VIND OFFICER TRAINING April 17, 2011 Beban Park, Nanaimo.

VIND OFFICER TRAININGVIND OFFICER TRAINING

April 17, 2011

Beban Park, Nanaimo

PROFILE OF AN OFFICERPROFILE OF AN OFFICER

• Willing volunteer



• Get involved



• Get involved

• Accept responsibility



• Get involved


• Be a problem solver



• Get involved



• Give leadership


• Willing volunteer• Get involved• Accept responsibility• Be a problem solver• Give leadership• Plan ahead


• Willing volunteer• Get involved• Accept responsibility• Be a problem solver• Give leadership• Plan ahead• Delegate


• Willing volunteer• Get involved• Accept responsibility• Be a problem solver• Give leadership• Plan ahead• Delegate• Be cost conscious


• Willing volunteer• Get involved• Accept responsibility• Be a problem solver• Give leadership• Plan ahead• Delegate• Be cost conscious• Be consistent


• Willing volunteer• Get involved• Accept responsibility• Be a problem solver• Give leadership• Plan ahead• Delegate• Be cost conscious• Be consistent• Lead with restraint



• Get involved



• Give leadership

• Plan ahead

• Delegate

• Be cost conscious

• Be consistent

• Lead with restraint

• Learn to be a leader

SOME DON’TSSOME DON’TS

• Don’t dominate meetings



• Don’t come ill-prepared




• Don’t relinquish control of meetings





• Don’t be threatened by questions






• Don’t be a comic






• Don’t be a comic

• Don’t denigrate anyone


• Don’t dominate meetings• Don’t come ill-prepared• Don’t relinquish control of meetings• Don’t be threatened by questions• Don’t be a comic• Don’t denigrate anyone• Don’t permit interruptions


• How to lose Volunteers..

Do this..

SOME IDEASSOME IDEAS

• Understand your job - the “book”

Containing:

Operational Manual

By-laws

Governing Board Regulations

Model District Regulations

Model Squadron Regulations

CPS Handbook

Was this: Now this:

More on this later


• Understand your job - the “book”• Ensure your successor does too



• Be part of the team




• Be tolerant, cut some slack





• Radiate enthusiasm






• Never leave your sense of humour under the pillow in the morning






• Never leave your sense of humour under the pillow in the morning

• Have fun and laugh a lot

ANOTHER IDEAANOTHER IDEA

We have two ears and one mouth

- use them accordingly

Listen to understand

The art of communication includes listening

WE vs. THEY - who are they?WE vs. THEY - who are they?

• Who ARE those folk back east?

GOVERNING BOARDGOVERNING BOARD

• Chief Commander

• National Executive Officer

• National Training Officer

• National Administration Officer

• National Secretary

• National Treasurer

• Law Officer

• Chairs of Committees on Rules and Nominations

The Operating Committee

• Immediate Past Chief Commander

• All District Commanders (17)

• Up to 10 General Directors from various areas of Canada

GOVERNING BOARDGOVERNING BOARD

• Chief Commander

• National Executive Officer

• National Training Officer

• National Administration Officer

• National Secretary

• National Treasurer

• Law Officer

• Chairs of Committees on Rules and Nominations

The Operating Committee

• Immediate Past Chief Commander

• All District Commanders (17)

• Up to 10 General Directors from various areas of Canada

All are volunteers

Meet three times a year (+AGM)

Many CommitteesMany Committees

• Communications

• Distance Education Centre

• Environment Committee

• ICT

• Historical/historique

• MAREP (Hydrographic)

• Marketing and PR

• Multimedia

National vs HQNational vs HQ

• “The National” - the elected or appointed volunteers• “HQ” - paid staff and where the work gets done

• Alain Briere - Executive Director• John Gullick - Deputy Executive Director• Carole Brown - Membership Maintenance, Boating Graduates & New Members• Saloni Ramiah - Membership & Bridges• Beverly Walters - PCOC and ROCM• Lynda Green - Orders, Exams, Advanced Grades,Merit Marks and Ships Stores• Liudmila Nikolaeva - French Communications• Marie-Paule Missidi - Proof reading and translation• Michael (Mike) Bencic Jr. - Publications & Graphic Designer• Vanessa Schmidt - Publications & Graphic Designer• Alice Hinton - Bookkeeping, Squadron Accounts• Bill Spicer - Material Distribution

All information available on web sitewww.cps-ecp.ca

All information available on web sitewww.cps-ecp.ca

DistrictDistrict

• Structured similarly to Squadrons and National

• The liaison between Squadrons and National

• Resource for Squadrons

• Coordinate activities

• Elected Bridge

• Council is Bridge + Commanders

Resource: www.cps-ecp.ca/ Resource: www.cps-ecp.ca/

www.cps-ecp.ca/www.cps-ecp.ca/

• New folk don’t always understand terms

• CPS-ECP

• VIND

• VISD

• PMD

• GB

• Others?

Annoying AcronymsAnnoying Acronyms

Spell it out for them

Thank youThank you

VIND OFFICER TRAINING April 17, 2011 Beban Park, Nanaimo.

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