Club Officer Induction

Wednesday 6/26/2013,

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked as a representative of the District to do an officer installation at the newest club in the division. I thought it was the changing of the officers, as it was that time of year for all the clubs, however I realized afterwards that this was actually the first official time they were assigned their roles, as everyone stayed in the positions they were holding.

I was very honored to be asked to be a part at this level, even before I completely, officially take on my new role. I was especially glad to take part with this club, as it was the first time I took part in a demo meeting, which started me down the road to my expanded role with the district.

My fiance came along to observe the meeting. She recognized a couple of the officers who had come along to that last TLI, getting skills before the club was completely finished being chartered.

It started as a pretty normal meeting. It was in a nice big room, just big enough that there was value using the wireless microphone. There was only one speech. It was an icebreaker. In fact, just about every speech in the club is an icebreaker. This makes sense with a brand new club with over 30 members, you would pretty much have everyone working through their icebreakers to get started.

Never having done an installation before, I was planning to google it to find out the process. Just before I did, another Division Governor helped me out by sending along some sample scripts she had used (thanks again!!). It turned out I didn't need the script, as the club thought ahead and had provided one to me!

I learned a little more about the process of induction and asking the officers to accept their roles, and members to accept their roles as well. Surprisingly, I had never seen it in my first club, in spite of being voted into officer roles twice. Thus it gives me something else I can take back to my first club to add to the experience.

Note to self: when involved with new clubs, find out about initial officer installations, and make sure that is something they have covered or if they still need it done.