TRG training Leaders
Rotary International Initiates Broad- Based Planning
By Marc P. Chinoy
Regis Group President
The Rotary Clubs of America have requested that all local Rotary clubs engage in strategic planning efforts. The basic principles were laid out in preliminary form earlier this year with a mandate that local clubs initiate individual planning.
The Daybreak Rotary Club of Leesburg, Virginia has responded by working directly with TRG to develop a multi-year strategic plan to be supported by shifts in internal plan management methods.
The TRG Planning Model
The result has been a projected direction for the group in the form of a Strategic Plan. The 2011-2015 Leesburg Daybreak Rotary Strategic Plan follows the TRG planning model and has led to the initiation of a project to offer training to leaders throughout the region who wish to master advanced group facilitation skills.
The effort will include presentation of the TRG's long range planning model used for the club and crafted to support the growth of small to mid-sized businesses.
Richard Storey, of The Leesburg Daybreak Rotary Club noted, “in the past each year we have 'reinvented the wheel' with no long-term goals and objectives. We are now in a position to have a focus going forward that includes a strategic plan with short and long-term goals. This provides us with a 'critical Path' to follow and further adjust as we move forward.“
The TRG model has been used continuously for years by groups of all sizes around the world, ranging from the World Health Organization to the Bell Telephone System to the Loudoun County Child Protective Services and the Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center.
The first training sessions will take place in early 2011 at sites to be announced jointly by The Leesburg Daybreak Rotary Club and TRG. For more information please visit our website at www.regisgroup.com
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January Agenda!
The End Game
By David Basch
Regis Group Affiliate
An Innovative Exploration“The End Game: A Death You Can Live With” is an interactive group session developed and presented by Diana Freid of New York State. This workshop has proven to be a rare opportunity for anyone who is concerned about dying, whose death is immanent, or who knows anyone close to dying, to explore feelings, thoughts and beliefs about death in an innovative way. Participants in the pilot sessions in 2010 gained working knowledge of the means to prepare for and deal with the death of loved ones, and how to “make friends with death in a safe, supportive community atmosphere.”The Community ServedThe program was designed to be inter-generational and cross cultural. Versions have been customized for specific communities, e.g. over 50's, specific religious affiliations, people with terminal diagnosis, adult children with aging parents, green groups, spiritual communities, small communities interested in a "natural" at home death experience, as well as medical doctors and nurses, and young adults. User-friendly Documents The initiating workshops were held in Ulster County, New York, immediately north of NYC, and included the distribution of user-friendly documents and suggestions for how to find legal assistance.Next StepsDavid Basch of The Regis Group. Inc. is currently working with the founder, Diana Freid, in developing the program for adaption in communities throughout the region and around the nation.“We can all benefit from this innovative approach to a tough subject not far from all of us at all times,” said David Bash.A Rare OpportunityThis is a rare opportunity for readers of The Agenda to support a venture of significant need by helping to organize placement in your own communities.For more information please contact us at toll free at 1-800-97-3447 or send us an email at infotrg@regisgroup.com.
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Focus on the Future
Guest Predictions:
Eric Zimmerman
Guest Predictions is a regular feature in which we ask leaders in a number of professions questions that affect us all.
Eric Zimmerman
Eric has been a member of the Loudoun County Bar Association since 1975. He has served that organization as Secretary and as past member of the Judicial Selection Committee. He also has been appointed by the local judges to serve as a Commissioner in Chancery for the Court. He currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar.
Eric served as President of the Greater Loudoun Babe Ruth World Series at which time the National World Series for 16-year olds was held in Virginia for the first time. As a result of that effort he was named 1999 Loudoun County Citizen of the Year.
Q: What changes in your professional environment in the past 3-5 years have you found to be the most beneficial?
A: The ease of acquiring and conveying information has made a significant change to the practice of law. Rather than having to maintain an extensive library of legal publications and treatises, one can access the same and more via the internet. Secondly, the speed with which one can communicate with others is astounding. When I began practicing law over 35 years ago, other than a telephone exchange, the only means of communicating a thought or position, whether to the client or to an opposing attorney, was by mail. That was accelerated by the facsimile machine, and now email gives instantaneous contact.
Q: What changes have been the most troubling to you?
A: In some regards I see a lack of civility. This is not always the case and in fact in the environment in which I operate (mostly on a localized level) the legal professionals with whom I deal are generally gracious. However, I am seeing more occasions that an “ends justifies the means” approach is adopted. Secondly, the internet is our best friend and our worst enemy. All too often lay persons feel they can handle their own legal matters without the assistance of an attorney. (See, for example, legalzoom.com)
Q: How will globalization affect your professional area in the near term?
A: Aside from the matter of access to information and communication, I do not believe “globalization” will impact my practice. Again, my practice is more local.
Q: What significant challenges might be anticipated in your professional area in the next few years?
A: I fear society will continue to erode the sense of value the public feels it receives from competent legal advice. As mentioned above, since so much information is available to a computer user, some of which information may be in error, people will avoid utilizing an attorney in situations that require one. On the other hand, my profession has to figure out a way to make access to such advice more affordable. Sadly, legal service has gotten too expensive for the ordinary person or family.
Q: What are the greatest challenges confronting young professionals in Western culture today?
A: My comment perhaps is not much different from most professions. The older I get the more I realize the irreplaceable value of experience. Law schools continue to churn out new attorneys, all of whom believe they are a gift to society (comes with the narcissistic territory), but they have no idea truly how to advise their clients, complete with nuances and credible arguments.
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Marc Chinoy
President's Letter
A Significant Conversion
As promised in previous Agenda Newsletters, The Regis Group team has begun to convert the methods and working tools by which we have helped to create hundreds of plans for clients around the world into advanced working tools to be provided on our website without obligation to you, our readers.
Plans for the restructure of our nation’s phone system, the coordination of patents throughout Europe, as well as the stabilization and expansion of small to mid-sized local ventures have resulted from the use of these tools.
As a crucial new aspect of these efforts, we have begun to offer training in group planning facilitation capabilities to a broad range of leaders. These efforts started in 2010 with TRG client groups and will now be extended to a wider audience.
TRG is now offering the opportunity for training in the use of a set of business tools, including the ability to facilitate group planning.
Your suggestions and requests as to which tools would benefit you the most will be appreciated.
Best wishes for a safe and successful New Year,
Marc
BizSpeak:
Rain Dance
Definition:
Wild gyrations undertaken in the hopes of turning a business DrySpell into a Grand Feast of new contracts.
Related Terms:
Wishing Well, Opening frenzy, Song and Dance, Leap of Faith
How it Sounds:
“George and Greg have been engaged in a week long RAIN DANCE of proposal writing and calls, hoping scare up six meaningful new contracts from the three Sleeping Giants."
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