USE IT OR LOSE IT! MEMBERSHIP The Construction Specifications Institute

MEMBERSHIP If You Don’t Use it… You Lose It! The Construction Specifications Institute Institute Leaders Role in Project Membership Retention – Background Information Working Together – Help us, help you! This is an example text. Go ahead and replace it Region Leaders Role in Project ACHIEVABLE TASK – Goal for FY13 Chapter Leaders Role in Project ✓ Project Idea – LIFE Program ✓ Region Leaders Role in Project

Membership Retention Background Information

Why are members not renewing? My employer stopped paying my CSI dues 21% I couldn’t afford multiple association dues, and was already a member of another organization 17% I was unable to actively participate 11% I was not satisfied with my CSI experience 16% *** Other, please specify 19% Membership Retention Background Information

Why are members not satisfied with their CSI experience? “My job is on the engineering side of the business, not architectural, so not much was relevant to my work as a contract administrator. I was also the only "Owner" attending” “Didn't receive enough benefit for the money and time spent.” “Was mostly satisfied with my experience with the exception of not being contacted by the local chapter when I moved to my current area 10 years ago.” “The meetings were usually in the evening at a fair distance from my home and with all my other evening obligations, I couldn't get there much at all.” Membership Retention Background Information

MEMBERSHIP: USE IT OR LOSE IT! ACHIEVABLE TASK ENGAGE members - INVOLVE members Enhance the Membership Experience

MEMBERSHIP: USE IT OR LOSE IT! Listen to members Identify talents and interests Find a way to get every member involved Engage members “We literally throw members away when we assign tasks that don’t fit their talents or interests, or we make the tasks so daunting that they give up before they get started.” – Alana Griffith Putting LIFE back into CSI!

MEMBERSHIP: USE IT OR LOSE IT! How could Institute leaders implement the LIFE Plan? Join the Membership Presentation team for further discussion Be committed to the LIFE plan How can you engage and involve members with the LIFE program? How could Region leaders implement the LIFE Plan? Join the Membership Presentation team for further discussion Think about how the LIFE plan could improve YOUR Region Do you think the same LIFE plan could work for every Region? How could Chapter leaders implement the LIFE Plan? Join the Membership Presentation team for further discussion Think about how the LIFE plan could improve your Chapters membership How would you schedule the LIFE program… implement at the beginning of the year or throughout the year? Achievable Task: ENGAGE members - INVOLVE members Enhance the Membership Experience Working Together Institute Chapters Regions

Special Thanks to Team Members: Casey Robb Leslie Schlesinger Bob Simmons Floyd Sterling Sandi Velleca Special Thanks to Staff: Joy Davis Kaitlin Solomon THANK YOU! MEMBERSHIP: IF YOU DON’T USE IT… YOU LOSE IT! Special Thanks to our CSI Friends: Alana Sunness Griffith J.W. Mollohan