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Happy New Year!

I am excited, thrilled and honored to serve you as your 2019 State President.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your commitment to Women’s Council of REALTORS®, California. The 2019 leadership team and I are looking forward to watching you experience growth this coming year as a leader. 

TEAM; California State and Local Networks cannot effectively function without everyone working together and stepping in to assist.  With everyone performing in our roles and duties, we will achieve our goals and accomplish great things.  2018 was a year of exciting changes for the Council.  There is much work to do in 2019. 

The only constant in life is change.  This is a time of growth for us all.  For the majority, this is the first time that we perform in our 2019 leadership positions.  Women’s Council is a safe place for us to learn and grow. Perfect is a tough act and is subjective to the eyes of the beholder.  As we go through the year, please remember that my perfect does not match your perfect, and vice versa. Learn with grace and allow others to make mistakes without judgement. 

Safe travels to Indian Wells in a few weeks.  We have a great Agenda, fabulous speakers and an exciting venue for our Welcome Reception at Tommy Bahama’s at The Gardens on El Paseo.  Other updates will follow as we draw closer to our event. I look forward to seeing you there!

You can sign up for the Winter meeting (early bird ends 1/21), Installation and room block (ends 1/11) at www.wcrcainstallation.com.

With love and gratitude,
Fiona

December 2017

As we come to a close of an amazing and very productive year I am so grateful for each and every one of you!

Team Work Makes the Dream Work and we proved that to be true this year.

Our success is measured in so many ways:

At the Local Network level:

The programming, membership retention and recruitment,  the level of involvement from our members, and the industry events have been phenomenal!

You have set the bar high!!!

At the District Vice President and Governor level:

Your involvement as liaison to the local networks on behalf of the State has proven to be instrumental in their success! You worked together in groups to put on great programs at the state meetings and your support of each other inspired us all!

At the State Leadership level:

Our Project Team Chairs, Vice Chairs, Committee Chairs, Vice-Chairs performed their roles with enthusiasm, professionalism and helped us to build a fantastic leadership pipeline!!!

The Line Officer team comprised of a perfect D.I.S.C. and we brought you great speakers, training, fun and creativity! My heart swells with pride at what we accomplished this year!

We look forward to keeping and enhancing the momentum in 2018!

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make your Women’s Council experience the best it can be and remember to “Try Everything”!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

With much gratitude and pride,

Theresa Wilson

2017 State President

[email protected]

559-760-3715

 

 

 

“California Leading the Way”

Before I say my thank you’s and share our accomplishments this year I want to tell you a little bit about your 2018 President Cheryl Keller.

Cheryl is a passionate, determined, creative, and energetic leader! These past 3 years we have spent together on the line, I have learned so much about her, her sense of humor, infectious laugh, determination to make life better for all is Contagious. She will serve you well and will build on all that past leaders have done before her. Give her and her team your full support, engage and be the Positive Ripple she knows you can be!

My mantra is “You have to Give to Get to Get to Give”

And our theme this year was “Try Everything”

 

We asked you to “Try Everything” and when you did you found new skills and opportunities for growth both personally and professionally! Thank you for stepping out and up!

This year we gave you:

Training, Training, and more Training starting with the October 2016 businss planning retreat meeting in Long Beach where we met with incoming 2017 state leadership team.

I asked them to do homework in preparation for our State Leadership retreat they did it and the results were amazing, they grew their leadership skills, became great mentors, facilitators and all stepped into their greatness! Groups were formed with your District Vice Presidents and Governors creating and facilitating training programs that are timely and relevant for your local network success. Leadership Support Project Teams A& B were created to replace the Strategic committees and they brought fun, engaging and interactive training!

A new strategic partner plan brought you Diamond partners at a higher level of commitment and more opportunities to be in front of you our members, and we assigned a line officer liaison to assure clear transparent communication with our valued partners and we also created a survey that helped to keep us in line with our promises to them.

A rebate program that encouraged attendance at our State meetings, which has proved successful and has helped to train and grow your leadership pipeline.

A member photo shoot to encourage current head shots and updating your Woman’s Council profiles and to use for your other marketing pieces.

A second chance retention contest, we provided you with a script to call all non renewed members and we gained back over 10% of non renewed members!

The winner is the East Valley Network, with 25% rejoining! Congratulations to Jennifer Higgins and her leadership team

We gave 8 state meeting scholarships and created a commitment letter for you to sign agreeing to many things one of which was a testimonial for us to use on our website, this also helps you at the local level for retention and recruitment.

We asked our speakers to provide testimonials for our website again showing the value of being a member and allowing our speakers to have an opportunity to see and speak about our value. Our Diamond Partners brought us amazing presenters, and we brought you a new type of training with Bruce Bishop, Kerstin O’Shields and Collette Carlson, the feedback has been fabulous!

We added Names in the News to highlight you the member for your accomplishments you have achieved over the year, be sure and let us know so we can add you to this page!

We created an Ambassador program whereby leaders at our state meetings wore Ask Me so you had a go to person if you had any questions about our state meetings. We had over 90 First Time Attendees this year.

We created a new and more user-friendly state website and trained you on how to use it. And our Private Facebook group pages have been instrumental in communicating with you, thank you for indulging us!

We concentrated on growing our leadership pipeline and as a result of years working on this we had 22 applicants for 13 positions…WOW!

 

We attended many local network functions throughout the state and are honored and privileged to have gotten the chance to see all your talents first hand.

We hit the road for 4 days and logged 1186 miles to bring you local network transition workshops, we had 25 networks participate and 139+ members attend!

Drumroll please!!!
The winner of the second chance retention contest is:
East Valley with 67% of non-renewal’s renewing their membership!
Honorable mentions:
Bakersfield 50%
Greater Fresno 40%
Antelope Valley 38%
Solano County 33%

Thank you to all networks that worked on this contest! We gained 10% of the REALTOR members we had lost as of March 31, 2017.

Retention is where your future leadership comes from and recruiting keeps us fresh and excited! Remember to utilize your first year membership communication tool provided to you by National!

We currently have 32 networks, of those 3 are Mega Delta, Long Beach and San Diego, networks (80 or more members) 10 Large network’s Central Coast, Coastal West, Greater Fesno, Marin, Monterey, Placer, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Solano and Ventura County 50-79 and 19 small networks.

Mid Year Membership contest winner is North Central Valley add 24% more members!

When I ran as your treasurer my promise to you was to be the member’s member, by that I meant that we are the same, we have different roles, but we are all members of an amazing organization, my hope is that you found that to be be true, and that my role as the leader of this amazing team brought you the tools and resources you needed to be successful.

Remember as Leaders to:
Stand Behind Your Network rather than in front as this will most definitely bring your success as a team!

Thank you for the journey you have provided me, the learning for me was exponential….you gave to me far more than I ever gave to you…I love you all….. Now as you head into 2018 support each other, learn each other’s leadership strengths and weaknesses and use them to make your team the best it can be!

Your humble servant,

Theresa Wilson
[email protected]
559-760-3715

 

As I sit in my room reflecting on an incredible weekend in Chicago at Leadership Academy I wanted to share with you some exciting new updates from National!

I attended as the incoming 2018 Regional Vice President for Region 8; which includes California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. I am honored and excited to serve at the National level representing all of these great states!

Your incoming President-Elect Cheryl Keller and the local incoming network Presidents for 2018 attended many training modules, from membership and events (yes events now takes the place of programs) governance, the use of project teams, utilizing the national provided website (this is mandatory) changing terminology from Chairs and Vice Chairs to Team Leader and Co Team Leader, and receiving 6 new Women’s Council Key messages, all very exciting!

National is setting up a new “Volunteer Town Square” data base for you to sign up online for volunteer positions we will see that up and running very soon!

A new Affiliation Agreement that lines out all the local network requirements will be signed by all 2018 Local Network Presidents in December of this year.

Wow we packed a lot in, we will share this and more with you at the Network Transition Workshops coming up this month!

We networked, had fun and we made video’s too!! We will have them for you at our October meeting!

Thank you to all who attended leadership academy, you now have the tools to get you started for 2018, we ask that you share that information with your networks, and to anyone who was not able to attend, please reach out to any of those that did attend so they can catch you up to speed.

Thank you for all of your support and encouragement, this year has been amazing!!!

With love and gratitude!

Theresa Wilson

2017 California State President