Club Meetings

    To improve the quality of your meetings and club you need to listen to your members, non-members and visitors, evaluate every aspect of your meeting, face the brutal facts and then do something about them.

Tips for meeting excellence:

• Plan your meeting - don't wing it - it shows.
• Make sure you have the right space - location, size, sound and feel.
• Be sure of the quality of the programmer - no programme is better than a bad one.
• Limit announcements - print them and draw your members attention to them.
• Create a welcoming environment.
• Mix it up - seating.
• The club president should know their strengths - use an MC if necessary.
• Start on time and finish on time.
• Recognize deserving members - make them feel good about themselves.
• Interclub - see what others do well.
• Make new member induction an event.
• Guest speaker should be properly introduced and thanked.
• Make time for fun.

Membership Woes

  Many clubs are responding to membership challenges by developing new and innovative forms of membership.

New forms of membership:

• Family membership - where partners get a reduced rate on their dues and receive full benefit and privileges of membership.
• Corporate membership - businesses pay membership fees (usually considerably more than individuals) which allows their employees to fully participate in club activities.
• Friends of Kiwanis - for a reduced rate, interested individuals can participate fully in club activities however do not have the privileges of membership ie:  voting, magazine etc. and must declare their intentions after a 1 year period.