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• Communicorp Recertified as Idealliance G7 Master Qualified Printer for 4th Consecutive Year

  August 12, 2015

  Communicorp, a subsidiary of Aflac, one of the largest marketing solutions providers in the Southeast, has announced the company's recertification of the prestigious G7 Master Qualification.

• TAG Brings State of the Technology Industry Roadshow to Columbus

  August 11, 2015

  The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), and the TAG Columbus chapter will be presenting its annual 2015 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report on Wednesday, August 12th, at the Muscogee County School District Technology Academy from 4:30-6:00 p.m.

• 5 Killer Tips to Keep Your Small Business WiFi Up and Running

  August 07, 2015

• How to Ensure Career Opportunities for Employees

  August 07, 2015

  If HR professionals aren’t focusing on company wide career development programs in 2015, a new study show they’ll regret it in 2016. Recent research (PDF) conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) revealed that career advancement opportunities were highly important to nearly half of everyone who was surveyed.

• Verizon Wireless Responding to Georgia’s Marketplace

  August 06, 2015

  Jonathan LeCompte, president of the Georgia/Alabama Region for Verizon Wireless, has been with Verizon and its legacy companies for over 20 years, starting out in the organization as a customer service representative. Not only have his responsibilities expanded and changed over the last two decades, but so has the wireless industry.

• Leadership Columbus Application Deadline Approaching

  August 04, 2015

  Leadership Columbus is an official program of the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Being a collaborative effort between the Chamber and Leadership Columbus Alumni, its goal is to provide involved and committed community leaders.

• How Business and Personal Credit Cards Are Different

  July 30, 2015

• Why Your Company Needs a Wellness Program

  July 30, 2015

  If one of your company’s top players decides to defect to the competition due to a unique benefit offering, the result can be catastrophic. Not only could your business experience a decline in productivity, the costs associated with finding new talent and trying to fill the void in the meantime could be incalculable. One way to stay competitive in this increasingly aggressive job market is to invest in a sound wellness program.

• Wright Symposium Features National Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

  July 28, 2015

  The inaugural Bob Wright Symposium on Business Empowerment will feature corporate leaders and executives sharing their business insights, knowledge, and experience.

• 5 Tax Related Changes for Your Healthcare in 2016

  July 28, 2015

• Columbus State Continuing Education’s 2015 Open House Promises You Will Learn Something New

  July 24, 2015

  Fall will soon be here and so will the creative and energizing courses offered by Continuing Education at Columbus State University. Get ready to focus your mind where you will benefit the most... on your personal and professional growth.

• Atlanta Braves EVP, Mike Plant, Well-Trained for Olympian Task of Moving Team to Cobb County

  July 23, 2015

  The first sporting event at the Atlanta Braves’ Turner Field in June of 1996 was not a baseball game, but, rather, the venue for the U.S Olympic Track and Field Trials, followed the next month by the actual Olympic Games. That irony is not lost on Atlanta Braves’ Executive Vice-President, Mike Plant, an Olympian speed skater and member of several Olympic committees, who has taken on overall responsibility for the 2017 move of the team to SunTrust Park in Cobb County.

• How to Pick the Best Business Partner for You

  July 21, 2015

  Having the perfect business partner can help you take your business to another level even faster than you could take it on your own. But just like any relationship, you need to date first and test the relationship, so that you don’t make an expensive mistake.

• Overhead Door Of Columbus Announces 2nd Annual Garage Door Contest

  July 15, 2015

  Once Again, Overhead Door Of Columbus is out to find the Ugliest Door in The Valley.

• What it Takes to Build a Strong Company Culture

  July 13, 2015

  Company culture is the accumulation of the attitudes and behaviors of everyone in your company — starting with you as the owner. If companies had personalities, your culture would be the personality of your company.

• Chattahoochee Valley Region Battles to Stabilize Fort Benning

  July 10, 2015

  “The fight to preserve the strength and integrity of Fort Benning has only just begun,” Brian Anderson, C.E.O of the Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce. “It is important that our Regional community – which includes Columbus, Phenix City, our Metropolitan Support Area and the post itself – remain armed with the most current information regarding Sequestration; maintain vigilance in showing their dedication to Fort Benning; and let those in political power know that we and they must protect our post. We have Benning’s back, because Benning has always had ours.”

• Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson Tapped as Chair of Sweet Briar College's New Board of Directors

  July 08, 2015

  The Sweet Briar College Board of Directors held its first face-to-face meeting today on the Sweet Briar College campus, electing leaders, adopting a formal policy of inclusiveness and transparency and beginning work to establish board governance policies and a committee structure. Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, a 1987 graduate of Sweet Briar, was elected chairwoman of the board.

• 6 Helpful Tips for Training Small Business Employees

  July 06, 2015

  When you tell your employees it’s time for the weekly training meeting, you can almost see their groans. Training is generally not anyone’s favorite hour of the day and it can be expensive, especially for small business startups.

• CTC Administrators Graduate from Leadership Training

  June 29, 2015

  Two administrators with Columbus Technical College just wrapped up specialized training aimed at helping them improve their skills as leaders.

• Metro Columbus’ Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.1% in May

  June 25, 2015

  The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Columbus’ unemployment rate for May was 7.1 percent, up five-tenths of a percentage point from 6.6 percent in April.

• Cunningham Center at Columbus State University Celebrates 10 Years

  June 23, 2015

  The Cunningham Center at Columbus State University will celebrate the 10thanniversary of its grand opening this week. The 67,500-square-foot building started with a gift and a bequest to the university from John Cunningham, a lifelong salesman who possessed a true passion for the sales profession.

• Georgia Credit Unions Affiliates Host Business Leaders from Dominican Republic

  June 22, 2015

  Georgia Credit Union Affiliates will host a group of business leaders from the Dominican Foundation for Social and Cooperative Development (FUNDESCOOP) in Atlanta June 22-24. The visitors represent financial and non-financial cooperatives in the Dominican Republic. Established in 2007, FUNDESCOOP is a non-profit group devoted to finding solutions to social and business needs in the Dominican Republic.

• TSYS Announces Promotion of Keith Pierce to Executive Vice President

  June 18, 2015

  TSYS announced the promotion of Keith Pierce to Executive Vice President for Relationship Management. Pierce will be responsible for TSYS’ North America consumer, commercial and healthcare lines of business.

• 5 Tips to Get Higher Email Open Rates on Mobile

  June 18, 2015

• 2015 Leadership Columbus Class Graduates

  June 17, 2015

  The 2014-2015 Leadership Columbus graduation ceremony was held Tuesday, June 16, at The Cunningham Center for Leadership Development. This is the 33rd class to graduate from Leadership Columbus.

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