Are We Who We Say We Are?

Table Topics

Facilitator: Bill CawleyRotary District 7610

Learning Objectives

• Identify how Rotary clubs can promote the core values: service, fellowship, diversity, integrity, and leadership.

• Share ways that clubs represent the core values.

• Collaborate on innovative ways that your club can better represent Rotary’s core values.Are We Who We Say

We Are?

What is Rotary Culture?

Culture: a set of ideas, beliefs, and ways of behaving of a particular organization or group of people.

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Rotary’s Culture Rotary International’s culture* (social glue) is formed by its core values. These core values define who/what Rotary is. Rotary’s Core Values Rotary International’s core values are the guidepost for our actions and priorities that determine “Are we who we say we are.” Rotary’s Guiding Principles Rotary International’s Guiding Principles are Our Object of Rotary and The Four-Way Test Rotary’s Strategic Plan Rotary International’s Strategic Plan demonstrates our core values in action.

Rotary’s Mission Rotary International’s Mission is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business,

professional, and community leaders.

Our Core Values: Service, Fellowship. Diversity, Integrity, and Leadership.Object of RotaryThe Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Rotary Core Values

Case Study: Cindy’s club visitOne evening Cindy—a young professional woman—while watching TV happened to see the following Rotary promotional video…

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Case Study Question #1

What would you do if you were a member of the club Cindy visited?

Case Study Question #2

How does your club try to make visitors feel welcome?

Case Study Question #3

How can we change negative perceptions of Rotary clubs?

Case Study Question #4

What should clubs do to ensure that Rotary clubs reflect what advertisements portray?

Case Study Question #5

How can clubs incorporate each of the core values into their activities?

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John Ruskin“Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”