Preparing for your Year
As president, you lead and motivate your club, ensuring that club members feel valuable, inspired, and connected to each other.
What you do
What you do
- Preside over club and board meetings
- Appoint committee chairs and members
- Conduct club assemblies
- Create a budget and manage club finances, including an annual audit
- Develop a safe environment for youth participants
- Work with your district governor and assistant governor
Here is a list of topics that you, as Presidents Elect, should be considering as your year as leader of your Club, approaches:
- Club Board
- Board Structure 2023-24 Club Executive positions for 2023-24 need to updated using clubrunner. This can be achieved at the District level for all clubs - link here. Alternatively, for those clubs using clubrunner access is via the Organization/Executives and Directors menu option in your own club's admin area of clubrunner.
- AGM's
- Attend Board meetings
- In conjunction with your new Board, set goals for your Club and enter them in Rotary Club Central.
- E Learning
- Learn by Role>Club Roles>President
- Or take link to Learning Centre – Club Leadership
- Two specific courses which PE’s are expected to complete, Club President Basics and Intermediate
- Youth Protection
- Youth Protection officer
- WWC for members
- Clear protocols in place
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Familiarity with RI policy
- Education of members
- Issues within Club?
- Code of Conduct
- Ensure Club has one
- Education of members
- Club Websites / Bulletins
- Ensure websites are being maintained
- Times and venues for meetings
- Contact information
- Link to Bulletins
- Up to date branding – logo and theme
- Look at structure and purpose of Club Bulletin
- Public document
- Helpful to members
- Coming events incl District events
- Ensure websites are being maintained
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- Focus on retention
- Do members feel included?
- Give them a job
- Mentor program
- Hands on projects
- “Exit” interview – AG or member from another Club
- New member opportunities
- Focus on retention
- Role of President as motivator
- Interesting and varied Club Meetings
- Speak at every meeting/include in Bulletin
- Promote Club events and encourage participation
- Acknowledge work of members
- Talk about what RI is doing on world stage
- Encourage attendance at District events
- Social events
- Other Club events
- District training events
- Conference
- Encourage further training/education especially E Learning
- Monitor attendance and follow up with absent members
- Support you Club leadership team
- Encourage Club and personal support of the Rotary Foundation