| Club Name | | | Country | Philippines | District | 3830 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Rotary Info, Train the trainer | | Best Practice | District Trainer's Circle - a fellowship of club trainers<br>A group of club trainers that meets regularly to share training tips, develop training, and share Rotary information to help develop a comprehensive training plan for their clubs.
| | Resources | RI Web site (www.rotary.org), <i>Training Talk</i> e-newsletter (www.rotary.org/training/trainingtalk), <i>District Trainer's Manual</i>, and other local training resources
| | Results | Members of the District Trainer's Circle are better informed of Rotary, leadership development training, and training best practices essential to the development of effective clubs and Rotary's future.
| | Contact | PP Marge I. Lamberte | | Web Site | | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | (632) 826-4697 | Fax | (632) 8264697 |
| Club Name | | | Country | Singapore | District | 3310 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Train the trainer, Incoming Officer | | Best Practice | Use of PowerPoint, an overhead projector, and flipcharts can increase the effectiveness of key points of a training session.
| | Resources | | | Results | good feedback...
| | Contact | CHEW Ban Seng | | Web Site |
http://www.rotaryeclub3310.org | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | 65 91869763 | Fax | |
| Club Name | | | Country | USA | District | 7450 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Incoming Officer | | Best Practice | Copying from other Districts, we changed the District Assembly from a 1/2 day Monday morning to a 3 PM to 8:30 PM Wednesday including dinner.
What happened that was special was a 90 minute section from 4 PM until 5:30 PM where we had breakout sessions for the following: Membership development Public Relations and Websites
Presidents-elect
Vocational Service Youth Community Service
International Service
Rotary Foundation
Our District Foundation.
Through publicity, which started at the first Pre-PETS meeting in January, weekly e-mails, hard copy letters and support from the assistant governors, attendance was 210 people - double the previous year representing all but two district clubs. Over 50 Rotarians were involved in planning, leading the discussion groups, publicizing and executing the event.
| | Resources | Materials were prepared by the district, but the best materials were brought to the event by the various committees.
| | Results | | | Contact | Bob Lankin DG 2005-06 | | Web Site |
http://www.Rotary7450.org | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | 215-887-9990 | Fax | 215-887-9986 |
| Club Name | | | Country | India | District | 3100 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Rotary Info, Training tips | | Best Practice | Once training subjects are selected or assigned, prepare the training content using material available on Rotary in various books, world magazine, magazine published for our zone and other available material including RI Web site.
| | Resources | As mentioned above world magazine, RI web site, various RI publications and other available material on Rotary. Tools could be anything from transparencies to Power Point presentation. For training different levels RI also sends literature to Club President and District Governor.
| | Results | Very encouraging. The participants have liked the same. Achievements were measurable and achievable on most occasions.
| | Contact | VISHNU SARAN BHARGAVA | | Web Site | | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | + 91 121 2660234/266 | Fax | + 91 121 2648234 |
| Club Name | | | Country | Philippines | District | 3830 | | Training Audience | Club level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Rotary Info | | Best Practice | Our club designed a two-hour PowerPoint module on applying The Four-Way Test to corporate life.The module outlines business ethics training for employees to follow in their business and professional lives. The module was distributed to all the club trainers in our district.
| | Resources | PowerPoint presentation, appreciative inquiry, personal journaling, and brain-based learning approach (caring thinking).
| | Results | Participant feedback : This should be a module for new Rotarians. <br>A non-Rotarian participant stated that the training module should be entitled "What is Life without The Four-Way Test?"<br>Rotarians who had heard about the module, requested copies of the module for their own companies.
| | Contact | PP Marge I. Lamberte | | Web Site | | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | (632) 826-4697 | Fax | (632) 8264697 |
| Club Name | | | Country | Malaysia | District | 3310 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Train the trainer | | Best Practice | First create awareness of the issue, be authentic and be consistent, and commit to action, followed up by critical evaluation. Blow the trumpet when there is a success story to share.
| | Resources | First create awareness of the issue, be authentic and be consistent, and commit to action, followed up by critical evaluation. Blow the trumpet when there is a success story to share. | | Results | Very good
| | Contact | B S Chew | | Web Site | http://www.rotaryeclub3310.org/index.asp | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | | Fax | |
| Club Name | | | Country | USA | District | 6740 | | Training Audience | Zone level | | Type of training | Rotary Foundation, Training tips, Membership development | | Best Practice | A tip for increasing seminar attendance:<br>Our zone held a seminar to increase Rotarians in the areas of membership development and Rotary Foundation support. An attendance competition was issued to all the districts to help increase attendance at this seminar.
| | Resources | As an award for the attendance competition, one district offered a chance to win a week at the vacation home of a Rotarian to those who attended the seminar from the district.
| | Results | Attendance at the seminar was very high. Many who had not attended a seminar before left with comments like, I should have come here years ago!<br>The district that had the vacation home attendance competition had almost three times the attendance of the other districts.
| | Contact | Joseph P. Bark, DG 6740 | | Web Site | | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | 859-221-9492 | Fax | 859-278-9492 |
| Club Name | | | Country | Philippines | District | 3790 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Membership development, Training tips, Rotary Info | | Best Practice | Club Designated May as the Protocol Month. We secured copies of Protocol for Philippine Rotary Clubs drawn by the Committee created by the Philippine College of Rotary Governors. We discussed the provisions in the club in several parts. Open forum was conducted after each lecture during the month of May. We were able to correct wrong practices in Rotary Conduct of meetings and entertainment. Review of Rotary Basic courtesies improved the members conduct in the club and when attenting other rotary clubs and functions.
| | Resources | Protocol for Philippine Rotary Clubs.<br>We invited one of the Past District Governors as resourse person. He was one of the members of the committee created by the Philippine College of Rotary Governors. He donated funds for the printing of a pamphlet on Rotary Protocol
| | Results | This yearly review of protocol enhanced and updated the members' knowledge on rotary basic courtesies.<br>Conduct of meeting proceedings were ironed out to conform with acceptable behaviors in rotary functions.
| | Contact | Reynaldo M. Abellada | | Web Site | | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | | Fax | |
| Club Name | | | Country | Philippines | District | 3810 | | Training Audience | Club level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Rotary Info, Incoming Officer | | Best Practice | Pre-PETS - Presidents-elect training and fellowship<br>For the past two Rotary years (2003-05), with the consent of the incumbent governor, we trained our presidents-elect once a month starting in July.<br>Each monthly meeting is divided into two parts: 45-minute discussion of a Rotary topic and 1.5-hours of fellowship. The topics include basic Rotary information, leadership, membership, Foundation Matching Grants, successful service projects, and stewardship of Foundation funds.
| | Resources | Downloadable Power Point presentations from the Rotary E-Learning Center at www.rotary.org, knowledgeable past district governors, and our district policy manual and practices.<br>Tools: Computer, LCD, overhead projector, white board, and handouts.
| | Results | By the time presidents-elect attend their presidents-elect training seminar (PETS) in March, there is a strong bond and visible confidence among them.<br>We have a very successful district in terms of excellent membership development, outstanding participation in Foundation programs, and effective service projects undertaken by clubs.
| | Contact | PDG Rudy Estrellado | | Web Site | http://luisiana.rpweb.org/rudy_estrellado.htm | E-mail | web@rotary.org | | Phone | 632-842-3299 | Fax | 632-809-4506 |
| Club Name | | | Country | United States | District | 5180 | | Training Audience | District level | | Type of training | Leadership Development, Training tips, Rotary Info, Train the trainer, Rotary Foundation, Incoming Officer | | Best Practice | STRS (Success Through Rotary Seminars) was developed in District 5180 in 2004. It is offered to Rotarians within our District and has been taught to Rotarians in neighboring District 5170. STRS includes the following modules: Leadership, Communications, Planning & Budgeting, Effective Meetings and Rotary & You. Super STRS includes modules on Social Media, Excel, PowerPoint and Web Master training.
| | Resources | We originally looked at PRLS (Potential Rotary Leaders Seminar) from a neighboring District. We took some of their ideas, added some of our own and continue to improve both our offerings and our instructors. | | Results | We have trained over 500 Rotarians in the past 7 years. We believe that STRS and Super STRS make Rotary more effective in our District and therefore make our District more effective in doing the work of Rotary | | Contact | Sam J. Anderson | | Web Site |
http://rotary5180.net | E-mail | sander5719@aol.com | | Phone | 916-718-3956 | Fax | N/A |
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