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Robert Jones Named General Manager
End of Spring 2010 WHAT’S INSIDE BOG Openings...... 2 Welcome Back Party ................................. 3 Memoiral Day Weekend Scheudle......... 4 LN-TT Arts and Craft Show........................ 5 Community Center Garden Program .. 6 Open Water Swimming ....................... 7 Pre-Season Tennis.. 8 Men’s Twilight Tennis Play.......................... 9 Guided Nature Walks..................... 11 Submarine Christening........... 12
As a key part of the succession planning for the General Manager’s position, Robert Jones,was hired in 2005 to serve as the Club’s Assistant General Manager. Robert is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and for the three years prior to joining the Lake Naomi Club Management Team served as the Assistant General Manager for the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club located in Florida. Robert was being groomed by Lakewood to be the General Manager. Fortunately for Lake Naomi – Timber Trails, Robert is originally from Pennsylvania and he and his wife Michelle, along with their son Robby and daughters Shelby and Kelsey, had a strong desire to return to Pennsylvania to be closer to family. Upon Robert’s arrival he immediately went to work revamping the Clubhouse and other Food and Beverage operations. Robert’s success in just this one area has been nothing short of outstanding. Robert currently oversees all of the day to day operations of the Club. The Club’s GM Succession Plan had as an ultimate goal Robert stepping into the General Manager’s position in 2010. The Club’s Board of Trustees named Robert General Manager effective May 1, 2010. Robert has given the Club one hundred and ten percent of his effort as Assistant General Manager. The Members can expect no less of him as the General Manager. Congratulations to Robert on all he has accomplished to date for the Club and all he is bound to accomplish as the Club’s new GM.
Strategic Planning Update
Strategic Planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does and why it does it, with a focus on the future. The Club has always had a Strategic Plan. However the Club has taken action over the past two years to formalize the Club’s Strategic Plan. At the direction of the Board of Trustees, the Management Team was assigned the task of developing a draft of a Strategic Plan for the Club that could be “handed off” to the Strategic Planning Committee. Management completed that task and presented the “Strategic Plan Handoff Draft” in May of 2009. Since that time the Strategic Planning Committee, an Ad-Hoc Committee of the Long Range Planning Committee, has been spearheading the project. The Committee has met ten times and a number of Committee Members have worked on updates of various components of the Draft Strategic Plan between meetings. The Strategic Planning Committee recently presented the latest draft of the Club’s Strategic Plan to the Board of Governors and Long Range Planning Committee and is seeking their input. Further updates are anticipated once input from the Board of Governors is obtained. The Strategic Planning Committee will make a presentation on the plan’s status for Club Members at the Club’s August 14, 2010 Annual Meeting. The Draft Strategic Plan will be posted on the Club’s website in mid-August and a fortyfive day Club Member comment period will be provided. As an ongoing part of the Strategic Plan, the Club is planning to survey the Members in 2011 or 2012. The results of the survey will be used to further update the Strategic Plan which will be used as a working document and be updated a minimum of once a year. The Strategic Plan is very different that the Long Range Facilities Plan which deals only with Club Facilities. The Long Range Facilities Plan is handled independent of the Strategic Plan by the Long Range Planning Committee.