I’m going to try something new this year and ask that members willing to volunteer to give tours at our Annual Open House sign up for an hour long slot. If anyone wants to sign up for multiple slots you’re more than welcome to and will get an extra high five from me.
Hopefully this will combat me running around begging people to give a tour as we have a room full of visitors waiting.
At the top of the hour if you want to just come check in and let me know where you’ll be(I’ll have a clipboard and make a note) I’ll let you know when it’s time to give your tour. I can’t realistically give you an exact time because people coming in will ebb and flow. Tours will start no more than every 15 minutes but could be closer together.
These will not be regular tours that you’d give on Thursday night. They will be a much shorter, concise version I’ve written up. Every tour guide will get the short guide that you can take with you. No tour should be longer than 20 minutes.(I know! I know! But we have so much!) People will know that they’re free to roam around afterwards to ask those in depth questions and get more detail from the many members that’ll be around that day.
Logistically our normal long tours won’t work on this day. But the free range model we tried last year didn’t quite work either. So the hope is that this will be nice compromise between those things.
We’ll also need 1 person for each hour to act as a greeter. Basically stay in the lobby making sure visitors are signing the waiver, give out a schedule for the day, and just chat a bit.
Just add your name to the form if you’re able to commit. I went ahead and took the first Greeter spot because I plan on being here early that day getting things ready.