NYSAR
Strategic Planning as a Volunteer
Leader
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
@hduckworth
#leadership #NYSAR
Leadership Solutions International
“Sometimes you have to believe in
other people’s belief in you until
your belief kicks in.”
Les Brown
This is your session: What do you
need to be successful?
@hduckworth #NYSAR
Our Presenter today:
 2006 – 2007 MPI Chapter President
 2007-2010 MPI Chapter Business
Manager
 2010 Leadership Solutions
International
 National Speakers Association
 American Society of Association
Executives
 Certified Association Executive
Intentions for the Session
 Determine 3-4 business drivers that you intend to
undertake in 2013
 Set goals, objectives and results you can measure
 Build a dashboard for accountability and monthly
record keeping to attain your success
 Learn to speak the language of business
Technology Zone:
Twitter @hduckworth
www.Facebook/leadershipsolutionsinternational
www.leadershipsolutionsintl.com
Use this as a place to learn and grow.
@hduckworth #NSAPGH
What you visualize, you will actualize
What do you
see today?
@hduckworth
Questions to begin our Strategic Planning:
 What is the highest vision for this business?
 What does this business in its highest form look like,
feel like and sound like?
 What must I become so this business vision becomes a
reality?
 What must I let go of?
 What must I embrace to create this business?
 What else should I know about this business?
@hduckworth #NYSAR
What is a Strategic Plan
@hduckworth #NYSAR
Your 6 Word Vision Statement
24
@hduckworth #NSAPGH
What should go on my strat plan
 Education programs
 Webinars
 Member Networking
Events
 Communications
 Social Media
 Sales Calls
Technology
@hduckworth #NSAPGH
Simplify Work
@hduckworth #NSAPGH
Thank You!
CTRL+ALT+Delete:
How to Reboot
your Association for Success
Releasing control in your association, Looking at alternate strategies &
Deleting all that no longer serves your vision to become more efficient and
effective
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
Available Early
2013
#nysar @hduckworth
Care
Cut in
small
pieces
Create
Solutions
Celebrate
4 “C’s” to Lead Different
#nysar @hduckworth
Who are you as a Leader?
Tap your gavel?
Wave the
magic wand
#nysar @hduckworth
What do you care about? Where do you want
to create change?
 Then share with others
 Happy staff are success
staff
 Happy volunteers are
more effective
 Celebrate special life
events
 Make them know you
care
Care
 Start with you
 Eat right
 Exercise
 Take time for you
 Know your Vision
 Know your Passion
#nysar @hduckworth
Cut Vision into Small Pieces
• Credibility
• Build the right team around you
• Assign tasks to those who
share the passion
• The road to success goes one
step at a time
What can you do today to make that first step?
Then another and another
#nysar @hduckworth
Create Solutions
• Next Practices NOT Best
practices
• Work with a mastermind of
other leaders
• Action
What would you do if you were
not afraid to fail?
#nysar @hduckworth
Celebrate
You & Your Team
• Gratitude and joy is the most
important thing leaders can
share
• Look at how you touched the
lives of others
• How your association has been
impacted
What does your team value? How can you
customize the celebration?
#nysar @hduckworth
Care
Cut in
small
pieces
Create
Solutions
Celebrate
4 “C’s” to YOU: Lead Different
@hduckworth #CalSAE

130210 NYSAR strategic planning

Editor's Notes

  • #3 I have a dream Boardrooms that operate with ease and grace Organizations that soar to new goals with ease and grace
  • #5 And then I walk into organizations and I see
  • #9 We’ve always done it that way And yet nobody has even read the policies to know what they were and we still operate by them.
  • #14 This is not a passive webinar – we want you to come play with us talk with us and build a relationship with us. So I want to know….
  • #15 This is not a passive webinar – we want you to come play with us talk with us and build a relationship with us. So I want to know….
  • #16 Work on your business Work in your business
  • #22 Tim gave this breakdown of the numbers: 2,877 people completed the survey. Of those, 995 had completed a plan. 297 of them (36%) secured a loan 280 of them (36%) secured investment capital 499 of them (64%) had grown their business 1,556 of the 2,877 had not yet completed their plan. 222 of them (18%) secured a loan 219 of them (18%) secured investment capital 501 of them (43%) had grown their business
  • #24 What the organization wants to be
  • #26 Purpose of the organization
  • #36 Story of CTRL+ALT_ Delete Creating Success
  • #37 I started to use the term CTRL+ALT+Delete: with a client who was working with a new team. She was totally distraught to give up her “older” higher performing team. Today is about doing one thing to reboot your association for success Apple person – command Q
  • #40 Being a green meeting industry professional today goes far beyond what plates to use, how to handle the trash, and determining how to select venues that have action steps into being green. You yourself must become a sustainable leader – You must Care more than yo thought possible to discuss issue and ideas the are foreign to many. From global legislation to You must be willing to cut things down into smaller pieces You must be willing to create solutions to problems we don’t even know are problems And last but most important is to take time to celebratrate who you are – who your organization is and what they want to do in the GMIC realm If you want to be a sustanable leader you have to do what sustainable leaders do: Find your heart space for what is important to you in the Green realm Is it people projects Planet – saving green Legislation – Profits – how to do you make money in green either as a planner or supplier
  • #42 Have a vision for where we are going See the problems – and know we together as a global community will over come them Find your heart center for what is most important to you Event standards – APEX, GRI, BS8901 Implement sustainability policies
  • #43 The problems our world today are truly overwhelming. You have to be willing to take it one step at a time. Build a team around you in GMIC chapter, group or team.
  • #44 To be a sustainable leader today you must have more resolve on solutions Be willing to try a few different things Don’t hide behind the I don’t know Pretend that you do Then do that If it doesn’t work try again.
  • #45  Leadership is the art of getting things done thru people Congratulations to GMIC Florida Caribeen. Vegas, and Chicago for becoming leaders in the green movement Gratitude for all they have done and all you have done
  • #46 Being a green meeting industry professional today goes far beyond what plates to use, how to handle the trash, and determining how to select venues that have action steps into being green. You yourself must become a sustainable leader – You must Care more than yo thought possible to discuss issue and ideas the are foreign to many. From global legislation to You must be willing to cut things down into smaller pieces You must be willing to create solutions to problems we don’t even know are problems And last but most important is to take time to celebratrate who you are – who your organization is and what they want to do in the GMIC realm If you want to be a sustanable leader you have to do what sustainable leaders do: Find your heart space for what is important to you in the Green realm Is it people projects Planet – saving green Legislation – Profits – how to do you make money in green either as a planner or supplier