ASM Leadership Days 2005

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ASM Leadership Days 2005 Top Needs Focus
Presentation Your Best Ideas Collectively at
Work for You Team LeaderGreg Petrus Team
MemberRandall Barnes Nick Jessen, Rich Lynch Al
Singmaster
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• What well cover today
• Initial Survey
• Top Needs Focus-5 areas
• Chapter Participation Solicited
• Lessons Learned
• Information Collected
• Information Redistributed
• Information Implemented Successfully?

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• Incentive for Top Needs Focus
• Initial survey showed that 5 areas were most
  important to our chapters
• This group decided the best source of
  information in these areas were chapters with
  experience and success in dealing with these
  opportunities
• Survey tool designed and distributed to over 450
  recipients
• Information was collected, reduced and
  redistributed to our chapters for adaptation
• Information and ideas can be tailored for each
  chapters individual needs
• Result is a nationwide brainstorm of ideas tried
  and yet to be tried focusing on these 5 important
  areas

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• Top Needs 5 Focus Areas
• Increasing Membership / Young Members
• Improving Meeting Attendance
• Improving Speaker and Event Selection
• Boosting Corporate Attendance and Participation
• Increasing Executive Committee Participation

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• Chapter Council and Officers Contacted
• Greg Petrus wrote up initial survey to get ideas
  that have been tried successfully and get ideas
  yet to be tried
• Randall Barnes and HQ staff design a medium to
  survey 450 officers and Council members
• Randall, Greg and remaining team members iterate
  on survey content and medium
• Team dives fearlessly into a great sea of
  unknowns to initiate the ideas gathering process

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• Lessons Learned and Procedure
• Survey tool discovered to have a previously
  unknown time limit imposed by an overriding time
  out of the internet after about 20 minutes
• Randall and Greg send out a second Word
  friendly survey and collect results manually as
  well as through the automated survey tool
• Randall takes on the first task of initial
  processing of results, sifting and grouping
• Greg takes on the task of initial editing and
  further sifting and overall evaluations
• Process is fairly labor intensive but well worth
  the effort

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• Information Collected
• Information is collected from a variety of
  chapters, chapter sizes and areas of the country
• The information is boiled down, edited and
  sent out to be included in the Leadership Days
  Package and will be available on the ASM website
  as well
• Details pending on best place to put survey
  results

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• Increasing Membership /
• Young Members
• 8 Pages of great ideas included in handout
• Final winner Metro NY/NJ Chapter

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• Improving Meeting Attendance
• 4-1/2 Pages of great ideas included in handout
• Final winner Cleveland Chapter

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• Improving Speaker and
• Event Selection
• 6-1/2 Pages of great ideas included in handout
• Final winner Saginaw Valley Chapter

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• Increasing Corporate Attendance and Participation
  
• (Sustaining Membership)
• 5 Pages of great ideas included in handout
• Final winner Cleveland Chapter

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• Increasing Executive Committee Participation
• 4-1/2 Pages of great ideas included in handout
• Final winner Central Florida Chapter

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• Future Directions and Improvements

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• Conclusions
• 30 Pages of ideas every chapter can take back
  and use to improve the success of their chapter
  in these 5 important areas
• Use the Chapter website to keep updated on the
  ideas or to send them along to other EC members
  and officers unable to attend Leadership Days
• Continue to send your new or unpublished ideas
  as you read these and send them to
  Greg.Petrus_at_DeformationControl.com or to Randall
  Barnes at Randall.Barnes_at_ASMInternational.org
• Together, we are all making a very positive
  difference in our Chapters!