- Needs assessment - members
New methods to gather
information fast.
Reach out - short, often
- Creating customers as well as members
- Leadership development
- Grooming of upward mobiles early on
- Transferable skills training.
- Comfortable, relaxed atmosphere in which to work
- Short, fast electronic communication
- Recaps at start and end of the meeting Action agenda (be glad to send you one)
- Best practices and bench marking groups How. . . why
- Listservs
Worth gold in advice, counsel, information, direction to resources
Internet - HUGE
Listservs - exactly what you're looking for
- Outreach to the users (members' customers) Valuable new perspective
- Continuous learning with the same group
- Hard hitting paid advertising and commercial mention that increase pride of membership.
- Forms and reports formatted for response in e mail or word processing file.
- Critical thinking along with strategic visioning
- Volunteering to give back.
- Electronic surveys
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- Electronic surveys that exclude the unEmales - and females
- Lengthy letters that don't get to the point right away.
- Multi-year commitments
- Commitment without description of responsibilities, expected outcomes, time and travel estimate.
- Volunteering because "it's the thing to do."
- Traditional paths to top leadership.
- Traditional requirements for top leadership.
- Lengthy reports without "fast forwards" and bulleted highlights...
- Traditional recognition plaques.
- Promises made and not kept.
- Treating associate members like cash cows.
- Doing things right, instead of doing the right things.
- Addressing the urgent, to the detriment of the important.
- Volunteer groups without diversity.
- Being a jerk.
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