In review

 

The program speaker at the June 7 Rotary Club of Edina meeting was Arlene Vernon. She is a human resource strategist with over 30 years of experience as a consultant and trusted resource for a diverse group of small and medium-sized organizations. In her talk, she explored how the #metoo movement impacts us as organizational leaders and what, if anything, we’re doing about it.

 

Rotarian Dave Phillips gave his Classification Talk at the meeting.

 

Rotary Global Scholar Alexandra Bader shared with us her experience studying in Sweden.

 

Honorary Rotarian Elizabeth Anderson received her first Paul Harris Fellow from The Rotary Foundation Director for our club, David Clynes. Still time to donate to TRF this Rotary year!

 

The Community Service—Local Funding Committee presented grant checks to the Alzheimer's Association of Minnesota–North Dakota and VEAP.

 

 

 

Guests at the meeting were:

 

Two upcoming events were shared:

 

Treasurer Josh Sprague encouraged everyone to sign up for automatic payments to pay quarterly dues...it's easy and it's free!!

 

Alexandra Bader, who was a Rotary Global Scholar, thanked the Club for her Global Grant Scholarship, which she used to study in Stockholm, Sweden. She is studying to become a doctor.

 

Dave Phillips gave his Classification Talk at the meeting. His classification is Real Estate Law (retired). He claims to be almost as old as Gordy and thats why he joined Rotary just last year!

 

Two local grants were presented by the Community Service—Local Funding Committee. Joe Arends gave VEAP a check for $6,000. And Tom Bach gave the Alzheimer's Association of Minnesota–North Dakota a grant of $2,000.

 

The guest speaker at the meeting, Arlene Vernon,  informed us about sexual harassment within the workplace—#metoo—an international movement against sexual harassment and assault.

 

We, as business owners, leaders, and managers need to be very conscious of the issues within our organizational culture.

 

Therefore we really need to step into our organizational culture from the employee’s mind. We need to match our organizational culture to our intent. This includes zero tolerance of harassing, bullying and other uncivil behavior of coworkers, management, clients, vendors and volunteers.

 

Arlene explained it is conduct that involves unwelcome and unsolicited sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other undesired verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Especially if submission to such conduct is a condition of employment or if rejection of this conduct is used as the basis for employment or other personnel decisions. Such conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with the recipients work performance or creating a hostile environment.

 

 

She implored us to look deep within your organization—what does your mirror say? Observe, assess and act!