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GOALS
STRATEGIES
ACTIONS
Improve vocal and performance skills of every singer in the region
- Provide tools and education, with a focus on individual improvement
- Increase participation in regional competition and educational events
- Improve scores by using judges’ score sheets to drive educational offerings
- Increase focus on individual responsibility
- Support and encourage quartets
- Recognize choruses for high participation in educational events
- Visits and coaching
- Provide distance learning opportunities
- Pilot Virtual Roundtable discussions
- Education on judging categories
- Evaluate judges feedback from regional competitions
- Maintain and support Quartet Development activities
- Partner with Club 21 for quartet education
Raise public awareness of the barbershop art form
- Utilize technology to reach diverse audiences
- Increase membership diversity to reflect communities
- Youth outreach
- Support and encourage quartets
- Maintain and promote website
- Include broader barbershop content on website
- Utilize social media
- Webcast competition and market the offering to the general public
- Create a roadmap for addressing membership diversity challenges
- Support YWIH efforts
- Establish relationships with music educators outside the barbershop community
- Utilize YWIH Coordinator to reach out to YWIH chapter coordinators
- Media coverage during events
- Recognize chapters for their efforts in raising public awareness
Develop future musical and administrative leaders
- Create succession plan for future RMT
- Support and train directors
- Support and train current and future arrangers
- Support and train current and future chorus administrative leaders
- Encourage interest in International level leadership
- Articulate specific team opportunities to increase member involvement at the regional level
- Hold annual social event to cultivate relationships with potential leaders throughout the region
- Recruit “shadow” resources for RMT positions
- Support director mentor program and provide director educational opportunities
- Facilitate the leadership transition within the ADP program
- Provide administrative training and resources
- Continue development of educational Judging Track
- Increase live communication with Team Coordinators and Presidents
- Pilot Virtual Roundtable discussions
Increase regional membership
- Increase the number of singers
- Increase the number of choruses
- Establish new choruses in underserved markets
- Pilot Virtual Roundtable discussions
- Increase knowledge sharing across chapters regarding membership growth activities
- Continue to increase exposure through social networks
- Educate chapters on the effective use of social media
- Continue planning for new market expansion
- Target Flagstaff for membership growth – Red RockAppella or charter a new chorus
- Support prospective chapters – Mele O Kona and Coachella A Cappella
- Recognize chapter efforts in membership growth
Provide an exceptional member experience
- Improve organizational communication
- Improve administrative practices
- Encourage and support the use of regional tools
- Maintain fiscal responsibility and affordability
- Strengthen bond between Region 21 members
- Pilot Virtual Roundtable discussions
- Pilot “AMA21” Ask Me Anything live discussions
- Communicate value of regional activities to membership
- Make financial records easily available and transparent
- Regularly occurring chapter visits
- Provide cross-chapter knowledge sharing forums and resources
- Provide distance learning opportunities
- Develop and publish an in-region faculty database (contact information, areas of expertise, references)
- Host social events for Region 21 members
Strategic Plan last updated 10/12/2019.