Some weeks fly by, others not so much. This week I visited YMCA's in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky. I participated in a camp board meeting at Camp Harrison and started a new hospital partnership project for the Louisville YMCA. All my work meetings were great, but the Louisville meeting was the best. Not only a great group of volunteers, but they also had homemade strawberry cake, coffee and cookies for the occasion. Reminded me of my first "real" job at Nashville Memorial Hospital when our cooks would bake special treats for our special meetings.
In Charlotte I was a part of a planning meeting to work on how to take our membership development efforts to the next level. Exciting stuff -- and part of the meeting took place while floating in a colleagues pool.
This week has me thinking a lot about what we can really do to make strides in the member engagement arena. I mean, how do we really move forward? We are all talking, reading, working to better engage our members, but are we making any progress? I visited a Y where I watched one front desk person try deal with 20 current or potential members while five management staff were holed up in a back room meeting. Huh? Leadership moment.
But even better than the strawberry cake was having my 15-year-old-permit-holding son Andrew chauffeur me around. I could get used to that! We managed to spend a few hours at Carowinds and braved The Intimidator ride. Scary, fun stuff. I screamed, closed my eyes, grabbed onto a friend for support. No different than most days at work, except I was buckled in.
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