Strategic Priorities
Talent & Recruitment Development
Objective A: Support and augment efforts of our local employers to fill their immediate talent needs through providing platforms for best practice sharing, awareness of local resources to support them and providing tools to assist their efforts.
Objective B: Advocate for and facilitate programs which cultivate our employer partners’ future talent pipeline.
Objective C: Establish and foster alternative pipelines of qualified talent outside this community.
Entrepreneur & Small Business Support
Objective A: Cultivate opportunities for small businesses in the region to grow and succeed by providing expert coaching and mentorship and nurturing entrepreneurs with assistance and workshops.
Objective B: Form a consortium of entrepreneurial support organizations, entrepreneurs and mentors to develop and execute an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development Strategy for Catawba County.
Leadership Development
Objective A: Create a pipeline of leaders in business, non-profits and government through Leadership Catawba, who are aware of our community’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and are passionate about crafting the future of Catawba County.
Government Affairs / Pro-Business Advocacy
Objective A: Adopt a Legislative Agenda and be the premier advocate for business regarding local, state and federal policy issues that have a short-term or long-term impact on economic generation for business in Catawba County.
Organizational Growth & Excellence
Objective A: Engage an agency to adopt and activate an organizational brand that is consistent with whom we have evolved to become, how our stakeholders perceive us and which represents our growing Catawba County business community.
Objective B: Provide superior and recognizable value to our Shareholders & Investors through events, programs and services to yield optimal membership engagement, retention, new membership growth and non-dues revenue.
Objective C: Ensure that the Catawba Chamber is well-organized, strategically staffed, and has the resources and assets to accomplish our mission within Catawba County.
