Freemasonry

Leadership Training
Workshop & Seminar Modules
currently taught by Duane Kemerley

1. Reaching Out for a Positive Response:
A Successful Plan for Membership Recruitment

This module includes a proven, step-by-step strategy and adaptable resources for contacting and acquiring new members for your group. For all of those individuals and teams that say, "We'd like to get new members but how do we do it?" Here's how.

2. Keys to Membership:
Attracting New Members, Positive Attitudes, Retention

Creating a positive internal atmosphere and culture with your organization is central to gaining new members and holding on to the members you have. This multiphase module gives practical guidelines and tools to help you make your setting "member friendly".

3. Dates, Times, and Places That Work:
Calendar / Term Planning / Annual Planning

Too often, one yearly plan looks sadly just like all the rest and planning is done in the crunch. New ideas are more of a problem than an energizing resource. Learn a pattern of planning and scheduling that protects the resources of your group and energizes your activities and events.

4. Meetings People Will Attend
Agendas that are: Effective, Efficient, Planned, & Purposeful

Nothing saps the life out of your organization like long meetings that are often ineffective and struggle to make positive, forward movement. Learn how to lead your group to success by refining the art of planning a detailed agenda before the gavel falls.

5. The Tie That Binds:
How Members Bond & Intervening in the Dropout Track

Too often we think that members automatically feel comfortably connected to our organization. This module details how that bonding process works and how to enhance those relationships. The second part walks through the steps through which members pass when they become detached and begin to fall away from the organization. Specific intervention approaches and techniques are included.

6. Avoiding the Potholes and the Landmines:
Understanding Risk Management / Safety / Insurance

This module is tailored to the unique needs and liabilities of your organization. Planning strategies, risk assessment and safety issues are addressed.

7. Getting the Word Out . . . and Back:
Developing Effective Communication Strategies

Do you have a detailed plan for communication - or do you assume that it just happens. This process seminar guides you in defining the necessary layers within the concentric circles of communication throughout your organization. Developing effective methods of gathering feedback and interaction are included.

8. Dreamers, Realists, and Critics:
Building Effective Committees and Teams

How often do you see committees drift in circles instead of moving progressively toward task-fulfilling plans and results? Ever notice a team that is constantly bogged down with negatives, unable to advance their objectives. Learn how careful selection of task group members and assignments within the group can insure success.

9. The Stages of Organizational Decline and Regeneration:
Excellent, Neurotic, Decline, & Demise

Gauge the level of "excellence' of your organization. Discover the issues that drive groups toward decline and demise. Find out how to utilize the factors that fuel positive growth and renewal. Handout 1

10. Communicating Across the Generation Gaps:
Applying Generation Theory to Your Context

Throughout the ages, each generation is mystified by the interests, behaviors, and the 'fads' of those younger and older than themselves. Learn why there are multiple generation gaps, not just one. Discover the characteristics of the five living generations and how best to connect with each one and motivate them. Handout

11. Becoming a Highly Effective Listener Skills:
Paraphrase, Perception Check, Behavior Description, Productive Questions, & Fogging

People work overtime these days at expressing themselves. Discover how to retrain your abilities to listen carefully and respond to people in ways that encourage useful cooperation and good relationships. Learn five essential skills that will increase your effectiveness at understanding and influencing others in positive ways.

12. Leadership Overdrawn:
Keeping Your 'Relational Bank Accounts' in Balance

Many leaders struggle with motivating those with whom they work. This seminar will help you become aware of the relational dialogue that exists in every leadership setting and the importance of keeping those relationships in balance. A must for every leader looking for long term effectiveness and success.
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ADDITIONAL TOPICS AVAILABLE:

Goal Setting and Strategic Planning

Ritual: What is it? and Why we use it?

Memorization, Presentation and Delivery

Telling Your Organization's Story

A Commitment to Excellence

Membership and Program Development Model, AASR

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