and chief administrative officer until 2003.

The Professional Development Series is Rotaract’s way to provide our members with an exclusive after hours event with an industry executive educating us on a topic designed to further our professional development.