Learning Outcomes: Learn how to run a successful recruitment table and specific strategies for additional avenues to gain members for your student government. Understand the 5 “Rs” of membership retention to keep the members you have recruited and run effective, fun, and engaging meetings that make members stay involved.
Leadership Solutions: Student governments need to actively recruit for the organization just like any other group on campus. However, they too often overlook this important step in SGA success and remain invisible to many of the students on campus. They need to be shown how to recruit in ways that promote student government involvement!
Many student leaders do not know how to keep members involved. They run boring or unproductive meetings, oversell the organization, or miss the warning signs of issues that cause members to leave. Retention, done right, can be the best membership recruitment tool!
Your students will learn the techniques, tips, and tricks that Dave employed as a state advisor for a collegiate service organization to recruit more than 10,000 students into membership! These techniques are easy to do, duplicatable by your SGA, and effective in engaging students who may not normally check you out. This is a great kick-off for the school year and/or a second semester recruitment drive, or as part of a leadership training, retreat, or any workshop or program that is intended to show your student government how to have a successful year.
Recruiting members is one thing, keeping them is another. There is a natural ebb and flow to the school year, but it seems that, as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer active members. Show your students how to engage members with effective involvement techniques that Dave used as an executive officer in his student government, and other groups. Learn the key features of retention, including running fun and engaging meetings, that will keep them coming back.
“Dave Kelly is phenomenal! He spoke to Rider University’s Student Government Association and the clubs and organizations virtually and it felt like we were in the room with him. He is such a dynamic speaker and I would have him come back to campus, virtually or in person, in an instant. Dave shares great insight and is able to easily relate to students, faculty, and staff. ” Allison Koury, Coordinator of Student Involvement, Rider University (NJ)
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