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Managing Up seminar March 5

The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, the South Central Kentucky Regional Economic Development Partnership and the Warren County Industrial Training Consortium will host an executive seminar titled Managing Up on March 5 at the chamber.

“The chamber encourages CEOs, CFOs, human resource managers and team leaders to attend our Managing Up seminar, which will give insight into managing business relationships,” chamber chairman Joe Natcher said in a news release.

“Managing Up” refers to the process of working to obtain the best possible results for the employee, the boss and the company. Kerry Sauley, of Louisiana State University, will lead the seminar, illustrating constructive communication skills and relationships within the workplace. Sauley also will present 10 keys to workplace success.

Sauley is a Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching professor in the Rucks Department of Management at LSU. He received his Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from LSU. During his tenure at LSU, he received numerous teaching awards. In 2003 and 2004, he was named best professor, and his management principles class was named best class at LSU, according to surveys conducted by the Daily Reveille. He is a member of the Southern Management Association and the Academy of Management.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. March 5; the program begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 11:30 a.m. The cost to attend is $80, which includes breakfast and the seminar. RSVP to Jennifer Ford at jennifer@bgchamber.com or 779-8292.

Goodman a 2010 TIME nominee

Joe Goodman III, dealer and general manager of Goodman-Chevrolet-Cadillac-Nissan in Glasgow, recently nominated for the 2010 TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year award.

Goodman was part of a group of dealers from across the country recently honored at the 93rd annual National Automobile Dealers Association Convention & Exposition in Orlando.

Goodman, 63, was chosen to represent the Kentucky Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition – he was one of 45 automobile dealers nominated for the 41st annual award.

Goodman graduated from Glasgow High School in 1964, attended Western Kentucky University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy in Atlanta in 1971.

In 1977, he joined his father and brother as an automobile salesman. He has served as an active member of the chamber of commerce since 1980, vice chairman of the board of commissioners for the Glasgow Housing Authority, board member of the Glasgow Airport Board, elder of First Christian Church Disciples of Christ, serving on the boards of the Glasgow Independent School District, Western Kentucky University Glasgow Campus and Glasgow Junior Achievement. He has been a mentor to high school students, co-chaired golf tournaments that raised scholarship funds and played in a bluegrass band involved in numerous fundraisers.

He also started the sponsorship and presentation of the Woman of Achievement Award in the local Chamber of Commerce in 1986.

Joe Goodman III and his wife, Mary Hall Goodman, live in Glasgow and have two daughters and one grandson.

Alliance boosts Boone Tavern

The United States Green Building Council has awarded the historic Boone Tavern Hotel and Restaurant in Berea with a LEED gold rating for its recent renovation completed by Glasgow-based Alliance Corp.

A gold rating requires a minimum of 39 points – Boone Tavern Hotel and Restaurant received 45 points. Boone Tavern is the only LEED gold-rated historic structure in Kentucky.

Alliance Corp. has established itself as a specialist in historic renovations in recent years. Since 2005, Alliance Corp. has earned awards for historic renovations by the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky for Liberty Street Apartments in Glasgow, Cushing Hall at Alice Lloyd College in 2006 and now Boone Tavern.

Bradley on KFA board of directors

Anthony Bradley, of the Bouquet Shoppe in Bowling Green, recently was elected to the board of directors of the Kentucky Florist Association. KFA was founded in 1957 by 13 florists from across the state. Their mission was to create a nonprofit organization to promote appreciation of floriculture and serve as a trade association for the state.

They divided the state into eight districts, each with an elected director serving on the association’s governing board. Bradley will serve as the director for district two, which includes Bowling Green.