Getting Started

By completing this course, you're going to get tools to not just improve one or two areas of your club, but at higher levels of application, you'll be able to grow a club culture that continuously seeks out gaps and closes them. Even if you struggle to reach that status, many steps in this program are concrete and simple to implement, so you'll still get improvements on your road to recovery. 

This course is not going to cover marketing; think of this as mending what you have before you make a major marketing push. This will ensure that once you begin getting more guests as a result of your marketing efforts, you can have a dramatically improved chance of getting them to join and remain members, as well as have your existing members continue to renew. Think of this course as being internal foundation work before you begin addressing the outside world, though as a result of this course, you may pick up a member or two. 

Some of the material here will overlap with other RDG courses; you're encouraged to go through those in order to make this course even more effective. 

When you remove pain points in your club, you remove barriers to growing and maintaining your membership. When those barriers are removed, you begin to have more people in the club. With more people in the club, you can have more diverse, interesting, and less stressful meetings. No more doubling or tripling up on roles. No having the same officers year after year. Less burnout, stress, and resentment. More fun, more progress, more learning. Sure, it takes effort, planning, and time. This is something you and your club will have to decide to commit to, and continually work at.

If it's worth it to you, keep reading.