Back in the Saddle

After more than two weeks absence I am back. Along with my vacation I had some personal "stuff" come up that demanded my attention. Don't worry though, I did accomplish quite a bit this last week.

First, the IAWP executive board met by teleconference and approved the changes to the membership awards. The board requested on additional change to the Gold Key Award. Originally we had proposed it go the the one person who recruited the most new members, now it will go to everyone who recruits 50 or more new members.

The second thing I accomplished was to send a summary of the survey input, for the individual and group awards (merit, citation, etc), to the redesign team. We hope to have a proposal finalized by the first of December and share with the board and on this blog at that time. It looks like we are still on schedule for final approval by January 1st. I felt pretty good about getting these two things accomplished this week, especially with playing catch up from being gone. Perhaps next week will be even more productive.

Membership Awards

I finished reviewing the input from the officers and Awards Redesign Team members and have come up with the finalized proposed changes to the IAWP membership awards. I will send the proposal off tomorrow for the officers and team to give it a last look, then ask the Administrative Office to send it out to the district directors and current committee chairs for review. If any of them have problems, I would like to get them worked out before it goes to a vote.

There won't be another post until the week of November 15th. By then I will have my feedback from the board and will be ready to move on to the Individual and Group awards.