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Know your Institute

Membership Matters Advisory Group

(MMAG): How you can get Involved

John Sephton MSyI, MMAG Chairman and SyI Director

As a bonus, participation in the group does carry a
continuous professional development (CPD) score of one
point per hour which you can use on your Security Institute
CPD submission, helping you get to 36.

The MMAG is open to new members and in all honesty, I
would recommend joining the group and having a voice into
the Institute and hear the latest updates from Headquarters
and what is going on within your Institute.

How does the Membership Matters Advisory Group function?

When I was voted on to the board by the membership (thank you The MMAG meets via conference call approximately every
by the way), I was given the area of membership engagement to six weeks and these meetings are minuted and points
oversee with my co-chair Becky O’Dell. This was probably because I discussed. The call has participation from members of
am very active on social media promoting the Security Institute and the head office and members who are currently MMAG
engaging with all the levels of membership. members. To monitor progress we use an excel spreadsheet
to track ideas and thoughts with an owner to each point
But the social media aside, there is a group that not many of you so we know who needs to provide an update. During the
may be aware of which acts as a conduit to the Security Institute meetings, the other chairs of the appropriate departments
management and contributes to the development of membership will give an update to where the progress is or was not
ideas within the Security Institute. This group is called the Mem- achievable and to provide feedback to the call. Completed
bership Matters Advisory Group or more locally known as the items will then be moved to the completion area and new
MMAG. ideas or thoughts added to the sheet.

This membership engagement group was created to give the The MMAG is an ongoing process, ideally with a rotation of
membership a voice, it was also created to listen to the concerns participants on each call, delivering a wider range of outlook
or needs of the membership. Whilst this group is well established, to their experience of membership. Saying this, we do have
it remains slightly dormant sadly due to participation levels but this some regulars who join the call every time and I appreciate
could be because of the lack of knowledge of the MMAG and how the contributions from everybody who does find time to
to join and participate. As we do value the opinion and comments attend these calls.
of the membership, we really need to push this group out and
get more members involved and contributing and this is the ideal
platform to do so.

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