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Leadership and Motivation for Presidents

LETS 2006 – Lead the Way

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Effective Club Presidents

• Maintain and increase membership

• Motivate Rotarians to serve

• Provide direction and guidance

• Ensure that Rotary maintains relevance

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Club President as Leader

• Planner

• Motivator

• Chairperson

• Organizer

• Communicator

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Club President as Planner

• Chart the course

• Identify activities and projects

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Club President as Motivator

• Lead the club to accomplish goals

• Motivate members to participate in projects and activities

• Motivate Rotarians to give their time to projects

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How can you motivate your team?

• Involve them in planning to create a sense of ownership

• Acknowledge their efforts and successes regularly

• Provide them with challenges

• Link their duties to District and RI goals

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Club President as Chairperson

• Conduct orderly and effective meetings

• Call on the help of others (Sergeant)

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How can you encourage regular attendance?

• Work with programme leaders to make meetings irresistible

• Make sure your weekly meeting is enjoyable and stimulating

• Stress regular attendance to new members

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More ways to encourage regular attendance

• Keep members active and engaged

• Encourage make-ups

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Club President as Organizer

• Delegate

• Provide cooperation

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Club President as Communicator

• Communicate Rotary’s goals to the club

• Report club’s activities to District and RI

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Club Leadership PlanA model for the future

How can you

Lead the Way?

How can you help to make it work – right now?

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How is the health of your Club?

• Start getting your successors in place:

• President 2006-2007 – You!

• President 2007-2008 – Who?

• President 2008-2009 – Who?

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What can you do now?Think strategically!

• Involve your President-Elect

• Involve your President-Nominee

• Send their names through to the District Governor

• Come together to a Road Show about the Club Leadership Plan

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Advantages of adopting a new Leadership Plan for your Club

• Develop long-range goals

• Give continuity to projects and project leadership

• Ease the annual changeover by ensuring that you set annual goals to support your long-range goals

• Get all your club members involved and informed

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More advantages

• Ensure you retain all existing members and develop future leaders

• Renew members’ enthusiasm

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What do you think?

• Clubs in other parts of the world have made the change and report significant increase in membership – in one case by 60% in one year.

• Could this happen in our District?

• How?

• When?

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Club Leadership PlanRoad Show

• We will conduct Road Shows in cluster groups during August and September

• We will confirm dates and venues soon

• Are you willing to host a Road Show?

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Lead the Way

• If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got!

• Are you ready for the challenge?

• Has your club already started?

• If it’s to be it’s up to me!