Membership Corner July 16
Posted by Tom Sturiale
on Jul 15, 2013
What is the best Advertisement?
Satisfied clients, clients that believe in your services, inspired clients, clients willing to praise your products loudly and often! The past three days at RYLA has resulted in 170 new Rotary inspired clients.What is the best advertisement one can possibly hope for? Satisfied clients, clients that believe in your services, inspired clients, clients willing to praise your products loudly and often! The past three days at RYLA has resulted in 170 new Rotary inspired clients. The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards weekend is one of the most inspiring and wonderful Rotary experiences to which a young person can be exposed. They meet as total strangers on a Friday morning and by Sunday afternoon they part as close friends. They are steeped in many leadership skills including communication, public speaking, creative thinking, teamwork - both physical and mental and many other skills. They have learned how to be more sensitive to others needs and their own strengths and developmental needs. They learn about Rotary and Rotary projects. The dedicated few Rotarians who organize and execute the RYLA weekend each year are owed a great debt of gratitude. They do an incredibly remarkable job! You really must plan to attend part of a RYLA session. You will be impressed!
Why the plug for RYLA? During the past dozen years or so, District 7910 has matriculated about 2000 RYLA'ns. At least half graduated from college and/or are working in their career fields - maybe in our district. What if each club received written statements about their RYLA weekend from all their RYLA'ns each year? What if we invited them to visit our clubs and tell us about their experiences and their plans for the future? What if we invited their parents to the same meetings? What if we created a P/R package to better enable us to communicate the RYLA program to the schools and communities? What if we maintained a data base of all the RYLA'ns of past years and tied them in to our Facebook pages? The leverage we may gain from so many young people, their parents, extended family, teachers and friends is staggering. We spend about $30000 every year to train so many wonderful young people. We should plan on maintaining contact.
Why the plug for RYLA? During the past dozen years or so, District 7910 has matriculated about 2000 RYLA'ns. At least half graduated from college and/or are working in their career fields - maybe in our district. What if each club received written statements about their RYLA weekend from all their RYLA'ns each year? What if we invited them to visit our clubs and tell us about their experiences and their plans for the future? What if we invited their parents to the same meetings? What if we created a P/R package to better enable us to communicate the RYLA program to the schools and communities? What if we maintained a data base of all the RYLA'ns of past years and tied them in to our Facebook pages? The leverage we may gain from so many young people, their parents, extended family, teachers and friends is staggering. We spend about $30000 every year to train so many wonderful young people. We should plan on maintaining contact.