Description: Major healthcare changes are coming in 2014! Do you know how they are going to impact your business? Join Federated’s Director of Operations, Tim Luy and better your understanding on current healthcare legislation and what it could mean for the future of your health insurance program. Discussion includes play or pay for large employers, mandate to obtain and maintain insurance, subsidies to afford cost of insurance, employer considerations about whether to provide insurance for employees, and what will happen to premium rates.

Cost:  Free for AWI Members
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Questions?  Contact Ilaria Buffalo, ibuffalo@awinet.org

Program Description:What size companies are most profitable? Are profit margins up? What differentiates high-profit companies? What benefits do companies in your region offer employees? The Cost of Doing Business Report includes industry specific business, financial and human capital benchmarks. Gather your management team and join us as AWI Financial Management Committee Chair and CFO of Hollywood Woodwork, Sebastien DesMarais, digs into the 2013 CODB results and reviews changes from the 2012 CODB data.

Cost:  Free for AWI Members
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Questions?  Contact Ilaria Buffalo, ibuffalo@awinet.org

Program Description: The online AWI e-Cost Book provides a labor calculator to compute time required to process materials through over 400 woodwork labor operations at your fingertips -- online, anytime, anywhere you need them. This online tool replaces the previous paper COST BOOK. Learn how to sign on to the e-Cost Book site and exercise all of its capabilities. Join Bruce Spitz, AWI Treasurer and Past Education Committee Chair to find out more about this new online resource.

Cost:  Free for AWI Members
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Questions?  Contact Ilaria Buffalo, ibuffalo@awinet.org

Program Description: Join Greg Bednar and Charlie Zizumbo for a lively discussion on "Rounding the Course to Success." This interactive program examines ways to enhance chapter recruitment/retention efforts through developing good educational programs. It explores the myths and reality of creating continual value to chapter members through engaging programs and chapter activities.

Join us for this review of available tools and programs to take your chapter to the next level!

Cost:  Free for AWI Members
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Questions?  Contact Ilaria Buffalo, ibuffalo@awinet.org

Program Description: Are you struggling with basic IT related issues that are wasting time and causing inefficiencies? Do you have an IT staff in your organization? Are you interested in learning about some simple IT concepts that could save you time and help you make more money?

Join us as Jonathan Adams, COO of Adams Group, presents the first of a two part webinar series that addresses IT related items in your organization. This first webinar will cover several basic concepts such as managing your email, contacts and calendars in the cloud, sharing files easily both internally and externally and utilizing remote access software to conduct meetings with your clients or remote team members. If not managed and implemented properly, these basic concepts can cause frustration and wasted time in your organization. There will be several takeaways from the webinar that you could implement in your organization in 30-60 days that will save you time, make you more efficient and ultimately make you more money. You don’t want to miss it!

Cost:  Free for AWI Members
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Questions?  Contact Ilaria Buffalo, ibuffalo@awinet.org