Board of Advisors and External Advisors

We made a distinction this year between Board of Advisor and External Advisor.

A Board of Advisor can take a term of 2 or 3 years once they have completed a term as external advisor.  This lets you know they are legit!  The commitments from BoA are expected attendance to quarterly meetings and participation in a mentorship program.

An External Advisor can be signed for any time length (under one year) to the end of the current Local Committee President's year.  They have optional attendance to the quarterly meetings, but serve as a strong touch point within the university, community or Alumni group.

Here are some documents to help with signing both: http://db.tt/WEDrdb0s

Adjust as necessary to your local reality!

Plan and Track

To update on the previous "living documents" post, here are two templates to support successful year planning and performance tracking.  http://db.tt/i43ixCrC

I prefer keeping a single soft copy of the year plan as an excel document, shared on dropbox with the rest of the team.  The formatting was just difficult to transfer to google documents.

The Performance Tracking document is a "must share" with everyone in your local committee.  Each member should feel ownership over the goals they are progressing towards.  Our talent management team is only measuring rewards and recognition from this performance document, so members will only be rewarded and recognized if they are keeping up with their own tracking.

Time Flies when you are Having Fun.

Okay! February filled up and flew by! I'm sure you will agree. Lesson learned, February is a peak month.

 I am heading to IberoAmerican Leadership Conference (ILC) in Santiago, Chile, next week so will be collecting ideas and drafting some posts to release near the end of March.