Welcome to Lt Governors & TAG Team Leaders

1. Welcome to Lt Governors & TAG Team Leaders Building Your Division’sNew Club BuildingStrategic Plan

2. Four Major Topics • Current Situation • Strategy & Why we Need it? • How to Develop a Division NCB Strategy? • Getting Started:

3. Forum Outcomes • How a good “NCB strategy” can help serve the communities in your division • How Lt Governors can recruit and train a New Club Building (NCB)Team • What tools are available to make new club building easier • How you can build a NCB Plan for your division

4. Current Situation Today’s Kiwanis • Strengths • Focus on youth • Best SLPs in world • Abundance of SLP graduates • Great training • New types of Kiwanis clubs • Technology aids • Weaknesses • Declining & aging membership • Declining number of clubs • More competition for our volunteers • One year focus versus long range action plans • Focus on who gets the credit • Fun is more important than achievement Today’s Youth • Strengths • Learning faster • Innovative & creative • More adaptive to diversity • More global • Weaknesses • Lack of adult interaction • Too many dropouts • Gangs, drugs & violence • Lack of exercise and nutrition • Fewer jobs for young workers • Unable to afford cost of college

5. Stepping Up to the Challenge • Developing a Hedgehog Strategy • What do we do the best in the world? (SLPs) • What are we passionate about? (Youth) • What drives our economic engine (Community concern for youth) • Confronting the brutal facts for (2002-10): • 85Clubs folded • 27 New clubs built • 18 Divisions did not build a club • 86% of High Schools without a Key Club • 98% of Middle Schools without a Builders Club • 99% of Elementary Schools without K-Kids

6. Strategy& Why We Need It Three elements of a Strategy: • Statement of goals & objectives • Guiding policies and actions • Description of supportive programs • What is a Strategy? • Focuses resources • In a unique way • Greater success • Benefits of Strategy • Better use of resources • Greater success than competitors • Greater member satisfaction

7. District Goals & Objectives Objectives: • Divisions build a Strategic Plan: • Provide continuity over time • Address training in advance • Contain possible sites • Develop sponsor clubs • Plan maintained by TAG Team Trainer • Divisions have a trained NCB team: • TAG Team Trainer • New Club Builder • Club Counselor • Support for 3 Stages of NCB: • Preparation year • Building year • Growing year • Divisions: • Build one or more clubs within 5 years • Develop a disciplined approach to new club building • Develop sense of achievement and adventure that is fun • Celebrate achievement Goals: • Growth in New Club Building and membership • Achievement of a Kiwanis critical mass in our district and divisions

8. Guiding Principles • NCB is best achieved through teamwork • New Clubs will normally sponsor 2+ SLPs, helping build a Kiwanis critical mass • We can change TX-OK, one community at a time, by building new clubs • New Club Building is essential for positive growth in a division’s membership

9. Policies & Actions • Actions: • Construct a NCB Plan • List of sites considered • Calendar showing sites selected and stages for 5 year time period • Sponsor Clubs with their site • Trained NCB team members • Training needs Policies: • Lt Governor is responsible for all NCB stages • Lt Gov elect and immediate past Lt Gov should assist in NCB • Each Division should build 1 or more clubs every 5 years

10. Getting Started • Conduct Site Studies: • Schools without SLPs • Areas with youth needs • Population growth • Need for critical mass • Select your Team • Div. NCB Chair • New Club Builder • Club Counselor Train your Team • Lt Governor Training • District Convention • K-Family • Mid-Winter • Zone Conferences