From TCNEWS
To strengthen their leadership skills , Rotary knowledge and their various roles and responsibilities of club officers, Rotary Clubs in District 9142, on Saturday, May 4, 2024 engaged Club officers in a training seminar.
The Club officers were trained in managing their club data resourcefully; the impact of accountability and stewardship on the Club’s financial Integrity; being intentional about growing your club: best practices for membership attraction and retention; and giving and taking from the Rotary Foundation: what you should know.
Speaking during the training held in Umuahia, Abia State, the Deputy District Learning Facilitator, Rotarian Onyinye Ralph-Nwachukwu described the training as a way Rotary International deliberately trains her leaders to be the best in their year of service.
She said that the uniqueness of the training was that for the first time, the Rotarians and Rotaractors and sitting together to share and exchange ideas.
Rotarian Onyinye Ralph-Nwachukwu who said that Rotary has District Learning Facilitation Team, whose assignment is to organize and train Rotary leaders, further revealed that, annually, Rotary organizes various training programmes for her incoming leaders.
“What we are doing today is being done in the seven seven states that make up District 9142. Rotary has a way of training her officers, they don’t just wake up and become leaders. Rotary will intentionally train you before your year of service which begins on July 1 and ends on June 30, the next year. So, we have here today, Presidents Elect of Rotary and Rotaract Clubs; incoming Secretaries of Rotary and Rotaract Clubs and their treasurers; Committee Chairs like public image, new generation and Rotary Foundation , for the first time sitting together under one roof to have this training”.
She encouraged the trainees to go back to their various Clubs and step down the training to the other Club officers and also apply all they have learnt for the good of the Club.
Speaking also, Rotarian Lucky Oseghe, the Assistant Governor Designate for zone one, who described the training as an important for anyone who wants to effectively and efficiently manage an organization, further explained that the essence of the training was to train Club officers that will be leaders from the Rotary year 2024 through 2025, which will commence from the first day of July, 2024.
He pointed out that the training would better equip the officers to understand their responsibilities as Club Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers and various Committee Chairs.
Rotarian Lucky also shared with the incoming officers the Rotary International theme for 2024-2025 Rotary year as well as the District 9142 goals and emphases from July 1, 2024.
Some of the trainees who include: Rotaractor Lucky Enukora, appreciated Rotary for giving them an essential training which will develop their leadership skills, help them understand their roles and responsibilities, and also aid them to learn how to work together effectively to achieve their club’s goals.
Pix: Rotarian Emeka Sopuruchi.
The training which attracted club officers from Clubs which spread across the three senatorial districts of Abia State, saw the Past District Governor, Rotarian Grace Okaro and Assistant Governor Designate, Rotarian Emeka Sopuruchi, facilitate sessions on Providing transformational leadership: making Clubs irresistible; and working with young leaders: harnessing the power of effective partnership, respectively. A Past Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator, Rotarian Onyinye Ralph-Nwachukwu also took the attendees on the ‘Dos and Don’ts of Rotary Branding ‘.
The training also featured group discussions on “Making Our Clubs irresistible: key practical steps to achieving our dream clubs”.