LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Objective: Identify and develop strong District and Club leaders (period at end?)
Utilizing these Strategies for the Clubs:
1) Provide District-initiated training and job descriptions for club officers including the President, Secretary, Treasurer and Foundation Chair.
2) Adopt strengths-based leadership assessment to better match strengths to needed positions.
3) Create a Leadership Academy or utilize Rotary Leadership Institute to identify and mentor new leaders.
4) Provide online classes via a Rotary classroom that explains “how to” on a variety of topics.
5) Provide District mentor for club leadership track.
Utilizing these Strategies for the District:
1) Implement a five year plan for mentoring potential district leaders.
2) Develop an online handbook for all District committees with job descriptions for all chairs readily available.
3) Create and administer a District-wide leadership questionnaire to create a pool of interested candidates.
4) Consider and explore options for creating a District board of directors or advisory board.
Identify and develop strong District and Club leaders -
The District provides training and job descriptions for club officers including the President, Secretary, Treasurer and Foundation Chair:
- Make an effort to inform clubs about the resources, including training and job descriptions, that already exist and are available from the District, often available on the District website.
- Encourage clubs to share job descriptions, customized to club size, with members before people are ready to assume a title as a passive resource.
- Suggest that clubs provide these materials to club members who are mentoring their own members or recruiting prospective members.
Adopt strengths-based leadership assessment to match strengths of Rotarians to those needed for the position:
- Develop a District–endorsed strengths-based leadership assessment tool.
- Promote the tool to clubs to use in identifying potential leaders by matching skills to jobs
- Encourage club leaders to use the assessment process to coach and mentor club leaders.
- Mentor our hard working volunteers.
Identify and mentor new leaders via a Leadership Academy or Rotary Leadership Institute:
- As a District, promote attendance at the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) to provides important and valuable information for developing future leaders.
- Consider creating an annual District Leadership Academy to provide further leadership training opportunities for Rotarians. This training, which could be modeled on successful programs such as RYLA would address the unique challenges inherent in managing and motivating volunteers and l endeavor to offer creative solutions and strategies.
- As a District, evaluate how training is offered, the time commitment required, geographic constraints, ease of contribution, and the need for quality participants as part of an effort to help the clubs grow and expand their leadership base. The overall goal will be to increase the pool of capable leaders.
We will offer online classes via a Rotary Classroom that explains “how to” on a variety of topics:
We will look to the technology committee to create training materials and to share trainings done at District Assembly and other Rotary events, posting the content to the online classroom.
Make Available to Clubs a District Mentor for club leadership track:
- Develop a five year plan for mentoring potential district leaders.
- Appoint a District Mentoring Champion to help establish a successful plan for mentoring at the club and district level.
- Assess the role of the District Trainer and the types of training currently offered; determine what other kinds of training could be implemented to assist clubs in future club leadership development.
Who: District Training and District Technology Committees working with District Leadership and Club Leadership
Success Defined: District leadership and training have investigated the options suggested by the Strategic Plan and 50% of district clubs have future club officers participating in new training and leadership development opportunities by July 2022
Explore a District board of directors or advisory board so that future District leaders can rise through the ranks by demonstrating their skills and experience, similar to what occurs at the club level:
- Research whether a board of directors or board of advisors is a feasible option to provide a launching pad for new leaders to emerge, to increase feedback and discussion from the clubs to District leadership and help bring leaders up through the ranks towards District leadership.
- Explore what other Districts do and what the leadership structure and membership makeup might be, possibly including the head Assistant Governor, a current past president, two or three key committee chairs in addition to the District Governor track.