All the planning for the upcoming move “moves” to the next phase: implementation
The next steps for CAF include:
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- Design work begins on the Volunteers’ Library with staff working with Docent Library Committee chair Donna Gabanski;
- Our new Vice-president for Marketing, Lori Kleinerman, is working on promoting CAF’s marketing and new branding strategy;
- The Tour Department is working on the admissions/costs for tours, exhibitions, etc.
CAF’s move is paralleled by the Docents’ Move Task Force’s transition from planning to implementation.
Many activities are underway:
1. More than 300 people signed up for trainings/refreshers. Of the remaining docents, many don’t give core tours. Overall, we had a TREMENDOUS response to the selection survey. THANKS to everyone who answered the call.
2. Demonstration tours have been going out almost daily, with Tour committee members helping Tour Directors finalize the newly routed tours and the manuals for training. These include demos for the new Historic (no word yet on a new name, but it is coming); Chicago Modern, Art Deco, Must-See Chicago and Evolution of the Skyscraper. All tours will have been approved and ready for training and/or refreshers by the January 10, 2018, the next meeting of the Tour Committee.
3. Delta Greene, representing the Education Committee on the Move Task Force, is coordinating the upcoming trainings. Classes are being formed (you will be notified which classes you will be in by Jan. 1, 2018), certifiers for the new tours are being selected and trained, and Tour Directors are organizing for the training and/or refresher sessions. Click here for an official listing of the entire schedule: http://cacthebridge1966.com/?wpfb_dl=502 . These will also be posted on The Bridge calendar.
4. In addition, we are currently working on a module called “Engaging Your Audience” (EYA). This module derived its concepts from the Project French effort. The EYA module will involve learning the cutting edge principles about presentation and interpretation. Our own Jen Masengarb, Vice-President for Education Gabe Lyon, and Angela Esposito from the Education Department will help us learn the most up-to-date ways of presenting information to our guests.Implementation of all of this will continue through the next six months.
And at the same time, docents still are making CAF work! People are going out on tours, including the newest tour, the Big Bus Holiday Lights tour, currently running at 92% capacity. The tour goes out four times a day on the weekends. All of this bodes well for the upcoming training/refresher season, running from January 10 to June 10, 2018.
We’ll keep you posted as we move forward. Thanks for all that you are doing!