You have a right to:

• Receive a job description and an experience notebook.
• Be assigned sufficient funds to do your job properly.
• Ask for help in doing your job and in solving problems.
• Be allowed to try new approaches within the AAUW framework.
• Be given opportunities to improve your leadership skills.
• Expect others to consider your time valuable.
• Be recognized for your contributions to AAUW.

You are responsible for:

• Doing your job as well as you can.
• Maintaining a complete experience notebook and/or files.
• Supporting the AAUW Mission and Diversity statements.
• Familiarizing yourself with state bylaws, policies and procedures.
• Working with other board members as part of a team.
• Attending branch, cluster and state meetings.
• Preparing for board meetings; arriving on time; staying until the end.
• Listening; contributing to discussion; voting on motions.
• Serving as a role model; encouraging others to serve on the state level.
• Identifying your successor and helping to train her.

Handout used by Leader-on-Loan Jo Harberson at the July 1998 meeting of the state Board of Directors.

Copyright �1998, Florida AAUW