The "Bums on Seat" metric

How to be pro-active

How do you know your club is healthy?

How do you know when the club starts to struggle?

One quick and easy way of seeing if you're a club that people want to come to, is to count the people who come!

If you're getting 20 people at a meeting (whether they are guests, visitors or members) you're a club that has no worries at all.

If your attendance suddenly drops, wouldn't you want to know so that you can fix it?

The classic management adage is "You can't manage what you don't measure". This rings true of membership participation.

The "bums on seat" metric is a simple, easy way to measure the health of your club. It simply suggests that you count the number of bodies that are present at every meeting. Irrespective of whether they are members, guests or visitors. If you have 20 bodies (bums) at your meeting, you've had a successful meeting.

Members want to learn how to be better at public speaking. If no speeches are presented at a meeting, there is no opportunity for the members to fulfill that goal. For that reason, the second metric you need to track is the number of evaluated speeches. Any speech from the Competent Communicator and Advanced Communicator manuals that was evaluated, gets counted.