Committees

Are you an employee of a PTDA member company and interested in volunteering? Complete the interest form and return it to PTDA or contact PTDA at ptda@ptda.org or +1.312.516.2100.

Volunteers are critical to PTDA’s success, donating time and expertise to develop programs that benefit distributor and manufacturer members as a whole.

In exchange, 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

Committee objectives and projects

New to your committee?  Download the PTDA committee member orientation.