by
Johnny Walker
| Feb 26, 2020
Do you remember your first day at work on your very first job? More than likely, you do not. I would bet that someone took the time to show you how to do the job and probably gave you some idea of their expectations on how it should look when you were finished. There is no way you could have just arrived for that first day of work and started working without any training or guidance. How many employees do you hire and send them out on the golf course on their first day with zero training? The new employee has zero chance to succeed without proper guidance and training to do their job.
Many GCSA Chapters have started their meeting season and board of directors meetings for 2020. Most of the boards of these chapters have brand new board members elected to serve their chapters. What kind of training and guidance do you offer these new board members? This is no different than a brand new employee starting to work for you. This new board member will need training, guidance and expectations communicated to them if they are to succeed in this role.
GCSAA has developed a board orientation guideline that can help your chapters with this process. The new board member can probably catch on after several months of watching and learning, but they might lose interest early on if they do not know what or how to perform their duties. I would recommend to contact any GCSAA field staff representative about scheduling a board orientation planning session to help with the on boarding of these new directors. They will be given the proper information and expectations of how to succeed in their role and the individual and the chapter will benefit greatly from this process.