2. 2Membership & Recruitment role and proposed actions
Membership
Recruitment
Recruit new members
Send one-off a “prospective member letter” to encourage Greek project managers
to join PMI-Greece
Communicate with organizations, non-members who attend institute events,
Universities with studies on project management and any other source that could
have prospective members
Conduct a new-member contest as an incentive. Each quarter, award prizes to the
current members who recruit the most new members
Hold a “Guest Night” for potential candidates, where the institute’s president will
present the institute
Conduct annual surveys to find out current service rankings and compile survey
results (May 2013)
Keep monthly membership statistics including growth and attrition rates (June
2013)
3. 3Membership & Recruitment role and proposed actions
Retain active members
Send one-off a letter to all active members to thank them for their commitment
Send once a month a “welcome letter” to the new members
Send once a month a “due to renew” letter to the relevant members to remind their
membership renewal
Send once a month a “renewing member letter” to thank the relevant members for
renewing their membership
Introduce an “ideas box” on the website to assist the creation of new value added
services and re-vamp the existing ones
Recognize and honor long-time members on their significant anniversaries of
membership (5th, 10th, etc.).
Create a “thank you” list on the website to include the names and contributions of active
members
Hold an annual social gathering meeting for all active members
Illustrate membership benefits on the website
Encourage members to join the LinkedIn group of PMI-Greece as a parallel information
channel
Introduce lapel pins, clothing, hats, cups, ties, pens, vehicle decals, key chains etc. It’s a
group thing
4. 4Membership & Recruitment role and proposed actions
Return inactive members
Send one-off a “lapsed member letter” to encourage the ex-members lapsed
within 2013 to rejoin
Send once a month a “lapsed member letter” to encourage the relevant members
to rejoin.
Introduce an exit questionnaire which may include:
1. Why did you not renew your membership in PMI-Greece?
2. How long have you been a member of PMI-Greece?
3. What could PMI-Greece do for you to renew?
4. Do you have any suggestions for improving PMI-Greece?
5. Would you ever consider rejoining PMI-Greece? If so, under what conditions?
Thank you!
Editor's Notes
This presentation is intended for the starting segment: project management practitioners who don’t know much about PMI, and/or beginners, students, and others considering a career or specialization in project management. PMI members already know (or should know!) most of what’s in it. It provides a basic look at what PMI is, what it does, and why membership and PMI credentials are smart moves for practitioners. It should take about 20 minutes at a conversational pace. Component leaders who are addressing organizations – businesses, government bodies, or non-profits -- should use “The Value of Project Management,” which concentrates on organizational rather than personal benefits. Obviously every audience is different, and there’s a lot of information that won’t fit into the slides and speaker notes. Learn as much as you can about the audience in advance and use your judgment: feel free to delete a slide, skip past it quickly – or to expand on the speaker notes if there’s a topic of special interest to this group. Some slides have action buttons in the top right corner. If you’re online during the presentation, and want to dig a little deeper, those buttons will open the relevant page at the PMI website. The corresponding URLs are found in the speaker notes (and are also live links when you’re using PowerPoint’s “notes page” view).LAST UPDATED June 2011
PMI was founded in 1969 by five working project managers who understood that project management is a discipline with principles, practices and lessons of its own -– not a subset of “management in general” that any manager can pick up along the way. They understood the value of sharing experience and discussing recurring project challenges. Their foresight is proven by PMI’s growth to nearly 500,000 members and credential holders around the world. Business, government and other organizations increasingly recognize that project management is vital to successful outcomes. Higher career earnings for credential holders are testimony to the value of PMI’s efforts. The professional and practice standards developed and updated by PMI volunteers around the world represent a growing body of knowledge that can be applied to projects in many industries and nations. PMI’s credentials are reliable indicators that those earning them are accomplished project team members and leaders, who sharpen their skills with continuing education. As project management programs develop in more and more schools of business, engineering, computer science, and other fields, PMI works with universities to ensure high standards of professional education. It also registers education providers, including corporate training & development organizations and PMI components, that meet rigorous standards for instruction in project management.
PMI was founded in 1969 by five working project managers who understood that project management is a discipline with principles, practices and lessons of its own -– not a subset of “management in general” that any manager can pick up along the way. They understood the value of sharing experience and discussing recurring project challenges. Their foresight is proven by PMI’s growth to nearly 500,000 members and credential holders around the world. Business, government and other organizations increasingly recognize that project management is vital to successful outcomes. Higher career earnings for credential holders are testimony to the value of PMI’s efforts. The professional and practice standards developed and updated by PMI volunteers around the world represent a growing body of knowledge that can be applied to projects in many industries and nations. PMI’s credentials are reliable indicators that those earning them are accomplished project team members and leaders, who sharpen their skills with continuing education. As project management programs develop in more and more schools of business, engineering, computer science, and other fields, PMI works with universities to ensure high standards of professional education. It also registers education providers, including corporate training & development organizations and PMI components, that meet rigorous standards for instruction in project management.
PMI was founded in 1969 by five working project managers who understood that project management is a discipline with principles, practices and lessons of its own -– not a subset of “management in general” that any manager can pick up along the way. They understood the value of sharing experience and discussing recurring project challenges. Their foresight is proven by PMI’s growth to nearly 500,000 members and credential holders around the world. Business, government and other organizations increasingly recognize that project management is vital to successful outcomes. Higher career earnings for credential holders are testimony to the value of PMI’s efforts. The professional and practice standards developed and updated by PMI volunteers around the world represent a growing body of knowledge that can be applied to projects in many industries and nations. PMI’s credentials are reliable indicators that those earning them are accomplished project team members and leaders, who sharpen their skills with continuing education. As project management programs develop in more and more schools of business, engineering, computer science, and other fields, PMI works with universities to ensure high standards of professional education. It also registers education providers, including corporate training & development organizations and PMI components, that meet rigorous standards for instruction in project management.
