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Your Chapter Dashboard
What makes a healthy chapter? Association industry research on chapters identified 4 make-or-break elements for success. Chapters that score high in these four areas are healthy, successful and growing. The four areas are:
- Vibrant leadership with a clearly defined and operational succession plan
- Supportive operations to manage risk and support leadership decisions
- High member involvement
- Actively used Member services
It is important to note that while these four elements were consistent across chapters, the values varied. For example, under member services one chapter might find a focus on virtual events allows a geographically spread-out membership to engage while a reverse trade show is a must-have event for another. Successful chapters effectively differentiated between what they could do and what they should do.
Finding Your Chapter’s Setting
On these next couple of screens, you will work to determine your chapter’s current setting by responding to guiding questions. To help you, you will be asked to consider what’s working or not working in each of the four areas.
We will use the Chapter Academy sessions to help guide you in completing the Dashboard as well as determining actions you can take to improve or maintain settings.
What do you need to complete the Dashboard
This form is designed to allow you to save your work in progress so you can at any time exit to find info or confirm info. To begin you will be asked for your current membership count and retention rate.
This tool is designed to help your entire board. As such you can add collaborators to assist in the information gathering and print reports to easily share with your Board. Also note, your Chapter Ambassador and NIGP staff will be able to view your Dashboard – so you can reach out to them for any help in completing this form.
Let’s get started!