GLSA 2016 QUESTIONNAIRE 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE Basic Statistics on you Unit or Club How is your Membership doing? Age statistics, residence location, active or inactive, What are you doing to attract quality members? Who do you foresee as your future leaders? Are they ready to lead effectively, or not? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE – 2 Do you have a Web Site? Is it linked to the Temple Web Site? Is your Web Site effective? How do you know if it is effective? Who is your web master? Is he paid? Is the present arrangement working? What is your backup if he/she leaves? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 3 Do you maintain a list of members on line? Do you make it easy for someone on-line to understand how to join your group? Do you include petitions for Blue Lodge, Shrine, and your Unit/Club on-line, and contact information for each entity, on line? How many hits to do you have your Petitions pages? How do you follow up with on-line inquiries? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 4 Which Officers do you have? Pres, VP, Sec?? How do you select nominees for office? What qualifications or attributes do you want? Do you have a formal Nominating Committee? Do you have an informal nominating committee? Is that helpful or divisive? What is your election procedure? How do you train your officers? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 5 What Professionals do you have in your Unit or Club, i.e., Attorneys, Accountants, Insurance Agents, Physicians, Dentists, Bankers, Financial Planners, Realtors? Do they sit in your Board meetings? Why not? If not, where do you get good advice? Do you rely on Temple advisers for your Unit? How often do you contact your Professionals? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE – 6 Are you a parading unit? If so, how many parades per year do you do? Imperial Session parades? GLSA Parades? Member of any Association, such as GLSMC? How costly is it for a new member to be a full participating member of your Unit? What are the time demands on such member? What can you do to reduce that time? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 7 What does your Unit/Club do for Fraternal Fund-raising for itself? Has that been successful? Do you plan to continue doing it? Temple Fraternal Fund-raising? Fund-raising for Shriners Hospitals? Fund-raising for Transportation Fund? Can you do more? If so, what would that be? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 8 COMMUNITY OUTREACH— What does your Unit/Club do within your local community that is not fund-raising or parading? What can your Unit/Club do to support the local community with manpower? Other organizations, such as Lions, Moose, Elks, Kiwanis, SERTOMA, Rotary, all have community support as part of their purposes. What are you known for in your local community? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 9 RELEVANCE: If your Club/Unit suddenly ceased to exist, would the general public or local community miss you? Please explain your answer. Would you say that your Club/Unit is relevant or irrelevant to the community? What can you do to increase your own relevance? What can the Temple do to increase its relevance? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 10 LADIES: Does your Unit/Club membership see value in having the support of their Ladies? What does your Unit/Club do to make your Ladies comfortable within your Unit/Club? Do you have a Ladies auxiliary attached to your Unit/Club? If so, is it helpful to you? If so, are you helpful to the Ladies’ group? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 11 FAMILY Does your Unit/Club see value in involving family units in its activities? Friends of family members? If so, what are you doing? Is it effective to cement members to your Unit/Club? Are you planning on doing more? Are you using this in outward-looking membership development? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 12 BUSINESS NETWORKING Do you have any sort of organized business-to-business or professional networking? If so, how long have you been in existence, how many active members are there, and how do you conduct your meetings? Is the existence and composition of this Club on anyone’s web site? How would someone contact the members? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 13 OTHER EVENTS AT GLSA: Golf Tournament with trophy Cruise-in for special vehicles Pistol Shooting Contest with prizes and trophy Community Parade with thousands of spectators Afterglow inside the Hotel after the Parade Ceremonial after the Afterglow Formation of new Unit Associations: Chanters, Band, Drum & Bugle Corps, Networking, Cast, Directors. What other Unit Associations would you like to see? 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE – 14 ANSWERS: Your answers will be tabulated and presented at the April 2 Leadership Academy. The author of the best answers will be called upon to provide details to the rest of the attendees. A summary of the answers will be provided to each GLSA Potentate for use by their Temples. In the GLSA Sept. Business Meeting each Temple will be asked to describe what changes or progress has been made based on this Questionnaire. So: TURN THEM IN to Phil Thrasher. 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE - 15 THANKS FOR SUPPORTING GLSA. This is your Association This is your chance to join in the largest parade of the year This is your chance to compete with, help, and/or learn from your Counterparts. This is your chance to help your Temple and help yourself be a better Shriner. 11/18/2018

QUESTIONNAIRE – 16 PLEASE TURN IN YOUR ANSWERS TO: Phil Thrasher, GLSA President 6554 Hunters Ridge South Zionsville, IN 46077 pthrasher@indy.rr.com 317-407-3650 11/18/2018