Club Vision Facilitation Helping Take a Club to the Next Level

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Club Vision Facilitation Helping Take a Club
to the Next Level
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Vision Facilitation Update

• Why should clubs have a Vision?
• How can a club develop/refresh their Vision?
• What can YOU do to support Club Vision
  Facilitation?

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Club Vision Facilitation
How can You Ensure Your Club
Is Heading In the right
Direction?
HAVE A CLUB VISION!
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A Club Vision Is

• Dynamic Management Tool
• Defines a shared commitment
• Provides long-term direction
• Creates a framework to establish goals and
  objectives
• Optimizes use of resources

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Why is a Club Vision needed?

• Tradition of annual cycles breaks continuity,
  consistency, and consensus
• Clubs end up re-inventing the wheel instead of
  moving forward
• ..or worse.

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TAKE YOUR CLUB TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Implement the Club Leadership Plan

• Develop a long-range plan
• Simplify the committee structure
• Involve all club members

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How Do Clubs Benefit From Club Visioning?

• Goal setting-Long range (strategic)
• Goal setting-Annual goals (Actions and plans)
• Continuity in projects/decision making
• Consensus for decision making

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How Will Membership Benefit From Club Visioning?

• Larger/stronger field of club leaders
• Succession planning for club leadership
• Involve all members in club activities
• Fellowship
• Membership Development
• Vision is what we recruit and retain to

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Visioning Process

• Become familiar with Vision Facilitation
• Contact Vision Facilitation Coordinator or Team
  Member
• Prepare for Vision Facilitation Event
• Participate in the Facilitation Event
• Implement Vision through follow-up Actions
• Measure results (under development)

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Facilitation Event Schedule

• 430-530 Set-up/dinner/socialize
• 530 Introduction/PowerPoint
• 600 Instructions/Writing Exercise
• 645 Extraction
• 800/815 Voting DOT Exercise
• 840 Summary
• 850 Action Plan / Conclusions
• 900 Adjourn

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Concepts Presented atFacilitation

• RI Strategic Planning
• 9 Steps to Implement the Club Leadership Plan
• Presidents Planning Council
• Committee Structure (small and large club)
• Rotary Beyond the Club

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Club Vision

• What do we stand for in the community
• Club size and attributes
• Four Avenues of Service
• Foundation Success
• Public Image

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It Works!

• the evening was perfect to give us creative
  ideas to .setour goals and objectives.
• They came and did a session with our club
  helped us to think out of the box and produce
  some visioning ideas through interactive
  brainstorming activities
• Its amazing that we came to consensus in such a
  short time from such a diverse group.

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Club Vision Facilitation Growth

• Started in January of 2002 with
  1 Facilitator - Today 15 on our Team
• Evolved from 1 Facilitator to Team of 3
  Delivering Vision Event
• Evolved the Process to a 3.5 Hour Delivery
• Completed 54 Club Vision Facilitations with 4 in
  the queue

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District 5960 Vision Facilitation Team
Trained and Experienced Team ready to help your
club discover your club vision
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What can YOU do?

• District Governor (DGE DGN)
• Support the Chair via promoting the Vision
  Process Team at every opportunity within the
  District
• Commit a 100 per year subscription to the
  International Visioning
• Assistant Governor
• Become familiar with Vision Facilitation
• Promote and Support clubs in your area
• Monitor after a Vision Facilitation
• District Leader
• Become familiar with Vision Facilitation
• Build on club visions for your responsibility
  area
• Consider becoming a Vision Facilitator

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• Rotary is not an organization for retrospection.
  It is rather one whose worth and purpose lie in
  future activity rather than past performance.
• Paul Harris, Founder of Rotary International