[Businessmtg] Ideas to improve willingness

[Anne O.]

Hi Kim,
Thanks for sharing your constructive thoughts on this topic.

-I really like the idea of the meeting chairs participating in announcements.  Certainly, we have a captive audience when they chair. Many if not most of the F2F meetings I have attended, have announcements shared ahead of the meeting.  Given the nature of email, it might make sense to have the Meeting Chair for the day send the recruitment message just ahead of the meeting.
-We could also ask that chair to tie Service into the meeting they lead at the time we are recruiting
-Shorten the commitment time has also been floated.  Meeting chairs serve 6 months and Greeters 12 months.  The Steering Committee positions are 3 yrs. which can be daunting.  I wonder if for the Steering Committee, we might change to 1 yr. with the option to stay on for 3 yrs.
-the resume has targeted questions about your Al-Anon and ASP experience and you really don't need to know the job before you volunteer.  The resume is part of volunteering for the Steering committee, not the greeter or meeting chair positions.

Hugs.... and thanks again for stepping forward with some really good suggestions!

Anne


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From: Businessmtg [mailto:businessmtg-bounces+aohara77=comcast.net at asp-afg.org] On Behalf Of Kim C
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 3:37 PM
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Cc: ASP Business
Subject: [Businessmtg] Ideas to improve willingness

Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your courage and willingness to participate in your recovery through service.  Service saves my life.  It is clearly about me in relationships......and that takes my willingness and courage to face.
After all my alcoholic is not here and I’m not ever going to be perfect.
Hahaha

My thinking.....
   *Everyone looks forward to the chair’s mail showing up in their daily email.  Perhaps the daily chair can announce the upcoming business meeting.
 We all get to know them.  The members I was attracted to were all in service.  Our other serving members here at ASP may not necessarily be known.
   * Or perhaps the chair can announce the need, requirement and who to contact for questions or interest.
   *Perhaps each of us who do regularly participate can use our shares to tell our service recovery story the week following the announcement.
   *. Shorten the commitment time.
   * Do away with the resume for group service.  It sounds like a job I need to know how to do before I apply.

Just a few thoughts.

Kim










Beyond that it
is my hope that the BM can contribute ideas which may improve our members' willingness to fill these service positions.

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