Rotary Club - Membership retention and recruitment
How to be a vibrant club
On 19th July 2018 I attended a Rotary meeting on
the above topic.
The Past District Governor (PDG Datuk Zaini Abdul Aucasa)
made an excellent presentation. It was as if he was talking to the attendees
rather than making a speech as made by
some speakers. I was fully attentive as he was, like I said, speaking to us all
and not just making a speech.
He spoke about retention and did in fact say that ‘retention’
must be more important than recruitment as it is placed before the word recruitment
in the topic. However, I wish he had spoken more on retention than the good
points he talked about recruitment.
He appeared to be proud of the fact that the world membership
has been maintained at 1.2 million. I believe this is something to worry about
as this has been the figure for the past 19 years or so. With the population
increase if the membership is maintained then there is a good possibility that
clubs retention is not as good as it should be.
I hope Rotarians around the world will get a copy of my book
on why the largest Lions Club in Sabah was De-registered. Read about why Lions
International did not act the way it should have.
Every single member counts. Like mother Theresa had said ‘The
Ocean will be one drop smaller if not for her one drop of effort’. (That was
her response when someone said that what she did amounted to just a drop in the
ocean)
Rotarians should learn from the above episode in the Lions movement
and understand the saying ‘A stitch in time saves nine’.
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