Networking at meetings: Attending regular meetings allows you to discuss topics with peers and learn more about the industry, suppliers, and supporters. Learning opportunities like new technologies, legislation, and trends are often the subjects discussed and, at times, healthfully debated. You can meet peers, both experienced and novice, within the coatings industry from different coating application backgrounds, which can quickly increase your technical and business exposure.
Technical Seminars: Educational opportunities within the association are offered regularly, such as past seminars and classes that have covered manufacturing, technical, current trends, or business topics planned for our coatings industry, given by peers and experts from our industry.
Technical Symposiums: In addition to regular technical seminars, the Cleveland Coatings is renowned for its annual Sink or Swim Symposium. This event offer phenomical networking and educational opportunities with peers from the coatings industry, but from even farther and more US based peers for the society to interact with.
Social activities: All our social gatherings allow you to meet and mingle with our many members, industry peers, and even their families. These gatherings, including our golf outings, dances, volunteer events in the community, and even game nights, all contribute to community support and mentoring opportunities for us and those around us.
Professional development: The more exposure you have in this industry, the more you learn, the more you network, and the more you improve your professional network, skills, and value in the coatings industry. This can help you earn more opportunities throughout your career now and into the future.
Education and scholarships: Every social event or technical discussion you attend can increase your exposure to continued learning opportunities. Furthermore, annually the Cleveland Coatings Society awards thousands of supportive dollars in through our scholarship programs for college bound high school students. Only children of current Cleveland Coatrigns Society members are eligible for these scholastic awards. All students are selected on their aptitude and potential within their selected academic path.
Mentorship: Research shows that mentoring a peer in our industry or even bringing a younger colleague to mingle with their new peers can lead to increased learning opportunities, higher job satisfaction, career advancement, and overall energy for you, your company and our industry.
Business opportunities: Having increased access to more peers and mentors and sharing time both socially and academically can earn access to early risers, prominent business leaders, humanitarians, and change-makers within our industry.
Personal growth: Whether as an active member or especially as a volunteer board or committee member, you will earn, develop, and earn essential skills such as leadership, teamwork, and communication. You can also make new friends and discover your passions, interests, and strengths.
Community Service: Bring one, bring all. You, your work colleagues, your friends, and your family will all have the opportunity to participate in multiple Cleveland area community service projects. This is an excellent opportunity to spend quality mentoring and bonding time as a team, even within your company. We are always looking for opportunities to get together with fellow work colleagues, so what better way to spend time together than at one of the Cleveland Coatings Society volunteer events giving back to your community and industry? Furthermore, bring your kids out; volunteering in the community is an excellent way for your middle school and high school kids to give back and get credit toward many of their own academic scholarships.
