Try 10 - Minute Work Location Meetings

Association reps who hold regular building meetings have the best shot toward strengthening membership rapport, especially in difficult times.

"But they won't stay for a building meeting." you complain. "They're too busy."

Try promising them a 10-minute building meeting times by the clock. See the guide for planning such a meeting by clicking here. The rationale for each part of the 10-minute meeting and a sample agenda to be distributed at the start of the meeting.

Why is the building meeting so important? Often it seems expedient for the Association Rep to skip it and vote in rep meetings without having gained consensus from members of by merely "sensing" the opinions of members. But regardless of how will reps read members' minds, the neglect to ask for member consensus robs them of knowledge that they have a voice and the feeling that their opinions count in the decision making process.

When members begin to feel their opinions are sought and carried back to the decision-making body, the Association Rep is out of danger. Only a masochist wants to make decisions alone, to be paid off later with members' anger and distrust.

Most of us consider snappy, business-like association meetings a rarity. Why not try the 10-minute meetings? Note on the sample agenda that members still have the opportunity to let off steam through the rip-off on the bottom. The Association Rep may thus speak later, on an individual basis, to those who write down their concerns on the rip-offs collected at the door.