Interesting in becoming a Jaycee? The Junior Chamber of Commerce is best known for leadership training. For many Jaycees, that translates into skills that carry over to their professional lives. By being the chairperson of a Jaycee project, or member of a committee, many of our members go on to that big promotion at work!
Your employer can sponsor your Jaycee membership! It's like having year round training. We learn to set goals and reach them through projects. If the goals are not attainable, the employee learns in a non-career, non-threatening way how to set more realistic ones. If the goals are attainable and a project is successful, we set out to improve the NEXT project.
We learn to work together as a team. Teamwork is very important because we have many different types of people with many different backgrounds all working toward the same goals. We are motivated.
Because we are a non-profit volunteer organization, there is no built-in "incentive" for members to participate. Chairpersons and officers learn how to make working together fun and less difficult. We use business skills every day. Our members use many management skills and techniques which help them get ahead in their careers and improve them as employees.
Who couldn't use more knowledge in planning, budgeting, goal-setting, prioritizing, time management, motivation, assertiveness training or communication skills?