Chairman's Corner

Hi everyone-

Our Executive Council Team is hard at work on new, exciting programs for the coming year. We have heard from the membership that there is a significant group interested in getting their CPP certification. We have also heard from the CPP Community that they are looking for opportunities to earn CPP points. We are hoping to mesh these two objectives with a series of workshops targeting the material that needs to be covered when reviewing for the CPP, taught by our Chapter CPP's, enabling them to earn CPP points. The material covered by the CPP review is information necessary for the success of any security professional, so it should be of interest to all. Our goal is to provide a more advanced level talk on a similar or related topic during the luncheon program, at a level, which would be of interest to those members who are already CPPs. More to follow as the research continues, if you have feedback or are a CPP who would like to volunteer to teach one of the workshops, please contact either Greg Morrill or myself. Thanks to Don Davis on our Programs Committee for the seed that started this idea.

For our workshop in February we thought we would step away from a strictly security-related topic, and provide a workshop program and luncheon to assist us in Management and People skills. The February 17th workshop topic is Communication, the luncheon topic is Negotiation, and the speaker is an experienced facilitator, coach, and trainer named Brad Warren. See the newsletter for more info. Please join us at the Hilton in Sunnyvale!

Other opportunities for training and learning abound in the next couple of months, check out the web page info on the ASIS Leadership Training on Feb 29th in Tracy, the Modesto Workplace Violence Program on March 1, the Mt. Diablo Network Security program on March 9th, and the ASIS- HTCIA- SGI sponsored Reid Seminar on Interviewing and Interrogation on March 13-16th. That brings us to our Annual St. Patrick's Day Law Enforcement Appreciation Day on Friday March 17th at the Hilton. We hope you will join us for these exciting events.

By Kathy Goelkel