Planning Your Membership Development For District 5810

Your Facilitators  Howard Templin, Chair  Krista Hartman  Rick Pietrykowski  Randy Watkins District 5810

Governor Message District Governor Bill Dendy District 5810

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 District 5810

District 5810 Membership Trend NET LOSS IN 10 YEARS NET LOSS IN 5 YEARS District 5810 RETENTION IS A MAJOR ISSUE!

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? District 5810  Check it out on Rotary Club Central 

What Do We Need To Do? District 5810

 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 Club District 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 District 5810 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 District 5810 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). District 5810

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) District 5810

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. District 5810

 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’ passions District 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 District 5810 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 District 5810 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? District 5810 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 District 5810 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 -  NEW! RI Demographic tool  NEW! Multi-Club Training by Cad re District 5810

Let’s Be A Gift To The World! District 5810

Questions District 5810