OPTIMIST PROTOCOL

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OPTIMIST PROTOCOL

• Michel Listenberger, OD
• OI LD Chair 2003

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What is Protocol?

• A formal way to show courtesy toward others
• Institutional rules of etiquette
• From Greek the first glue to hold society
  together

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Fellowship Hospitality

• To make all your friends feel that there is
  something in them
• Put yourself in your guests shoes
• Communicate Expectations, attire, hosts

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Meeting Agendas

• Attendance
• Minutes
• Agenda time, intros, parliamentary rules

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Invitations

• What
• Where
• When
• Why
• R.S.V.P.

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Gifts

• Thank-yous
• Respectful
• Inexpensive
• Easy to unwrap

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Room Layout

• Theater, classroom, conference
• Audio-visual and technical

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Flag Display

• At no time should the flag of an outside nation
  be given the position of superior prominence
• On speakers right (speaker podium)
• On audience right (on floor next to podium)
• Right if marching or standing

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Head Table and Receiving Lines

• Name places in advance
• M.C. or presiding officer
• Others by rank order (to respect office)
• Receiving Lines Host, guest, hostess, spouse

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Introductions

• May I present . . . . .
• Who, what, why, topic

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Invocations and Toasts

• Advance notice
• Respect
• Response
• Raise glass then sip

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VIP Visits Summary

• Plan
• Communicate
• Greet
• Introduce
• Host Hostess
• Follow-up
• Parliamentary Procedure

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Optimist Protocol

• To make all your friends feel that there in
  something in them.
• The End