EO Underground

80's Party - Totally Awesome Dude

2008-09-02T12:48:00.004-05:00

Our fearless leader, Chris "Billy Idol" Mangan was the star of the 80's party Friday night. He and Steve "mullet man" Clark were 2 of the best dressed people at the event. They came as a couple by the way :)

For more pictures check out the flickr site below. Post a comment or a link to your pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/welcome/31554058/328073/

Hot Dogs, Hot Kids, and a Walk Off Homerun!

2008-08-01T14:59:00.000-05:00

In the spirit of "boldly go" many EO Nebraska members and their families went to see the Omaha Royals play baseball in the hottest day of the year (I may be exaggerating on the hottest part but it was pretty hot). For all that attended, the feedback was great. We also had the opportunity to hear the general manager of the Royals speak about how to market on a low budget. That was a good take away to finish off the event. But the highlight was the 9th inning walk away home run by the Royals to win the game 1-0. You don't see that every day.

For those of you who went, please post a comment and share your experience with us all. We want a record of all our events on the blog. And, if you have any pictures, send them to me and I'll attach to the blog!

BOLDLY GO EO!

Chapter Requalification

2008-06-09T22:02:00.000-05:00

The topic of re-qualification of existing members has been creating a lot of discussion and research at the EO Global and chapter level for the last several years. The 2008-2009 EO Nebraska board is serous about implementing any improvements to enhance the overall health of our chapter which ultimately drives the value that each of us receives as members of EO.

Our 08/09 board engaged EO leaders (EO Global and chapter leaders nation wide) during our recent Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in San Francisco who have first hand experience and fully understand with the pro’s and con’s of a re-occurring re-qualification process. Our findings are overwhelmingly in favor of having a re-occurring re-qualification process in place along with a systematic process which allows members who sell their business or who are managing through a difficult time to remain active in EO for a period until their business grows to exceed the minimum revenue levels required to be an EO Member. The board is passionate about the process for those who are going through a challenging time because we know that its times like this when members can leverage the value from EO the most.

The board of EO Nebraska has implemented the “best practices” recommended by EO Global and the by-laws of our chapter will be updated to include this new policy.

A brief description follows the link to the full list of qualifications:

Qualifications:

Founder, Co-Founder or Majority Shareholder.

Over 1 million in revenue

At least 3 employees

Re-qualification Guidelines:

Each year members are asked to re-qualify directly with EO Global. During that process, EO Global determines whether the member meets the general membership qualification based on the member's re-qualification application. If a member does not meet these guidelines, the member gets a 1 year grace period to re-qualify. After that year is up, the member can make a request to the local chapter for a grace period extension not to exceed 2 more years in order to re-qualify. It is up to the local board to grant the additional grace period based on the circumstances of the member.

In addition, EO Global has created a challenge / reward for all chapters who are serious about building the strongest chapter possible by implementing ALL of the “best practices” identified by the EO Global research. When a chapter achieves this goal, they are recognized as a “Rock Star Chapter”; so we have decided to step up to the challenge. Beginning next year (June 2009), EO Nebraska Members will be asked to participate in a "hard" re-qualification process that requires an accountant letter certifying the member's re-qualification information. The intent of this process it to maintain the integrity of the peer to peer learning found in EO.

2008 EO Board Summit

2008-06-02T22:41:00.000-05:00

Well, your 2008 EO Board is hard at work. We completed an 8 hour strategic planning session today. We will be posting detailed information that came out of the summit for your review in the very near future.

We will be trying new things things this year from a communications standpoint to make your EO Experience more valuable. This blog is just one idea I have of creating an EO only place to share information, rave about events, and keep an ongoing archive of discussion topics.

Only EO Members and their spouses will be able to author posts at first. We may add sponsors to the list shortly after some more discussion. I'd be interested in any comments you have about what you'd like to see on this blog. Remember, this is a test, so I'm open to any idea sharing good or bad. Also, the viewing is OPEN to anyone right now, but we could make it private to just EO. Its simpler to keep it open for viewing and private for authoring posts.

Your Communications Chair

JOE FROST

What is EO Underground

2008-05-11T21:06:00.000-05:00

This is a blog for all EO Members to share their experiences about chapter related issues. We hope it becomes a community for collaboration among EO Members and their Spouses that celebrates the EO experience and archives it for future experience sharing.

Feel free to author a post or provide a comment on existing posts.