ART&GD Jon Olson
This page is a resource for those wishing to attend training classes offered by our Regional Training Director Jon Olson.
We will attempt to keep it up to date, but if anyone notices out of date material here, please let us know.
You Are Your Programs
Understand the council’s perception by fellow parishioners, particularly that of inactive members and future potential members.
Construct a council mission statement that reflects the council’s vision and goals. u Understand the Faith in Action program model and its four categories – Faith, Family, Community and Life.
Identify the council’s flagship program(s).
Access the council’s current program regimen and identify the current strengths and weaknesses among its program calendar.
Develop a calendar for the next 6-12 months that responds to the council’s mission statement and addresses some of the council’s strengths and weaknesses identified above.
Understand the Program Director’s role in leading the council’s programming efforts.
Forms and the Supreme Website
Many councils have been struggling with where and how to fill out the forms on the Supreme website. Where do we find them? How do we fill them out? Who can fill out the online forms? Who has access? Lots of questions to go through and we will get the answers together.
Delta Drive
Come learn how to do the Delta Church drive method. this highly effective process of growth through communication will help you go from prospects to members and answer the why of growth.
You Are Your Programs
We will cover in this training
Understand the council’s perception by fellow parishioners, particularly that of inactive members and future potential members.
Construct a council mission statement that reflects the council’s vision and goals. u Understand the Faith in Action program model and its four categories – Faith, Family, Community and Life.
Identify the council’s flagship program(s).
Access the council’s current program regimen and identify the current strengths and weaknesses among its program calendar.
Develop a calendar for the next 6-12 months that responds to the council’s mission statement and addresses some of the council’s strengths and weaknesses identified above.
Understand the Program Director’s role in leading the council’s programming efforts.
Council Growth
The presentation will help Fraternal leaders resolve to leave councils, parish, and community better than how they found it. Leader should also learn how to develop a simple, specific, year-round plan in place for growing council membership, that involves participation from the whole council. Attendees should commit to work with their pastor(s), field agent, and DD to accomplish their goals. Leaders should understand the importance of hosting regular ceremonials, incorporating recruitment into every event, and running membership drives
Enhancing Member Experience
Understand what’s meant by the terms membership experience and membership engagement and how the two terms are related.
Complete the Council Engagement Assessment to assess their council’s strengths and weaknesses with regards to member engagement.
Understand that member engagement is the council’s responsibility. Successful council engagement leads to members having positive opinions about their membership.
Learn the five steps in the engagement cycle and how they relate to one another, ultimately leading a member to go through them again.
Discover tools that will help address deficiencies in your council’s current member engagement as based on your councils engagement score.
Understand that retention issues result when a council has failed to engage a member and show the value of his membership. These issues can be overcome by discovering where this breakdown occurred.