How to Revitalize Your Membership
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How To Revitalize Your Membership
Christopher Ward
Austin Chapter President
@WebWorksChris #coffeninja
VisionProbably the most important step to revitalizing your membership• The vision for Technical
Communications • The vision for STC (http://
stc.org/about-stc/the-society/mission-vision
• The vision for the chapter
GoalsThis should be a collaborative effort and align with the vision• Measurable
• We want to make the world a better place.• We want to make the world a better place by
educating 3 businesses, a year, on the value of documentation.
• Visible• Post them on the website.• Speak about them at meetings.• Put them in an email.
• Report• Progress (Good or Bad) should be reported.• Changes in any goal need to be announced and
the reason why.
• Failure is an option, deal with it
Know your obstacles
It’s the ones you ignore that will get you.• I don’t like …….
• How do you tell if someone is just venting, or suggesting?
• You don’t have to fix it yesterday• Look for alternatives/compromises
Celebrate
• If you win • Not every celebration has to be a party or a
meeting.• Acknowledgement is the biggest prize of all.• Does not matter how big or small or even if it
was a mistake, a win is a win.
• If you lose• Celebrate the effort.• Celebrate what you learned.
• If nothing is happening• Hey, that is what you are here to fix – let’s party!• Something is always happening, so celebrate the
progress.