Valley Industrial Association of Illinois

The Spark Benchmarking for Excellence Survey Tool is OPEN! Not only does this easy-to-complete survey provide great feedback about your company's strengths & weaknesses, but it also is a valuable marketing, recruitment, and morale-boosting tool. It may also be your entry to winning a Spark Award at our annual gala to be held next March. Learn more- https://lnkd.in/gM_SdU_C Who is Benchmarking this year?! Tag someone you'd love to see win a Spark Award ?? #sparkawards #excellence #benchmarking

The new 2025 Source Guides are HERE! We are so excited to begin handing out our 2025 Membership Directories. Attendees of the Economic Forecast Breakfast received their copies last week.... Join us at an event soon to pick up a copy ?? Register for an upcoming event here!: https://lnkd.in/gPA-yMG2 Take a peek through the pages to see if your picture is featured! And special thanks to Vertec BioSolvents, Inc. for providing such a cool cover photo! #membershipdirectory #sourceguide #renewaltime

Join our nonprofit Greater Chicago Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and VALEES on December 5th to make your internship goals a reality in 2025! Learn how your organization can welcome an intern. Don't let labor laws and insurance regulations deter you from embracing an amazing opportunity for your organization. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gmPQYihR #workforcestrategies #internships

Wednesday VIA had the honor of hosting our Annual Economic Forecast Breakfast. Jason Turner of Great Lakes Advisors? spoke about key points that are imperative for manufacturers and consumers to consider as we prepare for 2025. Our panel shared valuable insights with attendees about how to implement Jason's findings within organizations. Thank you Andrew Klemens of Forvis Mazars US, John. Greuling of JEG 360, LLC, and Dawn Curran, CFRE of Greater Chicago Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for contributing on the panel and Jason for delivering such an informative address. We loved seeing everyone meeting at the event and were so glad to offer the space for new connections to be made! A big thank you as well goes to all of Wednesday's sponsors: Platinum sponsors Forvis Mazars US & Wintrust Financial Corporation, Gold sponsor K+L Storytellers, Silver sponsors Cushman & Wakefield & Sterling Engineering, and Bronze sponsors First Mid, Fox Valley Orthopedics, LMI Chicago, Monitor Technologies, LLC. We appreciate your support! Next up: It's Spark season! Benchmarking is now open: https://lnkd.in/gmyByamP #economicforecast

It's frustrating when your great culture, high quality products, excellent team, global presence or added value to customers become best kept secrets rather than common knowledge. Your stories create the narrative for the #1 currency in today's business world: trust. Join us next Wednesday for a virtual Marketing Lunch & Learn as Michele Kelly of K+L Storytellers leads us through a workshop designed to help you tell the world your story. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gGF2GS4J

VIA got to spend some Quality Time with some quality people on Wednesday! Thank you to QT9 Software for hosting us and for sharing quality best practices along with Chalmers St. Consulting. Attendees learned about how to improve system quality and with it, organization success, before having a great time socializing. Thanks again to everyone who was part of the day! #qualitytime #qualitymembers

Benchmarking BEGINS today! Is your company Benchmarking? At today's Member 411- Spark Launch party, VIA opened up the Spark Benchmarking for Excellence Tool. Created in partnership with IMEC Illinois, this tool is designed to help your company identify areas of strength and areas for improvement. Learn more here!: https://lnkd.in/gmyByamP Benchmarking is where the SPARK begins. We can't wait to celebrate Benchmarkers who opt in to the Spark Awards competition in March! #viaspark #benchmarking #excellence #sparkbenchmarking

Tomorrow is the day! Halloween isn't the only exciting thing on the calendar- The Spark Benchmarking for Excellence Tool opens 10/31. Bettering your company doesn't have to be scary ?? - we've made it easy through our survey tool! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gmyByamP Don't forget- the Benchmarking Launch party is tomorrow- will we see you there? There's still time to register: https://lnkd.in/gsKEBtmP #viaspark #sparkbenchmarking #benchmarking #manufacturing

Don't delay; register today! Are you registered for the VIA Economic Forecast Breakfast yet? Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn about the 2025 economic outlook from keynote speaker Jason Turner, Great Lakes Advisors? and network with the local manufacturing community. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gPt6mdSV #economicforecast

The Fall Edition Ezine is out now! Read inside about IMTS 2024, the Annual Meeting & Member Luncheon, and exciting upcoming opportunities. Don't miss out! View here!: https://lnkd.in/gntzjUNR #mfgmonth #recap #viaezine