Multi-District PETS Alliance

Promoting Attendance

What do you think?

From the 2013 RI Manual of Procedure, page 4:“The president must also, while serving as president-elect, attend the presidents-elect training seminar and the district training assembly.”

• Can’t be Club President unless you attend PETS – Draconian? Or….. Good business?

Who ya going to call? What ya going to do?

What can the District do to promote attendance?

• “Well…… it’s mandatory isn’t it?”• Encourage Club succession planning ……. • President, President Elect, President Nominee • Pass the responsibility along

• Come as a team ……. PE and PN• Build a culture of enthusiasm….

• Start with a terrific pre-PETS and build up excitement• Consider some other attendance options…………

Basics of Promoting Attendance

Create customer value• Start with tangible values:

• length of PETS, venue, price, food, materials

• Add those intangible values: • fellowship, knowledge & ideas, relationships, exposure

to a broader perspective of Rotary and Rotary leadership

• Focus on the takeaways: • first impression, interactivity with other participants, motivational and relevant

• End with testimonials………….

Chesapeake PETS Survey Monkey 2014• Response rate …… 214 surveys sent; 122 respondents = 57%• “I was reluctant at first to give up the time from work and family and left with a

different perspective. PETS was very much worth the commitment of two days.”• “PETS turned out to be a positive experience, educationally, motivationally and

socially.”• “I was delighted by the fellowship and the sense of common purpose that I

discovered at all levels of the PETS.”• “I had far more fun than I could have expected – it was a wonderful occasion to

connect with leaders from other clubs.”• “PETS was well organized and professionally delivered. I was expecting to waste

my time and was wonderfully surprised. My expectations were greatly wrong! I will be enthusiastically supporting attendance by future PE’s.”