DECM 3rd September 2016, Athens

WELCOME TEAM

Robert‘s Rules on

Parliamentary Procedure (rev.)

Joao de Mendonca, DTM

Past District Governor D59

“I move to hold the next District Conference in the Notre Dame in Paris on the 20th December 2017”

I move to amend the motion replacing “Notre Dame” by “Hotel Hilton” and “20th

December” by “2nd December”’

Admendment (1st level)

2

I move to amend the amendment by replacing “2nd December”

by “20th November”’

Admendment (2nd level)

3

No decision is made

just discussion

“I move to hold the next District Conference in the Notre Dame in Paris on the 20th December 2017”

I move to amend the motion replacing “Notre Dame” by “Hotel Hilton” and “20th

of December” by “20th November”

Main Motion

Admendment (1st level)

APPROVED

Admendment (2nd level)Vote on the

amendment (2nd

level)

“I move to hold the next District Conference in the Hotel Hilton in Paris on the 20th November 2017”

APPROVED

Main Motion

Admendment (1st level)

Vote on the

amendment (1st

level)

APPROVED

Main Motion

Vote on the

motion

Out of OrderOne of the most difficult situation in a meeting

When…

- It is moved while a motion of higher precedence is

pending;

- A Member starts discussing another topic;

- Someone has no right to speak;

- Insulting or offend the sense od decency.

The District 59 Core Values

•Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence

•Respect cultural diversity

•Motivate and Invigorate

The DEC Duties

Program Quality Director Goals

Ana Isabel Ferreira

Program Quality Director

District Mission

We build new clubs and support all clubs in

achieving excellence.

District Mission

We build new clubs and support all clubs in

achieving excellence.

Goals

1. Above 50% clubs distinguished

2. Above 85% District Officers trained

Measures

We need

We need

We need

We need

We need

We need

We need

We need

And then …

Strategies

1. Program Quality Network

2. Youth Leadership Programs

3. Special Programs (Speechcraft, Speaker to

Trainer)

4. Conference workshops

5. Learning moments (>6/per club)

Results … so far

Club Officers List Submitted on time

93%District officers trained before September 30th

93%Clubs with minimum of 4 officers trained (1st

round)

>50%

Celebrate

•We will take the occasion and celebrate these

first district achievements at dinner tonight –

all paid by FM!

•Haha. We have deserved it!

Division A Report

• 5 areas, 21 clubs (13 FR, 8 EN)

• Results to build on: 1D - 8 S - 6P

• Division objectives:

• Share information and best practices

• Support understrength clubs (8)

• Raise the quality of DCP clubs

• Focus on education, training and

membership

Division A initiatives:

• Focus on education:

• Promote HPL projects

• Train clubs in education program and DCP

• Focus on training:

• conduct educationals in clubs

• From Trainer to Speaker in

french and english

• First Division TLI in January 2017

• Focus on membership:

• organise demo meetings in understrength and

young clubs

• 20 years club The Europeans

• Conduct Youth Leadership Program

Our prospects:

•Tours (F. Le Reste)

• Paris: french-spanish (HPL N. Damas)

• Corporate prospects (Grand Paris):

• Gemalto (Sylvie Klajman/Carol Bausor)

• Thales Rungis (Rob Johnstone)

• Air Liquide (TBD)

Structured club growth initiative: HPL Sean

Ryan

Division D Report

11 CLUB BASE

OUR GOAL | PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED DIVISION

6 DISTINGUISHED CLUBS + 1 NEW CLUB

5 CLUBS

DISTINGUISHED

7 CLUBS

<20 MEMBERS

LACK OF MOTIVATION | COOPERATION | QUALITY | FRIENDSHIP | FUN

2

0

1

5

-

2

0

1

6

2

0

1

6

-

2

0

1

7

1 CLUB DISTINGUISHED

2 CLUBS 1+ DCP GOALS

5 CLUBS <20 MEMBERS

1 CLUB 5 NEW MEMBERS6 CLUBS

DISTINGUISHED

3 | AREA D1

2 | AREA D2

1 | AREA D3

OUR GOAL | PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED DIVISION

6 DISTINGUISHED CLUBS + 1 NEW CLUB

12 CLUBS

CLUB BASE

11 CLUBS

PAID 30/JUNE

THE SPIRIT OF QUALITY

2

0

1

5

-

2

0

1

6

2

0

1

6

-

2

0

1

7

D2 | SETÚBAL

UNTIL SEPTEMBER

D1 | PMI PORTUGAL

OCTOBER

13 CLUBS

2 NEW

AREA D1

5 | +1

AREA D2

4 | +1

AREA D3

4

D1 | NOVABASE

UNTIL DECEMBER

D1 | GALP

DEMO MEETING

SEPTEMBER

D2 | ATEC

X OCTOBER DUES

Division K - Spain East

DECM, Athens 2016

Emilia FossatiDivision Director K / emilia.fossati@gmail.com

K1K2

K3

K4

Where are we NOW?

17 Clubs

503 members

K1: 155

K2: 118

K3: 95

K4: 135

What are we COOKING? - K1

- K1

Marina TM - K4

Murcia TM - K4

“A journey of a thousand miles

begins with a single step.”

L. Tzu

Spreading the Fun of Learning

Division L Report

Excellence Expansion Community

Communication Easy Speak

Specific objectives

In every area, then in every club:Youth Leadership programs

Speechcraft, Speaker to Trainer, HPL

Evaluation on all meeting roles for CL

In every area:One new charter club + one new prospect club

Club Building

Base: 14 clubs + 4 prospects

Club Building

Charter: Santiago

Charter: Amarante

Charter: Viana

Charter: Torres Novas

Prospects > Charter

Club Building

Prospect: Pombal

Prospect: Caldas da

Rainha

Prospects: Atmosfera M,

Vila do Conde, UPT,

ESTSP, Northern Douro

1 new likely prospect

6 new unsure prospects

Club Building

2017: 18 clubs + 7 prospects

Toastmasters Summit: 2x year

Spreading the Fun of Learning

Division L Report

Division M Report

Magnificent sessions

More clubs

Mind blowing fun!

Division Success Plan

•Quality driven: all club‘s DCP

•Focus on communication

•Support clubs in retention and membership

growth

•Build new clubs

•Promote sharing between clubs and areas

•Bring Toastmasters to school: Youth

Leadership Programme

Club Building

•Challenge

•1 corporate, 1 advanced, 1 community

•Area M1

•Corporate/Advanced

•Area M2

•Corporate/Advanced

•Area M3

•Community

Calendar1.º TLI 02/Jul

2016Fall Conference 29/Oct

National Meeting Conference(L+D+M)

10-11/Dec

Bairrada

2.º TLI 14/Jan

2017Spring Conference 29/Apr

National Meeting Conference(L+D+M)

27-28/May

Mourão

The Magic Team

DivE – Success Plan & Report

September 2016 Sustainable

Growth

2016-17

+++

New Clubs &

Funnel of

Prospective

Clubs

Pan DivE Club

Excellence

Critical

Success

Factors (CSF)

for Corporate

Clubs

New Clubs & Funnel

of Prospective Clubs

• Goal : Charter 4

new clubs &

• Establish at least 2

Prospects

Pan DivE Club Excellence

• Goal : Presidents Distinguished Areas & Division

• 15% Growth• No club with < 20

2 new club locales (Chur and Deloitte), 1st Demo meetings scheduled

ILTM : Prospect, 11 members

COT – ca. 65 officers trained in Fall

1st X-DivE training Summer Debate

Event promote interclub networking

Support Demo & subsequent meetings

Identify 4 locales for Prospects

2 corporate 2 community

TLI in Spring with

Debate or Tall Tales

CH event

Build leadership

pipeline with HPL

Encourage CC,

ACx completion

Plan Achieved To Do

Status

1/07- 31/08 2016

Critical Success

Factors (CSF) for

Corporate Clubs

• Understand conditions for sustainable corporate club growth

Established platform as reference and showcase (UBS) for corporate visits

Interview both successful clubs & recent suspended clubs

Develop and publish guidelines

Plan Achieved To Do

«Together we Learn & Inspire»Status

1/07- 31/08

Division I Composition

• Basel, Bern, Zug, Lucern: NW Switzerland

• Division Director: Nina Carrasco Guerbatova

• Area I-1: Thomas Schneider

• Area I-2: Zabdiel Dominguez

• Area I-3: Muriel Ana Weiss

• Division I VPPR: Johannes Kuessner

Division I:

actively promoting language richness

•Number of clubs: 11

• -> 7 English -> 3 German -> 1 Multilingual

•From them:

•6 Public clubs,

•2 university clubs (open to public)

•3 corporate clubs

•Planned Growth:

•1 Corporate Club La Roche (Eng.) Basel

•1 Public Club (Ger.) Bern

Division I Officers: Committed :) •Zabdiel, Muriel, Thomas & me = engaged to

•work for/with our areas to succeed.

•DCP awards are the justly reward of our

successful and healthy Clubs.

Division J Team

Aires Marques,

Area J1 Director

Jacqueline Collier Jespersen,

Area J2 Director

Leticia Tapia,

Area J3 Director

District 59 Division G Success Plan

Francesca Gammicchia; CC, ALB

Division G Director

Sep 4, 2016

Who is Division G?

♥Assistant Program Quality: Orlando Selenu (Radiant Rhetoric)

♥Assistant Club Growth Greece: Dimitrios Diamantopoulos

(Kifissia+Thessaloniki)

♥Assistant Club Growth Italy: Nicola Zavarise (Verona)

♥Assistant Public Relation Italy: Alvaro Yates De La Fuentes

(Monza)

♥Assistant Youth Leadership Program: Francesco Vecchiè

(Milaneasy)

♥Personal Assistant and administration manager: Mengjia Ma

(Milliners)

♥Assistant CC and CL Manuals: Giorgio Ripamonti (Milliners)

♥last but actually first …

3/7

Who is Division G?

• Una faccia, una razza

• Fun and learning

• Pillars of Rhetoric

2/7

What are our Goals?

Our Primary goal:

• President Distinguished Division and

all Areas President Distinguished.

Our stretch goals:

• Increase participation in Division and District

conferences;

• Lay a milestone for Debate in Italy and a

YLP both in Italy and Greece;

• Create a sustainable advanced club in

Italy and Greece.

4/7

Status quo and New Clubs

5/7

If you do not like numbers, but facts

News from Division G

•Summer School – started 2015-2016

•Webinars – started July 2016

•Debate – exists in GR, to be started in Italy

•YPL - to be started

•Advanced - to be started

•Corporate Club Program - to be started

6/7

Why?

•Club Retention

•Support Corporate Clubs

•Have new Clubs

• Better Communication makes better People

• Better People make a Better World

7/7

Division I Composition

Basel, Bern, Zug, Lucern: NW Switzerland

Division Director: Nina Carrasco Guerbatova

Area I-1: Thomas Schneider

Area I-2: Zabdiel Dominguez

Area I-3: Muriel Ana Weiss

Division I VPPR: Johannes Kuessner

Division I:

actively promoting language richness

•Number of clubs: 11

• -> 7 English -> 3 German -> 1 Multilingual

•From them:

•6 Public clubs,

•2 university clubs (open to public)

•3 corporate clubs

•Planned Growth:

•1 Corporate Club La Roche (Eng.) Basel

•1 Public Club (Ger.) Bern

Division I Officers: Committed :) •Zabdiel, Muriel, Thomas & me = engaged to

•work for/with our areas to succeed.

•DCP awards are the justly reward of our

successful and healthy Clubs.

D59 provisional budget

Zukhra Abdumalikova

Finance Manager

NEW BUSINESS

Disciplinary Hearing

Contest Rules

Nomination Committee

Application for additoinal travel/marketing budget

Conference venue Fall 2017

D59 DEC disciplinary hearing

3 September 2016, Athens, Greece

July 2016

▪Uses contact data of members of a club he’s expelled from

▪Acts as P Leader, a self-created role

▪Makes successor responsable for violations

▪District officers receive complaints from club guests

2015-2016

▪Names and defames officers on club website, link to Nazi’s

▪Defames district policy and easy speak on club website

▪Sends defamatory emails in cc

▪Disturbs the conduct of area and division business by keeping

an offline register

▪Substitutes fellow club officers in contact with district officers

2014-2015

▪Sends threathening and insulting emails to officers who oppose

him, copies others in

▪Undermines the work of the organizers of the Division

Conference

▪Performs tasks he’s not entitled to and harrasses district officers

to formalize them.

2013-2014

▪Publishes internal information on the club website, harming the

public image of TI and district officers

▪Discourages members to attend COT’s

▪Prepares club visit reports in advance and harrasses district

officers to submit them

2012-2013

▪Launch of the non-existing Toastmaster position ‘VP Leader’.

▪Police complaint about unsettling speech at Division

Conference

2011-2012

▪Manipulates awards and threatens district officers

Relevant policies and links

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

1. Standards

A. All programs, activities, communications, and conduct of

Toastmasters clubs and members shall be represented in an

ethical manner, consistent with Toastmasters International’s

governing documents, mission, and values. Each club is

responsible for the actions of its members.

C. If the actions of any individual member are in conflict with the

basic principles, ideals, or standards of Toastmasters

International, or if any individual member, at any level, violates

ethics and conduct standards, the individual member may be

subject to disciplinary action up to and including removal from

good standing with Toastmasters International and/or other

appropriate action.

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

1. Standards

D. Members shall not conduct or condone programs, activities, or

communications which are defamatory, malicious, offensive,

derogatory, damaging, false, libelous, or otherwise detrimental

to the best interests of Toastmasters International. Members

shall not assist, support, aid, facilitate, invite, or condone

anything that interferes with the programs, proceedings, or

affairs of Toastmasters International or its clubs.

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

3. Harassment and Bullying

Toastmasters International prohibits all types of harassment and

bullying. This includes, but is not limited to, sexual, verbal, physical,

and visual harassment and bullying (including electronically).

A. Creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment,

which includes conduct, comments, or conditions of an

offensive, unwelcome, or sexual nature altering the conditions

under which an individual experiences the Toastmasters

program is prohibited. Specifically:

IV. Personal insults and use of offensive nicknames.

V. Repeated criticism of personal matters.

VI. Spreading rumors and gossip regarding a person.

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

4. Code of Conduct

The following are Rules of Conduct that apply to any form of

communication, including within the Toastmasters online platform

and community, as well as any and all club, area, division and

district online platforms and communities.

A. Maintain Professional Decorum & Integrity

I. The Toastmasters International Code of Ethics and Conduct applies

to social media participation, including standards for

communications.

III. Disagreements can and will occur. The proper focus of any conflict

should be on the issue at hand and not on the individual. Please

remember to be courteous when disagreeing with others. Debate

and differing opinions may be appropriate. Personal attacks against

others, however, are not allowed.

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

4. Code of Conduct

A. Maintain Professional Decorum & Integrity

IV. Never act dishonestly or unprofessionally by engaging in

behavior that is detrimental to the best interests of

Toastmasters International by posting inappropriate, inaccurate,

objectionable or misleading content.

V. Do not, under any circumstance, harass, threaten, abuse, bully

or harm another person, including sending unwelcome

communications to others.

Policy 3.0: Ethics and Conduct

IV. Never upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available

or initiate any content, photos and video that:

a. Is unlawful, racist, sexist, homophobic, hateful, damaging, false,

libelous, defamatory, malicious, vulgar, obscene or discriminatory,

contains religious or ethnic bias, or is otherwise objectionable.

e. Includes any private communication between members, moderators or

volunteer leaders of Toastmasters International on these pages or

anywhere else without express written permission from the individual

you are quoting.

h. Harvests, collects, or discloses information about another user without

his or her express written consent.

Policy 4.0: Intellectual Property

1. Trademarks and Copyrights

E. Unauthorized use of the marks or copyrighted materials is

prohibited and may result in removal from good standing of an

individual member, revocation of a club charter, removal of an

officer at any level, or other disciplinary or legal action.

2. Websites

B. Each club website should contain the club name, meeting time

and location, a contact telephone number or email address, the

club mission, and a link to the district website.

I. Club websites may not contain material irrelevant to achieving the

mission of the club.

II. The club president is the publisher of the club website and ultimately

responsible for its content.

Policy 4.0: Intellectual Property

3. Membership Contact Information

B. Members’ contact information is only used for official

Toastmasters business.

Links

▪Content on the Calliope website defaming Toastmasters

members:

http://www.calliope45.org/comite-directeur/district-debt/consequences-morales-de-la-

dette-du-district-59

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0bWN

hbGxpb3BlfGd4OjMwNGJjZGE1YzVjYzYwNzg

▪Internal information on the Calliope website, that harm the

public image of Toastmasters International, their officers and

leadership representatives, i.e.

A. Disagreement regarding financial reimbursement of the Area A1

conference organisation teams (24/03/2012 and 05/10/2013)

•http://www.calliope45.org/comite-directeur/district-debt

Links

A. Supposed illegal membership status (inactive member) and

defamation of easy speak

•http://www.calliope45.org/comite-directeur/recours

B. Toastmasters practices (Betrayed by her General Evaluator)https://88ccf1c6-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/tmcalliope/ comite-

directeur/recours/closer-cover.jpg

Links

▪Published speeches relating Toastmasters and his club

L’Étincelle to the 3rd Reich (Hitler, Goebbels, Goering),

Dirlewanger / les chasseurs noirs (black hunters) and Nazi

crimes in Poland:

A. Speaking to inform no. 5: the abstract concept

•http://www.calliope45.org/comite-directeur/district-debt/consequences-morales-de-

la-dette-du-district-59

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0bW

NhbGxpb3BlfGd4Ojc0OThiOTRlZWI3YjBkZjc

http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/spip.php%3Farticle616&lang=fr.html

•http://ecehg.ens-lyon.fr/ECEHG/enjeux-de-memoire/Shoah-et-

deportation/ressources-pedagogiques/lectures/des-hommes-ordinaires

B. Communication Manual no. 10: Inspire your audience

•http://www.calliope45.org/comite-directeur/district-debt/consequences-morales-de-

la-dette-du-district-59

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0bW

NhbGxpb3BlfGd4OjJiYjU2ZjI3ZGJhNzQ0MWQ