2009 - 2010 Meeting

Comments from the Meeting with proposed replies

Conduct of Meeting:

-- Minimize hall meetings-- too much noise coming into the breakout

Reply: State Officers Concur

-- Staff, Officers, DDs, should attend breakouts to show support of new GKs and presenters.

Reply: DDs and state staff were in attendance during many of the breakouts. State officers attend as time and other duties of conducting the weekend meeting permit.

-- Use signs outside of each breakout room

Reply: The state officers agree that signage will help the flow between breakout rooms. Depending on the differences in hotel restrictions, we can work to make this happen.

Insurance:

--Agents should have a website where members can go and get a rate quote after answering a few basic questions. Supreme/State should create an Insurance Template website that the agents could customize for their own use.

Reply: Forwarded to the General Agent

--Agents should provide a few basic slides on products to explain new products/initiatives to be used when agent is not at a meeting. Program director can cover at business meetings and forward any questions to the local agent.

Reply: Forwarded to General Agent

Recruiting/Retention:

Dave Onofrio’s information (Blitz, Info meeting, pulpit speeches) should be available to all councils – Post information on Website.

Reply: The state officers agree and will coordinate Dave’s presentations with Vince and Bob and have the data linked to Membership and Retention web pages.

LAMB:

Conduct local training sessions and promote through local media.

Reply: Though regional meetings have been attempted before, attendance was down when we scheduled the meetings, Recommendation has been forwarded to the LAMB Director for consideration.

Training Recommendations:

Define the role of the Grand Knight

Explain how to recruit program directors and how their roles can improve council and parish

Define and outline chain of command and how to use it from the council-state-supreme .

Go through the Grand Knight Handbook – Cliff note version. GKs often do not know their role and reviewing the book prior to breakouts may help them.

How to set-up a budget and how to present it to the council

How to plan the calendar

How to run a productive business meeting

Reply: The state officers agree these are excellent points. There are many strategies that we could use to get you this information. This type of feedback is critical to our planning and strategy for what content needs to be provided in the future.