Membership Responsibilities
Belonging to an organization includes a certain number of responsibilities to the organization.
These include:
- Loyalty to the organization, its objectives and purposes.
- Payment of dues and other fees.
- Attendance at meetings.
- Participation in discussions of the policies and problems of the organization at meetings.
- Voting according to one’s conscience on all motions and elections.
- Willingness to serve on a committee, or as a chairman, or to accept an office when asked and qualified to do so.
- Discuss issues, not personalities.
- Accept some responsibility for the growth and progress of the organization.
- Arrive promptly and remain until the meeting ends.
- Address all remarks to the Chair.
- Arrive promptly and remain until the meeting ends.
- Address all remarks to the Chair.
- Express your opinions in the meeting, not afterward.
- Have motions written out and ready to give to the presiding officer.
- Be ready to second a motion so it can get on the floor.
- Be first to speak to any motion you have made.
- Talk loudly enough to be heard.
- Know what you are voting on, if unsure, ask questions.
- Refrain from criticism of those who have accepted responsibility.
- Support projects of the organization.
- Contribute your personal talents.
- Follow the golden rule