Are you ready for spring? It really is just around the corner. I would like to suggest it is time for some spring cleaning. That sounds like a lot of fun, right? However, clearing out the trash and scrubbing down this or that is not quite what I am proposing.
My proposal is that we might truly work together to clean up our respective fraternal unit’s expired member list. We are winding down the final months and weeks of the 2017-2018 fiscal year. The time to build our positive numbers – or reach them, to begin with – is right now.
Some fraternal units did very little, while many chapters, lodges and Moose Legions made really good strides during November’s retention week program. They reached out and contacted members, many of whom only needed a friendly nudge to be retained. But what have we done since? Remember that retention week was promoted as a “one-week focus” – but a “year-long commitment.”
As we wind down the year, we have a chance to show again. Continued effort to recruit new members is part of the solution. Reaching out with friendly contacts to retain the members we already have is vital and important. Let us each pick up the phone or go visit a member who has not renewed and remind them of the many positive attributes of Moose membership.
Each of us can make a difference – each member saved makes an impact! Just like sponsoring new applicants, we have to extend a fraternal hand and invite members to retain those benefits of membership they originally bought into. Remind them of the value of membership to both themselves and to those in our care who depend on all of us.
If each chairman and officer acted as true leaders of the fraternal units they represent, a great spring cleaning could be accomplished. Won’t you please at least give it a try? The person you save might be thankful and attend or even help with an upcoming function.
Eventually, with the right mentoring, they might even become a positive leader of our fraternal unit. But first, we have to reach out and retain them as members and encourage their renewal. Yep, time for a little spring cleaning it seems. I’m going to try – will you?
Reposted from Moose International