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SRLSA Newsletter 1 | Page Quarterly Newsletter March 2021 Our Mission: Create leadership development opportunities to maximize the potential of our members, sponsoring organizations, the Savannah River Site, and the surrounding communities. Message from President – Giving Back to the Community This quarter was all about giving back to our community. Our new Vice President of Outreach, Lydia Boynton, worked overtime this quarter!! Her teams successfully orchestrated two annual outreach events for the future leaders of our community. SRSLA sponsored two special awards, a student choice award as well as a leadership award (chosen by us) in the South Carolina Future City Competition for middle schoolers. We also successfully hosted our first virtual speech contest to include providing valuable practice sessions for the competitors via Zoom. Announcements Giving back to community, Future City Contest and Speech Contest results … How’s your vision board doing… Annual meeting in June – need award nominations, help with celebration and auction items…. Next General Membership Meeting – 4/20 Speaker Dr. Sean Alford, SRNS, Chief Administrative Officer he's over the Business Services & Work forces Service & Talent Mgmt. Inside This Issue PG. 2 A Quarter in Review PG. 4 Upcoming Events PG. 4 Executive Committee Notes

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SRLSA Newsletter  1 | P a g e  

Quarterly Newsletter March 2021 

Our Mission:  Create leadership 

development opportunities to 

maximize the potential of our 

members, sponsoring organizations, 

the Savannah River Site, and the 

surrounding communities. 

 

Message from President – Giving Back to the Community 

This quarter was all about giving back to our community. Our new Vice President of Outreach, Lydia Boynton, worked overtime this quarter!! Her teams successfully orchestrated two annual outreach events for the future leaders of our community. SRSLA sponsored two special awards, a student choice award as well as a leadership award (chosen by us) in the South Carolina Future City Competition for middle schoolers. We also successfully hosted our first virtual speech contest to include providing valuable practice sessions for the competitors via Zoom.

Announcements 

Giving back to community, Future City Contest and 

Speech Contest results … 

How’s your vision board doing… 

Annual meeting in June – need award nominations, 

help with celebration and auction items…. 

Next General Membership Meeting – 4/20   Speaker 

Dr. Sean Alford, SRNS, Chief Administrative Officer he's over the Business Services & Work forces Service & Talent Mgmt. … 

 

Inside This Issue 

PG. 2 

 A Quarter in Review  

PG. 4 

Upcoming Events  

PG. 4 

Executive Committee Notes 

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Like Us on 

Facebook 

We are now on Social Media.  Search for 

“SRSLA” group and request to be a 

member.  Your membership will be verified 

and approved by one of our 

administrators.  Our plans are to provide 

that as a communication tool for linking in 

leadership development and scheduling 

meetings.   

Quarter in Review – If you missed it.. 

December 2020  

General Membership Meeting – What’s In It for 

Me (NMA) 

Stephen Bailey, the former NMA National 

Executive Director gave a wonderful talk on 

leadership according to Steve to a small but 

enthusiastic group of members.  He provided us 

with his 9 points of leadership:  

1. Integrity 2. Accountability 3. Empathy (every leader is a baggage 

handler) 4. Humility 5. Vision – develop buy in 6. Resilience 7. Influence not inflame 8. Positivity 9. Empowerment 

 A couple of us wore our ugly sweaters, suites, and/or ties to celebrate the Christmas holidays.  3 ‐ $10 Starbucks Gift Cards were awarded.       

January 2021  Future City Competition 

SRSLA sponsored 

two special awards 

this year at the 

2021 SC Regional 

Future City 

Competition.  This  

year’s project was 

for the middle 

school youth 

teams to develop a 

city on the moon which was sustainable due to 

the lack of resources from the earth.   SRLSA 

judges chose New Ellenton Middle STEM 

Magnet School for their city “The Skeld” for 

excellence in planning for educational and 

career development special award.  We had to 

evaluate answers on questions on what 

leadership lessons they learned and challenges 

they faced while designing their city.  They 

discussed the different phases of teambuilding 

and importance of listening to others as a 

leader ‐‐ what a great lesson learned for middle 

schoolers!!  The student choice award went to 

McCracken Middle School for their sustainable 

city on the moon “Eagleton.”  The awards 

ceremony was virtual and can be viewed at 

http://youtu.be/EdQ2DC_XbNU\  :2021 SC 

Regional Future City Winners Announcement – 

YouTube. 

General Membership Meeting ‐ Vision Boards 

VP Professional 

Development 

Yolanda Pelzer 

hosted two 

professional 

development 

sessions on 

Vision Board 

development.  

Our 1st meeting 

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had 9 members and 5 guests.  We watched a 

couple of videos on Vision Board development 

then Yolanda gave her PPT presentation.  Vision 

boards are a great way to visualize where you 

want to go. 

Two weeks later, we got to see some of the 

vision boards that were created by our 

members and guests.  We watched a leadership 

You‐Tube video by Simon Sinek and did an ice‐

breaker game called 2 truths and 1 lie where we 

learned we had a USTA tennis player, pipe 

fitter, twin, a Voice contestant and other 

interesting facts about our audience.  Yolanda 

instructed us on the Vision Boards.  Did you 

complete your vision board?   

February 2021  

General Membership Meeting:  Intentional 

Leadership 

Speaker Shayla Farmer 

shared her leadership 

experience and gave us 

tips on how to be an 

“Intentional Leader”.   

Mrs. Farmer was an 

energetic speaker and 

presenter who has clear passion for people. Mrs. 

Farmer is a Certified HR Professional and 

Leadership Coach with over 18 years of HR 

experience.  She left us with 3 leadership points 

in order to know yourself to lead yourself as an 

intentional leader: 

1. Decide who you are and what you stand for 

2. Identify gaps  3. Commit to closing those gaps 

 

Our door prize was a leadership book by 

Brendan Buchard, “High Performance Habits” 

which was won by one of our guests at the 

meeting. 

March 2021  

Chapter Speech 

Contest  

We hosted our first 

ever virtual speech contest.  Hats off to Lydia 

and her team (AD & Cheryl) bringing it all 

together.  Virtual practice sessions were held 

with the students.  Thanks goes out to the 

Toastmasters Speak EZ Club who provided 

judging as well as valuable feedback to our 

contestant for future contests.  Our winner is 

going on to the next stage – Peachbelt contest.  

We presented the winner, Asher Edgar, a check 

for $300 and a certificate for his efforts. 

General Membership Meeting   

Our Speaker, author Kelly 

Cornish, meeting gave us a 

primer on diversity, equity 

and inclusion.  She is a senior 

executive and head of 

Diverse Segments, 

Representation and Inclusion 

at Wells Fargo.  She provided 

insights to her very diverse 

background and leadership lessons she learned 

as she progressed through her professional 

development.  She espoused these leadership 

truths:  when hiring, look who is not at the 

table, share information between everyone and 

above all influence the world by being true to 

yourself but know 

who you are and 

speaking the truth to 

power. 

She is the co‐author 

of “It’s Work, How 

Will You Show Up?:  

99 Tips, Turns, and 

Lessons Learned.”  

Five books were 

raffled to our 

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members in attendance.  We provided an 

offering to Mrs. Cornish’s husbands ministry at 

the 2nd Providence Church for payment of 

books. 

Upcoming Events – Save the 

Dates  Virtual Chapter Leader Training (CLT) 

March 26 & 27, 2021 – SRLSA purchased six 

slots for the upcoming CLT to be held virtually 

for our leadership team.  If interested in 

participating and available, please contact Rich 

Baker to solidify your invitation.  The slots will 

be primarily reserved for the leadership team.   

April 20 – General Membership Meeting – 

Speaker Dr. Sean Alford, SRNS, Chief Administrative Officer he's over the Business Services & Work forces Service & Talent Mgmt.  May 18 – Melissa Furman, former Dean of 

Augusta University 

June – Annual Banquet (pending COVID 

restrictions) 

July – Vacation Month – no meeting planned 

Zoom invites will be sent to all current 

members.  Due to security reasons and recent 

“Zoom Bombings” by malefactors, please do not 

forward to anyone you do not know personally.   

Dues are DUE!!  

Our membership drive continues into FY2021.  

The executive committee unanimously voted to 

continue the discounted dues schedule of $6 

per month or $72 per year.  If you reactivate 

your membership today, you will only be billed 

for the last quarter of FY 20 ($18) since new 

invoices will be coming out in June for the next 

fiscal year.  If you want to renew your 

membership.  Follow the link provided to catch 

up on your dues.  

https://nma1.org/773/membership/  

Our Executive Committee Notes 

SRSLA LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AVAILABLE 

We are still looking for a VP Public Relations 

whose main duty will be to continue publishing 

this newsletter and promoting our organization.  

If interested in this position please contact Rich 

Baker, SRSLA President.    

This year’s Annual Banquet will be our 30 Year 

Celebration & Award Presentation.  At the 

banquet we will honor the Executive of Year, 

Leader of Year and Member of Year.  

Qualifications and forms for the nominations 

are on the following page.   

Banquet Help 

We need your help!!  Calling all volunteers to 

help organize and help obtain door / auction 

prizes.  We also want to see your vision boards 

on display. 

Next SRSLA Executive Committee 

meeting will be held on 4/12 at 5:30 

pm.   

Leadership according to John C. Maxwell 

QUOTE OF QUARTER 

Leadership is not about titles, 

positions, or flowcharts.  It is 

about one life influencing 

another.  

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Leader of the Year & SRSLA Member 

of Year Award Nominations needed 

by May 13. 

The Executive of the Year award is to 

recognize a senior executive who has 

gained significant recognition for 

managerial and leadership 

accomplishments, conducted both personal 

and business affairs in accordance with 

NMA’s Code of Ethics (refer to last page of 

newsletter) as well as exemplary 

community service.  Our local chapter 

winner will be submitted to NMA 

recognition committee for consideration at 

the national level.   This form is located on 

the SRLSA website – please do not forward 

to NMA – send to either Rich Baker or 

Cheryl Hartfield, we will submit our 

chapter’s nominee for national 

consideration. 

Additionally, SRSLA Leader of the Year 

award will be for a “non‐executive” lower 

tier leader within the management 

structure of the Savannah River Site.  This 

leader will demonstrate similar attributes of 

the executive leader of the year but have a 

much smaller sphere of influence.   

SRSLA member of the year is a member that 

has provided outstanding leadership to our 

local chapter during the course of the year.   

Please nominate your fellow member for 

this prestigious award.  The same 

nomination form will be used for leader and 

member of the year.  This online 

nomination form can be found at SRSLA Award Nomination. 

In 2019, we recognized Nicole Nelson‐Jean 

as our (Executive) Leader of the Year and 

Rich Baker as our SRSLA Member of the 

Year.  In 2020, due to COVID‐19 pandemic, 

we did not have an awards banquet.  Please 

nominate someone this year who you 

believe demonstrates the principals and 

code of ethics described on the following 

page.  

Any questions on this newsletter?  Please 

contact Rich Baker, President SRSLA at 803‐270‐

0343.

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Your SRSLA Leadership Team  

(Executive Committee) 

President – Rich Baker 

Executive Vice President – Cheryl Hartfield 

VP Technology / Communication – Nick Weaver 

VP Outreach – Lydia Boynton 

VP Professional Development – Yolanda Pelzer 

Activities Chairperson – AD Bollig 

Treasurer / VP Membership – Casey Feldt 

Secretary – LeAnne Barkley 

VP Public Relations – Could Be You? 

 

 

Click here to Visit SRSLA Webpage (www.srlsa.org or at https://nma1.org/773/ 

 

 

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NMA Code of Ethics I will recognize that all individuals inherently desire to practice their occupations to the best of

their ability. I will assume that all individuals want to do their best. I will maintain a broad and balanced outlook and will recognize value in the ideas and opinions

of others. I will be guided in all my activities by truth, accuracy, fair dealing and good taste. I will keep informed on the latest developments in techniques, equipment and processes. I will recommend or initiate methods to increase productivity and efficiency. I will support efforts to strengthen management/leadership development through training and

education. I will help my associates reach personal and professional fulfillment. I will earn and carefully guard my reputation for good moral character and good citizenship. I will promote the principles of our Free Enterprise System to others, by highlighting its

accomplishments and displaying confidence in its future. I will recognize that leadership is a call to service.

NMA Value Proposition Leadership Development which spans industries and is uniquely positioned for your multi-generational career environment

Whether you are an emerging leader or manager with a passion for helping others grow, NMA drives the sharing of best practices and lessons learned to create a unique community of learners.

NMA is for everyone, even those who question their ability to lead. By providing hands-on experience as a leader to your employees at all levels, NMA is a safe environment to explore these concepts in a ‘leadership laboratory’ without impacting company performance.

NMA provides a sustainable development approach that creates an active leadership experience based on your needs and development goals, with affordable access to relevant resources and national networking opportunities!

Active leadership experiences available to support your needs and development goals for high-potential staff

Identify your pipeline of next-generation leaders for better succession planning

Specialized resources and cross-industry collaborative networking opportunities designed to fit your budget and schedule

Leading and managing require study and practice…and the NMA supplies members with both. Life-long learning and surrounding yourself with the best practitioners you can find are imperative.

Impact on the surrounding community as members engage in volunteer efforts to give back

Full spectrum of support and recognition available from National organization

An accomplished leader’s journey reflects interaction with the best and brightest in his or her field. Working together and learning together are the hallmarks of NMA.