Chapter Presidents & Chapter Rules

Workshop

September 20, 2014Mary Zirkelbach, State President

Pat Yates, State Rules Committee Chair

PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER

8 Leadership StylesStrategies for Becoming a Better Leader by Jeffery Sugerman, Mark Scullard, and Emma Wilheim Publication Date: May 16,

2011

Every Kid Needs a Champion –

Every DKG Member needs to be Connected

Relationships That Can Never

Disappear

Members –The first

piece to Connect

Connect

the Pieces

Ron Rosenberg

Must Be Present In the Moment :• To Chance Encounters • To Your Strengths & Weaknesses • To Unseen Opportunities • To Changing Technology • To The Current Reality

Keynote speaker at International Convention in July, Ron Rosenberg is President of QualityTalk, Inc., and nationally recognized, award-winning expert on marketing and customer service and a winner of the prestigious “Marketer of the Year” award at the International Marketing Summit.

Marketing DKG

Resources

• Divided into sections• DKG Network• Archive & Search• States/chapters websites• Forms• Committees

Society’s International

Website

http://dkg.org/

Iowa’s Wiki• Password protected –it requires members to request access the first time and then log in with email address and password subsequent times to edit or to download forms • Document Storage –forms and contact lists• State Officer and Committee Information and Goals• Links to chapter websites not certified by International• Instructions, Manual, and training Videos Available

http://upsilonstate.pbworks.com

Upsilon State Website• Important dates• Password protected contact lists

& governing documents• State registration forms and

applications• Shared info and photos of

chapter or state projects & programs

• Published state Bulletin, letters, and chapter newsletters

• State DKG history• Links to International resources

State President’s Letter

• I write this every month

• I send it the first week of the month.

• I send it to all Chapter Presidents, State Team and Past State Presidents

Guiding Principles• Seven Purposes• Mission Statement• Vision Statement• Elevator Speech

Governing Documents

• DKG Constitution and Standing Rules

• Upsilon By Laws and Standing Rules

• Chapter Rules

Additional Resources Available• Go-To-Guide• Guidelines for Chapter

President’s• (Guidelines for

Membership Committee)• (Guidelines for

Communication Committee)

• Brochures –International and Chapter

“When it comes to job performance, there’s really not

much difference between an ordinary person and an

extraordinary person. It takes a little extra ….”

• Effort• Time• Help• Reality• Change• Thinking• Attitude• Planning

John Maxwell

What’s Your “Big Aha?”

• To stretch to new leadership style• To connect with each member?• To be present in the moment?• To use the dkg.org website?• To request access to Upsilon State Wiki?• To send chapter news to media, state editor, and webmaster?• To keep chapter focused on the Mission and Purposes?• To read our governing documents?• To use helpful resources and share with your chapter officers and committees?• To “take that little extra…..”?

Is your puzzle falling into place?