This is what we did at other Ham clubs I have been in:
· The program is first, usually 30-45 minutes, including Q&A at the end.
· There is then a short break.
· Then the business meeting is called to order.
· Then the business meeting is adjourned and everybody leaves.
This keeps the business meeting from using up all the available time, an ongoing problem at the RRVARC meetings.
Most folks don’t come for the business meeting, they come for the presentations. We need to change the order of our meetings.
An example of a presentation is the discussion of the Tour de Paris planning. Some folks that are participating will come to that meeting that don’t usually come to our meetings and may not even be a club member. If you beat the business meeting to death and run out of time for the presentation you have lost your audience.
Lately we have been spending way way way too much time talking the business part of the meeting to death.
If it can’t be explained in five minutes then it is not being explained efficiently enough.
If it can’t be explained in five minutes then it is not being explained efficiently enough.
If it can’t be explained in five minutes then it is not being explained efficiently enough.
And don’t tell me it is very important and will take a long time. We don’t need to hear every detail and don’t need to be told the same thing over and over at a meeting.
The proof of the problem is last year at the May meeting, which is supposed to be reserved for Field Day discussion however the bureaucracy of the meeting ran so long that there was no time allowed to discuss Field Day. That’s just pathetic for an Amateur Radio Club. And yes, I was extremely angered about that. Let’s not do that again this year.
If we want to attract new members and keep the ones we have we must make the meetings more entertaining.