NOVEMBER 3, 2015 ROTARY IN REVIEW:
David Horsager

Jim Delamater, Independent Insurance and Investment Representative, lead the introduction of guests. Of particular note in attendance, was District Governor Marlene Gargulak, who had come especially to hear our speaker today.

President Carla urged members to complete the Membership Survey if they had not already done so. She also asked that we all keep reaching out to potential members.

Jim Delamater, Independent Insurance and Investment Representative, spoke about the Rotary International Foundation. He mentioned just a few of the world wide projects funded by the Foundation, including training teacher is South Africa, water projects, and the almost complete elimination of polio. He then explained the levels of giving. Once a person’s accumulated giving reaches $1,000, that person qualifies for a Paul Harris Fellow award. This can be done in one year or over several years. If a person donates $1,000 in a single Rotary year, they become members of the Paul Harris Society. Both of these honors are named after the founder of Rotary.

Jim asked that all Paul Harris fellows and Society members wear their pins during the month of November. He pointed out that for our President Carla to receive and Presidential Citation for her year of leadership, a certain number of us have to contribute to the International Foundation. He asked us to honor Carla by doing this.

As an incentive, he challenged members to contribute $500 by the end of November. He said that he would match the first three people to make such a contribution, thereby qualifying them for a Paul Harris award.

Jason DeKueuster, Financial Planning, promoted the upcoming Holiday Party. It will be held at the Commodore and will be one of the first events held after its remodeling. He said he would do his very best to make it cooler by then so it felt more like the holidays. Not everybody was excited by this pledge. He also asked for more donations for the silent auction and said that people who could not bring them to a meeting could drop off donations at the Park Square Theater, where they will be kept until the party

Jay Pfaender, Drake Bank, promoted our speaker for next week. See the description on our web page.

During Happy Dollars, Scott Van said that he was donating $100 to help with the water project in Bolivia that we are sponsoring. He challenged other members to make a similar contribution.

The President of the St. Paul Sunrise Rotary Club promoted an event at the Gordon Parks High School that her club is sponsoring on November 10th from 5-7. Honored guests will be Seitu Jones, community artist and Robin Hickman, niece of Gordon Parks. There will also be great food and drink as well as music with fellow Rotarian, Brian David Muller. Tickets are only $30. The money raised will be matched by the St. Paul Schools for art works and signage at the school.

Bob Cardinal, Calhoun Companies, introduced our speaker David Horsager. Mr. Horsager is head of Horsager Leadership, Inc.

Mr. Horsager’s work, and the work of his company, is all about trust. He has a new book out The Daily Edge, a follow up work to his first book, The Trust Edge.

Mr. Horsager talked about the importance of trust in business as well as personal relationships. Last year Forbes said that “trust” was the word of the year. Finally, people are talking about the importance of trust. You cannot have engagement without trust. Everything comes down to trust in life and in business.

Just ask Volkswagen, Brian Williams, and Tiger Woods if trust is important. They all suffered serious loss when they lost trust.

The most efficient environments are built on trust. Where trust is not present, money and time need to be spent on security or preventative measures.

Trust is a confident belief in a: (fill in)

As trust increases in an organization, revenue, innovation, productivity, moral, loyalty, and output increase.

As trust decreases in an organization costs and problems increase.

Countries with high levels of trust in civil society have lower levels of poverty.

The first pillar of trust is clarity. To have trust you first must have clarity. People trust businesses and proposals that are clear and mistrust ambiguity and excessive complexity. Every time customers meet ambiguity, they have a decrease in trust.

One way to be clear is to have plans that take 90 days. A year is too long and 21 days is too short. Most change doesn’t happen in 21 days, even though some motivational speakers say it does. 90 days is short enough to stay focused and long enough to do something.

He has a 90 quick plan in his latest book. He will tell us questions three through six.

The third question to ask when developing your plan is “Why”. This was the question that Larry King used to become a famous interviewer.

If you have a strong enough “why”, you have the motivation you need.

However, his favorite question is “how am I going to get there”. That is question number four, and question number five and question number six. You keep asking how, until you get to an answer that can be done today or tomorrow. You need a specific how, not a generality. This is the work of clarity. When you have clarity, you have hope.

The other pillars of trust are:

2. Compassion: People trust people who care beyond themselves.
3. Character: It is the work of life to do what is right, not what is easy. We should seek satisfaction not pleasure.
4. Competence
5. Commitment: People trust those who stay in the face of adversity.
6. Connection: The ability to connect and collaborate with others. The most magnetic trait of all time is gratitude.
7. Contribution
8. Consistency: We trust sameness. This is why we cannot stand moody people. It is better to be always crabby than moody. It is the little things done consistently that make the biggest difference.

See his website www.trustedge.com

President Carla showed our gratitude for Mr. Horsager with a contribution to the Reading Together Program at the St. Paul Public Library in his name.

Respectfully submitted,

Al Zdrazil