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YARRA BEND16 SEPTEMBER 2015

BULLETINVOLUME 16 ISSUE 12

VOX POPWITH JOHN ORR

RYPSTHE ROTARY YOUTH PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAM

YARRA BEND EXECUTIVE

President Justin Wibrow

Vice President Tony Boyd

Secretary David Shave

Treasurer John Pocock

President Elect Clinton Sceney

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

K. R. (Ravi) Ravindran

DISTRICT GOVERNOR

Julie Mason

ASSISTANT GOVERNOR

Gabe Hau

CLUB AVENUES OF SERVICE

Community Bob Lambert

Club Service Darren Grevis-James

Foundation Clinton Sceney

International Isabel Armer

Vocational Matt Pollard

Youth Anne Brown

CLUB PROTECTION & PRIVACY OFFICER

John Orr

BULLETIN

Editor Darren Grevis-James

Designer Charles Tuchtan

Rotary 2015 - 2016

CLUB BUSINESS & INFORMATIONUP AND COMING SPEAKERS 23-Sep Ian Penrose, 2015 Boroondara Citizen of the Year, Retired Keeper of the Yarra River.

30-Sep Clint Sceney, Our round Australia trip

7-Oct RC Woodend visits Yarra Bend

14-Oct Vocational visit to the Tram Museum, followed by a fellowship dinner.

21-Oct Club forum.

UP AND COMING EVENTS 23-Sep Yammer final introduction workshop 8-8.45pm

30-Sep Video filming of YB members

9-Oct Hat Day For details click here

14-Oct Vocational Visit: Melbourne Tramways Museum

28-Oct Boroondara Emergency Services Awards

4-Nov Oak’s Eve dinner function

25-Nov District Governor Visit

16-Dec Christmas Party

12&13-Mar Rotary District 9800 Conference in Bendigo. Click here for more

MEETING DUTY ROSTERChair & Gong Thought Member’s

MomentSet Up/Pack Up

Bulletin Notes

23-Sep Mark Miller David Chivers Anne Brown Darren G-James Ken Maher

30-Sep Charle Tutchan David Shave John Pocock Bob Lambert Edda Williams

7-Oct Ed Brown Bob Lambert MUNA Clint Sceney Matt Pollard

21-Oct David Shave Darren G-James Bob Lambert Charles Tuchtan Anne Brown

28-Oct Ed Brown Mark Miller Bob Lambert Bob Lambert Mark Miller

4-Nov Darren G-James Bill chow Edda Williams Clint Sceney Isabel Armer

CAMBERWELL SUNDAY MARKET 13-Sep Tony Boyd

20-Sep David Shave

27-Oct Clint Sceney

4-Oct William Liew

11-Oct Justin Wibrow

18-Oct Charles Tuchtan

25-Oct Jane Stott

1-Nov David Chivers

PRESIDENT’S

8-Nov Ed Brown

15-Nov Bill Chow / John Pocock

22-Nov Irene Leung

29-Nov Bob Lambert

6-Dec Jane Stott (Ken Maher Swap)

13-Dec Mark Miller

20-Dec Market Closed

27 Dec John Orr

* 14-Oct Vocational Visit

MESSAGE

Thought of the week (Anne Brown)

As we progress our bulletin to becoming a marketing tool that faces outwards it’s interesting how much ‘club business’ I have to share this week! Perhaps these very happenings confirm our very active club and encourage readers that are not Rotarians to consider visiting our club and seeing for yourself what we are up and how you too can contribute.

The end of September sees the filming of our member interview videos. At this week’s meeting I sought to confirm those willing to be interviewed. This week I will seek to lock in agreed times for each contributing member for the 30 September video shoot.if you have not previously expressed interest a find

would like to be part of the fun please let me know at this week’s meeting.

Yammer is certainly proving a useful and popular tool, well done to members who have quickly adopted to this format. Yammer training is scheduled for 8pm this Wednesday 23rd after our club meeting, if you are yet to try this innovation why not stay on and get aquatinted?

The Yarra Bend Rotary website is our next target for ‘modernisation’, I have secured some generous support of a web designer who will be able to provide the technical assistance we need. To lessen his burden after such a generous offer it would be great if a number of members would be willing to assist with the development of our ‘wireframe’ for the new site. Please indicate your interest on yammer or by sending me an email.

For a number of weeks now the Membership and fundraising

committees have sought to meet with varied success. I encourage all members to assist in one or both of these committees making a contribution to whatever extent your current time capacity allows.

Our 2nd Boorondara Emergency Services Awards (BESA) event is almost upon us. As our Club’s signature event its success requires your support and attendance. Details on BESA are outlined within this bulletin including how to reserve your place.

I’m also very glad to announce that after a period of member consultation and feedback the executive recently ratified the Yarra Bend Rotary Privacy policy and associated release form. A copy of the release form is available on yammer and will also be emailed to members in due course. Please complete this form and return to John Orr at soon as possible.

See you Wednesday - Justin

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I joined my father in the family recruitment business in January 1970. Back then it was the Payroll clerk, responsible to the Accountant. This then gravitated to Personnel Manager, still usually reporting to a finance executive. Over the past 20 years, in recognition of the need to broaden the role, it is now mostly described as Human Resources Manager

The term resources, when related to people, drew some criticism because

it dehumanised the emotional aspects of the human spirit. However, any small businessman recognises the importance of generating a productive outcome from what is often a major expenditure of the business.

How often do we hear the statement - “In our business our most important asset is our employees”., particularly in an annual report to shareholders. The irony of this remark is, the value of employees is not recorded either in the asset register, or, the balance sheet. This is predominantly due to the finance gurus being unable to embrace the concept of Human Resource Accounting.

Fascinatingly, the means of production, represented by physical assets, are depreciated every year and, attention to the average length of service of employees actually increases the value of this cohort.

To emphasise the importance of giving greater priority to the function of employee satisfaction, the cost of an individual employee is between 50-100% more than their base salary. This means a person on an average wage, is costing their employer between $110,000 and $150,000 per year. Given a 5 year length of employment, the company will be expending around a half a million dollars.

My main message is to compare the process between what happens when an outlay of a significant capital expenditure is contemplated, with the process when engaging a new employee.

In the former situation, the following process is common. A number of highly qualified people prepare a detailed specification, based on a thorough cost/benefit analysis, then a number of suppliers are invited to quote and finally, the committee makes a joint decision.

When recruiting a new employee,

rarely is there a position description, outlining the role and the expected outcomes, merely a list of the tasks involved. Almost never is there a person profile, describing the characteristics which an applicant must have, supported by those characteristics which would be desirable. Why? Because the line manager is not trained in the personnel function, is barely experienced in interview techniques and is often the unilateral decision maker.

It gets worse. After the resources of personal contacts within the industry and, friends and family of current

employees, has been exhausted, then perhaps an advertisement is drafted. Employment advertisements most often extol the characteristics of the company and those required from applicant and, rarely do they describe what an applicant might benefit from in joining up. Significantly, the decision will be risk averse and rely on the applicants previous experience being consistent with what the job requires. This can lead to an early departure because there is a lack of challenge and stretch.

David ShaveMembers Moment

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VOX POPwith John Orr

 

 

Join  us  for  the  

2015  Boroondara  Emergency  Services  Awards  

Wednesday  28  October  2015  at  6.30pm  for  7.00pm  

Amora  Hotel  649  Bridge  Road  Richmond  

Designed  to  recognise  members  of  our  emergency  services  who  exceed  the  normal  demands  of  their  employment  and  deliver  “Service  Above  Self”  to  the  benefit  of  the  local  community,  the  Awards  are  judged  by  a  panel  comprising  senior  officers  of  the  emergency  services  and  Yarra  Bend  

Rotary  officials  

The  awards  will  be  presented  at  a  gala  dinner  by  the  relevant  State  Ministers  and  the  Victorian  Emergency  Management  Commissioner  

 Mr  Craig  Lapsley  

Ceremony  and  three  course  dinner  at  $50.00  per  person.  

Bookings  via  TryBooking  http://www.trybooking.com/151850  

 For  payment  by  bank  transfer  please  include  your  surname  and  BESA  as  payment  details  to  the  account  of  Yarra  Bend  Rotary  

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Want  to  know  more?  Email  yarrabend@rotarydistrict9800.org.au  

     

   

How long have you been a Rotarian?

I became a Rotarian after I first retired from full time work in late 2007. I joined in 2008 but I can’t recall the date.

What’s your favourite club role you have held in rotary?

As members know my wife and I travel a lot. We’re away over 100 nights per year so this makes it difficult for me to perform a Director role. However I was Director Vocational Services for two years and was very involved in the Careers Week for Moira Youth (2009 to 2012) and the John Reddish Service Excellence Awards. I particularly enjoy working with young people in a vocational sense.

What are you working on right now?

I am currently mentoring a Swinburne Rotoractor and have enjoyed being a mentor and mentoring facilitator. I am also involved in the Club History project and expect to do a lot of proof reading for that project.

What’s your favourite project that you have worked on?

I particularly enjoyed the Moira Youth project because it involved so many people and different activities and provided a real vocational benefit to participants. Now, I enjoy being involved in mentoring and hope to be more involved in the future.

What are you excited about working on next?

I’m excited to be involved in mentoring. I also enjoy the various activities the club is involved in – barbecues, Kew High School, community projects etc.

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Thought of the Week: MP Kumawat

Yarra Bend Rotary was given a detailed briefing this week about the Rotary Youth Public Speaking Program (RYPS) by two guests from the Hoppers Crossing Rotary Club.

Des O’Shanassy and Doug Greig, both members of the District 9800 RYPS committee outlined how RYPS works and how it benefits school students.

Des said the RYPS Committee is keen to get new secondary college public speaking competitions underway, providing school students of all ages from within District 9800 boundaries an opportunity to develop their public speaking skills in front of live audiences.

“Public Speaking is an essential and important life skill, - young people will be called on to present, on countless occasions in the future, at university, in the work place, and socially, and there are only a few opportunities for them to develop these important skills within the school Curriculum,“ Des said.

There are currently two Rotary Youth Public Speaking programs. They are the Wyndham Youth Public Speaking Competition - known as WynSpeak which is hosted by the Rotary club of Hoppers Crossing and the Ainger Public Speaking Award jointly hosted by Rotary clubs of Richmond and

Melbourne Park. WynSpeak is the template District 9800 endorsed Youth Program for what is now known as the Rotary Youth Public Speaking Program (or RYPS) -

Both speaker programs have been very successful. WynSpeak has grown enormously in the past 12 years according to Des. “More than 30 Secondary colleges and Grammar schools with both junior and senior students have participated in this speaking competition.” WynSpeak is open to all secondary school students and has two main groups - Junior Program and Senior Program. The Junior Program is for students in Year

7 to Year 9. The Senior Program is for students in Year 10 to Year 12.

In general, the schools nominate senior and junior secondary school students who then participate in the speaking competitions.

The WynSpeak format is divided into two sections in which each student must participate. The first section is for a five minute speech with topics of the students’ own choice and the second section, a short notice program.

In order to encourage students to participate, they choose their own topics except those involving party political, religious bias, and any other topics likely to alienate certain sections of the audience.

“In District 9800, we’re encouraging clubs to introduce similar competitions into other areas of our District boundaries possibly within cluster boundaries, to maximise the number of colleges in each competition,” Des said.

“We’re attempting to provide a valued resource for colleges in training their students in public speaking in a non threatening environment. We are coming from a very sound base of

two very successful competitions which have been running for many years - and we know already that schools embrace these existing competitions as a genuine benefit to their students.”

Des said some sixty colleges have supported the concept, and District 9800 believe there are opportunities to encourage new schools to participate which will in turn grow and develop the RYPS program into the future.

“Hopefully the pilot speaker competition that Yarra Bend club might consider could be the catalyst for a future long standing Youth Project in your own club and perhaps our vision of a District 9800 wide final in the future with competitors coming from other youth public speaking competitions,” he suggested.

Des said a side benefit for clubs participating in the RYPS program can develop an association and relationship with local colleges, making it much easier to promote other Rotary Youth Projects. ROTARY YOUTH

PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAMDes O’Shanassy and Doug Greig

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Rotary Club of Yarra BendABN 97 325 138 640Chartered 16th June 1986 District 9800

PO Box 271Kew East, Vic 3102Australia

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K.R. Ravindran2015-16 President Rotary International

Rotary International2015-16 President’s Theme

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