Imagine enhancing your vocation and improving your business by learning from and sharing your business challenges and successes with peer Rotarians. This is how Rotary started, with Paul Harris and his fellow business owners coming together to learn from each other’s business experience.

Two years ago, Kurt Nelson and Keith Moeller (Minneapolis City of Lakes) envisioned a fireside chat/Ted Talk environment where Rotarians would come together and encourage each other, leveraging the passion and natural skills of each.

Now, about 10 people meet monthly for one hour. One member facilitates, ensuring everyone gets to talk about that month’s topic. The topic leader initiates the conversation. Members share their experiences and help others with struggles they may have.

This Peer Group is a way to build vocations and grow together. It brings value to members’ own professions and businesses. And it is a compelling membership benefit to offer prospective members.

To meet the needs of future Rotarians, clubs need to connect in a deeper way and support each other. While we want to be careful not to cross the line of promotion and turn off our fellow members, we believe Rotarians desire to do business with and refer like-minded people of integrity who apply the 4-Way Test in all their dealings.

If you think a Peer Group would add value to the members in your club, contact Gayle Noakes at gayle@gaylenoakes.com for more information.