Core Values
Motto
Educate, Elevate, and Inspire
Purpose
The Miss Rodeo Oregon Pageant is an organization made up of volunteers who believe in the advancement of Oregon youth. Through the Miss Rodeo Oregon Pageant young women from the State of Oregon have the opportunity to promote Oregon and professional rodeo, utilizing their public relations skills and public speaking ability.
MissionStatement
The Miss Rodeo Oregon Pageant, Inc. works to promote a positive image of rodeo, while preserving our western heritage through education, leadership development, and personal growth with the highest level of integrity.
Core Values
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” ~Harold Taylor
Our Core Values guide our vision, strategic planning, goal setting, culture, and day-to-day decision-making. They represent what we consider “non-negotiable” principles about how we work together to achieve results.
1. Partner Effectively to Achieve Our Goals
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
~Martin Luther King Jr.
The concept of “partnering” stems from our strong belief that we can achieve greater results through our combined efforts than any one person could contribute alone. People who partner effectively know that they don’t have all the talent or answers and must embrace the individual creativity and initiative of others. Successful partners are there for each other and know and respect each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Partners take responsibility for each other’s success by contributing to a final result, building on strengths and compensating for limitations, taking personal accountability, and arriving at the best solution for all.
2. Act with Integrity, Openness, and Respect
“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.”
~U Thant
Regardless of our roles, or positions of authority in the organization, we act with the highest level of integrity, remain open to new ideas, and treat every individual with the greatest respect. Respecting others involves tolerance, patience, trust and an inherent belief that people intend to do the right thing.
3. Seize Opportunities with Curiosity and Initiative
“The answers are not important until the questions are asked.”
~Kurt Hahn
Our challenge is to ask the right questions. We yearn always for a better way, more complete answers, to understand what is unknown or ambiguous, or to anticipate the next trend. We are different because curiosity allows us to find the unique ideas that often come from outside “the beaten path.”
4. Do What’s Right and Focus on Long-Tem Results
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” ~Mark Twain
Often, when facing a difficult decision, we come to a crossroad. We must always choose the path that leads us to the best result, despite the fact that it may mean traveling through tougher terrain, and refraining from the straight, smooth and easy way. Doing what is right takes discipline, courage and respect for principle; it leads to long-term improvement and reward. Expediency may have short-term benefit, but long-term weakness. Do what is right and it will strengthen all involved.
Goals
“The Whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts; that’s the point of our organization-we do together what we cannot do alone. If we don’t try to unite our organization’s work, what have we got? We are the formal evidence of society that represents the belief, the hope, the faith that mankind is capable of working together.” ~ Richard Eyre Utopia & Other Places: Memoir of a Young Director
Our Goals provide our organization with clear purpose, direction, and structure. Individual committee goals should support the organization’s Goals.
Financial Strength
Maintain a financially sound base of operations through a balanced or a surplus budget that includes diverse contributions or fundraisers, and revenue sourcing.
Education
To provide strong education in the areas of leadership, public speaking, and public relations for the advancement of Oregon’s youth through MROP, Inc. programs.
Leadership
To educate, guide, and support Oregon’s Rodeo Ambassadors in promoting a positive image of rodeo and preservation of our western heritage through their reign, thus to establish them into the leaders of the coming generations to represent Miss Rodeo Oregon Pageant, Inc.
Productivity
To increase the productivity of our committees by establishing measurable objectives and having well defined roles of each committee that includes all members and their various areas of expertise.
Communication
To increase the level of communication between Executive Board, our general membership, committee chairpersons by utilizing tools on the new corporation website members section, having well defined job descriptions for Board of Directors, and to develop procedural documents for each Board position and Committee Chair role.
Appreciation (Respect)
To increase the acknowledgement of member participation in our programs and to show appreciation and mutual respect by improving communications between all members of the corporation through development of our corporation website, use of existing committee structure, and other forms of communication and other special acknowledgements as per Board of Directors.
