Planning Your Membership Development For 2015-16 District 5810.

Planning Your Membership Development For 2015-16

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Your Facilitators

Howard Templin, Chair

Krista Hartman

Rick Pietrykowski

Randy Watkins

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Goals of MD Planning Workshop

Help guide Membership Development Teams in creating a robust Membership Development Process for your club

Facilitate your creating an action plan outline for your club

Promote Sharing of Membership Development Ideas Between Clubs

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District 5810 Membership Trend

2002-2003

2014- 2015

-523 NET LOSSIN 10 YEARS

-320 NET LOSS IN 5 YEARS

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RETENTION IS A MAJOR IS-SUE!

How’s District 5810 Doing?

Good News! Currently 5810 is +5 year to date!

Good News! 25 Clubs have grown!

We made good progress this Year from net negative to positive!

Bad News! 39 Clubs have lost or stayed the same.

39 Clubs have more work to do!District 5810

So How’s Your Club Doing?

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Check it out on Rotary Club Central

https://map.rotary.org/en/rcc/

What Do We Need To Do?

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If you don’t have a MD Chair & Committee create one!

Evaluate Your Club

Create a Vision For Your Club

Develop a Plan to Attract New Members

Develop a Plan to Engage Your Members

Mentor a New ClubDistrict 5810

What Are The Steps To Creating A MD Plan?

You must know where your club is in order to create a meaningful plan

Go to Rotary Club Central to find your demographics

Use Club Assessment Tools

Do a member satisfaction survey

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Determine Where Your Club Is Now

Do a Classification Survey

Evaluate your club from a visitor’s perspective

Host a Focus Group

Complete the Termination Profile

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Determine Where Your Club Is Now

Create a Vision

Use GATE-Way to create a 3 to 5 year strategic plan including a Vision statement

Use GATE-Way create goals for diversity and personality of members (number of members, average age, cultural mix of ethnicity and genders).

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Create a Vision Use GATE-Way to include a variety of perspectives, involving the full club or a diverse representation of your club's membership (Past, current and incoming club leaders for larger clubs)

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Create a Recruitment Plan

Teach members to feel comfortable talking about Rotary whoever they meet!

Create a list of target prospects & find members who will contact them

Start/engage a Rotaract or Interact club.

Select a qualified Member to manage your website.

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Do You Have a Prospect Target List?

Invite Prospects to Service Projects, Events & Social Functions.

Don’t Depend On Only Meetings.

Flexible Meeting Times & Locations?

Lower Fees & Dues?

Are You Coordinating With Your PR Chair?District 5810

How Will You Attract New Members?

Create a Retention Plan & Engage Your Members

Set up a program to identify and contact members missing meetings and functions

Set up a new member on-boarding program with mentors to help integrate new members into the club

Have social functions at least every 2 months. These are great opportunity for bonding, recruitment and meeting family & friends

Have projects that respond to members’ passionsDistrict 5810

Evaluate Club’s Retention Stats

Develop Retention Plan!

• New Member On-boarding

• New Member Mentors

• Finding Members Passions & Getting Them Involved In Those Area

Make Room for New Members’ Ideas

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Retention Is Essential

Develop an Action Plan to Create Progress Within Your Club

Use “Strengthening Your Membership – Creating Your Membership Development Plan”

Build Multi-Year Development Program

Build Multi-Year Team Rotation

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Plan to Achieve Your Goals

BREAK!

Refer to your MD Plan Worksheet

Group 1 - What are your ideas on ways to evaluate your club?

Group 2 – What are your ideas on creating a vision for your club?

Group 3 – How can you attract new members?

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Let’s Start Planning!

Group 4 – How can you engage new and existing members?

Group 5 – What are you thoughts & ideas on mentoring a new club?

Open Forum – Share other ideas

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Let’s Start Planning!

Tools & Resources 5810 Membership Development Resources

5810 MD Home Page on District Webpage

District Resources – Club Runner Membership Development Home Page

Rotary Club Central on Rotary International Website

RI MD - [email protected]

NEW! RI Demographic tool https://map.rotary.org/en/rcc/

NEW! Multi-Club Training by Cadre

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Let’s Be A Gift To The World!

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Questions

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