2010 Member Survey

Fellow Auxiliarists,On October 1, 2009, I published the results of our 2009 Member Survey in the Navigator.

We had asked for your feedback regarding your thoughts on membership and other key elements by which we could better craft strong and meaningful direction and clear future for our service.

You answered this call to action and provided amazing results with 5,774 members providing valuable input.

Now, four months later, my staff and I have had a chance to identify trends and related goals identified in the prodigious results. For instance, within the 2009 survey, we found that information distribution, speed and associated leadership principals were very important topics to you.

Your responses to these questions suggested that leadership and communications were worth exploring further as they represent topics at the core of successful Auxiliary member retention. To this end we now have an opportunity to dig deeper into our Auxiliary information processes and related leadership dynamics.

I'll ask every Auxiliary member take a moment and embark in this follow-up survey designed to help us more explicitly understand our leadership and communications challenges and craft processes and tools better designed to meet your needs.

Here is our Auxiliary Leadership and Communications link:

2010 Member Survey

I encourage everyone in the Auxiliary to take this very important survey. The average survey time takes 8-to-9 minutes. The survey will remain active through the end of March, 2010.

Results will be made available in an upcoming Navigator and potentially presented at NACON 2010.

Semper Paratus,

Nicholas Kerigan

National Commodore

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary