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Club Visioning  

What is the Rotary Club of Castle Rock capable of becoming within the next five years? This question was put to our members by Jim Boyd, guest speaker at the September 23rd meeting. Jim is a member of the Rotary Club of Parker and a member of the District 5450 Membership Development Committee. He spoke to our club about Club Visioning, a process that allows club members to dream about what their club could become and to formulate a plan to make that dream a reality.

A club session, which lasts about 4 hours, provides a vision for the future and the beginnings of a written plan that promotes consensus, consistency, and continuity. The plan that evolves from Club Visioning serves as a framework for any club that wants to grow and become more effective. Club Visioning is available through the District to clubs who request it, as our club will.

Club visioning got started in 2002 when PDG Steve Wilcox of Rotary District 5960 was asked to help a small Minnesota club that was lacking direction and was losing members. Twelve interested Rotarians gathered one snowy winter evening and "papered the meeting room with great ideas and energy", according to Wilcox. From that experience Club Visioning was born. By the start of 2009, approximately 400 Vision Facilitators have been trained in 60+ districts across the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and right here in District 5450.

Typically, Rotary Clubs focus more on annual goals than on strategic planning over, say, five years. This often results in clubs reinventing the wheel rather than moving forward. Club Visioning focuses on Continuity of leadership, vision and process, Consistency in programming, and Consensus, solidarity and unanimity in purpose and action.

We look forward to participating in Club Visioning and reaping the benefits that can come from the implementation of our club's vision for the future.