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CEO participants get 6 hours of college credit in Business at Lewis & Clark College. This week we met on campus with Professor Doug Schneiderheinze and Professor Margi Sinclair-Parish. ...

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Jersey County CEO Board Chairman Chris Simon and facilitator Gregg Cooper made a presentation to the Jerseyville Rotary on Monday. Most all of the CEO students attended and enjoyed ...

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Jersey State Bank has been hosting our CEO team in September by providing us the use of their board room when we aren't out visiting businesses. President Mark Schaefer has spent time ...

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CEO students start three businesses throughout the year. The first is a micro-business where we figure out how to work together to earn funds to obtain class badges, materials and ...

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John David Dwyer hosted our group and explained what it was like to be a business that is affiliated with a large company such as Ford Motor Company. A dealership is a small company ...

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Jerrod Capps of Jerseyville Carpet & Furniture Galleries hosted our CEO team Thursday and shared what it's like operate a family run business and successfully compete with the big ...

Thank you to the businesses and merchants who are providing us with meeting space and taking the time to speak with our group. Additionally, here is the supervising team making the ...

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Dr. Don VanWalleghen gave us a tour of the Jersey-Calhoun Veterinary Hospital showing us the many facets of the hospital including their pharmacy, surgery room, radiology and CT ...

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For a couple of days the staff at the Regional Office of Education allowed us to use their meeting room for our regular "working classroom" style sessions. While here we took business ...

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Our next business guest was Mike LaTempt of Farmers State Bank who had been our host on days when we weren't visiting businesses. (Thanks for having someone open early each day for our ...

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On August 20th, we went to our first working business, Julie's Graphics. Julie Pohlman and her staff told us what it was like to start, acquire and live the business. No, that's not a ...

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In order to prepare to work as a team, the CEO participants each took an individual personality survey to understand our own personality traits. Everyone received a portfolio of their ...

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On the evening of July 17, participants and their parent/guardians met with members of the CEO Board of Directors and facilitator Gregg Cooper for an orientation to the program. The ...

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Participant orientation for Jersey County CEO program