USHPA BOD items
Jayne writes:
Historical and current Association trends do not support doubling
the membership every 10 years or tripling the membership in 25 years. It's going
to require a tremendous amount of effort to reverse the current membership trend
because it's not a new trend.
Kinda reinforces what I write here:
http://ozreport.com/10.196#2
Stabilizing the long standing membership trend or reversing the
more recent decline in membership would be notable achievements but instead, the
aggressive nature of the Strategic Plan’s goals may actually have the effect of
making the Association’s performance relative to goal appear to be inadequate.
It would indeed appear inadequate just to hold tight.
Strategic Plan Action Items Will They Really Make A Difference?
I don't think so. These items do not adequately address the goal.
Doing them is not going to help us move the needle.
Even if the Plan’s ten and 25-year membership goals are
intentionally overstated and aggressive -- achieving these goals will require
transformative change...not just change... but a transformation in the way the
organization works etc. Organizations are rarely able to hit "on all cylinders"
while engaged in the process of transformative change.
And nobody is ready for that.
The real challenge for implementation of the Strategic Plan may
include managing transformational change at the same time Plan action items are
implemented. And even if both are managed at the same time, it is highly
unlikely that the Association’s active pilot membership will double in 10 years.
I say let's make the changes that are required to meet the goals.
This doesn't mean that the action items in the Strategic Plan
shouldn't be pursued – on the contrary -- there are numerous truly worthy action
items in the Plan that should be implemented. But it does mean that Plan action
items should be evaluated to determine whether they are likely to positively
contribute to the ten and 25-year goals. If implementation of an action is
unlikely to have an appreciable effect on the ten and 25-year goals that action
should either be dropped from the Plan or included as contingencies instead.
Cut out the chaff (most of the strategic plan) now.
Membership Expiration Trend - The highest membership expiration
rates occur at the Beginner and Novice rating level with the single highest rate
of attrition occurring after a pilot has received the Novice rating. Other
aviation-related associations including SSA and USPA report the same trends.
Lack of quality or effective training? Lack of flying
opportunities for novice rated pilots? Definitional problems?
In fact, mentorship is even more important at this point in the
process because most pilots are no longer actively engaged in a training program
after they achieve the Novice rating.
Maybe they should be.
Be sure to bring your copy of the Strategic Plan to the Fall Board
of Director's meeting. You will need it! Committee chairs will receive an email
including all Strategic Plan-related action items assigned to your committee.
Committee chairs are asked to evaluate action items that were due in 2005 and
2006 and those actions that will be due in 2007.
This isn't reflected in the committee meeting agendas.
Membership and Development may consider adopting a short term goal
that includes reversing the current decline in membership.
This is not on their agenda.
http://OzReport.com/10.203.1
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