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Get It While Its Hot!

Get It While Its Hot! . MPMA 2006 Director Survey. Why the 2006 Survey?. 2005 Omaha conversations indicated that Directors were tired, challenged, and that many planned to retire in the next few years

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Get It While Its Hot!

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  1. Get It While Its Hot! MPMA 2006 Director Survey

  2. Why the 2006 Survey? • 2005 Omaha conversations indicated that Directors were tired, challenged, and that many planned to retire in the next few years • It is hard to find “leading indicators” for issues that are now and will be important to museums in the MPMA • MPMA needs to listen to constituents

  3. SurveyMonkey.com • Survey link e-mailed to 160 Directors of MPMA Member Institutions • 50 Directors responded • Nine Questions for MPMA Directors • Three relating to their own museums • Three relating to their personal plans • Three relating to the future of museums

  4. Q.1: What are your biggest organizational challenges today? • Attendance 66% • Engaging New Audiences 52% • Sustainable Operations 50% • Getting Right People on Board 48% • Flat/Decreased Gov Funding 44% • Aging Facilities 34% • Providing Educational Value 32% • Building Technological Capacity 32%

  5. Q.2: What are your greatest hopes for the future of your organization? • Increased Charitable Giving 62% • Recruitment of New Talent 58% • Higher Visibility in Community 58% • New/Improved/Expanded Facilities 54% • Increased Number of Partners 52% • Improved Programming 48% • Capital Campaign 34% • Increased Government Funding 32%

  6. Q.3: What do you see as the most important NEW issues? • Operating Costs 72% • On-line Services 48% • Opportunities for Broad Impact 38% • Meeting Youth Expectations 38% • Succession Planning 36% • Aging Facilities 36% • Opportunities to Expand Service 34% • Struggle for Relevance 32%

  7. Q.4: What are your greatest concerns about your performance? • Burnout and Stress 62% • Fundraising 48% • Meeting My Own Expectations 42% • Personnel Management 40% • Strategic Thinking 38% • Time Management 32% • Building Community Support 30% • Balance and Perspective 22%

  8. Q.5: What are your future plans? • Stay for Five Years or More 57% • Move to Another Museum 31% • Retire in Five Years 14% • Change Careers in Five Years 10% • Other 8% • Retire later • Do all four • Burned out

  9. Q.6: What are the most important career decisions you will make? • Personal Growth 62% • Remain in Current Job 38% • Retirement 28% • Change Careers 16% • Other 4% • Reduce stress and delegate more • Develop successors and then retire

  10. Q.7: What challenges do you see facing the museum field today? • Competition from Other Venues 58% • Changing Volunteer Force 58% • Growing Fixed Costs 54% • Testing Over Informal Learning 50% • Dumbing Down Standards 44% • Changes in Use of Leisure Time 40% • BB Retirement/Generation Gap 28% • Shrinking Travel Budgets 28%

  11. Q.7: Continued • Expanding Number of Museums 26% • Lack of Specialized Knowledge 24% • Need Better Trained Workforce 24% • Customer Service 22% • Too Much Tech in Exhibits 22% • Disloyal Younger Employees 20% • Sponsorship Ethics 16% • Not “Green” Enough 12% • Other 12% • Institutions Disloyal to Youth 8%

  12. Q.8: What are the best trends that you see developing? • More Partners Emerging 60% • More Tech Reach to Audiences 60% • Multigenerational Audiences 36% • More and Different Stories to Tell 36% • Next Generation of Staff 36% • Interactive Exhibitions 30% • Increases in Giving 24% • Other 8%

  13. Q.9: What do you see as future NEW issues the field will face? • Increased/Decreased Gov Funding/Control • Impact of World Events Including Politics, Economics and Natural Disasters • Impact of Religious, Political and Economic Extremists • Competition for Time and Money • Relevance to Communities/Localized Activity • Proliferation of Non-Profits • Generational Changes in Attitude/Expectations

  14. What Does This Mean for MPMA? • Do our programs address the current and future needs of museums, individuals, and the field? • Will some of these future issues have an impact on MPMA itself as an organization? • Should this survey be repeated? • Should other types of survey be done (Board, Staff, Volunteers)?

  15. THANK YOU! • Results, including commentary from this session, will be published in a future issue of the MPMA Newsgram • Further comments on this survey and suggestions for other survey topics can be sent to: Mountplains@aol.com • Your interest in the 2006 Director Survey is appreciated!

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