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PEP, or President Elect's Ponderings

PEP 18 for January 23. President-Elect’s Ponderings—10-year Visioning Update

If we focus primarily on membership with supportive communications, could we become the club we want to be in the coming decade and beyond? What would be the right approach to membership and communications to engage the next generation of club members and partners? How can we build on and extend the visioning and strategic planning we’ve done in recent years to carry us forward? Heady stuff—the core of what emerged from deliberations at the January 15th board meeting.

 

The board and five other members in attendance felt that we have lots of expertise within our club to guide us through our visioning, but we might still benefit from some outside guidance. Later, we’ll decide whether we need such help; meanwhile, we’ll review our strategic direction developed in 2021, together with a community-research-based report, “Rotary Opens Opportunities.” The latter was presented to all the Kingston Clubs March 30, 2021 and prepared by FreshSight Consulting, a Queen’s Smith School of Business student group. That report had a three-fold emphasis—membership development, fund-raising, and strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion—with lots of specific implementation ideas for understanding the community we serve and telling our story convincingly. In the coming weeks, the board will provide opportunities for all our members to engage in looking forward.

 

In parallel with our visioning, we’ll complete our bylaw revision to reflect future-oriented changes the club continues to make in our approach to membership development and club operations to vibrant fellowship and rewarding and effective service.

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