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Now that you've worked on several fundamentals, what's next? Your club may have its mechanics down, but if the underlying attitudes in your club are bad, you'll find yourself back where you started. This lesson will provide help in fixing said attitudes.
5. More Notes on Culture Change
Here's some assorted notes on improving your club's culture:
- Improving culture (like marketing) isn't a "one and done" thing. Your club will have to keep working at it.
- If you have little or no vision of what your club could and should be, you'll be flailing more than anything.
- A new officer crew coming out strong at the beginning of a term can do a lot to improve the club's norms and values. Use that momentum whenever possible.
- At the same time, don't try to change too much all at once - as Craig Valentine says, "Change small and change often". Build and work your month-by-month plan.
- Improving mechanics will improve your culture, but only to a degree.
- Starting improvements and change is often the hardest period. Make sure everyone clearly understands the why behind the change and the hows for achieving it.
- When it comes to tasks: Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up.