Internet Exclusive: RutherfordCABLE, a leading networking and professional development organization serving local business professionals, held its monthly breakfast meeting Tuesday, March 14, at Stones River Country Club. 

The event, sponsored by First Tennessee, featured keynote speaker Dr. Deborah Tobey, a Nashville based expert in Organization Development and full time faculty member in Leadership and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tobey offered a fun, lighthearted perspective on a major “hot topic” in today’s workplace. Having worked in the OD field for more than 25 years, she addressed the generational differences we face today and provided a unique approach to handling those differences through various communication techniques.

Dr. Tobey’s remarks seemed to really get people talking. “It was enlightening to laugh at myself and see that as individuals from different generations we are not right or wrong, just different,” said Claudia Harris, RutherfordCABLE member and Marketing Director at Creekside Assisted Living in Murfreesboro. “When we learn to appreciate and understand our differences, we can then join together and accomplish great things together.”

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RutherfordCABLE is a four-year-old organization of more than 160 members providing professional and personal development, as well as business growth, through building long-term relationships and structured networking and referrals.  The organization is the first chapter of the 30-year-old NashvilleCABLE.  Monthly breakfast meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month, with informal networking beginning at 7:30 a.m., followed by structured, facilitated networking and a top keynote speaker.  Meetings are concluded by 9 a.m.  Free networking events are held monthly, as well as a Reading Group, outreach events and activities, workshops and more.  The organization’s mission is “Connecting Women and Opportunity.”