Servant based

Lodge Leadership
Building a Foundation
for the Future
MWB Neil Neddermeyer
www.cinosam.net
 How to Achieve
Followship
1. Fulfill new each member’s expectations.

2. Encourage members to contribute ideas.

3. Hold regular Officers meetings

4. Greet all the members at the door

MWB Neil Neddermeyer

www.cinosam.net
 How to Achieve
Followship
9. Personal notes

10. Include Member’s names in Lodge

Communications.

11. Give out Awards

12. Have a plan for Masonic Funerals

 How Are You Using
Time?
• Are your Meetings Boring?

• How much Time is spend on each Item?

• The Business Vs. The Experience

 Steps To Save Time-
1. Summarize Minutes.
2. Begin meetings on time!
3. Increase overall pace.
4. Post minutes and Treasurer’s report.
 Steps To Save Time-
5. Presenters need to be prepared.
6. Introductions should be short.
7. Limit remarks.
8. Share the agenda with officers.
Plan for a Perfect
Evening
Make your evening an event!
1. Cater to their interests
2. Focus on quality.
3. Delight your customers.
4. Balance fellowship, food, ritual, and
entertainment.
5. Involve your members in planning
6. Get out the word, promptly.
7. Ask for Feedback.
 Steps you can Take-
1. Force yourself to plan.
2. Make something special happen 6 times a year.
3. Show videotapes of interest.
4. Don’t forget Masonic enlightenment.
5. Invite an outside speaker
 Examples of outside
Speakers
School Officials Police
Financial Planners Firefighters
Travel Agents Politicians
Insurance Agents Farmers
Career Counselors Our Wives
Real Estate Brokers
Health Care Specialists
 Get the Ladies on your
Side!
1. Get information to the wives

2. First Visit to Petitioner’s home?-meet the family.

3. wives are important.

4. Cater a Ladies Night.

 Get the Ladies on
your Side!
5. Share your calendar with your wife.

6. Thank the ladies when they help.

7. Ask for feedback.

 Communicate with
Your Members
1. Dress-up publications.
2. Computerize member information
3. Make a list of newly raised Masons
4. Get Lodge information in the local papers.
5. Start an email communication list
6. Set up a web site
 Buddy Up and
Connect
1. Assign every new Mason to a Mentor.

2. Introduce new Masons to others.

3. Learn the interests of your new Masons and

share that info.

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 Buddy Up and
Connect
4. Invite new Masons to events.
5. Photograph new Members and post on
bulletin board.
6. Ask for feedback from new Masons.
7. Watch for loss of interest and react.
 Make Involvement Pay
Off
Ten Ways to increase membership
1. Identify member’s skills, talents and interests.
2. Remember their names
3. Ask new members how they wish to get
involved and follow through.
4. Provide members with the plans and goals of
the Lodge.
5. Listen to what they are saying!
 Make Involvement
Pay Off
Ten Ways to increase membership
6. Invite new members to decision making
meetings.
7. Contact the sick & shut-Ins.
8. Look for personal ways to support a brother
outside of the Lodge
9. Reward real performance.
10. Give every Mason:
SOMETHING TO DO
AND SOMETHING TO LEARN.
 Creating Followship

1. Fix the Products first.

2. Recognize the Importance of Change.
3. Make Something Happen right away.
4. Focus on Quality.
 There are two kinds of
leaders:
“Those who are interested
in the flock, and those
who are interested in the
fleece.”