Note From the Executive Director – May 2018
Welcome to the second issue of Golf Leaders Insider, the IAGA’s new bi-monthly newsletter for sharing updates on key activities, highlighting people, job opportunities and best practices as well as promoting new or expanding partnerships. Please share your feedback and story ideas with me at bwalker@iaga.org.
Thank you! Is a simple yet appropriate message that I have to deliver in this article. Over the first few months of 2018, the IAGA has reached out to our members to provide much-needed input to assist our committees in developing plans to accomplish our goals as outlined in our the IAGA Strategic Plan. Our committees are now in the midst of finalizing initiatives which will hopefully move the IAGA forward as well as provide our members with increased benefits. Below is a snapshot of some efforts that are in the works.
Education Committee: Focus on the following. Delivering four webinars based on our educational assessment survey results. These webinars will focus on the top four responses which were leadership, financial management, technology and association branding. Also, the IAGA is seeking out potential partners to help provide content and delivery of these webinars.
Marketing and Communications Committee: Established our first event newsletter with “Golf Leaders Insider.” Begin works on re-branding exercise for IAGA with input from the membership. Partnership/Sponsorship development also falls into this category. As you will notice in this newsletter, you will find the addition of new sponsors such as Underpar.com. The IAGA will focus on developing partnership relations with companies that can directly benefit our IAGA members.
Technology Committee: The recent technology survey completed by IAGA members will be instrumental in the IAGA seeking out technology partnerships and potential discounting for our members.
Program Committee: Based on IAGA member feedback our committee is developing what should be a robust and diverse list of speakers and topics for our conference at Innisbrook this November.
Membership Committee: Engaging with numerous affiliate organizations to potentially become IAGA members.
These initiatives are moving forward due to your input. For the IAGA to move forward as an organization, we will need your increased feedback and engagement.