How we increased attendance at our district training event

By Rotary International

Presentations with posters allowed participants to have individual discussions with trainers.

Presentations with posters allowed participants to have individual discussions with trainers.

By Deepak Agrawal, past governor and 2015-16 trainer for District 3060 (India)

I have been a Rotary member for more than two decades and have attended multiple district assemblies as a club officer or trainer. We recently adopted a new approach to our assemblies, and opened them up to members who are not preparing for a new role as a club officer. Where else can these members get one-on-one information about the exciting new things happening in Rotary?

Here are a few of the changes we implemented:

We moved the time to March, as April and May are very hot weather conditions in our region.
We changed from a classroom style of teaching to using a poster presentation style where presenters can talk one on one with those attending. We believe members want to exchange ideas more than be preached to. Because of this approach, we enlisted 61 different Rotary members to help us present, which introduced a lot of diversity to our program.
We sent individual emails to all 3,600 Rotary members in our district along with a printed brochure.
We created two locations for our district assembly so that Rotary members did not have …read more

Source:: Rotary International Blog

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