Volunteers are critical to PTDA’s success, donating time and expertise to develop programs that benefit distributor and manufacturer members as a whole.
As a PTDA volunteer, you’ll enhance your own professional development:
- Build a personal network of peers and business partners and benefit from learning about the successes and failures of others
- Expand your knowledge of methods and resources utilized in the industry that relate directly to your own job responsibilities as well as other jobs within your company
- Shape the industry with a personal impact on the direction and development of PTDA’s programs, products and services
- Pay it forward by giving back to an industry that has been personally rewarding
- Build and apply your personal management skills
- Build and apply your facilitation skills
- Improve your presentation skills
When you volunteer, benefits also accrue to your company:
- Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your own company through the development and use of resources that:
- Standardize transactional formats
- Quantify your value to customers
- Improve your customer service operations
- Offer low-cost product training resources for your employees
- Prepare your employees for advancement in your company
- Attract and develop the next generation of employees to your company
- Create awareness within your company of all of the above
- Create processes and procedures for disseminating this information to the people you work with and your customers
- Explore and understand wider trends in the industrial distribution industry—both in North America and abroad—in an informal setting
- Build a network of business relationships with senior executives in the power transmission/motion control industry, increasing the speed with which business is accomplished
- Elevate the reputation and visibility of your company within the industry on many levels
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