Welcome to Florida Leadership Development!
Per the Florida AFA Constitution, the Immediate Past State
President automatically becomes the State Leadership Development
Vice President. I hope by working together we can have a
solid and functional Leadership Development Program in the
state. Included in this folder is the current list of Officers
and designated Leadership Development VPs as of 1 October
2007. Please let me know of any corrections that need to
be made to the Roster.
We
should all be very proud of our accomplishments in the State. We
are the number one State Organization for 2007 and with your continued
support and leadership we will continue to be #1. As you
can tell by looking at the Excel Spreadsheet, not all chapters
identified a LD VP as required. I’m asking all Chapter
Presidents to please appoint a LD VP for your chapter.
Also included on our State LD Web page link is a description
of the Florida LD Program, and a briefing that you can
use in your Area or Chapter meetings. If your chapter is
to succeed and remain active, you need to seriously get
involved in Leadership Development. We can help you and
our LD committee will help you, but we want to work with
and through your Chapter LD VP. Let me introduce the State
Leadership Development Committee: Max Friedauer, Chairman;
John E. Schmidt Jr., Col H.M. “Bud” West Chapter President
and Florida VP For Community Partners; Dave Cummock, Past
State President and past National Director; Marty Harris,
past State President and National Director Emeritus. The
Committee representation is per our State Constitution,
with two members appointed by the State President and two
Members-at-Large being elected by the State Executive Committee.
John Schmidt and Dave Cummock were elected in July 2007
at the state Convention in Daytona Beach. State President
Tim Brock appointed Marty Harris to the Committee. One
more appointed is still to be determined. Our committee
has communicated by e-mail and we will most likely continue
our work through that media or by teleconference when necessary.
We will also meet separately in February and during the
State Convention in July.
So
what's our job? First, to ensure the Florida LD Program remains "alive
and well." This
is one of Bob Largent's (AFA Chairman of the Board) Special
Interest Items. I will stay in contact with each chapter,
passing along our thoughts and ideas. And, I need to
hear from you on new, innovative ways to develop new leaders.
Next, we serve as the State Nominating Committee and
will perform that function as we approach the State Convention.
One last responsibility is to assist the State President
in identifying State "emerging leaders" for Tim to pass
to AFA Headquarters. These lists are used by AFA HQ to
fill AFA committee assignments and other positions. How
do we perform our job? We are responsible for at a minimum,
quarterly contact with each chapter. I will use email
as a primary means but that doesn't preclude telephone
calls.
And, I'll have a report for you at our State Winter meeting
and the State Convention.
Now,
I would like you to do a couple of things to get started:
1) Download the AFA
101 Power Point presentation from
the AFA Web site and consider using it in your chapter L/D program.
It provides an
super orientation for new chapter officers and other
folks new
to AFA that you are trying to develop into future leaders.
2) Download and print the AFA Field Operations Guide (FOG) (Just newly
posted Dec 2007) from the AFA web page.
This document contains
a wealth of knowledge about the Association. We should
all refer to frequently and I guarantee you it contains
information you didn't know.
3) Identify and document at least one job in your chapter that's not
being accomplished.
Use this document in recruiting future
leaders - you will
now have something for that new AFA member who comes
to his or her first meeting. If they've shown enough
interest
to come to a meeting, immediately give them something
to do. It may be as simple as establishing contact
with your
local Kiwanis Club to help ADVOCATE. It may be establishing
or improving contact with a local Air Force organization
particularly if the new guy has recently retired from
USAF and has contacts. Or it may be starting a Visions
program,
getting word to the local schools about AFA's education
programs (grants, awards, etc), or improving contact
with an AFJROTC unit. You know what needs to be done
in your
chapter for which you didn't have people before. Now
when a new person shows up, you have a job identified
for him
or her to do.
I’m asking each chapter to send me an e-mail with your comments and recommendations
about leadership development, the material that’s available to you on the State
and AFA HQ Web sites. Please send me your inputs not later than 1 February
so I can talk about your ideas at our Orlando Winter State Meeting.
Thanks
again for all your support during my Presidency and I'm ready to
continue to serve
you and the State. Thank you also for the support you’ve already given
Tim Brock.
Max
Friedauer
Vice President, Leadership Development
AFA Florida
