Colorado Real Estate Journal - July 6, 2016
NAIOP Colorado’s Membership Committee has five major objectives to ensure the continued success and growth of the organization: 1. recruitment of new members, 2. retention of existing members, 3. new member orientation, 4. university outreach and 5. ensuring prospective members and the current membership are educated on the value of the organization. The Membership Committee seeks dynamic individuals as its members who believe in the benefits of NAIOP and would like to tell other prospective members about the benefits. The Membership Committee meets monthly to identify and review potential professionals in the real estate industry who would benefit from involvement. At each meeting, a member of the committee will either volunteer or will be assigned to new contacts for recruitment. The Membership Committee also has been organizing events designed to attract younger members for the Developing Leaders Program. Developing Leaders are the future of the organization and there is strong emphasis on having all age groups well represented in the overall membership. Upon joining NAIOP, we want new members to get the most value from their membership! New members are welcomed and encouraged to join one of the NAIOP committees in order to deepen the relationships they may have started based on an introduction at the quarterly breakfasts or chapter events. In addition, they are encouraged to attend a New Member Orientation. Under the University Outreach Program, representatives from Membership Committee, together with the Developing Leaders and the Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge Committee, travel to area universities to meet with graduate students in the real estate programs for an informal roundtable to discuss various career opportunities in commercial real estate. This successful program provides an educational opportunity for the students and an initial introduction to the real estate community in Colorado; plus it has resulted in an increase in student and university memberships over the past several years. The added benefit is to further encourage participation in the chapter’s nationally recognized Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge. Finally, to maintain the high level of involvement and the quality of our membership, the committee places continual effort on retention of existing members. In doing so, NAIOP Colorado continues to maintain a strong ranking of 10th in the nation out of 52 chapters. Reed is a vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle in Denver. He can be reached at 303-260-6515 or tyler.reed@am.jll.com.