Staff strategy 2017

1. Sarah To do

1.1. make board meeting to do list, assign brett to 401k

2. WWA opportunities

2.1. Growing membership

2.1.1. member benefits- outline and advertise

2.1.2. offer discount memberships to students and events and "suggested donation"

2.1.3. member welcome packet, sell WWA swag

2.1.4. prodeals?

2.1.5. annual member conference/open meeting with board meeting

2.2. outings are bread and butter, make more, longer and overnight. this is where we differentiate from WOC

2.3. Facebook, twitter, social media campaign strategy, website history.

2.4. wilderness stewardship going forward (how do we capitalize on existing wilderness to grow our member base? celebrate cloud peak and winds and yellowstone wilderness, support the agencies managing wilderness so they want more

2.5. eclipse?

3. staff concerns

3.1. hours/overtime/comp time assessment

3.2. employee benefits to include flexible schedule, paid to attend another campaign's outing

3.3. remote communications

3.4. daily log to help ed stay looped in and aware of overtime, vs. "fake hours" for auditing

3.5. board-staff-director relations

4. Staff Concerns

5. Board Meetings

5.1. more than one day

5.1.1. more time for brainstorming

5.2. invitation to the public one day, happy hour

5.3. leave board meeting with tangible action items, next steps and deadlines. Delegate action items to board members. Staff incorporate board input to strategic campaign

5.4. position statements on topics, wpli

5.5. WWA ED gives state of the organization, only campaigns give campaign updates

6. ED Expectations

6.1. Not micromanage, stay connected

6.2. stay connected. Read, acknowledge and comment on bi-weekly strategy reports

6.3. work with each organizer/campaign to review annual campaign strategy, quarterly updates

6.4. must act as a clear director between opposing board views and staff direction

7. Board/ED to do

7.1. review employee packet

7.2. 501c4? 401k? assign someone to this

7.3. position statements on topics, wpli,

7.4. review health insurance- need at least 5 people per plan

7.5. come up with a budget for potential new office space, let sheridan staff direct

7.6. wpli position

7.7. new board members. bob barry? need sheridan board members. need fundraising board members and we need blm board members, female board members. older is ok!

8. Staff Demands

8.1. Staff evaluates ED anonymously at 6 months, ED and board review together.

8.2. ED conducts annual performance Review of staff