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Action Planning
Participants dive into the in hands-on creation of hit-the- ground-running action plans. This includes: Identifying crucial steps: The key actions that must be taken in the coming months or year. Overcoming obstacles: Determine those issues most likely to derail implementation of the plan; utilize problem-solving techniques to overcome those obstacles.
Defining task assignments: Determine who does what by when. This helps to ensure accountability.
Developing clear, understandable measurements: To ensure the plan stays on track and everyone agrees how to monitor progress. |
Productive Collaboration
Between Board and Staff This section covers three topics: Defining roles and responsibilities for volunteers and staff: To overcome the common problem that results when there is a lack of clear role delineation between board and staff. Communicating the plan: An ongoing, internal marketing campaign to promote the strategic plan ensures that volunteers, members and staff are fully educated about the strategy. Leadership styles and buy-in: Putting your strategic plan to work requires "buy-in" from volunteers and staff. To assist you in this challenging area of leadership, the session reviews the most effective leadership styles and priority setting styles along with practical ways to apply these to your association's situation. |
Priority Setting:
Allocate Your Resources Productively
This segment addresses two critical questions:
Allocation: During the coming year, what is the most productive way to allocate our association's limited resources? What will give us the most bang for the buck? Leveraging: Can we identify creative approaches to achieve maximum leverage from our limited resources? |
The survival of the National Association of Furious Fowl (NAFF) is at stake! Dish out revenge on the Society of Green Swine (SOGW), whose Board has a diabolical plot to steal NAFF's future members from the nest. Use the unique destructive powers of the NAFF's Angry Board to wreak havoc on SOGW's prospect database! Use logic, skill, brute force - and a few trick questions from the CAE exam - to crush the enemy!
Jane Clemens, Chair of the Bylaw Committee has gone rogue! With her band of scofflaws, she is threatening to wreak havoc at the next Board meeting. To catch her you must assemble your posse, track her down through the wilds of the exhibit hall - all while meeting a tight deadline and coming in under budget!
Zombies are invading your association's Headquarters. Thankfully, you have a horde of loyal members to defend you in Members vs. Zombies! Armed with a host of member benefits, dues invoices and a newly revised strategic plan, you`ll need to think fast to stop the different types of zombies dead in their tracks. Obstacles like a declining retention rate and an enemy immune to social media makes this the ultimate volunteer experience!  |
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The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man’s strength to help all the other members perform. It is the task of organization at the same time to neutralize the individual weaknesses of its members. The test of an organization is the spirit of performance.
The spirit of performance requires that there be full scope for individual excellence. The focus must be on the strength of a man – on what he can do rather than on what he cannot do.
“Morale” in a an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance, not conformance...there is no greater indictment of an organization than that the strength and ability of the outstanding man becomes a threat to the group and his performance a source of difficulty, frustration, and discouragement for the others.
