Club Visioning
Welcome to the Rotary District 6780 Visioing Facilitation web page!
WHAT IS CLUB VISIONING?
For additional information contact:
Deb Birdsall, DGN, Fairfield Glade, District 6780 Visioning Coordinator
Visioning Facilitation for District 6780
Email: d6780visioning@gmail.com
Phone: 931-787-8245
District Club Visioning Committee Members 2024-2025
Deb Birdsall, DGN, District 6780 Visioning Coordinator
Dick Hinton, Bearden Club
Janice Mitchell, Bearden Club
Ben Brady, Cookeville Breakfast
Cheryl Juniper, Cookeville Breakfast
Alejandra Cisneros-Conohan, Cookeville Breakfast
Susie Cantrell, PDG, Cookeville Sunset
Ron Cronwell, Crossville
Holly Hanson, Crossville
Teresa Musice, Lebanon
Laura Cavin, Maryville
Stanley See, Maryville
Beth Stubbs, PDG, Maryville
MIchael Barnes, McMinnville
John Hille, Monteagle-Sewanee
Elaine Bunick, Oak Ridge
Davyda Hammond, Oak Ridge Breakfast
See photos of clubs in action doing Club Visioning
CLUB VISIONING PROCESS
A Club Vision Facilitation is a four-hour evening session (often conducted from 5-9 pm on a weekday evening or 8 am - noon on a Saturday) that assists key leaders and interested members of a Rotary club to achieve continuity, consistency and consensus.
It provides the basis for your Master (Strategic) and Action Plans.
The facilitation session is intended for all interested Rotarians in your club-from your newest members to your most tenured. The breadth and depth of the facilitation exercise is optimized when club leaders (past, present and future) and member opinion leaders participate.
Our District 6780 Vision Facilitation Team typically commits approximately 25 hours of volunteer time to each event and therefore expects:
1. Attendance at the event by present board members, the current president, president-elect, president-elect nominee, immediate past-president, and two other past-presidents. Their collective involvement is essential.
2. Participants to commit to the entire 4-hour session.
3. The number of Rotarians committed to a session will be no less than 10 (for smaller clubs) but no more than 30 (for larger clubs) to maintain the time schedule and allow fair and full input from all present.
NOTE: Given that the Facilitation Team is volunteering their time and traveling to visit your club, the Team has the latitude to reschedule should the above criteria not be met.
Each club requesting a Vision Facilitation will designate a "Coordinator" who will work with me to provide all the information and direction individual Rotarians will need in preparation for the session.
During the Vision Facilitation session, the team of Rotary Facilitators will lead a process consisting of an overview presentation, data collection, consensus voting and master and action plan development.
There are at least three measures of success for clubs that complete a Vision Facilitation:
1. An immediate measure of progress will be the members' pledge and willingness to move the planning processes from a nice-to-do concept to meaningful growth programs for the club, its members, and its community.
2. The second is that the output from this session is woven into the annual plans of the incoming and succeeding Presidents. It will be reflected in the continuity and consistency of programming and leadership in your Club.
3. Finally, the long-term mark of accomplishment will be at the end of five years when your club advances from where it is to where it wants to be.
Please contact Deb Birdsall for more information.
