Understanding the Four Essential Elements of Club Vitality

1. Understanding the Four Essential Elements of Club Vitality

2. Adulthood Maturity Adolescent Old Age Toddler Basic Life Cycle Health Death Infancy Time

3. Life Cycle of Rotary Clubs and many other organizations Health Time

4. INCLINE DECLINE Basic Concept Incline and Decline (Rise and Fall) Health Time

5. RECLINE INCLINE DECLINE Change in Orientation Health RENEWAL Time

6. Health is important • Healthy People feel happier, make others feel happier, handle stress better and accomplish more. • A Rotary Club is really just a group of people. And it may be healthier if its people are healthier, or not. The club is a social SYSTEM with a lot of people characteristics. The system can be healthy or it can be sick.

7. George Bullard and others… • Studied churches and observed that life cycles of churches are related to 4 characteristics or elements. The mix of these four elements directly affects health and vitality. • Rotary Clubs appear to follow the same patterns

8. The Four Elements of Club Vitality • Vision • Relationships • Projects • Management

9. VISION • Passion • Future • Goals • Leadership • Core Values • Why are we here? • MOTIVATION

10. Relationships • Family of Rotary • Character of the club • Caring and Sharing Heart • Compassion • Nurture • Mentoring/coaching • Inclusiveness, welcoming quality, hospitality

11. Projects • Engage the club’s vision with relationships to turn good intentions into acts of service that reflect the values of the club

12. Management • Administrative infrastructure that allows vision to engage • Communication protocols • Reporting • Organization and Empowerment • Financial

13. V R P M V R P M V R P M V R P M VR P M VRPM Concept (Vision / Relationships / Projects / Management) Health V R P M V R P M Time

14. Motivation: On what side of the hill is your club? • Incline – Visions of what a club can become • Decline – Visions of what once was • But a club can’t go back in time • A club can positively go forward if it is willing • But can it handle the stress?

15. Without Vision • “…the people perish…” • No change • No stress • No exciting future • No raison d'être • Things are smooth and predictable • The club heads towards death

16. Without Relational Health • Disconnected club • No family sense • No belonging • No appreciation for a job well done • No encouragement to aspire • No reason to join, and no reason to stay • Never missed

17. Without Projects • “old boys club” • Lots of talk, no action • Begin to believe that a rotary club is one that knows how but isn’t expected to actually do • Discomfort becomes primary fear, yet the comfort itself becomes distasteful

18. Without Management • Unnecessary mistakes happen • Leading to unhealthy stress • Blaming • Distrust of the leadership or of any innovative idea • Even good innovations don’t attain great results, nor great participation • Volunteers are more difficult to get

19. Healthy Balance • Need a balance of ALL 4, ALL healthy • Sometimes leaders need to emphasize one or the other… (see later sessions this afternoon)

20. V R P M V R P M V R P M V R P M VR P M VRPM Concept (Vision / Relationships / Projects / Management) 1. Health 2. 3. V R P M V R P M Time

21. Resistance • What causes resistance • V initiatives always lead to some resistance – apathy or non-participation is the last resort of the powerless • The goal for V leadership is to make maximum use of R and M • Use R-building techniques to develop the initiative and to carry it out • Use M-tools such as communication and financials and timeliness

22. Leadership • Every leader has a personal orientation or preference. (Think about the political leaders right now.) Each person, generally, has a driving preference and a supporting preference. • What is your primary strength? • What is your secondary strength?