This document discusses ways to improve Rotary club meetings and membership through increased flexibility and innovation. It notes that the top reasons people join and stay in Rotary are for community impact, friendship, and professional networking. However, personality conflicts, feeling unwanted, and inflexible meetings are top reasons people leave clubs. The document advocates diversifying membership types like associate, corporate, and family memberships. It also suggests meeting format changes like varying locations, activities, and leadership. Communicating value to members and bringing flexibility to meeting purposes, frequencies, and attendance policies can help engage members and resist decline.

1. Flexibility & Change - Successful
Rotary meeting formats
Haresh L. Ramchandani
District Governor
Rotary District 7020

2. Professional networking/
THE PRIMARY REASONS PEOPLE JOIN ROTARY…
Why did you initially join Rotary?
To positively impact my community
Friendship and fellowship
30%
business developmentopportunities
To have a positive impact globally 20%
Potential for personal/
professional recognition
Developmentand 10%
training opportunities
0%

3. …ARE THE SAME REASONS THEY STAY ROTARIANS
Why do you stay with Rotary?
To positively impact my community
Friendship and fellowship
30%
Professionalnetworking/
business developmentopportunities
To have a positive impact globally 20%
Potential for personal/
professional recognition
Development and 10%
training opportunities
0%

5. AT THE WEEKLY MEETING
Great Fellowship
Great Speakers
Networking
Personal Development
Professional Development
Giving Back, making a difference

6. Do you ENJOY your Club Experience?

7. • Boring
• Personality Profiles
• Different Generations
• Difference of opinions
• Joined for THEIR their reasons, not
yours
• Feel Neglected / Unwanted

8. What are the top five reasons people leave their Rotary
club?
Personality Conflict
Conflict with Club leadership
Feeling unwanted; neglected; disengaged
Personal/vocational priorities
Club resists change/innovation
“Trying to resist change is like holding your breath.
Even if you are successful, it doesn’t end well.”
-Michael McQueen

9. How do we solve it?

10. Communicate with your members!

11. Rotary.org/Membership
• Membership Assessment Tools (for
club and community)
• Explore Flexibility
• Rotary Club Health Check

12. Bring VALUE to the Meetings
Bring VALUE to your MEMBERS!

13. DIVERSITY

14. FLEXIBILITY

15. Innovation & Change

16. Flexibility
Meeting Purpose
Meeting Frequency
Flexible Attendance
Types of Membership
Types of Clubs
Meeting Format

17. Use what works,
lose the rest. It’s ok
to drop a tradition if
it’s not working
anymore

18. Meeting Purpose

19. Change the meeting purpose
• Fellowship or hangout
• Service Project meeting
• Break bread at home
• HYBRID format?

20. Invigorate and engage your club through service

21. Meeting Frequency

22. Change the meeting frequency
• 2 times a month
• 6 times a month
Do what works for your members!

23. Flexible Attendance

24. How Flexible are we?
Relax attendance requirements. Your club
can ease attendance requirements and
encourage members to participate in other
ways, such as taking a leadership role,
updating the club website regularly, running
a meeting a few times a year, or planning an
event. If your club is dynamic and offers a
good experience for members, attendance
won't be a problem.

25. Types of Membership

26. What types are clubs offering
• ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
• CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP
• SHARED MEMBERSHIP
• FAMILY MEMBERSHIP
• DUAL MEMBERSHIP
(Rotaractors)

27. SHARED MEMBERSHIP

28. CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP

29. Types of Clubs

30. Satellite Clubs

31. E-Clubs

32. Purpose clubs
ROTARY E-CLUB OF
MOTORCYCLING ROTARIANS

33. Purpose clubs
WINE CLUB THAT DOES ROTARY
BUSINESS

34. Meeting Formats

35. Different Locations
VENUE

36. Let’s look at your weekly
meeting…

37. Student of
the Month

38. What you didn’t know
about me…

39. Mystery Meeting

40. Themed Meetings

42. When was the 4 way test created
1905 1932
1987 1917
ROTARY’s

43. Rotary
JEOPARDY

44. Foundation’s
Largest
Program
Funds &
Programs
Short For…
Close
To Home
Challenge
100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500

45. Rotary
In
Jamaica
Paul
Harris
Fellow
Rotary
Community
Corps
Club
Twinning
Group Study
Exchange
Programme
200 200 200 200 200
400 400 400 400 400
600 600 600 600 600
800 800 800 800 800
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

46. Foundation’s Largest Program
100
This program provides funding for
mass immunization campaigns
A: What is Polio Plus?

47. The Rotary
Wheel of Fortune

48. Wheel of Fortune
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
C A N ‘ T B U Y
M E L O V E

54. Switch things up and “do it different
today”:
Ask alumni to design the meeting-
- or family members to lead the
club program
- or make one of your newest
members’ president for the day

56. Bring VALUE to the Meetings
Bring VALUE to your MEMBERS!

57. Questions?
For more information you can contact:
Haresh L. Ramchandani
hramchandani@hotmail.com
1-876-382-5757

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