SPEAKERS' WORLD
August 7th, 2020- DG Hadi
Topic: Journey to Rotary International
- DG Hadi joined our Weekly Club Meeting and addressed to the members.
As he was born and raised in Lebanon, he expressed his condolence to Maha for Beirut Tragedy. He told Maha that we are a big family and we work together. He and his wife don’t have a family here but Rotary becomes their family. He calls Rotarians family members as they are with us for life.
DG Hadi shared his story of how he became a Rotarian and how he gets involved with Rotary and became DG of 7040. A friend of his from Lebanon once invited him to attend the lunch meetings of Rotary Club in West Ottawa. After a few times visits to the Club meetings, he found out the people are nice and they would like to know about what they are doing. In 2003 he became a Rotarian. In 2007, he was sick and was hospitalized. During that time, every day, 1-2 Rotarian members would go to the hospital to visit him bringing him the books and food which moved him deeply. From then on he felt Rotary is his family. He recovered from the sickness and was proposed to become the President of 2013-1014 and he accepted. After this, he accepted to become the Area Governor in 2014 and today he is the District Govonor for 2020-2021. He requested us to share our story of how we become a Rotarian and why we stay in the Rotary family.
This year our theme is Rotary Opens the Opportunities. He made the following requests:
- To promote Rotary more on social medias for more visibilities.
- To continue our Virtual meeting even if things go back to normal.
- To make our Rotary accessible and affordable.
- To cooperate with other service organizations such as Toast Master.
- Do things differently
- Invite your aluminums and friends to our club meetings and activities
- To make one day called “Environmental Day” to do some environmental friendly work for the local communities and let the communities know we are helping.
- Call for donations for the Silent Auction of $100 /item to be donated to Rotary Foundation
- Call for Ad on D-7040 for $300/year to help the Virtual District Conference to be held on Oct. 16-18.
July 24th, 2020-Ashley Werhun
Topic: Mentorship Made Easy-Unlock your potential and kick-start your career
Ashley Werhun is CEO and Co-Founder of Mentorly. Mentorly.Co is a cloud-based mentorship solution for business, schools, and organizations looking to invest in their people and help them soar.
Ashley made a wonderful and interesting presentation about Mentorship today. Her speaking covers the following:
- How is mentorship different today
- Customized mentorship
- The demand for mentorship in the workplace is increasing as 87% of millennial employees request Mentorship.
- The importance of Mentorship
Ashley states that Mentorship is key for attracting and retaining a diverse workplace. Mentoring is about opening up and being vulnerable about the experience of the mentors so mentees don’t make the same mistakes the mentors did. Then, they can forge their own path to success.
July 31st, 2020-“Who Moved My Cheese “ video presentation and discussion
Susan Xianshu Huang, President of the Club, played an interesting video of a book called “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson. The Message we got from the story is as follows:
- Changes happens—they keep moving the cheese
- Anticipate change-smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old
- Monitor changes
- Adapt to changes quickly
- Change
- Enjoy change
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