Cedar Management Seeks and Keeps Professionals with Highest Designation By Carin Rosengren, Keller Property Management
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The Vision Awards ceremony was a special place to announce the new recipients of professional community association management designations, with many earning CMCAs (Certified Manager of Community Associations), fewer with AMS (Association Management specialist) tags and fewer still earning the distinction of being a PCAM (Professional Community Association Manager). Notorious for its long and at-times difficult journey to completion, the PCAM designation is the rarest among property managers. In fact, a search of Minnesota PCAMs reveals there are about 20 property managers who can put these letters appropriately behind their names. What is more noteworthy still, despite that the spotlight of Vision Awards has faded till next year? It stands out in a local PCAM search that four of these distinguished professionals work at one company: Cedar Management in Fridley. Steve Anderson is one of two owners at Cedar Management, where they try to foster a positive work community and, wherever possible, to have fun at their jobs. This helps boost employee satisfaction in an industry where there is not a lot of appreciation at times, he said. But, what’s with all the PCAMs? “I encourage staff here, the managers, to strive for the PCAM,” Anderson said. The company also pays for their education. But, the benefit of having this designation isn’t the additional decoration on their business cards. The real benefit from having the designation comes purely from the process you go through to get it, including exposure to property managers and real-life situations in other parts of the country. The entire experience, said Anderson, “adds to the depth and the width of the employees who earn them.”
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