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Essentials in
Membership
Top 10 BOD Actions
Updated: 2/6/2007 4:00:00 PM
Top 10 Things New Chapter Boards Can Do Before Taking Office.
By Randy Burnett, Chapter Counselor
1. Build Relationships: Most boards have their first meeting after they take office. How about having a party for incoming board members, outgoing board members and their significant others. Set aside 5 minutes for each new board member to state what they would like to accomplish personally and as a board during their office. After the presentations, just have fun and get to know each other better.
2. Select a Support Team: Enroll people to support your success in office. Candidates include your predecessor in the job, people who have related experiences in their work careers and your chapter coach. Letting people know you would like to ask for their future help up front will enable you more easily gain assistance when you need it.
3. Prepare a Plan: Setting your goals and developing a written plan early is important. Don’t forget to invite your support team to help develop your plan. Early planning allows you to be better prepared for what you want to do, prevents you from missing details that are often overlooked when planning at the last minute, enables you to better enroll others to support different projects and minimizes stress that sometimes occurs on the job.
4. Listen to Your Members: Find out what members want. Get their ideas and incorporate what you can so they will be behind your plan. Consider a survey.
5. Communicate: Explain what you feel is important and listen actively to others. This will reinforce the focus of the chapter and will energize commitment to support your board.
6. Clarify Expectations and Values: Find out what other board members expect from you and let them know what you need from them. When in doubt, consult the Chapter Mission.
7. Attend COTS: This is a opportunity to not only learn about the job, but to exchange ideas with past and new members in your same position and develop relationships with peers to facilitate the exchange of ideas throughout the year.
8. Activity Schedule: Prepare a detailed time line of actions that need to be taken throughout the year. By getting it in the chapter calendar, actions are less likely to slip through the cracks. It can hurt if you forget to file your grant application on time.
9. Confer with Your Predecessor: This is an opportunity to continue important programs and gain information that is important to accomplishing your job. For example, an outgoing marketing VP would have a current listing of media contact names and addresses.
10. Plan to Have Fun: It is only a hobby. At times things will go wrong, people may let you down, you may not be as successful as you hope to, but that is life. In our reaction we can make people wrong or we can recognize it for what it is and nurture the relationships that are important.
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