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Training Your Team
Seminars & Conferences
Governor Elects
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Meetings & Conferences (6)
• Lieutenant Governor-Elect
• Presidents-Elect, Sec/Treas
• 1st Quarter Conference
• 2nd Quarter Conference
• 3rd Quarter Conference
• District Convention
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All Strategies Similar
• Plan
Start with
Sample
Agendas
• Promote
• Put-it-on
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Why Meet?
What Do Club Attendees Want?
Why Spend a Weekend at a Conference?
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Conference Objectives
• To Help Club Succeed
• Boost Spirit of Volunteer
• Fun, Fellowship & Food
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Training Your Team
All the pieces fit!
The “Faculty Guide”
and other Resources
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Purpose of Training
• Empowering Leaders to
Reach Their Goals
• Growing to Serve Others
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District Training
• District Meetings
• Regional Level
• Zone Level
• Club Level
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Faculty Guide Design
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Step-by-step “how-to” basics
Based on Functions
Chronological
Timed Agendas
Faculty Guides
• Assign topics - copy &
highlight
• Interaction in outline
blocks
• Student Workbooks
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Faculty
Guide
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Planning Your Training
• Reserve Facility
• Regional, make-ups, zone, home
• Roundtable seating
• Cost, Convenience & Ambience
• Boosting Attendance
• Goal 100%
• Letter, email & Personal Phone Call!
• Lt. Gov. incentives
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Faculty
• Get best “teachers”
• Successful, Positive & Recent
• List Assignments on Agenda sheet
• Give them subject outline & time (1-mo.)
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The Training Event
• Registration & Reception
• Effective Use of Hallways
• Coffee, Photos, Videos, Web-site demo
• Fun, Fellowship & Food
• Make Others Successful
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Training Lieutenant Governors
The “Backbone” of the District
• Your Training Objectives
• Use “Faculty Guide”
• Retreats before District Convention
• Rustic lodges?
• Pitch-ins? (low cost option)
• Prior to District Convention?
• OI Convention Training
“Knowledge is powerful motivation”
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Challenge
• You want to have a retreat for your
Lieutenant Governors but your Governor
says you have no money for it. What
options do you have?
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President-Elect Training
The CEO of the Club
• Objectives of Your Training
• Use “Faculty Guide”
• Make-ups, Zones & Regional
• Who is the Best Faculty
• Recent Achievers?
• Teaching Types?
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Challenge
• How many club presidents attended
training last year?
• How can you train 100% of your club
presidents?
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Secretary-Treasurers
Designate Seminar
The Foundation of the Club
• Objectives of this Seminar
• New versus Repeats
• Best Faculty
• Some Joint Sessions with Presidents?
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LEADERSHIP RESOURCES
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Leadership Dev. Committee
Catch a Rising Star
PGI Program
Skills Development Modules
Web-site “optimistleaders.org”
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Leadership Development Committee
• Provide Quality Training
• Get Top-Notch Faculty
• Cultivate Future Leaders
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Catch a Rising Star
• Workshop Teaching
Leadership Skills
• At 2nd Quarter
Future Leader’s Workshop
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PGI
Personal Growth & Involvement
PGI
• The only Club Program to Develop
Optimism as a Philosophy of Life
• Ten Levels of Personal
Achievement in Optimism
Level X
• Pin-backings & Progress Chart
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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT MODULES
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Creative Problem Solving
Time Management
Public Speaking
Choosing Optimism as a
Philosophy of Life
Orientation to Optimism for New
Members
“The Meeting Will Come to Order”
Team Building
Leadership Styles and Profiles
Mentoring
Managing Change
•Two-hour Personal
Development Workshops
•At District Conferences,
Zones or Clubs
•Download from Website
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Optional Discussion Items
• Discuss ways to effectively use the Faculty Guide
• What aspects of the Faculty Guide do you see as being
most helpful?
• How can Leadership Development impact District goals?
• What should you look for in a good faculty member?
• Discuss the value of an evaluation form
• Discuss how we may better utilize the Skills
Development Modules.
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Results of Training
• Empowering Leaders
• Growing to Serve Kids
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