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Keeping your Members

Discover the essential strategies for retaining members in your club, based on the wisdom of America’s Student Leadership Trainer, Dave Kelly. The key retention techniques, known as the "5 R's," include assigning specific responsibilities, enforcing participation, rewarding achievements, pairing new members with mentors, and fostering friendships among members. Enhance your meetings with engaging activities, timely communications, and recognitions to create a welcoming environment. Embrace flexibility in schedules and offer support to ensure that each member feels valued and appreciated.

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Keeping your Members

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  1. Keeping your Members Secrets to retaining members after they join your club based off Dave Kelly, America’s Student Leadership Trainer

  2. The 5 “r’S” OF RETENTION • Give people a specific responsibility • Enforce requirements • Give out rewards/prizes • Assign new members a “club mentor” • Help build relationships between club members

  3. Keep meetings from being boring • Break up monotony with an ice-breaker • Have a “greeter” to welcome members, and introduce guests to the club • Have someone do a group activity every week such as the pledge of allegiance • Have someone tell a story or give a “thought of the day” • Recognize Birthdays, accomplishments , milestones

  4. Change up Meeting Styles and formats • Business • Social • Service Projects • Speaker/lecture • Start and end on time • Have a planned agenda for each meeting

  5. Challenges you face in keeping members • Circumstances change: • Conflict with schedule • Academic load may be too heavy • Solutions: • Email update about the meetings to all members • Have a newsletter with up-coming projects at varied times • Have more then one meeting- but lead by another officer • Offer to meet them and go to the meeting together

  6. Things that make people stay members • Make people feel welcome and appreciated • Introduce new members the first time they come • Have a special “induction ceremony” • give a certificate or badge when they join the club • Allow other members to talk about activities they are working on

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