00:26:09 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: San Diego/Imperail County CA 00:26:35 Tom Gump: What departments do you oversee at Rotary? 00:26:41 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: Do a great job to make PE experience/training/learning fun and not overwhelming 00:26:51 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Tina Curtis, Walnut, IL Goal for Midwest PETS, be spectacular to inspire our PE's 00:27:09 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Chuck Udell in NE Kansas. Would like to see our PE’s understand the importance of the RI Action Plan and get enthused about it. 00:27:10 Ralph Brandt Empire MDPELS Chair: Empire MDPELS, most of upstate NY. Focusing on the Action Plan. 00:27:11 Deb Birdsall, DGE Mid-South PETS: Deb Birdsall, Middle Tennessee. Providing succinctly the best operating procedures for my PEs. 00:27:13 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: Fairhope, Alabama, DGE District 6880, goal is to make PETS even more amazing then last year. 00:27:20 Elayne Bozick: Youngstown OH Would love to see more then 50% attendance from ALL our District throughout 00:27:26 William Mercantini President NJ Rotary 2026-2027: William J. Bill Mercantini District President of NJ Rotary which is a merger of 7490-7505 Hammer home the Rotary Action Plan 00:27:27 PDGLinda Puchbauer, Show Me: Cape Girardeau Missouri, SouthEastern Missouri I want all clubs to have all their goals entered by the time they leave PETS/PELS 00:27:40 Rita Esterly, Show Me Rotary: Help the communication between presidents flow so ideas are shared. 00:27:42 Peter Nelson: INtegrate the club goals to the Rotary priorities. 00:27:42 Alicia Hannon D7620 Learning Facilitator: Rotary Club of Rockville, MD Past Club President D7620’s District Learning Facilitator Goal: To make PETS more interactive for participants 00:27:51 LuAnn Miller District 5340: LuAnn Miller Coronado, CA. Great AG program 00:27:58 Luke Kehoe: St. Peters Missouri. Make people feel like they are an important part of Rotary. 00:28:29 Rick Reigner, DGE D6440: Have PE's leave with a grasp of the Action Plan as an essential tool to help their clubs achieve their goals. 00:28:43 Deb West LOL PELS: Deb West, Land of Lincoln PELS, Illinois and Indiana, help presidents set and enter goals, prepare them to lead clubs and become more involved in district leadership 00:28:50 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Nora - Hope get your contact info, please 00:29:04 ROBERT MARTINEZ: San Antonio, Texas. I want to energize the presidents 00:29:22 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Reacted to "San Antonio, Texas. ..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:30:11 Kyle Haugen, North Central PELS Chair: Kyle Haugen, North Central PELS...keep the momentum going off of last year and don't lose money. (And give the attendees a great experience that they tell others in their club that they need to come next time) 00:32:03 Naomi Masuno D5000: Goals should be developed by the incoming board, not by the PE alone 00:33:01 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Reacted to "Goals should be deve..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:33:42 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Conducting one on ones with PE’s can be very helpful re input. It helped me 00:34:59 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: Reacted to "San Antonio, Texas. ..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:36:15 Tom Gump: Reacted to "San Antonio, Texas. ..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 00:36:23 Ralph Brandt Empire MDPELS Chair: Urge clubs to achieve the Club Excellent Award because it helps them set goals. 00:36:27 Tom Gump: Reacted to "Urge clubs to achiev..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 00:37:26 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Reacted to "Urge clubs to achiev..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:39:41 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: thank you Larry.... Membership is the cure 00:40:09 Tom Gump: Reacted to "thank you Larry.... ..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 00:41:02 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: more members, more good things, more foundation giving. etc.... 00:41:27 Tom Gump: So true Steve! 00:41:37 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Reacted to "more members, more g…" with πŸ‘ 00:41:46 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Reacted to "thank you Larry.... …" with πŸ‘ 00:41:49 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: Reacted to "So true Steve!" with πŸ‘ 00:41:50 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Reacted to "Urge clubs to achiev…" with πŸ‘ 00:42:33 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Reacted to "more members, more g..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:43:56 Deb West LOL PELS: will these slides be available for us? 00:44:00 Julie Sawyer DGE - D7545: Membership is the core to everything…more members = more hands to do service & more members to give to foundation 00:44:18 Tom Gump: Reacted to "Membership is the co..." with ❀️ 00:45:38 Chuck Udell - D5710 Governor & Heartland PETS: Thank you Nora for a super great presentation- I am sorry I got to run to another zoom Thank you for recording. 00:45:38 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: I so understand the goal setting, in my District, and from what I hear from many districts this step just doesn't happen. Could we consider shortening the goals and setting to gaining membership, having fun and spreading Rotary happiness 00:49:36 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: ahh, but you said that, maybe accidentally but it does at times appear to be membership vs foundation 00:49:50 Randy Hart, Southwest PELS: Excellent Ralph, couldn't agree with you more! 00:51:44 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: Reacted to "Excellent Ralph, cou..." with πŸ‘ 00:53:40 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: MAP yes, if someone looks at this, they might find it overwhelming to focus on growing membership knowing what retention historically has ran. Saying this comes the having fun, engagement in order to hopefully reduce attrition 00:55:37 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: I dont think anyone is saying dont set goals, I do believe that we d\ 00:56:00 Julie Sawyer DGE - D7545: How many of you have 100% participation from clubs at PETS/PELS? 00:56:43 Deb Birdsall, DGE Mid-South PETS: Never 100%. But at least 90%. 00:57:36 Julie Sawyer DGE - D7545: Reacted to "Never 100%. But at ..." with πŸ‘ 00:58:44 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: we are close-if the pe cant attend we try to arrange them to go to another pels in zone last resort is a virtual pels that is virtual, last last is one on one with DGE 00:59:26 Julie Sawyer DGE - D7545: Reacted to "we are close-if the ..." with πŸ‘ 00:59:29 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: satellite or companion clubs and set up a networking group... 00:59:42 Tom Gump: Reacted to "satellite or compani..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 01:00:25 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: get to 20 and create a new club, there isn't one way, but many ways, and avenues to take to grow 01:01:06 Andrea Krauss: Replying to "get to 20 and create..." Only need 15 to start a new club now. 01:01:22 Tom Gump: Reacted to "Only need 15 to star..." with ❀️ 01:02:39 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: community based Rotaract but really a companion club, will do exactly what you are talking about. In Birmingham, AL there is a community based Rotarct Club, that does network, leadership and creating business relationships while doing good things that has over 200 members 01:02:39 Elayne Bozick: Professional skills development - VocationL SERVICE 01:04:05 Mary Beth Growney Selene: How are all these great ideas going to be incorporated in the Multi-District PETS/PELS curriculum? 01:04:36 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: well, MId South Pets is doing just this. Also, in our District breakouts 01:06:30 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: what, I have to do more as a DG 01:06:41 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: Reacted to "what, I have to do m..." with πŸ˜‚ 01:06:42 Nora Zei: Reacted to "what, I have to do m..." with πŸ˜‚ 01:07:09 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Replying to "Never 100%. But at ..." 90-95% 01:07:22 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: Reacted to "Never 100%. But at ..." with πŸ‘ 01:07:25 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: Reacted to "90-95%" with πŸ‘ 01:08:32 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Reacted to "Only need 15 to star..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 01:10:17 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: while true our giving per member has gone up over the year, while our membership goes down. So we end up giving more with less. So why not add more so that with a little more from new members creates a bigger number for the district to use for future goals 01:11:05 William Mercantini President NJ Rotary 2026-2027: Another factor that can really help is to lead by example. 01:12:14 Luke Kehoe: Great question Deb! 01:12:42 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: I would love a more strategic campaign using a better marketing idea, one that hits home with the 30 plus crowd 01:13:01 Tom Gump: Mary Beth, We are currently going through the surveys from last year's MDP Alliance's annual meeting to determine what the PELS organizers want in terms of curriculum. Also, Andrea Krauss is on this webinar and she is taking notes to be sure she hears everyone. She is head of our Curriculum Committee. She will then meet with the MDP Alliance's Curriculum Committee, then the committee is going to meet with Kimberly Koume in RI's Learning Department, to see what we present at our annual planning meeting in July. In the mean time, we will try to get an email out to our members asking what curriculum they are interested in. 01:13:27 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: the photos of us old people giving someone a polio vaccine while amazing, just isn't a selling point to create new members ... 01:14:10 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: especially to a thirty something 01:14:54 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: and I am one of the old people by the way 01:15:06 Deb West LOL PELS: Sorry to leave - good information 01:15:20 Kyle Haugen, North Central PELS Chair: Jean.Saunders@rotary.org 01:15:35 Nora Zei: Reacted to "Jean.Saunders@rotary..." with ❀️ 01:15:44 jeb bakke D5340E San Diego/Imperial CA: thanks for this session i have my next call to go to-appreciate the dialog 01:16:15 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: preach William..... 01:16:23 Nora Zei: Reacted to "preach William....." with ❀️ 01:16:25 Elayne Bozick: How many clubs look to their communities to recognize and them meet a need? I ask because "an active club is an attractive club". Our clubs are attractive when we actually provide a much needed service. We attract and engage when more and more people when Rotary is recognized as an integral and vital part of our community. The passion this inspires can translate into membership growth and increased contributions. Rotary cannot be an esoteric exercise. 01:17:05 Mike Brown | All Ohio: The recording of todays presentation will be posted to the MDP Alliance website within 24 hours. https://www.petsalliance.org/ 01:17:56 Elayne Bozick: Reacted to "The recording of tod..." with πŸ‘πŸ» 01:18:46 Alicia Hannon D7620 Learning Facilitator: Thank you! I enjoyed this meeting. I have to leave now for another meeting. 01:18:48 Deb Birdsall, DGE Mid-South PETS: Please post Nora's slides as well. Thank you. 01:19:00 Steve Weaver DGE 6880: thank you for letting me rant via chat.... we can do great things 01:19:05 Tina Curtis, DGE District 6420: Thanks Tom! 01:19:23 Nora Zei: Thank you for the great work you all do!