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In this webinar, we'll walk through an example of a chapter development plan created by a fellow CRP. You will leave with a template to create your very own chapter development plan.
6. “The purpose of this chapter
development plan is to create a
pathway to enhance, revive and
inspire chapters to flourish...”
- Claudia Huss, Vice President, Member Relations at Association of Energy Services
Professionals (AESP)
8. Set Your Intent
(PG. 1)
ASK YOURSELF
• What do you want to get out of this?
• More focus on chapters?
• A picture of the chapter landscape
for leadership?
• What are your current goals?
• What is leadership asking for from you?
• What do you absolutely have to get done
in the next 11 months?
Have a question? Enter your question in the chat
10. Executive Summary
(PG. 2)
WHERE TO START
• Create a concise statement about the overall
health of your chapters
• Some things to consider and include:
• Number of chapters
• Have any closed?
• Gaps in chapter locations
• Current leadership (new vs. seasoned)
• Chapter expectations
• Number of chapter meetings and/or
events per year
Don’t
rush!
11. Chapter
Development Goals
(PG. 2-3)
WHERE TO START
• List 3-5 goals you'd like to accomplish in
the next year
• Create actionable subtasks to accomplish
those goals
• Determine who will be the point person
• Assign a due date
• Is there budget for this initiative?
I have so
many…
12. General Support
(PG. 4)
WHERE TO START
• What general support do you provide to your chapters?
• List out all tasks/services and tools that national provides:
• Financial compensation
• Member database/list
• Website creation/maintenance
• Leadership meetings
• Bank accounts
• Resources/templates
• Taxes
13. Issues of Concern
(PG. 4)
WHERE TO START
• Be frank here.
• What drives you nuts about your chapters?
• What should they be doing, but aren’t? Maybe it’s…
• Filing taxes
• Number of events they’re conducting
• Recording event attendance
• Updating webpages
Have a question? Enter your question in the chat
14. Do Your Research
(PG. 5)
WHERE TO START
• Conduct some research, get some stats.
Find 3 to begin with.
• Where should you look?
• Websites of other associations
• Phone calls to chapter leaders of
other associations
• Webinars
• Consultants
• Conversations with your current
chapter leaders, board and staff members
I’ll call my
buddy!
15. Resources:
Are Chapters Worth The
Effort: 2016 Chapter
Benchmarking Report
Mariner Management &
Marketing LLC
The 2016 Membership
Marketing Benchmarking
Report
Marketing General
Incorporated
Association Resources
Knowledge Bank
Billhighway
16. Analysis of Chapters
(PG. 5-10)
WHERE TO START
• List out all of your chapters.
• Provide at least one strength, weakness and
opportunity/recommendation per chapter.
• Ask yourself:
• How long has this chapter been around?
• Have they collaborated with any other
organizations to host events?
• Is chapter leadership engaged?
• Is membership growing or declining?
Have a question? Enter your question in the chat
17. Review Goals
(PG. 11)
RE-EVALUATE
• Now that you have a good idea on
your chapters’ strengths and
weaknesses, use that to revise and
update your goals
• Share it with someone
• Present to leadership
I do!
Good idea
18. 01 Define reality
Effectively serve those you lead
Say thank you
The 3 Roles of Good Leaders
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank
you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor."
-- Max De Pree on leadership
http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6398/the-three-tasks-of-leadership.aspx
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19. Help Me, Help You
2017 Chapter Initiatives:
• Chapter Restructuring (changing the by-laws, new
affiliation agreements, selling it to senior
leadership/board, and more)
• Defining your chapter ROI
• Creating dashboards and identifying the right data to tell
a story
• Improving engagement with your chapters
• TELL US YOUR 2017 CHAPTER INITIATIVES
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Road Show
Introducing…
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Notas do Editor
New format this week…we’ll provide and walk through a template.
What does BH do?
Work with chapter-based associations to simplify the operations and financial complexities of having chapters.
Don’t forget to mention that we’re now CAE Certified! All LIVE webinars qualify…
What are you hoping to get out of this session? Take a few minutes to write down why YOU need a chapter development plan. Be honest.
These are just a few of the benefits you can recognize from creating a chapter development plan:
Identify and track to goals.
Increase visibility
Create a single version of the truth
Address the state of chapters
Identify what’s working well
Identify specific areas of improvement
Just 8% of people actually achieve their goals. We're only 1 month into 2017. There's still time to create a chapter development plan to increase your odds with a road map to success.
Shout out to Claudia for giving us a template! Really drill in that this was based off the process a real CRP went through.
In this actionable webinar, you'll learn:
-What a successful chapter development plan looks like
-Why it's important to have one
-How to create your own chapter development plan using a provided template from a fellow CRP
Let’s use this slide to tell Claudia’s story.
Her association’s goal was to focus on chapters. She needed to paint a picture to her senior leadership team and show where the chapter initiatives fall.
Started by listening to webinars, doing research and then conducted a survey with her chapter leaders. To collect data, she conducted a series of phone calls and did a SWOT analysis with different chapters. This led to the creation of her ‘Chapter in a Box’ idea.
Kyle advised to survey chapters to start
We sent out the template via email beforehand, but if you didn’t receive it, we’ll drop the link now.
I’ll give you a minute to print it in case you didn’t already...it will be helpful to follow along as we go through this.
This is going to help you get started.
Do you have an idea/what’s the first thing that came to mind?
Chat in…
This is going to help you get started.
Do you have an idea/what’s the first thing that came to mind?
Chat in…
Reference page 2 (in case people are following along –the pages are numbered at the top right)
List out the landscape and state of your chapters. Consider the following questions as thought-starters: How
many chapters do you currently have? Who runs each chapter (volunteers, staff, or members)? How often do
chapter leaders meet?
Reference page 2-3
List your top 3 goals along with 5-10 tactics for each goal you need to accomplish in 2017. Use your chapters’
strengths and weaknesses to create your goals. Tie your tactics to overall organizational goals
Goal examples:
Grow and strengthen the chapters – tie a certain membership growth percentage to it
Develop chapter leadership
Tactic Ideas:
post chapter events on a calendar
add chapter activities to social media
develop a quarterly newsletter
highlight one chapter per month that's doing something well
ask senior staff & board to attend chapter meetings
help chapters find speakers
find place to store chapter templates and resources
develop a survey for chapter leaders
Reference page 4
What general support do you provide to your chapters?
List out all tasks/services and tools that national assists with or provides.
Ideas: This could range from financial compensation, to providing a member database/
list, website creation and maintenance, setting up leadership meetings, creating bank accounts, providing
resources/templates, filing taxes, etc.
Reference page 4
Ask the question below and ask them to chat in/share…group therapy session…I’m sure everyone can commiserate.
Be frank here. What drives you nuts about your chapters? What should they be doing, but aren’t? Maybe it’s
the number of events they’re conducting. Maybe they’re not properly recording who attends these events.
Reference page 5
This should be your wake up call to get out into the field! CRP Tough Love…Maybe you don’t have enough info to get started. Attend a conference or chapter event.
Conduct some research, get some stats. A good place to start would be by researching websites of other
associations, calling chapter leaders in your industry, attending a webinar, consulting with your current chapter
leaders, board and staff members, and collecting industry statistics or data. Find 3 facts to get you started.
We included a few key resources to pull industry statistics out of. Plug the knowledge bank. We’ve compiled all chapter-based resources from us and other industry thought-leaders
Reference page 5-10
This is the time for it to get real. This isn’t going to be easy…depending on how many chapters you have, it will be tedious, challenging and time consuming.
If have automatic way to get data from chapters, this will be easier for you. If not, surveying or finding the stats is the first place to start.
This is where you’ll list out all of your chapters. Yes, every single one. Provide at least one strength, weakness
and opportunity/recommendation per chapter. Ask yourself:
How long has this chapter been around?
Have they collaborated with any other organizations to host events?
Is chapter leadership engaged?
Is chapter leadership young or have they been in the position for a while?
Is there a lot of turnover in the leadership team?
Is membership growing or declining?
Do they have a top event that draws the largest member turnout?
How many events do they host per year?
How many members attend meetings? Is it low or high compared to other chapters?
Where are the members coming from to attend the meetings? Does it only draw members from
one city/area? How do you engage the whole state?
How well does chapter leadership communicate with national?
Before wrapping it all up, revisit your initial goals.
If you’re struggling/a team of one and want someone to walk through this with you, feel free to share it with us. We’ll be your sounding board and provide support.
This template is obviously just one example of a chapter development plan to get you started. There are many variations, so you’ll need to tailor it to what you need.
To set the scene, these are from a great book…I highly recommend it. In fact, I recommend my team reads it.
The Three Tasks of Leadership
Worldly Wisdom for Pastoral Leaders
Eric O. Jacobsen
Define Reality
First you need to paint the picture of the current state of your chapters. The good, the bad and the ugly. Put it all out on the table. What you leave out will ultimately come back to haunt you.
Become a servant and a debtor
Serve those who serve you. Find out how you can best help the chapters that are struggling and enhance those that are doing well already.
Say thank you
Be grateful to those who are already doing well. You don’t know who is doing well without doing a full
Before wrapping it all up, revisit your initial goals.
If you’re struggling/a team of one and want someone to walk through this with you, feel free to share it with us. We’ll be your sounding board and provide support.
This template is obviously just one example of a chapter development plan to get you started. There are many variations, so you’ll need to tailor it to what you need.
Love our webinars, but looking for a face-to-face conversation? Let me introduce our Billhighway Road Show. We’re coming to a city near you!
If not in this area and interested, let us know and we’ll accommodate. Potential for Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC too!
1.5 CAE credits for attending.
What’s the Billhighway Road Show, you ask? It’s a gathering of liked-minded folks from chapter-based associations that all face similar challenges. We’ll be discussing ideas and solutions around the following topics:
Measuring and increasing the health of chapters and how it can be done
Best practices for chapter operations (volunteer tools, processes, etc.)
How to get the right statistics which will help prevent members, at both the national and chapter level, from leaving
We’ve heard consistent feedback that those in the chapter community want and need a place to network with other component relations professionals. The idea is to make this a collaborative jam session with real-life solutions and resources provided as takeaways.
Our current schedule includes:
Wednesday, Feb 8th in Chicago (Illinois) 7:30-9:00AM
Wednesday, Feb 22nd in Reston (Virginia) 7:30-9:00AM
If you’re interested in attending one of these sessions you can reach out to my marketing team or click on the slide link to register. If you don’t reside in these areas or can not attend, tell us where you’d like us to continue our road show and come to your town!