PASSION STATEMENT:
With the interest of the membership in mind, we ensure the monthly programs have a strong educational basis as well as engaging, non-soliciting speakers.  By polling the members on topic, speakers, and location, we attempt to identify their wants and needs in an effort to maximize membership attendance. 

Fostering Trust:
We will foster trust by:

• Clear and open communications
• A detailed understanding of roles and expectations
• A commitment to follow-through on expectations
• Development of meaningful relationships between members
• Having fun!

Creating the Shared Vision:
We will help fulfill the FPA of Minnesota’s mission by creating programs which:

• Foster competent, committed and ethical members;
• Provide education and networking opportunities
• Assist members in achieving professional and personal fulfillment.

Developing Strategies:

• 10 monthly meetings - Critical Success Factors include a $17K budget. Many good speakers available at low/no cost from partners. All committee members are responsible for this strategy.
• Identify back up for Programs Director for meetings and as Vice Chair - Critical Success Factor includes finding a willing member. Programs Director is responsible for this strategy.
• Pricing of Meetings - Pricing should be reviewed each year to determine if we are breaking even; discussed at board agenda Dec 2010 or Jan 2011.
• Continue Updating Documentation on Hidden Website - Critical Success Factors - Challenge is time requirement.
• Speaker materials to FPA Office on time - Critical Success Factors - Costs: member time, speaker time, coordinator time. All committee members are responsible for this strategy.

Energize your Alliances:

• Partnership Committee - What do we want - Support and leverage partner relations. What do they want - Fair, clear treatment in terms of speaker offers.
• Symposium Committee - What do we want - Coordination. What do they want - Coordination.
• PR Committee - What do we want - Topics/spakers advertised on Twitter, etc. Members be resource for media. What do they want - Content. Coordination. Good resources for media.

Activating Transformations:

• Each committee member is responsible for ONE to TWO monthly meetings in terms of speaker search and support.

Achieving and Measuring Results:

• 10 Monthly Program meetings - Retain or increase average speaker ratings and attendance from 2010. As of November 2010, average ratings 3.43. Average attendance for the year ended at 208.
• Price of Meetings - Should break even based on average attendance of 6 meetings a year
• Continue updates to documents on hidden website.  Delete unnecessary documentation. Do yearly. Compensated and uncompensated speaker engagement letters, and webcasting release, done for 2011.  Work with Mark Rekow – what should stay/go and/or be updated.
• Identify Back up for Programs Director for Meetings and as Vice Chair. Subjective evaluation of interested person who is right fit. Be on the look on.
• Get speaker materials to Bonnie on time. Report tracking and stress back to group.  Kudos to those who are time.  Strongly suggest starting early and keeping after it early - easier for speaker handler and everyone.

View the Team Leadership Manual for detailed strategies, tactics, and measuring guidelines.