Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Elementary School Fundraising Ideas: Gain Loyalty From Your Members

Elementary School Fundraising Ideas: Gain Loyalty From Your Members by Candace Quigley

 

How can you become successful with your elementary school fundraising ideas when you do not have your members by your side? You cannot work things out on your own, admit it or not, you still need your members so be loyal to them.
Elementary school fundraiser ideas can be best delivered when everyone works toward it. You may have different perceptions with your members or different principles in life but you have to cooperate with them. Even if they have done something wrong, protect them and support them by teaching them. No one can better help them than you. If they have been wrong and you never were there, what's the use of your leadership? Take note, the members are working for you and they exert effort for you and you cannot in turn be there for them? You will lose them eventually if that's the case. When they have miscalculated situations which caused them deriving with wrong decisions, be their voice and their support system. For example, when they have insulted a customer due to the customer's improper and rude complaint, being their boss, stand by them despite their wrong doing. We know that we have to give the best service to our customers but in situations like this, we need to stick out for our employees. Why? It is because if you side the customers, it's just like you are digging your own deathbed. You just proved your customer right, that you and your member along with your organization, is wrong. So, support your member and correct him in your office, not in front of the customer. If he really did something wrong, correct him privately. Don't point fingers at them in the public. It will not help your member or your organization's stance in the business world; it will only hurt your organization's pride and ego.
Also, another way of gaining loyalty from your members is through sharing your organization's awards and achievements. How honorable it would be to have your people celebrate with you. This is very important because it means something big to them, most especially to be a part and to be one of the reasons for the organization's success. This will drive them to do more. This will give them more and more reasons to improve and to do better. When you give credit to their little efforts, you deserve their great appreciation and loyalty. Even as rank and file employees, they also need appreciation for not being late coming in to work and even to big achievements such as tapping one of the best investors in town. Little may it be or how big it can be, they need to hear your word; they love it when you commend them with their work because that means they are more than good enough to please their model leader and far more, their idolized leader. And to add up to this good feeling, always make it a point to report their good efforts to the board members or to the top management. And with this, it will also be best to reward them, it can be monetary or even a plaque of appreciation would be great. Ideas like, having monthly awards such as "Employee of the Month". Such simple awards like that will greatly boost their morale.

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