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^^^A big part of retention = the extent to which NMs responsibilities match up with the responsibilities they WILL have once initiated.
For example: if you go from "cake, presents, not actually being required to attend anything, YAY!" to "you must hold a chair or be on a committee, meet 90% of attendance points, and participate in at least x study hours per week" you're going to have a retention issue because your NMs are going from zero to 60 in 2 months.
I'm a big fan of programs that require some of the same things of NMs that will be required of them once initiated. For example: Requiring NMs to do study hours and meet attendance points and come to chapter every week just like everyone else. I know that ours and a few other NPC's programs are the same way.
I've heard of situations in some NM programs where you can miss like half of your NM meetings, come to like one event, and you are still allowed to be initiated. Obviously that NM is going to terminate her membership once she sees that she went from having to do nothing to having a full slate of expectations.
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