Volume 36 - Number 41 (May 21, 2019)

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COG Volume 36 - Number 41

May 21, 2019

The Rotary Club of Calgary Downtown is comprised of professional and community leaders brought together in fellowship to create a better future.

Birthdays for May 19^th — 25^th

Sheila	Taylor	May 20
Lawrence	Bates	May 23
Melanie	Hamilton	May 25
Tom	Hickerson	May 25

Attendance for May 21^st

58, including 3 visitors and guests

Highlights of the May 21, 2019 Meeting

Joan Herget, Rotary Calgary

Concerto Competition Winner

Michael Pierson Introduces

New Member Craig Tervit

This week's meeting was held in the Alberta Room at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel. Manon Mitchell and Michael Pierson kicked off the meeting with the old sea shanty Drunken Sailor.

Club President Tim Heaton called the meeting to order by acknowledging that our meetings take place on the Treaty 7 lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut'ina Nation, Stoney Nakota First Nations, and the Metis Nation of Alberta.

Following the head table introduction, Manon and Michael led us in the singing of O Canada, while Franco Savoia delivered the invocation.

President Tim thanked our meeting volunteers Larry Martin, Therese Takacs and Bill Clapham.

Club secretary Kurt Kowalchuk welcomed our visitors and guests, and acknowledged the club members celebrating birthdays this week.

Former member John Collins passed away on April 23^rd. A celebration of his life will be held on July 5^th at the Earl Grey Golf Club.

The membership ratified a motion to nominate Vern Kimball, Rob Brookwell and Joe Fras to serve on the Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation board.

Michael Pierson introduced our newest member Craig Tervit. Welcome to our club, Craig!

Greg Stevenson issued an appeal for volunteers to help out at the Calgary Marathon on Sunday, May 26^th.

Manon Mitchell introduced the second of four winners of the Calgary Concerto Competition. Joan Herget performed the Prelude from the 3^rd Bach Cello Suite. All four of our winners will be performing with the Calgary Civic Symphony at the Rising Stars concert on June 2^nd.

Steve Austin appealed for golfers and sponsors for the SIS Charity Golf Classic, which is coming up on June 24^th.

Our Speaker, Megan Spoore

Posted on May 21, 2019

Our Speaker, Megan Spoore

Catherine Evamy

Thanks Our Speaker

Jennifer Lavier Jankovic introduced our speaker Megan Spoore, who delivered an informative presentation on the Edelman Trust Barometer. As a global communications firm with five offices in Canada, Edelman develops global studies on trust as a meaningful way of comparing organizations. Edelman's research has shown that organizations that score highly on the trust barometer are more likely to

Have social licence to operate
Avoid public pressure for regulation
Perform well in the stock market
Have loyal customers and employees
Better respond effectively to unexpected difficulties

Edelman has produced a trust barometer report annually since 2000. Each report is constructed around a specific theme, and the theme of the 2019 report is Trust at Work. These reports show that there has been a steady contraction in trust, and that Canadians are less likely than in the past to trust governments, organizations and CEOs. Instead, Canadians are increasingly likely to trust organizations with personal connections, i.e., their employers.

Edelman's measures of trust are based on four institutions: government, business, NGOs, and media. Canadians became distrustful of these institutions for the first time in 2017, but this improved to a neutral stance in 2019.

The informed public, comprised of those having a post-secondary education who follow the news, places a much higher degree of trust in our institutions. Our speaker explained that the mass population's high levels of distrust stems from a belief that the system is failing people.

More positively, the 2019 report shows that Canadians are increasingly searching for information to understand the world around us, and seventy-one per cent of Canadians are concerned about the weaponization of fake news.

Canadians increasingly expect more from businesses and their leaders. Seventy-six per cent of Canadians believe companies can take specific actions that increase profit and improve the economic and social conditions in the communities where they operate, and eighty-three per cent of Canadians believe how a company treats its employees is the best indicator of its overall trustworthiness.

Ms. Spoore left us with four key takeaways that companies must act on to be successful in the current world.

Lead with purpose
Engage on issues that matter most to Canadians
Establish themselves as trusted sources
Activate the employer-employee relationship.

At the conclusion of a lively question and answer session, Catherine Evamy thanked our speaker.

COG Staff - May 21, 2019

Editor	Craig Henderson
Photography	Ralph Lundberg
Sponsorships	David Holden

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President: Tim Heaton - Vice-President: Rick Erven
RI President: Barry Rassin - District Governor: Dan Doherty